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William Reynolds
Jacob A. France Professor of Judicial Process
Phone: (410) 706-7279
Fax: (410) 706-2184
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Office: 447
BA, 1967, Dartmouth College
JD, 1970, Harvard University
William Reynolds, the Jacob A. France Professor of Judicial Process, is a widely-published authority on conflict of laws and appellate courts. He has written four books and many law review articles, including papers in the Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, and Texas Law Reviews. Professor Reynolds writes in a wide range of areas; at present, he is working on topics as diverse as the staffing of federal courts, the origins of baseball’s antitrust exemption, electronic contracting, and the role of Maryland in the development of the Constitution.
Professor Reynolds has taught many courses. In the last few years, he has taught Antitrust, Art Law, Civil Procedure, Comparative Public Policy, Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, Electronic Commerce, and European Union Law.
Professor Reynolds was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and then clerked for Judge Frank Kaufman (D. Md.). He joined the Maryland faculty in 1971, and he has also visited at the Brooklyn, Southern Methodist, and West Virginia Law Schools. Professor Reynolds is a life member of the American Law Institute and of the American and Maryland Bar Foundations. He is Of Counsel to the international law firm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, where his primary focus is appellate litigation.
Professor Reynolds has long been active in the area of child support enforcement. He has spoken at many state, regional, and national child support conferences on topics as diverse as legal ethics and the interstate recognition of judgments. In 2004, he was honored by the National Child Support Enforcement Association with its Public Service Award. He is also active in the Maryland Judicial Institute as both a Board Member and as a speaker.
Books
The Full Faith and Credit Clause (2005) (with William Richman).
Cases and Materials on Conflict of Laws (1990 & 2d ed. 2003) (with others).
Judicial Process in a Nutshell (3d ed. 2002).
Understanding the Conflict of Laws (3d ed. 2002) (with William Richman).
Articles
Maryland and the Constitution of the United States: An Introductory Essay, 66 Maryland Law Review 923 (2007).
Survey of the Law of Cyberspace: Electronic Contracting Cases 2006-2007, 63 Business Lawyer 195 (2007) (with Juliet M. Moringiello).
Survey of the Law of Cyberspace: Electronic Contracting Cases 2005-2006, 62 Business Lawyer 195 (2006) (with Juliet M. Moringiello). [Full Text]
Survey of the Law of Cyberspace: Internet Contracting Cases 2004-2005, 61 Business Lawyer 433 (2005) (with Juliet M. Moringiello). [Full Text]
Foreword: The Legal History of the Great Sit-In Case of Bell v. Maryland, 61 Maryland Law Review 761 (2002). [Full Text]
Prologomenon to an Empirical Restatement of Conflicts, 75 Indiana Law Review 417 (2000) (with William Richman).
Robert Leflar, Legal Process, and Choice of Law, 52 Arkansas Law Review 123 (1999) (with William Richman).
What Happens When Parties Fail to Prove Foreign Law?, 48 Mercer Law Review 775 (1997).
Legal Process and Choice of Law, 56 Maryland Law Review 1371 (1997)
Rules, Sanctions, and Enforcement Under Section 301: At Odds With the WTO?, 90 American Journal of International Law 576 (1996) (with A. Lynne Puckett).
Elitism, Expediency, and the New Certiorari: Requiem for Equality, Justice, and the Learned Hand Tradition, 81 Cornell Law Review 273 (1996) (with William Richman).
Studying Deck Chairs on the Titanic, 81 Cornell Law Review 1290 (1996) (with William Richman).
Why Teach International Family Law in Conflicts, 28 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 411 (1995).
Legal Process and the Past of Antitrust, 48 S.M.U. Law Review 1811 (1995) (with Spencer Waller).
The Straight-Line Method of Determining Personal Jurisdiction, 44 Journal of Legal Education 130 (1994) (with John Brumbaugh).
The Iron Law of Full Faith and Credit, 53 Maryland Law Review 412 (1994).
A Practical Guide to Statutory Interpretation Today, 94 West Virginia Law Review 927 (1992).
The Proper Forum for a Suit: Transnational Forum Non Conveniens and Counter-Suit Injunctions in the Federal Courts, 70 Texas Law Review 1663 (1992).
Fifty Years of the Maryland Law Review, 50 Maryland Law Review 247 (1991).
A Conflicts Overview, in Interstate Child Support Problems (M. Haynes & D. Dodson eds. 1990).
The Continued Importance of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, in Sense of the People: Proceedings on the Maryland Constitution of 1867 (1990). [Full Text]
Luther Martin, Maryland, and the Constitution, 47 Maryland Law Review 291 (1988). [Full Text]
A Dissent on Joint Custody, 47 Maryland Law Review 497 (1988) (with Jana Singer).
Appellate Justice, Bureaucracy, and Scholarship, 21 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 623 (1988).
Publication in the Ohio Appellate Courts, 46 Ohio State Law Journal 243 (1985) (with William Richman).
Equal Divisions in The Supreme Court: History, Problems, and Proposals, 62 North Carolina Law Review 29 (1984) (with Gordon Young).
An Evaluation of Limited Publication in the United States Courts of Appeals: The Price of Reform, 48 University of Chicago Law Review 547 (1981) (with William Richman) (reprinted by the Federal Judicial Center).
Limited Publication in the Fourth and Sixth Circuits, 1979 Duke Law Journal 807 (with William Richman).
The Maryland Court of Appeals: Roles, Work, and Performance, (pts. 1-2) 37 Maryland Law Review 1 (1977), 38 Maryland Law Review 148 (1978).
The Non-Precedential Precedent - Limited Publication and No-Citation Rules in the United States Courts of Appeals, 78 Columbia Law Review 1167 (1978) (with William Richman).
A Practitioner's Guide to the Maryland Antitrust Act, 36 Maryland Law Review 323 (1976) (with James Wright).
Juridical Cripples: Plurality Opinions in the Supreme Court, 1974 Duke Law Journal 58 (with John Davis).
