  Chad Oldfather - Associate Professor of Law
E-mail: chad.oldfather@marquette.edu
SSRN: Papers by Chad Oldfather
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Biography:
Oldfather grew up in the thoroughly Wobegonian but unfortunately named Kiester, Minnesota (current population: 540). So far as he knows, he is the first in a line stretching back to Friedrich Altvater’s arrival in Berlin, Pennsylvania in 1769 never to have been a farmer. He thinks, but of course can’t be sure, that his ancestors would find his being a law professor to be a reasonably agreeable second-best as a career choice. At least so long as he doesn’t go around putting on too many airs.
Prior to teaching, Oldfather was a lawyer in the Minneapolis office of Faegre & Benson LLP. There he practiced most recently in the appellate section of the firm's general litigation group, having previously spent four-and-a-half years in its real estate group. These phases of his career were sandwiched around an eighteen-month stint in the appellate office of the Minnesota State Public Defender. These legal peregrinations have resulted in a broad range of practice experience for a diverse array of clients, including environmental groups, multinational corporations, small businesses, churches, financial institutions, and convicted felons.
Oldfather has also previously taught at the Oklahoma City University School of Law, and as an Adjunct Professor at the William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul. Immediately following law school he served as a law clerk to Judge Jane R. Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He graduated from Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law. While in law school he served as an Articles Editor of the Virginia Law Review.
Oldfather’s primary area of scholarly interest is judging and the judicial process. His recent articles have appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, Florida Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and Vanderbilt Law Review. In 2004 he was awarded the Howard B. Eisenberg Prize by the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. He is currently a member of the National Advisory Council of the American Judicature Society, and has also served as Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Study Group on Pre-Judicial Education, a project of the Standing Committee on Judicial Independence. In 2000 he was named a "Super Lawyer" by the Minnesota Journal of Law & Politics. His non-legal interests include all manner of books and music, baseball, wilderness canoeing, and good-natured japery.
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