  Joseph G Hylton - Professor of Law
E-mail: joseph.hylton@marquette.edu
Phone: (414) 288-5372
Blog: Visit the Faculty Blog
Professional Memberships:
Admitted: Virginia (1977); 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (1978), District of Columbia (1980), Massachusetts (1987).
Other Courses Taught:
Property, Torts, Copyright, Sports Law, American Legal History, Professional Responsibility, Comparative Constitutional Law, Civil Rights Legislation, International Human Rights, and Lawyer in American Society.
Biography:
J. Gordon Hylton joined the Marquette Law School faculty in 1995 after teaching at IIT Chicago-Kent and Washington University. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Virginia Law School. He also holds a PhD in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University and formerly clerked for Justice Albertis S. Harrison and Chief Justice Lawrence I'Anson of the Virginia Supreme Court.
He currently serves as a member of the Diversity Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. He is also past chair of the Association of American Law School's Sections on Legal History and Sports Law and has served on the executive committees of the Property Law and Law and Agriculture sections.
Professor Hylton was the chair of the committee that created the current MULS Sports Law program, and from 1997 to 1999, he served as interim director of the National Sports Law Institute. He is currently a member of the NSLI Board of Advisers and a member of the Sports Lawyers Association.
Professor Hylton is a past recipient of the Gihardi Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Teaching Award presented by the Marquette Chapter of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity. Earlier in his career he was named professor of the year at the Chicago-Kent Law School on three occasions and was twice the recipient of the Illinois Institute of Technology's award for superior teaching. He is also the only visiting professor to be named professor of the year at Washington University Law School.
From 1997 to 2001, Professor Hylton taught in the Marquette History Department as well as the law school. He has also been a visiting professor at Washington University, Washington & Lee University, and the University of Virginia. In the Fall of 2000 he was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Law at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kiev, Ukraine.
His current research interests focus on the history of the legal profession, the history of civil rights, and the legal history of American sports.
Begining in 2009, he will be a visiting professor each fall semester at the University of Virginia.
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