Christopher Green (legal scholar)

Christopher Green is an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Prior to joining the law school he practiced law with Phelps Dunbar in Jackson, Mississippi, specializing in appellate litigation, and clerked for Judge Rhesa H. Barksdale of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Green teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Real Estate Transactions, and Commercial Paper.

At Yale Law School Professor Green was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, receiving the Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater Prize in Politics for the highest academic standing in the Politics Department and the John G. Buchanan Prize in Politics for the outstanding senior thesis in the Politics Department. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Professor Green has published “This Constitution”: Constitutional Indexicals as a Basis for Textualist Semi-Originalism, 84 Notre Dame L. Rev. (2009); The Original Sense of the (Equal) Protection Clause: Subsequent Interpretation and Application, 19 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 219 (2009); The Original Sense of the (Equal) Protection Clause: Pre-Enactment History, 19 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 1 (2008); Punishing Corporations: The Food-Chain Schizophrenia in Punitive Damages and Criminal Law, 87 Neb. L. Rev. 197 (2008); The Food-Chain Issue for Corporate Punishment: What Criminal Law and Punitive Damages Can Learn from Each Other, Engage, Feb. 2008, at 40; Suing One’s Sense Faculties for Fraud: “Justifiable Reliance” in the Law as a Clue to Epistemic Justification, 36 Phil. Papers 49 (2007); and Originalism and the Sense-Reference Distinction, 50 St. Louis U.L.J. 555 (2006). All of these articles may be viewed by clicking HERE

His current research projects concern the punishment of corporations, the application of constitutional theory to the Fourteenth Amendment, the epistemology of testimony, memory, and perception, and the law and ethics of self-defense.^[1]

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2006

J.D., Yale Law School, 1998

B.A., summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1994^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.law.olemiss.edu/faculty/green_christopher.htm

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