Biography

A nationally recognized scholar in the area of professional responsibility and the legal profession, Norman Spaulding has focused much of his work on when lawyers go wrong, probing the causes of professional failure and malaise from a historical perspective. In 2004 the Association of American Law Schools presented him with its Outstanding Scholarly Paper Prize for “Constitution as Counter-Monument: Federalism, Reconstruction and the Problem of Collective Memory,” which was published in the Columbia Law Review.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2005, he was a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he did environmental litigation. Professor Spaulding served as a law clerk to Judge Betty Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Thelton Henderson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Key Works

• Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M. Massaro and Norman W. Spaulding, Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, 3rd Ed., New York : Aspen Law & Business, 2006.
• Norman W. Spaulding, Reinterpreting Professional Identity, 74 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (2003).
• Norman W. Spaulding, The Discourse of Law in Time of War: Politics and Professionalism During the Civil War and Reconstruction, 46 William And Mary Law Review 2001 (2005).
• Norman W. Spaulding, The Myth of Civic Republicanism: Interrogating the Ideology of Antebellum Legal Ethics, in Lawyers’ Ethics And The Pursuit Of Social Justice: A Critical Reader, Susan D. Carle, ed., New York, NY: New York University Press, 2005.
• Norman W. Spaulding, Constitution as Counter-Monument: Federalism, Reconstruction and the Problem of Collective Memory, 103 Columbia Law Review 1992 (2003).

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Civil Procedure
• Professional Responsibility
• Remedies

Publications & Cases

• Norman W. Spaulding, Book Review (Christopher Waldrep: Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil Ware Legacy of Race and Rememberance), 25 Law & History Review 640 (Fall 2007).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M. Massaro and Norman W. Spaulding, Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, Teacher's Manual, New York: Aspen Publishers, 2006.
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M. Massaro and Norman W. Spaulding, Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, 3rd Ed., New York : Aspen Law & Business, 2006.
• Norman W. Spaulding, Reinterpreting Professional Identity, 74 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (2003).
• Norman W. Spaulding, The Discourse of Law in Time of War: Politics and Professionalism During the Civil War and Reconstruction, 46 William And Mary Law Review 2001 (2005).
• Norman W. Spaulding, The Myth of Civic Republicanism: Interrogating the Ideology of Antebellum Legal Ethics, in Lawyers’ Ethics And The Pursuit Of Social Justice: A Critical Reader, Susan D. Carle, ed., New York, NY: New York University Press, 2005.
• Norman W.Spaulding. The Luxury of the Law: The Codification Movement and the Right to Counsel, 75 Fordham Law Review 983 (2004).
• Norman W. Spaulding, Constitution as Counter-Monument: Federalism, Reconstruction and the Problem of Collective Memory, 103 Columbia Law Review 1992 (2003).

Affiliations & Honors

Honors and Awards

• Recipient, Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award, American Association of Law Schools, 2004
• Junior Faculty Research Fellow, University of California, 2003