Ralph U. Whitten
Senator Allen A. Sekt Endowed Chair in Law; received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1966, and his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, in 1969, from the University of Texas, where he was Order of the Coif; and his Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in 1972. He was law clerk to the late Honorable James Braxton Craven of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1969-1970; a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School from 1970-1972; and a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law from 1972-1977. With Professor Randall Bridwell, he co-authored The Constitution and the Common Law (D.C. Health 1977); with Professor Larry Teply, Civil Procedure (Foundation Press 1994); and with Professors Luther McDougal and Robert Felix, American Conflicts Law: Cases and Materials (3d ed. Michie/LEXIS 1998). He has also written articles for the American Journal of Comparative Law, Arkansas Law Review, Maine Law Review, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Memphis State Law Review, Creighton Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, and Duke Law Journal.
Courses Taught:
Civil Procedure I
Civil Procedure II
Conflict of Laws: Jurisdiction and Judgments
Federal Courts