Scott Dodson
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., J.D.
Email: dodsons@uark.eduPhone: (479) 575-4424
Professor Scott Dodson joined the University of Arkansas School of Law in 2006 and currently teaches civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, and conflict of laws. He is a scholar in the areas of federal civil procedure and federal-state relations.
Professor Dodson earned his J.D. from Duke University Law School, where he was a member of the Duke Law Journal and graduated cum laude. After clerking for Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in the Eastern District of New York, he practiced complex litigation in private practice and with the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Professor Dodson is the author of over a dozen articles appearing in Stanford Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others.
His writings have been cited by the Ninth Circuit on two separate occasions and by the Tenth Circuit. He has been a guest blogger on the Civil Procedure Prof Blog and on PrawfsBlawg and a frequent commentator in various news media, including CNN Radio, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Select Publications
Mandatory Rules, Stanford Law Review (2008)
In Search of Removal Jurisdiction,
Northwestern University Law Review (2008)
A Darwinist View of the Living Constitution, Vanderbilt Law Review (2008)
The Failure of Bowles v. Russell, Tulsa Law Review (2008) (Supreme Court Review Issue)
Appreciating Mandatory Rules, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (2008)
Jurisdictionality and Bowles v. Russell, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (2007)
Pleading Standards After Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, Virginia Law Review In Brief (2007)
Subclassing, Cardozo Law Review (2006)
Judicial Activism: Reconsider Old Taboo, National Law Journal (2004)
The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, Arizona State Law Journal (2004)
Dignity: The New Frontier of State Sovereignty, Oklahoma Law Review (2003)
Vectoral Federalism, Georgia State University Law Review (2003)
The Metes and Bounds of State Sovereign Immunity, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (2002)
Habeas Review of Perfunctory State Court Decisions on the Merits, American Journal of Criminal Law (2001)
Conference & Symposium Presentations
Keynote Address, Darwin's "Living" Constitution, Law, Ethics, and the Life Sciences Conference, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (Oct. 2007)
Presenter, What is Removal Jurisdition?, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference (Aug. 2007)
Presenter, Constitutional Thematics and the Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, Symposium: A Federal Marriage Amendment, B.Y.U. Law School (Sept. 2005), B.Y.U. Journal of Public Law (2006)
Legal Briefs
Petition for Certiorari and Reply Brief in Support, Lively v. Wild Oats Markets, Inc., No. 06-748 (U.S. 2006), with Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Amy Howe and Leonard Tavera
News
Arkansas Bar Association Appointments (June 2007)
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