So, I'm officially enrolled at Pepperdine. I've taken out my loan, have on campus housing, and now have my class schedule. I'll be taking the following classes until December 18: Torts, Contract Law, Civil Procedure, Property Law, and Legal Research and Writing (I'll be assigned my writing prof at orientation).
So, here is some info on the professors I'll be learning from this semester:
Contract Law 1 with Robert Anderson IV, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Law
- Ph.D., Stanford University, 2008
- J.D., New York University, 2008
- B.A., Claremont-McKenna College, 1997
Robert Anderson received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2000 and was associated with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP from 2000 to 2003, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and financial institutions regulation. In 2008, he earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford University, where his fields included American Politics, Political Organizations, and Political Methodology (Statistics).
Professor Anderson's primary research interests are corporate and securities law, positive political theory of the judiciary, and quantitative and empirical approaches to law. In particular, he has worked extensively on modeling judicial behavior and developing computational and empirical techniques for analyzing corporate transactions and corporate governance.
Professor Anderson has published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, the American Political Science Review, the University of Miami Law Review, and The George Washington Law Review. In addition, he has presented on panels at the Midwest Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association annual meetings, and is a reviewer for the American Political Science Review.
Professor Anderson teaches Contracts I and II, Corporations, and Mergers and Acquisitions.
Torts 1 with Anthony Miller, J.D.
Professor of Law
- J.D., Pepperdine University, 1977
- M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1972
- B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1967
Professor Anthony Miller has been teaching at Pepperdine University School of Law since 1977. He has taught Torts, Remedies, Constitutional Law-Individual Rights, Family Law, Community Property, Domestic Relations Dispute Resolution, Labor Law, Public Sector Labor Law, International commercial Arbitration, and Arbitration Practice. While these courses may seem disparate, his interest in family law and labor and employment law actually go well together, both emphasizing the law that governs ordinary Americans in their most important relationships.
These two interests have dominated Professor Miller's professional life in other ways as well. He has published in both areas. He is the co-author with Swisher and Singer of a casebook entitled Cases, Materials, and Problems in Family Law, 2nd ed. (Lexis). His most recent publication entitled "Baseline, Bright-line, Best Interests: a Pragmatic Approach for California to Provide Certainty in Determining Parentage," McGeorge Law Review (2003) exhibits Professor Miller's current interest in the subject of the legal definition of "parent." His interest in labor and employment law is exhibited by articles on the subject of wrongful termination and in his publishing with Grenig a three volume treatise entitled California Government Codes: Forms and Commentary 2nd ed. (West) in which he wrote those portions dealing with public sector labor law.
He has also served as a dispute resolution neutral in both areas of interest: as a divorce mediator and as a labor arbitrator. He is currently on the panel of arbitrators of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and serves as hearing officer and arbitrator for both the City and the County of Los Angeles.
Formerly he served as the associate dean of the law school. He has taught several dispute resolution courses at Jones School of Law and Community Property as a visiting professor at UCLA.
He is a member of the State Bar of California and has been involved in several appeals including an automatic appeal to the California Supreme Court in a death penalty case.
Property Law 1 with Grant Nelson, J.D.
William H. Rehnquist Professor of Law
- J.D., University of Minnesota, 1963
- B.A., University of Minnesota, 1960
Professor Nelson joins the Pepperdine faculty this fall as the William H. Rehnquist Professor of Law. Before coming to Pepperdine, Professor Nelson was on the faculty at UCLA School of Law since 1991 and taught Real Estate Finance, Advanced Real Estate Transactions, Property, Land Use Regulation, and Remedies. He was the recipient of the UCLA School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000 and the UCLA University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002. UCLA law graduates selected him as "Professor of the Year" in 2004, 2005 and 2007.
He was the co-reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of Property (Third)--Mortgages (1997), served on the Law School Editorial Advisory Board of the West Publishing Company, and as a commissioner of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
While in law school, Professor Nelson was an editor on the Minnesota Law Review. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era, he practiced real estate finance at Faegre and Benson, a large Minneapolis law firm. He taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law for twenty-four years, where he was the Enoch H. Crowder & Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law and was elected Outstanding Professor by three classes. He was also Professor of the Year at two other law schools where he was visiting.
Professor Nelson has published many books and articles on real estate finance law, property, and remedies, the most recent of which include: Real Estate Finance Law (with Dale A. Whitman), 5th ed. West Publishing (2007); Real Estate Transfer, Finance and Development (with Dale A. Whitman), 7th ed. West Group (2006); and Contemporary Property (with W. Stoebuck and Dale A. Whitman), 3rd ed. West Publishing (2008).
Civil Procedure with Donald Earl Childress III, LL.M.
Associate Professor of Law
- LL.M., Duke University, 2004, magna cum laude
- J.D., Duke University, 2004, magna cum laude
- M.A., Oxford Brookes University, 1999, with Distinction
- B.A., University of Virginia, 1997
Prior to joining the law faculty in 2008, Professor Childress was associated with Jones Day in Washington, D.C. as a member of their Issues and Appeals practice, where he focused on Supreme Court litigation, general appellate litigation,and significant motions practice in trial litigation. While in private practice, his appellate representations included preparation of writs of certiorari, merits briefs, and amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court. Professor Childress has briefed and argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and has briefed matters in numerous other trial and appellate courts in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and D.C. Circuits, as well as various state courts. He has significant private practice experience in complex civil procedure, conflicts of law, constitutional law, immigration law, international dispute resolution, federal Indian law, and national security law, including cases related to the war on terror. He maintains a very active pro bono practice. During his time in Washington, D.C., Professor Childress taught a Supreme Court Litigation Course at the Georgetown University Law Center and served as a "Justice" in the Georgetown University Law Center Supreme Court Institute. Professor Childress is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court.
Professor Childress clerked for the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. While at Duke Law School, he served as editor-in-chief of the Duke Law Journal (Volume 53). While at Oxford Brookes University, he served as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in the United Kingdom, where his research focused, in part, on European constitutionalism and European Union law.
Professor Childress's primary research interests are international civil litigation, comparative law, and ethics. In particular, he is working extensively on the role that international civil litigation plays in an increasingly global world.
Professor Childress teaches International Litigation and Ethical Lawyering.
Pray these professors are easy to learn from and approachable. This first year is gonna be tough and I'll need all the help I can get.
