Francis J. Mootz III | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Francis J. Mootz III
		William S. Boyd Professor of Law


		Phone: 702 895-2092 Email: jay.mootz@unlv.edu Website: SSRN Author Page

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1983 A.M., Duke University Graduate School, 1986 (Philosophy) J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1986

	Professor Jay Mootz is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Duke University Graduate School and Duke University School of Law. He joined the William S. Boyd School of Law in 2008 after eighteen years as a law professor at three schools. He draws from his practice experience as a commercial litigator and his graduate work in philosophy to sustain varied scholarly projects. He has written in traditional doctrinal areas such as insurance, contract and sales law, and he also has undertaken an ambitious agenda of interdisciplinary scholarship exploring relationships between law and contemporary European philosophy. His courses include Sales, Payment Systems, Jurisprudence, Contracts and Insurance Law. The breadth of his scholarship is suggested by some of his current projects. On one hand, Professor Mootz and his co-authors published a second edition of their Sales casebook for the Fall 2008 semester and he recently published an article on the emerging legal regime of electronic contracting. On the other hand, he followed the publication of his book, "Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory," with publication of three edited volumes on topics in legal philosophy. His jurisprudential interests center on the philosophy of interpretation and rhetorical philosophy. Professor Mootz is a regular presenter at academic symposia focusing on issues of legal theory. He has given talks in Europe, Africa, and South America, and he will delivering lectures in Italy during December 2008 as part of a "Jean Monnet course" funded by the European Union. He is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the interdisciplinary journal, Law, Culture and the Humanities, and is an active member of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, the Law and Society Association, and is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. He has been a Member of the Board of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws since 2006. On Philosophy in American Law

	Areas of Expertise: Commercial Law Insurance Law Legal Theory (and Hermeneutical and Rhetorical Philosophy)

	Selected Publications: AUTHORED BOOKS Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric, London: Ashgate Publishing (forthcoming 2009) Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. (Part of the series: Rhetoric, Culture and Social Critique). Commercial Contracting: An Integration of Sales, Leases and Computer Information Transactions Law, with P. Alces & D. Frisch, Dayton, OH: Lexis Publishing (2d ed. 2008). EDITED BOOKS On Philosophy in American Law, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2009) Gadamer and Law, London: Ashgate Publishing (2007). Nietzsche and Law, with P. Goodrich, London: Ashgate Publishing (2008). BOOK CONTRIBUTION Natural Law and the Cultivation of Legal Rhetoric, in Rediscovering Fuller: Implicit Law and Institutional Design, W. Witteveen & W. van der Berg eds., University of Chicago Press (1999). Insurance Coverage of Discrimination Claims, in Merrick T. Rossein, Employment Discrimination: Law and Litigation, Thompson West (1997/2005) Postmodern Constitutionalism as Materialism, in Postmodernism and Law, D. Patterson ed., 1994. [reprinting 91 Mich. L. Rev. 515 (1992)]. PROFESSIONAL CREATIVE WRITING See You in Hell, Boys!, Notre Dame Magazine (Summer 2007) --> More Publications (pdf)

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