Kaimipono David Wenger
Assistant Professor of Law
J.D., Columbia University School of Law;
B.A., Arizona State University, cum laude
Telephone: 619.374.6940
Email: kwenger@tjsl.edu
Professor Wenger graduated from Columbia University School of Law, where he served as an articles editor on the Columbia Law Review and was a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the Eastern District of New York, where he dealt with a variety of matters including immigration, criminal and mass tort cases. Professor Wenger practiced law for three years with Cravath, Swaine, & Moore LLP in New York City, where his primary practice involved securities litigation for large international clients, and he also dealt with general corporate governance matters, antitrust, and trusts and estates matters. Professor Wenger’s scholarly interests include property law, (trusts and estates), torts, business and securities law and civil rights law. His recent articles include “Nullificatory Juries” (with David A. Hoffman) in the Wisconsin Law Review and “Slavery as a Takings Clause Violation” in the American University Law Review.
Scholarship
Causation and Attenuation in the Slavery Reparations Debate, 40 U.S.F. L. Rev. 279 (2006) Slavery as a Takings Clause Violation, 53 Am. U.C. Rev. 191 (2003)
Subjects include:
Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Trusts and Wills.