  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).
Courses Taught This Session:
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 native of Giles County, Virginia, and a graduate of Giles High School. He holds a degree in History and English from Oberlin College; a J.D. and an M.A. in History from the University of Virginia; and a PhD in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University. Following law school, he clerked for Justice Albertis S. Harrison and Chief Justice Lawrence I'Anson of the Virginia Supreme Court and worked for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
In addition to teaching at the law school, Professor Hylton also teaches a junior seminar on American Constitutional History in the Marquette undergraduate Honors Program. From 1997 to 2001, he taught courses in legal and constitutional history and the history of sport in the Marquette History Department. 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. From 2001 to 2003, he taught in the program in comparative and international law offered by Marquette and the University of Queensland.
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.
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 where he is also affiliated with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
Special Recognitions:
Professor Hylton 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 the Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Agriculture and is the past chair of the AALS Sections on Legal History and Law and Sports, as well as the Marquette University representative to the International Association of Law Schools and a member of the Board of Editors of the the American Journal of Comparative Law.
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 where he was also the recipient of a special award for teaching from the Student Bar Association.
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