Christopher Ramey
J.D., Thomas Jefferson School of Law
B.A., Carson-Newman College
Christopher L. Ramey teaches bar-tested and practice-focused courses that connect doctrinal principles to real-world litigation and pretrial advocacy. His courses emphasize clear legal writing, careful analysis, professional judgment, and ethical lawyering, designed to help students apply these skills immediately in clinics and externships, summer work, and bar preparation. His recent work includes legal and procedural consulting on California discovery methods for developers of AI-enabled litigation tools. Professor Ramey previously taught as an adjunct at TJSL and the University of California.
Professor Ramey is admitted to the California State Bar, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Central Districts of California, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He practiced law full-time for twenty years as a courtroom advocate, trying bench and jury cases in state and federal courts throughout California. His practice included litigating dispositive motions and successful appellate advocacy.
Before entering the legal profession, Professor Ramey held senior business roles, including chief financial officer. He also worked as an operations consultant and efficiency expert for a Canadian business development corporation and as a software developer for retail and accounting applications.
Professor Ramey earned his B.A. from Carson-Newman University and his J.D. from TJSL, where he served as Executive Editor and published in the TJSL Law Review. While in law school, he served as a judicial intern in the San Diego Superior Court. In TJSL’s study abroad program in Nice, France, he served as a teaching assistant to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Comparative Constitutional Law. He holds multiple practice certificates, including Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School Online and a DRPA-compliant mediation certificate administered through the Beverly Hills Bar Association.
Courses include: Legal Writing I and II, Federal and California Civil Procedure, Pre-Trial Preparation, Civil Motion Practice, Advanced Civil Discovery Practice, and International ADR.