Resident Faculty Quick Guide

Legal research and writing
  • Served as an assistant corporation counsel in the New York City Law Department’s Affirmative Litigation Division, which brings lawsuits on behalf of the city as plaintiff.
  • Stewart prepares first-year law students for the culmination of their Legal Research and Writing course: arguing a mock courtroom case. (Video)
Legal history, constitutional law, torts
  • Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren
  • White's 17 published books have won numerous honors and awards, including the final listing for the Pulitzer Prize in history.
  • Former fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and twice a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a fellow of the Society of American Historians, and a member of the American Law Institute.
Federal court system and civil procedure
  • Worked for a decade as a civil rights lawyer in Louisiana
  • Scholarly interests involve key doctrinal features of the law of federal courts
Tax policy, tax shelters, federal taxation
  • Clerked for Judge Jacques L. Wiener Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Research and teaching emphasizes the taxation of business entities and complex transactions
  • Received the Law School’s Carl McFarland Prize for outstanding research (Story)
  • Selected to present at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum