Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
ecd3u@virginia.edu
(434) 243-7027
Room SL354

SUBJECTS
Civil and criminal procedure, evidence, criminal law, constitutional law, trial advocacy, federal courts, juries

Earl C. Dudley Jr.

Professor Emeritus
LL.B., University of Virginia School of Law, 1967
B.A., Amherst College, 1961

Beginning in 1982, Earl Dudley taught trial advocacy seminars at the Law School while he was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Nussbaum Owen & Webster. Then, in 1989, he became a full-time faculty member. Dudley's career, before he came to Virginia, was in private practice, except for two years when he was general counsel for the Committee on the Judiciary in the U.S. House of Representatives. At the Law School, Dudley teaches civil and criminal procedure, evidence, criminal law, constitutional law, and trial advocacy.

As a law student, Dudley was editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Stanley Reed and Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court of the United States. He serves on the Virginia State Bar Committee on Professionalism and was a member of the boards of directors of the Stuart Stiller Memorial Foundation, the Disability Rights Center, and the Center for the Study of Psychiatry. He was a public member of the ethics committee of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and he has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, as well as a faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy in programs in various cities.

Publications
All Courses
In the Media

"Feds Look for Connection between Vick and Dead N.C. Dogfighter" (Dailypress.com, 09/21/2007)

"Fractured 10th Court of Appeals a Hotbed for Dissent, Animosity" (Waco Tribune-Herald, 06/10/2007)

"U.Va. Law School Well Represented at Supreme Court/University 3rd Nationwide in Placing Alumni in Prestigious Clerk Post" (Daily Progress, 12/05/2006)

"Mistrial Offers Challenges, Rewards" (The Charlottesville Daily Progress, 12/04/2005)

"SU Hires Top Head Hunter in Ad Search" ([Syracuse, N.Y.] Post -Standard , 12/06/2004)

"Experts Call Jury Sentence 'Compromise' in U. Virginia Student's Trial" (The Cavailer Daily, 11/12/2004)

"Judge Tosses Evidence From Overheard Conversation" (Associated Press/Richmond TImes-Dispatch, 06/02/2004)

"'I'm Sorry': Courts Find It Hard to Apologize" (Winston-Salem [N.C.] Journal, 02/08/2004)

"Muhammad May Face Additional Trials" (New York Times, 11/26/2003)

"Other Prosecutors Eye Sniper" (Chicago Tribune, 11/26/2003)

"Convicted Sniper Could Face Trials For Killings In 4 States" (Marin Independent Journal, 11/26/2003)

"Accused Sniper Enters Not-Guilty Plea" (Associated Press, 10/16/2003)

"Defense Expected to Attempt to Avoid the Death Penalty" (The Washington Times, 10/15/2003)

"Virginia Files State's First Murder Charges Against Sniper Suspects" (Knight-Ridder News Services, 10/29/2002)

"Letter to the Editor: The Strict Honor Code for Students at the University of Virginia" (Chronicle of Higher Education, 05/31/2002)