Kevin L. Cope

Biography

Kevin L. Cope joined the School of Law faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in 2012.  Professor Cope’s research and teaching interests lie at the nexus of domestic and international public law in the United States and abroad, with emphasis on courts’ role in shaping rights and structural power arrangements.  His current research examines how national courts around the world rely on foreign and international law.  This spring, he is teaching the first-year course in Transnational Law.
 
During the summer of 2012, Professor Cope served as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford.  Before entering law teaching, he completed clerkships for Judge James S. Gwin on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge George W. Miller on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.  Professor Cope also practiced government enforcement litigation law in Washington, D.C., with Skadden, Arps, where he handled trial and appellate litigation, including actions involving the World Bank, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.S. Constitution, and the Convention Against Torture.  In law school, he served as an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review.
 
Professor Cope also teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he serves as a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer.