Professor Dodson teaches Civil Procedure and Federal Courts at William & Mary
Law School and has published extensively in both areas. He has authored more than twenty
articles, appearing in Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, California Law Review,
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Duke Law Journal (student
note), Northwestern University Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others. He
has published a coursebook on civil procedure and is currently under contract with Oxford
University Press to write a monograph on civil pleadings. His writings have been cited by
the Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits.
Professor Dodson is a frequent commentator in various news media and has been interviewed
and quoted on CNN Radio and by BNA, Bloomberg News, and the Associated Press. He has
authored or joined numerous amicus briefs before the Supreme Court. He has been a guest
blogger at SCOTUSblog, Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Prof Blog, and PrawfsBlawg.
For the 2008 fall semester, Professor Dodson was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at
Duke University School of Law. He held a permanent appointment at the University of
Arkansas School of Law from 2006-2009.
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