Professor Steven S. Gensler teaches courses on civil procedure, conflict of laws,
federal courts, complex litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. He joined the OU
law faculty in 2000 after serving two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the
University of Illinois College of Law. During 2003-04, Professor Gensler was the Supreme
Court Fellow at the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Professor Gensler currently serves as a member of the United States Judicial Conference
Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. He is also a member of the Local Civil Rules Committee
for the Western District of Oklahoma and of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Civil
Procedure Committee.
Professor Gensler is the author of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Rules and Commentary
(West) and a variety of articles on federal and Oklahoma practice and procedure.His
recent scholarship has focused on the rulemaking process, electronic discovery, and class
actions.
Professor Gensler began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Deannell Reece
Tacha on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (1992-93) and to the
Honorable Kathryn H. Vratil on the United States District Court for the District of
Kansas (1993-94). He then worked as a litigation associate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for
four years, most recently with Michael, Best & Friedrich, LLP.
Professor Gensler was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar in 1994 and is a member of the
American Bar Association and the Wisconsin Bar Association. He was elected to membership
in the American Law Institute in 2006.
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