Scott Dodson
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Rice University
Email: [[sdodson]]
Office phone: (757) 221-3247
Office location: Room 213
Full resume: here (.pdf in new window)
Areas of Specialization
Civil Procedure; Conflict of Laws; Federal Courts
Currently Teaching
Civil Procedure; Comparative Civil Procedure; Federal Courts
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Joined the faculty in 2009. Previously taught at Duke University School of Law and the University of Arkansas School of Law. Clerked for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis in the Eastern District of New York. Practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Author of How to Think Like a Lawyer: Civil Procedure (under contract with Oxford University Press) and over a dozen articles appearing in Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others.
Cited by the Ninth Circuit on two separate occasions and by the Tenth Circuit. Guest blogger on the Civil Procedure Prof Blog and on PrawfsBlawg. Frequent commentator in various news media, including CNN Radio, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Scholarly Publications
Articles
- Comparative Convergences in Pleading Standards, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2 (2009). BePress.
- Mandatory Rules, 61 Stan. L. Rev. 1 (2008). Available here.
- In Search of Removal Jurisdiction, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 55 (2008). Available here.
- A Darwinist View of the Living Constitution, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1319 (2008). Available here.
- Review Essay, The Challenge of Comparative Civil Procedure, 60 Ala. L. Rev. 133 (2008) (solicited). Available here.
- Book Review, A History of the Eighth Circuit, 67 Ark. Hist. Q. 310 (2008) (reviewing Jeffrey Brandon Morris, Establishing Justice in Middle America: A History of the Eighth Circuit (2008)). BePress.
- Symposium: Supreme Court Review, The Failure of Bowes v. Russell, 43 Tulsa L. Rev. 631 (2008). BePress.
- Appreciating Mandatory Rules: A Reply to Critics, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 228 (2008). Available here.
- Jurisdictionality and Bowles v. Russell, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 42 (2007). Available here.
- Pleading Standards after Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 93 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 121 (2007). Available here.
- The Forum Defendant Rule in Arkansas, 2007 Ark. L. Notes 73 (peer-edited). BePress.
- Subclassing, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 2351 (2006). Available here.
- Symposium, Constitutional Thematics and the Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 20 B.Y.U. J. Pub. L. 233 (2006). Available here.
- The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 783 (2004). BePress.
- Op-ed, Judicial Activism, 29 Nat'l L.J. 19 (2004). BePress.
- Dignity: The New Frontier of State Sovereignty, 56 Okla. L. Rev. 777 (2003). Available here.
- Vectoral Federalism, 20 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 393 (2003). Available here.
- The Metes and Bounds of State Sovereign Immunity, 29 Hast. Const. L.Q. 721 (2002). Hein online.
- Habeas Review of Perfunctory State Court Decisions on the Merits, 29 Am. J. Crim. L. 223 (2002). BePress.
- Extending the Robertson Presumption to Leased Vehicles, 64 Tex. B.J. 966 (2002). Available here.
Other
- Temporary Restraining Order, in Encyclopedia of the U.S. Constitution 726 (David Schultz ed. 2009).
- Abstention, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court 1 (David S. Tanenhaus ed. 2008).
- Adequate and Independent State Grounds, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (David S. Tanenhaus ed. 2008).
- Appellate Jurisdiction, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (David S. Tanenhaus ed. 2008).
- The Importance of E-Discovery, 43 Ark. Lawyer 14 (2008). Available here.
