Biography

A nationally recognized scholar in the areas of professional responsibility and law and humanities, Norman W. Spaulding’s research focuses on the history of the American legal profession. 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. In 2010 he served as the Covington & Burling Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2005, he was a professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law and an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he did environmental litigation. Professor Spaulding ’97 served as a law clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher (BA ’43) 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

• Norman W. Spaulding, Independence and Experimentalism in the Department of Justice, 63 Stanford Law Review 409 (2011).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M. Massaro and Norman W. Spaulding, Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, 4th Ed., New York : Aspen Law & Business, 2009.
• Norman W. Spaulding, The Rule of Law in Action: A Defense of Adversary System Values, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 1377 (2008).
• Norman W. Spaulding, Professional Independence in the Office of the Attorney General, 60 Stanford Law Review 1931 (April 2008).
• 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, Reinterpreting Professional Identity, 74 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (2003).
• 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
• Legal Ethics
• Professional Responsibility

Publications & Cases

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• Norman W. Spaulding, Facades of Justice, Review of Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms, By Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, (2012 Survey of Books Related to Law), 110 Michigan Law Review 1067 (2012).
• Norman W. Spaulding, The Enclosure of Justice: Courthouse Architecture, Due Process, and the Dead Metaphor of Trial , 21 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 101 (2012).
• Norman W. Spaulding, The Historical Consciousness of the Resistant Subject,, 5 UC Irvine Law Review 677 (2011).
• Norman W. Spaulding, Independence, Experimentalism, and Resistance to Law in the Department of Justice, 63 Stanford Law Review 409 (2011)
• Norman W. Spaulding, Independence and Experimentalism in the Department of Justice, 63 Stanford Law Review 409 (2011).
• Norman W. Spaulding, Perfectionism and Maximum Consciousness in Anti-Discrimination Law: A Tribute to Judge Betty B. Fletcher (Symposium: A Tribute to the Honorable Betty Binns Fletcher), 85 Washington Law Review 33 (2010).
• Barbara Allen Babcock, Toni M. Massaro and Norman W. Spaulding, Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems, 4th Ed., New York : Aspen Law & Business, 2009.
• Norman W. Spaulding, Oscar Sutro, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, Roger K. Newman, ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
• Norman W. Spaulding, The Rule of Law in Action: A Defense of Adversary System Values, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 1377 (2008).
• Norman W. Spaulding, Professional Independence in the Office of the Attorney General, 60 Stanford Law Review 1931 (April 2008).

Affiliations & Honors

Honors and Awards

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