B.A. 1969 Columbia College; J.D. 1972 Stanford University School of Law
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Member of the Mercer Law Faculty since 1977.
CV / Resume: lewis_hs.pdf
Involvement:
Member, American Law Institute, 1999- Chair, Civil Rights Section, American Association of Law Schools, 2001-2002 Member, Georgia Chief Justices Commission on Professionalism, 1998-2000 Lecturer on Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, and federal educational disability law--in Georgia continuing legal education programs and for the Office of Legal Education, U.S. Attorneys (Columbia, South Carolina) Formerly Professor of Law, Fordham University, New York
Publications:
--Civil Rights Law and Practice (West Hornbook, 2004) --Employment Discrimination Law and Practice (West Hornbook, 2004) --Litigating Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights Cases, West Publishing Company (5th edition, 2003)(multi-volume lawyer handbook) --Workers Compensation (West Nutshell)(with Hood and Hardy)(chapters on employment discrimination)(4th edition2005) --Police Misconduct and Civil Rights (with Stephen Yagman)(West 2-volume lawyer handbook)(2005-06 update) Has authored numerous articles in the fields of civil procedure, employment discrimination, civil rights, and professional responsibility. Publications include the law journals of the University of California at Berkeley, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, Vanderbilit and North Carolina as well as the Journal of Legal Education.
Honors:
2009 Winning Entry, 2009 Southeast Association of American Law Schools Call for Papers
1996 "Product of the Year" (lawyer-voted award for handbook on civil rights and employment discrimination law)
Teaches:
Federal Courts, Conflict of Laws, Jurisdiction and Judgments, Employment Discrimination, Civil Rights
Current Research:
Professor Lewis, with the generous aid of grants from the Law School and the Walter F. George Foundation, has completed in 2004-05 interviews with 52 employment discrimination and civil rights lawyers in 13 cities to explore the reasons underlying the underutilization of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 in federal fee-authorization litigation. Together with his research partner, Prof. Thomas A. Eaton of the University of Georgia Law School, who conducted an additional 12 interviews, Professor Lewis has developed proposals to amend Rule 68 for federal fee-shifting cases. The interviews culminated in a national symposium at Mercer Law School attended by 8 outstanding lawyers in the two fields, leading academics from the University of Michigan (the Reporter to the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee) and Northwestern University, and a senior judge from San Francisco who has long spearheaded Federal Civil Rules reform proposals, including early reforms of FRCP 68. The authors then conducted 50-state research into state law counterpart rules and published the following articles:
-- “Forward” for Symposium on FRCP 68, 57 Mercer L. Rev. 723 (2006) (with T.A. Eaton) (Organized National Symposium)
-- “Rule 68 Offers of Judgment: The Practices and Opinions of Experienced Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination Attorneys,” 241 F.R.D. 332 (2007) (with T.A. Eaton)
-- “The Contours of a New FRCP Rule 68.1: A Proposed Two-Way Offer of Settlement Provision For Federal Fee-Shifting Cases,” 252 F.R.D. 551 (2008) (with T.A. Eaton)
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