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Professor Michael Hatfield

Michael Hatfield Hatfield, Michael
Associate Professor of Law, 2005
(806) 742-3990 x359
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Admitted to practice in New York, Texas, and before the U.S. Tax Court.

Before joining the faculty, Michael was a shareholder in Schoenbaum, Curphy & Scanlan, P.C., in San Antonio, Texas. Before moving to San Antonio, he was an associate in two New York City law firms: Debevoise & Plimpton and Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett.

In 2006 and 2008, Michael was honored to receive the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, and in 2007 to receive the Texas Tech University Alumni Association New Faculty Award.

Degrees

B.A. (Philosophy and History), Texas A&M University, 1991

M.A. (Philosophy), Texas A&M University, 1993

J.D., cum laude, New York University, 1996

Courses

Law and Conscience, Federal Income Taxation, Wills and Trusts

Selected Publications

Michael Hatfield, Fear, Legal Indeterminacy, and the American Lawyering Culture, in INNOVATIVE LAWYERING SKILLS (Amicus Books, forthcoming 2008).

Michael Hatfield, Legitimacy, Identity, Violence and the Law, in ON TORTURE (Thomas C. Hilde, ed.; Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2008).

Thomas M. Featherston, Jr. and Michael Hatfield, QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: WILLS, TRUSTS & ESTATES (2nd ed., forthcoming 2007).

Michael Hatfield, Pro Se Executors – Unauthorized Practice, or Not? 59 BAYLOR LAW REVIEW 331 (2007).

Michael Hatfield, Taxation in the Fifth Circuit, 39 TEXAS TECH LAW REVIEW 1035 (2007).

Michael Hatfield, Legitimacy, Identity, Violence and the Law, Vol. 24, No.1, SOUTH CENTRAL REVIEW: THE JOURNAL OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 131 (2007).

Michael Hatfield, Fear, Legal Indeterminacy, and the American Lawyering Culture, 10 LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW 511 (2006).

Michael Hatfield, Ignore the Rumors-Campaigning from the Pulpit is Okay: Thinking Past the Symbolism of Section 501(c)(3), 20 NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF LAW, ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY 125 (2006).

Michael Hatfield, Anne Milgram & Michelle D. Monticciolo, Bob Jones University: Defining Violations of Fundamental Public Policy, TOPICS IN PHILANTHROPY NO. 6 (2000), National Center on Philanthropy and the Law (New York, New York).