Judith Kilpatrick
Associate Dean for Diversity, Planning, & Special Projects
Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., LL.M., J.S.D.
jkilpat@uark.eduPhone: (479) 575-8743
Professor Judith Kilpatrick teaches practical skills classes, including Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation (ICN); business planning; mediation in practice; Advanced Mediation Clinic; and solo practice planning (SoloPrac). The courses are all taught in a how-to manner, using role-plays, simulations, and other exercises. They all have limited enrollments.
Professor Kilpatrick practiced law with a San Francisco litigation firm for approximately four years after admission to the California bar. Thereafter, she worked for 10 years providing continuing legal education programs on trial practice to California lawyers. During that time she was also active as a judge in California's then-voluntary lawyer disciplinary system. Her proudest act as an adult was to quit working and spend a year in Paris from 1989 to 1990. She spent three summers - in 1991, 1992, and 1994 - teaching U.S. contract and corporation law and negotiation to French lawyers. Before arriving in Arkansas, she taught legal writing and research at New York University for three years. She has been on the School of Law faculty since 1994.
Her writing has focused on the legal profession and legal history. Her most recent publications are related to research for a biography of Wiley Austin Branton, one of the law school's first African-American graduates and an active participant in civil rights issues between 1953 and 1988. The biography, There When We Needed Him, will be published in fall 2007 by the University of Arkansas Press.
Publications & Links
"Law" entry in The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior, University of Arkansas Press 2007, book by Judith Kilpatrick
"Christopher C. Mercer" entry in The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
Forthcoming entry on “Wiley Austin Branton” in The African American National Biography, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, in collaboration with Oxford University Press
Wiley Austin Branton, Arkansas Native Son, entry in the Arkansas Black Lawyers project
See archive of Professor Kilpatrick's Past Exams
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