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Thomas D. Rowe Jr.
Visiting Professor B.A. Yale, 1964
M.Phil. Oxford, 1967
J.D. Harvard, 1970
rowet@law.ucla.edu
Thomas D. Rowe is a Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Elvin R. Latty Professor Emeritus at Duke University. Professor Rowe joined the Duke law faculty in 1975; he served there as associate dean from 1981 to 1984 and senior associate dean in 1995-1996. He has also taught at Georgetown, Michigan, Virginia, and Pepperdine. His teaching areas include Civil Procedure, Remedies, Complex Civil Litigation, and Federal Courts.
Professor Rowe earned his B.A. from Yale University summa cum laude, an M. Phil. in Comparative Literature from Oxford University, and his J.D. from Harvard University magna cum laude. He was a Rhodes Scholar and commenced his professional career as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. He has been on the staff of a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee, served with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, worked at private law firms in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, and been a visiting scholar at the RAND Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice.
Professor Rowe is an active member of the American Law Institute and is associated with a number of other organizations, such as the Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Courts Law Review editorial board. His most recent publications include Civil Procedure (with Sherry and Tidmarsh) (Foundation Press 2d ed. 2008 & 2011 Supp.); “If We Don’t Get Civil Gideon: Trying to Make the Best of the Civil-Justice Market,” 37 Fordham Urban Law Journal 347 (2010); “All Rise! Standing in Judge Betty Fletcher’s Court,” 85 Washington Law Review 19 (2010); and “Sonia, What’s a Nice Person Like You Doing in Company Like That?”, 44 Creighton L. Rev. 107 (2010).