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Norman W. Spaulding
Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Curriculum

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

Affiliations & Honors

Honors and Awards

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

Education

  • BA (magna cum laude), Williams College, 1993
  • JD, Stanford Law School, 1997

Expertise

  • Civil Procedure and Litigation
  • Complex Litigation
  • Ethics and Professional Responsibility
  • Federal Courts
  • Legal History
  • Remedies