TIMOTHY G. KEARLEY

CENTENNIAL DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF LAW

  AND DIRECTOR OF LAW LIBRARY

Office: 136 College of Law Building
Telephone: 307-766-5175
Email address: tkearley@uwyo.edu

Before coming to the University of Wyoming, Professor Kearley was Foreign, Comparative, & International Law Librarian and Associate Director of the Law Library at the University of Illinois College of Law and then Director of the Law Library at Louisiana State University Law Center. He has held several positions in the American Association of Law Libraries and at present is a member of the Law Libraries Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

Professor Kearley teaches International Law and Advanced Legal Research and is an adjunct faculty member in the International Studies program. He also has been a visiting professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia and at the University of Washington in Seattle. Professor Kearley has been a Fulbright research grant recipient and is co-author of Guide to Foreign Legal Materials: German. Currently, his research interests revolve around the use of force in international law.

Education

B.A., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana(1971), High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa.
J.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1976), Honors
M.L. Lib., University of Washington(1977).

Recent Publications

American Association of Law Libraries / Aspen Publisher's Grant (to edit and post on the Web former Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Fred Blume's English translation of Justinian's Code.

Regulation of Preventive and Preemptive Force in the United Nations Charter: A Search for Original Intent, 3 Wy. L. Rev. 663 (2003).

Raising the Caroline, 17 Wisc. Int'l.L.J. 325 (1999).

Recent Presentations

Faculty member at 20th Academy of International Economic Affairs, Taiwan (R.o.C. Ministry of Economic Affairs), Summer 2005.

Panelist on Preemptive Use of Force, Sutton Colloquium, Regional Conference of the American Society of International Law, Denver University School of Law, Feb. 2004.