Laird C. Kirkpatrick is the Louis Harkey Mayo Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Prior to his current appointment, he was the Philip H. Knight Dean and Hollis Professor of Legal Procedure at the University of Oregon Law School. From 1999-2001, he served as Counsel to the head of the Criminal Division at the United States Department of Justice and as a Commissioner ex officio on the United States Sentencing Commission.
Professor Kirkpatrick is the co-author of a six volume treatise Federal Evidence (3d ed. Thomson/West 2007), which is also available on Westlaw. He is also co-author of Evidence Under the Rules (5th ed., Aspen, 2004), an evidence coursebook which has been adopted by more than 90 law schools, as well as Evidence (3d ed. Aspen, 2003), a hornbook for law students, and Evidence: Practice Under the Rules (Aspen, 1999), a one volume treatise for lawyers and judges.
Professor Kirkpatrick is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a former delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates, and former chair of the Evidence Section of the American Association of Law Schools. He has served on both the Evidence Rules Committee and the Criminal Rules Committee of the United States Judicial Conference.
He a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Judicature Society and a Master in the American Inns of Court.
Prior to entering law teaching, he served as a federal prosecutor, as a trial lawyer in private practice and as executive director of a major legal services program. He has previously taught at the University of Michigan, University of London, University of Maryland, Suffolk University, and the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
He is the recipient of several university awards for distinguished teaching.
Laird C. Kirkpatrick
Stetson University College of Law
1401 61st Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33707
(727)562-7800 x7355
lkirkpat@law.stetson.edu
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