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Laura S. Fitzgerald
 
B.A., J.D
Associate Professor of Law
 
 
B.A. 1984, Hollins College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D. 1987, Yale; Senior Editor, The Yale Law Journal; admitted to practice in New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia; law clerk to Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1987-88; associate, Onek, Klein & Farr, Washington, D.C., 1988-90; associate, Friedman & Kaplan, New York City, 1991-93; Assistant Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1993-98; Associate Professor of Law, 1998-Spring 2003.
 

Courses

Federal Jurisdiction, Federal Civil Procedure, Civil Rights.

Publications

Suspecting the States: Supreme Court Review of State-Court State-Law Judgments, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 80 (2002).

Is Jurisdiction Jurisdictional?, 95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1207 (2001), available at .

Beyond Marbury: Jurisdictional Self-Dealing in Seminole Tribe, 52 Vand. L. Rev. 407 (1999), available at HeinOnline.

Cadenced Power: The Kinetic Constitution, 46 Duke L.J. 679 (1997), available at HeinOnline.

The Constitutional Amendment by Missouri v. Jenkins, 2 Race & Ethnic Anc. L. Dig. 39 (1996).

           

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