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Stephen C. Yeazell
Interim Dean and David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law
B.A. Swarthmore, 1967
M.A. English and Comparative Literature, Columbia, 1968
J.D. Harvard, 1974
UCLA Law faculty since 1975
yeazell@law.ucla.edu |
Stephen Yeazell has written extensively, in books and articles and to much acclaim, about the history and theory of procedure. He teaches courses that correspond to these interests: Civil Procedure, Contemporary Civil Litigation, International Civil Litigation, and an occasional foray into legal history. He has received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award and was the first recipient of the School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. He served as chair of the UCLA Academic Senate for 2000-2001 and as Associate Dean of the School of Law from 1995 to 1998.
Before studying law, Professor Yeazell taught English and history in junior high schools in New York City, an experience, he reports, that has made him appreciate the relative calm of even the feistiest law school class. After law school, he clerked for Justice Mathew Tobriner of the California Supreme Court.
Professor Yeazell's books include From Medieval Group Litigation to the Modern Class Action (1987); Civil Procedure (6th ed., 2004).
