William Slomanson
Professor of Law
LL.M., Columbia University;
J.D., California Western School of Law;
B.A., University of Pittsburgh
Telephone: 619.374.6904
Email: bills@tjsl.edu
Professor Slomanson was an attorney for a Los Angeles insurance defense firm before joining the Thomas Jefferson School of Law faculty. Prior to law school, Professor Slomanson served in the Navy and received the Navy Achievement Medal. In 1992, he was elected editor of the American Society of International Law’s section on the United Nations Decade of International Law, a position which he still holds, and served as chair of the section from 1995 to 2006. In 1993, he lectured on the teaching of international law to the United Nations Sixth Committee (legal) at the U.N. in New York. In 1997, he taught the school’s first paperless course, based on his web page and motions submitted via e-mail. In 1999, he was appointed to the California Law Revision Commission’s Civil Procedure Panel of Experts. In 2002, he began teaching in Kosovo each summer, where he is now a Visiting Professor at the Pristina University. In 2006-2007, he lectured in Moscow, Budapest and Istanbul. In Fall 2007, he was appointed to serve as a Corresponding Editor for the American Society of International Law’s International Legal Materials. In 2008 he was appointed to serve on the original Oversight Committee of the AALS Teaching Methods Section. Professor Slomanson is listed in the Directory of American Scholars, Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in American Education. He has published extensively in the fields of civil procedure and international law, having written eleven books.
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Scholarship
Books
Cases and Materials on California Civil Procedure (Thompson West, 3rd ed., 2008) (with Teacher's Manual) (co-authored with UC-Hastings Professors Levine and Shapell) (Course Web Page online at http://home.att.net/~slomansonb/calcivpro.html)
Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (5th ed. Belmont, CA:Thomson Wadsworth, 2006)
California Civil Procedure in a Nutshell(2d ed Thomson West 2006) (with Instructor's Manual) (with Online Supplements)
Cases and Materials on California Civil Procedure (Thomson-West, 2d ed., 2005) (with Instructor’s Manual) (with David I. Levine, C. Keith Wingate & Rochelle Wirshup)(with online supplements)
Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (Thomson-West Group, 4th ed. 2003) (with Instructor's Manual) (with online supplements), and forthcoming in Albania
Historical Development of Arbitration and Adjudication, in Fundamental Perspectives on International Law 384 (West, 4th ed. 2002) reprinted in L'Histoire en Droit International 277 (Univ. Miskolc Press, 2004)
Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (Boston: West, 3d ed. 1999) (with Instructor's Manual)
Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (St. Paul: West, 2d ed. 1995) (with Instructor's Manual)
California Civil Practice Handbook: The Choice Between State and Federal Courts (St. Paul, MN: West, 1994 & Supp. 1996)
Cases and Materials on California Civil Procedure (1d ed Thomson-West 1991) (with Instructor's Manual) (with David I. Levine, C. Keith Wingate & Rochelle Wirshup)
Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (St. Paul: West, 1d ed. 1990)
International Business Bibliography (Buffalo, NY: Hein, 1989)
Editorship
Editor, American Society of International Law UN21 Newsletter, Issue #36, January 2007, Hosted by Cornell Law School, Available online
Member, Editorial Board (2004-present, Miskolc J. Int'l Law (Hungary)(published online, http://www.uni-miskolc.hy/~wwwdrint/mjil1.htm)
Editor (1992-Present), Amer Soc Intl Law United Nations 21 (Formerly United Nations Decade Of International Law) Newsletter (American Society of International Law) (published online, http://www.lawschool.?cornell.edu/lawlibrary/asil)
Articles
Tunkin Centenary Symposium - Alien Detainee Cases and Responsive Legislation: United States Balance of Power Struggle Between the President and Congress versus the Supreme Court, 11 Sudebnik 711 (2007)
Practice and Pleading: Choosing State or Federal Procedure, 27 California Lawyer 37 (published online)(Jan. 2007)
International Humanitarian Law Symposium--Alien Detainee Cases and Responsive Legislation: U.S. Balance of Power Struggle between the President and Congress versus the Supreme Court, 15 Ukrainian Journal Intl Law 23 (2006)
State Civil Procedure Elective Plea, 54 J. Legal Educ. 235 (2004)
Legal Scholarship Blueprint, 50 J. Legal Educ. 431 (2000)
Electronic Lawyering and the Academy, 48 J. Legal Educ. 216 (1998)
Fundamental Perspectives On International Law and Instructor's Manual (2d ed.) (St. Paul, MN: West, 1995)
Right to War?, 1 Moscow J. Int'l L. 5 (English-language version 1995) (co-authors: Adam Lopatka, Chief Judge, Polish Supreme Court; Yuri Kolosov, Chair, Int'l Law Dept., State Inst. of Int'l Relations, Moscow)
Articulas Interruptus: Forbearing Footnote Folly, 12 Legal References Services Q. 87 (1993)
Making a Federal (or State?) Case of It, 12 Cal. Law. 43 (Feb. 1992)
Book Review, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (15th ed.), 42 J. Legal Ed. 147 (1992)
A Uniform System of Citation (13th ed.), 68 Amer. Bar Ass'n J. 735 (1992)
Do's and Taboos for Making Law Review: A Law Student's Compass, 11 Crim. Just. J. 489 (1990) (reprinted in 10 Legal Reference Services Q. 149 (1990)
Introduction to Law: First Year Survival, 11 Legal Reference Services Q. 185 (1991)
Discovery and Service of Process in International Litigation: An Annotated Bibliography, in International Law Bibliography: A Collection of Bibliographic and Research Resources (New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1988)
U.S. Supreme Court Position on the Hague Evidence Convention, 37 Int'l & Comp. L.Q. 391 (1988)
John Doe Strikes Out in the Ninth, 8 Cal. Law. 51 (May 1988)
Footnote Logic in Law Review Writing: Previously Unaddressed in the Criminal Justice System, 9 Crim. Just. J. 65 (1986) (reprinted in 7 Legal Reference Services Q. 47 (1987))
California Nonlawyer Lawyer, 81 Am. J. Int'l L. 956 (1987)
Registered Foreign Legal Consultant: The Nonlawyer Lawyer, 34 Dicta (San Diego County Bar Journal), Apr. 1987, at 23
International Service of Summons: New Statutory Application of the Hague Service Treaty, 8 Los Angeles Law. 38 (1986)
California Becomes Latest State to Consider Foreign Legal Consultant, 80 Am. J. Int'l L. 197 (1986)
Book Review, A Uniform System of Citation (14th ed.), 28 Ariz. L. Rev. 47 (1986)
International Business Transactions: A Selected Bibliography, 17 Georgetown Journal Of Law And Policy In International Business 721-814 (1986)
Book Review, International Business Transactions in a Nutshell (2d ed.), 80 Am. J. Int'l L. 273 (1986)
Civil Action for Return of Property: "Anomalous" Federal Jurisdiction in Search of Justification, 62 Denver U. L. Rev. 741 (1985)
International Business Transactions: A Selected Bibliography, 17 L. & Pol'y in Int'l Bus. 721 (1985)
Current American Legal Citations (2d ed.), 52 Fordham L. Rev. 428 (1984)
Civil Actions Against Interpol: A Field Compass, 57 Temple L.Q. 553 (1984)
Le system de repartition du petrol en cas d'urgence de l'AIE et le reglement des differends, 88 Revue General de Droit International Public 360 (1984)
Book Review, Current American Legal Citations (2d ed.), 52 Fordham L. Rev. 428 (1983) (reprinted in 16 Southwestern Assn. of Law Libraries Bull. 29 (1985))
Dismissal for Failure to Serve and Return Summons in State and Federal Courts in California, 19 Cal. W. L. Rev. 1 (1982)
Book Review, Principles of Public International Law (3d ed.), 75 Am. J. Int'l L. 206 (1981)
The Associates, 16 Cal. W. L. Rev. 190 (1980)
Supplementation of Discovery Responses in Federal Civil Procedure, 17 San Diego L. Rev. 233 (1980)
The Moot Court Book, 8 W. St. U. L. Rev. 129 (1980)
Real Property Unrelated to Claim: Due Process for Quasi in Rem Jurisdiction?, 83 Dick. L. Rev. 51 (1978)
The High Citadel: The Influence of Harvard Law School, 6 W. St. U. L. Rev. 217 (1978)
Emergence of the Tender Years Doctrine: Too Young to Drink But Capable of Escaping the Civil Consequences?, 5 Pepp. L. Rev. 1 (1977)
Judicial Review of War Renunciation in the Naganuma Nike Case: Juggling the Constitutional Crisis in Japan, 9 Cornell Int'l L.J. 24 (1975)
Foreign Legal Consultant: Multistate Model for Business and the Bar, 39 Albany L. Rev. 199 (1975)
I.C.J. Damages: Tort Remedy for Failure to Punish or Extradite International Terrorists, 5 Cal. W. Int'l L.J. 121 (1975) (reprinted in 14 Comp. Jur. Rev. 139 (1977))
Free Transit in Territorial Straits: Jurisdiction on Even Keel, 3 Cal. W. Int'l L.J. 375 (1973)
List of Works
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Subjects include:
California Civil Procedure, Federal Civil Procedure, International Law.
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