 
| Michael G. Collins Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law Roy L. and Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Research Professor J.D., Harvard Law School, 1978 M.A., Stanford University, 1975 B.A., Pomona College, 1972 Michael Collins joined the Law School as Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law in 2007. Collins previously taught at Tulane Law School, where he was a three-time recipient of Tulane’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He teaches federal courts, civil procedure, evidence, civil rights, and transnational litigation. Prior to attending law school, he earned a graduate degree in classical languages and literature at Stanford University. After law school, he practiced commercial and employment law in Los Angeles, practiced civil rights law in New Orleans, and was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. In spring 2005 he taught Evidence at the University of Virginia; he has also taught at Boston University, George Washington University, Ohio State, and the University of Richmond. Collins’ research interests lie in the areas of federal courts, procedure, and legal history. His recent works include a historical essay on the Alien Tort Statute, a study of the 19th-century development of general constitutional law in the federal courts, and a revisionist history of judge-jury roles in the federal courts. His writings have appeared in the California, Columbia, Georgetown, and Virginia law reviews. He has also co-authored casebooks on federal jurisdiction and on civil procedure, and he has published a handbook on constitutional tort litigation. | |
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