Linda Jellum

Associate Professor

Involvement:

• Board Member, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (2007-present).
• Chair, American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law’s Judicial Review Committee (2009-present).
• Vice-Chair, American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law’s Judicial Review Committee (2007-2009).
• Chair, Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Moderator Committee (2008-present).
• Chair, Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Mentor Committee (2007-08).
• Chair, Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ New Scholars’ Committee (2005-07).
• Member, Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Planning Committee (2004-present).
• Mentor, Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ New Scholar Program (July 2005-present).
• Secretary, American Association of Law Schools’ New Law Professors’ Section (2009-present).
• Treasurer, American Association of Law Schools’ New Law Professors’ Section (2008-2009).
• Secretary, American Association of Law Schools’ Law & Humanities Section (2003-2005).
• Executive Board Member, American Association of Law Schools’ New Law Professors’ Section (2007-2008).
• Executive Board Member, American Association of Law Schools’ Women in Legal Education Section (2008-present).
• Workshop Organizer, “Reevaluating the Curriculum,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference (scheduled for August 4, 2009).
• Panel Organizer, “Tenure:  The Spoken and Unspoken Rules,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference (July 19, 2006).
• Panel Organizer, “The People, the Process, the Precedents, and the Preamble:  Interpretative Directions from the Drafters,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference (July 21, 2005).
• New Scholar Mentor, Southeastern Association of Law Schools.  July 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009.

Publications:

ARTICLES

•  “Which is to be Master,” The Judiciary or the Legislature? When Statutory Directives Violate Separation of Powers,  56 U.C.L.A. L. REV. 837(2009); presented at Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, July 21, 2005; presented at Stetson University College of Law, Faculty Development Presentation, October 16, 2007.
• Chevron’s Demise:  A Survey of Chevron from Infancy to Senescence, 59 ADMIN. L. REV. 725 (2007).
• Chenery II and the Development of Federal Administrative Law, 58 ADMIN. L. REV. 815 (2006) (co-authored with Professor R. Weaver).
• Cool Data on a Hot Issue:  Empirical Evidence that a Law School Bar Support Program Enhances Bar Performance, 5 NEV. L.J. 646 (2005) (co-authored with Professor E. Reeves); reprinted in 75 THE BAR EXAMINER 1 (February 2006).
• Parents Know Best:  Revising Our Approach to Parental Custody Agreements, 65 OHIO ST. L.J. 615 (2004), reprinted in two installments:  Part I in 18 MINN. FAM. L.J. 129 (September/October 2005) and Part II in 19 MINN. FAM. L.J. 155 (November/December 2005).

BOOKS 

• MODERN STATUTORY INTERPRETATION:  PROBLEMS, THEORIES, AND LAWYERING STRATEGIES (co-authored with Professor D. Hricik) (Carolina Academic Press) (2006).
• MASTERING STATUTORY INTERPRETATION (Carolina Academic Press) (2008).
• MODERN STATUTORY INTERPRETATION:  PROBLEMS, THEORIES, AND LAWYERING STRATEGIES (2nd ed.) (co-authored with Professor Hricik) (Carolina Academic Press) (forthcoming 2009).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Approaching Tenure with Confidence, AALS New Professors’ Newsletter (January 2009).
• Faculty Development Presentations:  That Which Doesn’t Kill You May Make You Stronger, AALS New Professors’ Newsletter (December 2007).
• Arguing Statutory Interpretation:  Advocacy or Overzealism?  For Mercer Law School & Macon Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education Program.
• Feeling Sluggish?  It Could Be Your Diet, WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NEWSLETTER, February 2000.
• Achieving Your New Years Resolution, WOMEN NETWORK, Vol. 1, Issue 2, November/December 1999.
• Young and Healthy? You Still Need A Physical Checkup, YOUNG LAWYER, Vol. 3 No. 7, April 1999.
• Suggestions to Improve Young Lawyers Lifestyles, DE NOVO, Vol. XIII, Issue I, January/February 1999.
• OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL CHILD CARE LICENSING TRAINING MANUAL (January 1996 ed.). 

Honors:

• Selected by the students to hood the 2006 graduating class.
• Nominated for the Honorary Legal Writing Certificate for "improv[ing] the legal writing skills of the [2003] graduating" students.

Teaches:

• Administrative Law
• Statutory Law & Interpretation
• Business Associations
• Business Drafting
• Introduction to Law
• Property

Presentations:

• Presenter, “Approaching Tenure with Confidence,” American Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, January 8, 2009.
• Presenter, “The Nuts and Bolts of Moot Court Competitions,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, July 28, 2008.
• Presenter, “An Introduction to Administrative Law in the United States,” Escola da Magistratura Regional Federal da 2 Regiao (Brazil), Conferencias da Walter F. George School of Law, November 22, 2007.
• Presenter, “Which is to be Master: The Judiciary or the Legislature,” Stetson University College of Law, Faculty Development Presentation, October 16, 2007.
• Presenter, “Chevron’s Demise: A Survey of Chevron from Infancy to Senescence,” Georgia State Law School, Faculty Development Presentation, March 12, 2007.
• Presenter, “Getting Involved in SEALS,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, August 1, 2007.
• Presenter, “Mississippi Poultry Ass’n, Inc. v. Madgan:  Interpreting Chevron’s First Step,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, July 21, 2006. 
• Presenter, “Chenery II and the Development of Federal Administrative Law,” Administrative Law Forum, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, May 17, 2006.
• Presenter, “Learning Theory & Multimedia,” Institute for Law School Teaching’s Conference on Inspiring Students & Facilitating Learning, Chicago, Il, June 3, 2006.
• Presenter, “Cool Data on a Hot Issue:  Empirical Evidence that a Law School Bar Support Program Enhances Bar Performance,” Charleston Law School, Faculty Development Presentation, March 31, 2006; and Mercer Law School, Faculty Development Presentation, November 2004.
• Presenter, “Interviewing Pitfalls and Mistakes,” American Association of Law Schools’ Faculty Recruitment Conference, Candidates’ Workshop, Washington, DC
  • November 4, 2004
  • November 11, 2005
  • November 2, 2006
  • October 25, 2007
  • November 6, 2008.
• Presenter, “Which is to be Master: The Judiciary or the Legislature?” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, July 21, 2005.
• Presenter, "Cheating and the Ethics of Practicing Law:  Arguing Statutory Interpretation:  Advocacy or Overzealism?” Mercer Law School, December 3, 2004.
• Presenter, “Teaching Legal Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners,” Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada,  Las Vegas, March 7, 2004.
• Moderator, “International Law,” American Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, New York, NY, January 3, 2008.
• Moderator, “SEALS New Scholar Panel,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, July 30, 2007.
• Moderator, “Sarbanes-Oxley, Two Years Later,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Conference, August 1, 2004.