CURRICULUM VITAE OF PHILIP L. MERKEL Western State College of Law 1111 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton, CA (714)

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE OF PHILIP L. MERKEL Western State College of Law 1111 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton, CA (714) EDUCATION University of Illinois, Chicago, B.A. University of Illinois College of Law, J.D. University of Virginia, M.A. LAW SCHOOL HONORS Chicago Title and Trust Scholarship Research Assistant, National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture First Vice-President, Student Bar Association Managing Editor, Illinois Bar Journal Recent Decisions LAW SCHOOL TEACHING Professor of Law, Western State University College of Law, present. Associate Professor of Law, Western State University College of Law, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Legal Research and Writing, University of Virginia School of Law, Lecturer and Associate Director of Legal Research and Writing, University of Virginia School of Law, PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR HONORS Voted Professor of the Year by Western State student body in 2002 and

2 LAW SCHOOL COURSES Torts I and II Remedies California Medical Negligence Advocacy Introduction to Legal Methods American Legal History American Law Seminar Ninth Circuit Appellate Project Legal Writing I and II Professional Skills Civil Law Clinic English Legal History OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE California Judicial Education and Research Presented five-day continuing judicial education seminar on jurisprudence and legal history for California trial court and appellate court judges. California State University, Fullerton, China Law Program Conducted seminar on American legal system for lawyers and officials from the People s Republic of China. Editorial Board Member, Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Edited numerous on-line exercises in torts, remedies, and other subjects. LAW PRACTICE Managing Attorney, Georgia Legal Services, Savannah Regional Office, Savannah, Georgia, Supervised a staff of 14 attorneys and nine paralegals in two offices in an eight-county area in southeast Georgia. Staff Attorney, Georgia Legal Services, Savannah Regional Office, Savannah, Georgia, Represented low-income clients in a wide variety of civil cases at trial and appellate levels, including school desegregation and jail conditions federal lawsuits VISTA Volunteer, Seattle Legal Services, Seattle, Washington, Organized elderly residents of low-income housing to oppose an urban renewal project in the Pike Place Market area of Seattle and worked on initiative campaign that led to creation of the Pike Place Market Historic District. 2

3 STATE BAR ADMISSIONS California Georgia Illinois APPELLATE COURT EXPERIENCE California Supreme Court California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District (all divisions) Georgia Court of Appeals United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Judicial Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit TRIAL COURT AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY EXPERIENCE California Superior Court Georgia Superior Court United States District Court, Southern District of Georgia United States Bankruptcy Court United States Tax Court United States Social Security Administration Medical Board of California PUBLICATIONS Articles: California s Role in the Mid-Twentieth Century Controversy over Pain and Suffering Damages: The NACCA, Melvin Belli, and the Crusade for The Adequate Award, 5 California Legal History 287 (2010). Pain and Suffering Damages at Mid-Twentieth Century: A Retrospective View of the Problem and the Legal Academy s First Responses, 34 Capital University Law Review 545 (2006). Physicians Policing Physicians: The Development of Medical Staff Peer Review Law at California Hospitals, 38 University of San Francisco Law Review 301 (2004). Railroad Consolidation and Late 19th Century Federalism, 11 Western Legal History 215 (1998). Going National: The Life Insurance Industry s Campaign for Federal Regulation after the Civil War, 65 Business History Review 528 (1991). 3

4 At the Crossroads of Reform: The First Fifty Years of American Legal Aid, , 27 Houston Law Review 1 (1990). The Origins of an Expanded Federal Question Jurisdiction, 58 Business History Review 336 (1984). Tax Reform with a Political View: The Hyattsville Single Tax Experiment in the Maryland Courts, 79 Maryland Historical Magazine 145 (1984). Case Note, Illinois Innkeeper Lien Laws Violate Due Process, 61 Illinois Bar Journal 262 (1973). Books/Book Contributions: Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008). (Two attributed submissions.) Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006). (Four attributed submissions.) Oxford Companion Guide to the Supreme Court (1992). (Four attributed submissions.) Prosecution Planning Concepts (1976) (Principal author of monograph.) The Grand Jury Complex (1976) (Principal author of monograph.) Book Reviews: Review of The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, by Michael R. Belknap, 19 Western Legal History 150 (2006). Review of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self, by G.E. White, 2 Western State Consumer Law Journal 89 (1993). Review of Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, , by Christian G. Fritz, 5 Western Legal History 253 (1992). Review of Enterprise and American Law, , by Herbert Hovenkamp, 1 Western State Consumer Law Journal 119 (1992). Review of The Guardian Life Insurance Company, , by Anita Rapone, Business History Review (1991). 4

5 Review of Legal Malpractice (3d ed.), by Mallen and Smith, 18 Western State Law Review 513 (1990). Review of John Marshall s Achievement, edited by Thomas Shevory, 17 Western State Law Review 517 (1990). Review of In Pursuit of Justice, by Joseph R. Grodin, 17 Western State Law Review 239 (1989). Review of A Great and Shining Road, by John Hoyt Williams, Business History Review (Fall, 1989). Review of Two Jewish Justices, by Robert A. Burt, 16 Western State Law Review 337 (1989). Review of Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics, by Frederick J. Blue, 16 Western State Law Review (1988). Review of The Morgans: Private International Bankers, by Vincent P. Carosso, Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter, 1988). Review of The Life and Legend of Jay Gould, by Maury Klein, Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring, 1987). Review of Railroads, Reconstruction and the Gospel of Prosperity, by Mark W. Summers, The Public Historian (Fall, 1986). Review of Louis D. Brandeis, Justice for the People, by Phillipa Strum, Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring, 1986). 5