Joseph Dinneen Kearney is
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and Professor of Law at
Marquette University Law School
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in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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. He is a scholar of civil litigation practice and procedure.
Biography
Kearney graduated valedictorian at
St. Ignatius College Prep and graduated
Phi Beta Kappa
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from
Yale University
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in 1986 with a
B.A.
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degree in
Classics. He proceeded to
Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
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. His 3L thesis was a study of the
recusal
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of judges in medieval Europe.
After graduation, he
clerked for Judge
Diarmuid O'Scannlain
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Early life
Born in New York City, New Yo ...
of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then began practicing in the litigation department of
Sidley Austin
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's Chicago office. He left Sidley for one year to serve as a law clerk for Justice
Antonin Scalia of the
United States Supreme Court
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for the October 1995 term.
Kearney has been a professor at the law school since 1997. He teaches courses in civil procedure and appellate practice, and his research focuses on regulated industries law.
Appointed as the ninth dean of Marquette Law School in 2003, Kearney leads a full-time faculty of 45 and a student body of 750. In addition to teaching a class and administering the school, Kearney fundraises frequently for
Eckstein Hall, the law school's new, $85 million home. Father Robert Wild, S.J., the former president of the university secured a $51 million gift from Ray and Kay Eckstein for the project.
Personal life
He is married to the former Anne Berleman, a Milwaukee appellate litigation specialist. Kearney is an avid
Chicago White Sox
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fan.
Selected publications
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago(Cornell University Press 2021) (with Thomas W. Merrill)
(with Thomas W. Merrill), 71
University of Chicago Law Review
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799 (2004)
*The Print Media and Judicial Elections: Some Case Studies from Wisconsin (with Howard B. Eisenberg), 85
Marquette Law Review 593 (2002)
Will the FCC Go the Way of the ICC? 71
University of Colorado Law Review
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1153 (2000)
The Influence of Amicus Curiae Briefs on the Supreme Court(with Thomas W. Merrill), 148
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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743 (2000)
From the Fall of the Bell System to the Telecommunications Act: Regulation of Telecommunications Under Judge Greene 50
Hastings Law Journal
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Th ...
1395 (1999)
The Great Transformation of Regulated Industries Law(with Thomas W. Merrill), 98
Columbia Law Review
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It was established in 1901 by Joseph E. Corrigan and John M. Woolsey, who se ...
1323 (1998)
See also
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References
External links
MULS Faculty Profile for Dean KearneyHarvard Law Bulletin "Class Notable" Profile of Dean KearneyAppearances on C-SPAN
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harvard Law School alumni
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Deans of law schools in the United States
Lawyers from Chicago
Marquette University faculty
Yale University alumni
St. Ignatius College Prep alumni