Professor Dodson teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and Conflict of Laws at
the University of Arkansas School of Law and has published extensively on federalism and
civil procedure. His articles have been published by Stanford Law Review, Northwestern
University Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others. His first book, "How
to Think Like a Lawyer: Civil Procedure," is under contract with Oxford University
Press. 

Professor Dodson is a frequent commentator in various news media and has been interviewed
and quoted on CNN Radio, in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, by Bloomberg News, and by the
Associated Press. He has been a guest blogger at Civil Procedure Prof Blog and
PrawfsBlawg. 

For the 2008 fall semester, Professor Dodson is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at
Duke University School of Law.

Journal Articles & Essays

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A Darwinist View of the Living Constitution, Vanderbilt Law Review (2008)
 

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Appreciating Mandatory Rules: A Reply to Critics, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (2008)
 

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In Search of Removal Jurisdiction, Northwestern University Law Review (2008)
 

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Mandatory Rules, Stanford Law Review (2008)
 

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The Challenge of Comparative Civil Procedure, Alabama Law Review (2008)
 

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News Articles and Op Eds

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Judicial Activism: Reconsider Old Taboo, National Law Journal (2004)
 

Presentations and Symposia

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Constitutional Thematics and the Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, B.Y.U. Journal of Public Law (2006)
 

Legal Briefs

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Reply Brief in Support of Petition for Certiorari, Lively v. Wild Oats Markets, Inc., 06-748 (2007)
 

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Petition for Certiorari, Lively v. Wild Oats Markets, Inc., No. 06-748 (2006)