Professor Angela Laughlin
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Laughlin, Angela Associate Professor of Law, 2002 Mahon Research Fellow (806) 742-3990 x262 Email: |
Admitted to practice in Virginia and Texas.
Professor Laughlin earned her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. She gained extensive practical experience through the unique and intensive legal cooperative education program at Northeastern. Her experience includes clerkships with two litigation firms in Washington, D.C., as well as an internship with the Honorable Robert E. Keeton, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts. Professor Laughlin also actively participated in the Civil Rights Clinic at Northeastern, both as a student attorney and as a teaching assistant.
Professor Laughlin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Nancy M. Koenig, United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Texas after graduating from law school. After her clerkship, Professor Laughlin accepted a position at Texas Tech teaching Legal Practice.
Professional memberships for Professor Laughlin include the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Supreme Court of Texas, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Awards
Frank W. Newton Service Award, Board of Barristers 2006
Texas Tech Alumni Association New Faculty Award 2006
Phi Alpha Delta Outstanding Teaching Award 2004 -- 2005
Degrees
B.A., University of Virginia, 1995
J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1999
Courses
Civil Procedure, Evidence, Pretrial Litigation, Constitutional Law, Supreme Court Seminar
Selected Publications and Presentations
Selected Publications
This Ain't the Texas Two-Step Folks: Disharmony, Confusion and the Unfair Nature of Personal Jurisdiction Analysis in the Fifth Circuit (forthcoming, Captial University Law Review, Spring 2009).
Race, Diversity, and Opportunity: Opening up the Pipeline, 1 Midwest Black Law Students Association Law Journal 1-15 (March 2008).
Getting Them While They're Young: Two Experiences Using Traditional Legal Practice Skills to Interest High School Students in Attending Law School, 16 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 125-30 (2008).
Learning from the Past? or Destined to Repeat Past Mistakes? - Lessons from the English Legal System and its Impact on How We View the Role of Judges and Juries Today, (forthcoming Widener Law Review Volume 14:2 - Symposium: Cross-Examination: The Great (?) Engine? 2008).
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Change, Lubbock Law Notes (October 2007).
Criminal Procedure B Sentencing, 37 Texas Tech Law Review 777- 85 (Spring 2005) (review of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals cases from June 2003 - May 2004).
Fifth Circuit Civil Procedure, 38 Texas Tech Law Review 715-742 (Spring 2006) (review of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decisions on civil procedure).
Selected Presentations
Judicial Independence, Constitution Day Celebration, September 14, 2006, Texas Tech University School of Law.
Original Sin: Considering Non-Originalist Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation, Federalist Society, February 13, 2006, Texas Tech University School of Law
The Rehnquist Court Legacy: Privacy and the Future of Roe v. Wade, Constitutional Commemoration Forum, September 16, 2005, Escondido Theater, Texas Tech University.
Section 1983 Litigation in Federal Court, Guest Lecturer, Civil Clinic, Fall & Spring 2002.
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