Timothy G. Kearley
Professor of Law and Director of George William Hopper Law Library
B.A., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1971), With High Honors and Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1976), With Honors
M.L. Lib., University of Washington (1977)
tkearley@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-5175 • 136 College of Law

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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.

Teaching:
Advanced Legal Research and International Law

Publications:

Presentations

Kearley, T. (2008).  "Legal Research Crash Course" CLE, with Debora Person and Tawnya Plumb, University of Wyoming College of Law, Laramie, Wyoming, March 28, 2008.

Kearley, T. (2006).  Free Legal Research Online, Wyoming State Bar Summit & Judicial Council, with Debora Person and Tawnya Plumb, Laramie, Wyoming, August 2006.

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

Kearley, T. (2004).  Panelist on Preemptive Use of Force, Sutton Colloquium, Regional Conference of the American Society of International Law, Denver University School of Law, February 2004.

Publications

Kearley, T. (2008).  Free Legislative History Online, 31 Wyoming Lawyer, Aug. 2008, at 37.

Kearley, T. (2007).  Justice Fred Blume and the Translation of Justinian's Code, 99 Law Library Journal 525 (2007).

Kearley, T. (2007).  Review of "Research and Writing in Law," 15 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing" 192.

Kearley, T. (2007).  "Annotated Justinian Code," http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/blume&justinian/default.asp.

Kearley, T. (2006).  Review of "Thurman Arnold: A Biography", 98 Law Libr. J. 547 (2006).

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

Kearley, T. (1999).  Raising the Caroline, 17 Wisc. Int'l. L. J. 325 (1999).

Press releases:

• 3/10/2009 - UW Law Students Improve in Moot Court Competition
• 2/15/2002 - Panel Focuses on Military Tribunals
• 2/19/1998 - Four Candidates for Law Dean to Visit UW Campus