Before commencing his academic career in 2007, Professor Pimentel headed the Rule of Law efforts in Southern Sudan for the United Nations Mission in Sudan, and has led court reform projects in Bosnia and Romania as well. He spent four years as the Chief of Court Management at the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands. He has traveled to Kathmandu to consult on the judiciary provisions being drafted for the new Nepali Constitution. Professor Pimentel has more than ten years' experience working inside the federal courts of the United States, in the trial courts, the appellate courts (both 5th and 9th circuits), and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; he spent the 1997-98 year in Washington as a Supreme Court Fellow. He commenced his career in the judiciary clerking for Senior District Judge Martin Pence, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, in Honolulu, after two years of practice with the law firm Perkins Coie in Seattle. Professor Pimentel spent the 2010-11 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar at University of Sarajevo, researching the impact of post-war judicial reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Professor Pimentel studied law at Berkeley and Harvard, earning his J.D. and M.A. (economics) from the University of California, Berkeley. His B.A., summa cum laude, is from Brigham Young University.
Articles
Judicial Independence at the Crossroads: Grappling with Ideology and History in the New Nepali Constitution, Indiana International and Comparative Law Review; Indian Journal of Constitutional Law (2011)
Nepal is struggling to produce a new constitution, the blueprint for a new post-monarchic state,...
Legal Pluralism in Post-colonial Africa: Linking Statutory and Customary Adjudication in Mozambique, Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal (2011)
Legal pluralism is a contemporary reality and a challenge in most post-colonial African states, as...
Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law: Can Indigenous Justice Survive?, Harvard International Review (2010)
Constitutional Concepts for the Rule of Law: A Vision for the Post-monarchy Judiciary in Nepal, Washington University Global Studies Law Review (2010)
A new government has taken power in Nepal. Intent on replacing the monarchical Hindu state...
Rule of Law Reform without Cultural Imperialism: Reinforcing Customary Justice through Collateral Review in Southern Sudan, Hague Journal on Rule of Law (2010)
Rule of Law reform efforts in underdeveloped areas face daunting challenges: (1) the stigma of...
Unpublished Papers
Criminal Child Neglect and the "Free Range Kid": Is Overprotective Parenting the New Standard of Care?, ExpressO (2012)
In the last generation, American parenting norms have shifted strongly in favor of Intensive Parenting,...