Phone: 217-244-3960
Email: lsolum@law.uiuc.edu
J.D. Harvard Law School
B.A. UCLA
Courses
Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Intellectual Property Law
Vita
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Professor Lawrence Solum, the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, is the inaugural Associate Dean for Faculty and Research. Professor Solum will oversee mentoring and faculty development, coordinate the lectures, symposia, and workshops held at the College, assist with the activities of the College's Scholarly Programs, and serve on the Promotion and Tenure and Appointments committees. Professor Solum is an internationally recognized expert on Legal Theory, who works on general jurisprudence, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Internet Governance, and a variety of other topics. He is the author of Legal Theory Blog, and recently edited the first anthology on the relationship between virtue theory and the law, Virtue Jurisprudence, with Dr. Colin Farrelly. His current projects include Civil Procedure: Principles and Theory, under contract with Oxford University Press, Semantic Originalism, to be published in the Northwestern University Law Review, and Virtue Jurisprudence: An Aretaic Theory of Law. At the 2008 annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, he participated in the Section on Constitutional Law's panel on the "New Originalism and Its Critics" and presented a paper entitled "Zombies," for the panel on legal personhood organized by the Section on Jurisprudence. His recent conference appearances include the annual conferences of the American Political Science Association, the Law and Society Association, and presentations at Harvard University, the Sorbonne, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Solum most recently was Professor of Law and the Herzog Endowed Scholar at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he also co-directed the Institute on Law and Philosophy. Prior to that, he was on the law faculty of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Solum has been a visiting professor at Georgetown, the University of Southern California, and Boston University. He was nominated in 2004 as among the country’s top 20 most influential and important legal thinkers by Legal Affairs Magazine. His contributions to Moore’s Federal Practice have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and, among numerous others, by every Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. His book, Destruction of Evidence (with Jamie Gorelick and Stephen Marzen), has been cited by numerous federal and state courts. His articles have appeared in the nation’s leading law journals, including those of Cornell, Harvard, Michigan, and the University of Chicago. His current research includes work applying game theory to federal judicial selection and the application of virtue ethics to legal theory. His working papers are among those most frequently downloaded from the Social Science Research Network, currently ranking 20th among all law professors for all-time downloads. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he served as editor of the Harvard Law Review and clerked for Judge William Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles prior to beginning his teaching career at Loyola.
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