Professor Scott R. Bauries joined the UK Law faculty after working as an associate
with McGuireWoods, LLP, where he practiced Labor & Employment Law, Higher Education
Law, and Commercial Litigation. 

Prof. Bauries graduated first in his law school class at the University of Florida, where
he was the Senior Galleys Editor of the Florida Law Review. Immediately after law school,
Prof. Bauries clerked for the Honorable Emmett Ripley Cox of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. While attending law school, Prof. Bauries pursued a
Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Policy and taught undergraduates in the
University of Florida College of Education. 

In 2009, Prof. Bauries successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, Judicial Review
and the Separation of Powers in State Constitutional Litigation Challenging the Adequacy
of Education Spending: Complementary Analyses and a Proposed Adjudicatory Model. Based on
this work, the Education Law Association selected Prof. Bauries as the recipient of the
Joseph C. Beckham Dissertation of the Year Award for 2009. 

Prior to entering legal studies, Prof. Bauries taught English for several years at the
secondary school level in both public and private schools in central Florida. He also
served as a school district grant funds administrator and staff developer, designing and
providing training to in-service teachers and principals in curriculum, assessment
techniques, and leadership. 

Prof. Bauries teaches Civil Procedure, Employment Law, Education Law, and State
Constitutional Law. His professional and academic interests include civil procedure,
federal and state constitutional law, employment law, and education law.

Education Law

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Coloring Outside the Lines: Garcetti v. Ceballos in the Federal Appellate Courts (with Patrick Schach), Education Law Reporter (2011)

This article examines the Supreme Court’s 2006 decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos in a novel...

 

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State Constitutional Design and Education Reform: Process Specification in Louisiana, Journal of Law and Education (2011)

In this article, I examine the role of state constitutional design in shaping the challenges...

 

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State Constitutions and Individual Rights: Conceptual Convergence in School Finance Litigation, George Mason Law Review (2011)

Since the advent of the New Judicial Federalism, scholars of state constitutions have developed a...

 

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Foreword: Rights, Remedies, and Rose, Kentucky Law Journal (2010)

In this Foreword to the University of Kentucky’s “Rose at 20” Symposium, I seek to...

 

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Is There an Elephant in the Room?: Judicial Review of Educational Adequacy and the Separation of Powers in State Constitutions, Alabama Law Review (2010)

Scholarship of education finance adequacy litigation has nearly universally acknowledged the thorny separation of powers...