Biography

A nationally recognized scholar in the area of professional responsibility and the legal profession, Norman W. Spaulding̕s research focuses on the history of the American legal profession and professional identity. 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 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

• 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 Issues in Business Practice

Publications & Cases

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• 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).
• 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.
• 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, Reinterpreting Professional Identity, 74 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (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