Professor of Law
B.A. 1976, Yale College; J.D. 1979, Harvard Law School. Professor Metzloff is a native of Buffalo, New York. He began his professional career with a judicial clerkship on the United States Court of
Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans, followed by a clerkship with the Supreme Court of the United States. He then practiced with a private firm in Atlanta working on civil litigation matters
before accepting a position at Duke Law School in 1985. He teaches civil procedure, ethics, and dispute resolution, as well as a specialized course on the American legal system for international
LL.M. students. He has taught that course regularly at Duke’s Geneva and Hong Kong summer programs as well as at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He served as the Law School’s Senior
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1998-2001.
Professor Metzloff’s research interests focus generally on dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on medical malpractice litigation. He recently organized a major conference on the use of mandatory arbitration that was co-sponsored by Duke Law School and the Roscoe Pound Foundation. He also recently completed a major empirical study of court-ordered mediation in medical malpractice cases funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Professor Metzloff is active in a number of professional activities. He serves as an advisory member to the North Carolina State Bar Ethics Committee. He also serves on the North Carolina Supreme Court’s Dispute Resolution Committee, and has in the past served on a variety of other committees and study commissions relating to the development of various ADR programs.