Jeannette Cox joined the faculty in 2006 to teach and write in the areas of civil procedure and disability law. She comes to us from Portland, Oregon, where she served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Cox earned her J.D. summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, where she received the Dean Joseph O’Meara Award for outstanding academic achievement, served on the editorial board of the Notre Dame Law Review, and volunteered her time with Indiana Legal Services. Professor Cox also worked in the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic, where she represented clients in Medicaid appeals, Social Security Disability appeals, and land partition actions. She spent a summer with the School of Government for the University of North Carolina, where she researched, wrote, and taught in the areas of employment discrimination and animal control legislation.
She earned her B.A. summa cum laude from Hanover College, where she clerked for Jefferson County Circuit Judge Ted R. Todd. Professor Cox later served as an AmeriCorps member in her hometown of Richmond, Indiana, where she directed a children’s literacy program based at Earlham College.
Courses
LAW 6101 Civil Practice & Procedure
LAW 6111 Legislation
LAW 6210 Advanced Civil Procedure
She will be visiting at Notre Dame Law School for the Fall 2008 semester.
Selected Publications
- Information Famine, Due Process, and the Revised Class Action Rule: When Should Courts Provide a Second Opportunity to Opt Out?, 80 Notre Dame Law Review 377 (2004).
- Ordinances Targeting Pit Bull Dogs Must Be Drafted Carefully, No. 106, Local Government Law Bulletin, University of North Carolina School of Government (November 2004).
- Removed Cases and Uninvoked Jurisdictional Grounds, 86 North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming Spring 2008).
- Social Science Research Network Author Page