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Russell G. Murphy
Professor of Law

 S H O R T   B I O G R A P H Y

Crier-Law Clerk, Honorable Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., U.S.D.C., District of MA, 1972-73; Teaching Fellow, Boston College, 1973-74; Visiting Lecturer, Division of Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts, spring 1974; Assistant Professor, Gonzaga, 1974-75; Assistant Professor, Suffolk, 1975-77; Associate Professor, 1977-78; Associate Professor & Assistant Dean, Boston College, 1978-80; Associate Professor, Suffolk, 1980-82; Professor, since 1982; Associate Dean, 1990-94

Degrees:
BA, University of Massachusetts; JD, Suffolk University

Bar Admittance:
MA, 1973; U.S. Dist. Court, D. MA, 1974; U.S. Supreme Court, 1991

Subjects:
Civil Procedure; Corrections & Prisoner's Rights; Criminal Procedure; Federal Jurisdiction; Introduction to Law; Law & American Politics; Legal History; Criminal Law; Admiralty & Maritime Law; International Human Rights; Death Penalty Seminar

Professional Activities:
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Pi Sigma Alpha; Director, Suffolk Law School Alumni Association; Director, Action for Children's TV; Human Life Protection Com., Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Law School, Fall 1990; Scholar-in-Residence, Tulane University School of Law, Maritime Law Center, Spring, 2001; On-site Director, Foreign Law Summer Study Program, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Summer 2006 and 2007

  S E L E C T E D   P U B L I C A T I O N S
 

B O O K S

 
VOICES OF THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE: A CITIZENS GUIDE TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (Vandeplas Publishing, forthcoming Jan. 2010 )

 

B O O K     C H A P T E R S

 
Report of the Focus Group on the Court System, in CONSUMERS IN THE CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM: A NEW AUDIT (Suffolk University Law School Center for Advanced Legal Studies, 1995)

 

A R T I C L E S

 
Just Trying To Be Human in This Place, STETSON L. REV. (forthcoming 2009) (with Kate Nace Day)

Executing Capital Punishment: International Law Influences on the Death Penalty Debate in the United States, SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L L. REV. (forthcoming 2009)

People v. Cahill: Domestic Violence and the Death Penalty Debate in New York, 68 ALB. L. REV. 1029 (2005) (reprinted in Areti Krishna Kumari, ed., DEATH PENALTY: NEW DIMENSIONS, 2008).

The Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987 in the New Millennium: Incentives to High Tech Piracy?, 8 OCEAN & COASTAL L.J. 1 (2003)

Common Sense Legal Reform' and Bell's Toll: Eliminating Punitive Damage Claims from Jurisdictional Amount Calculations in Federal Diversity Cases, 84 KY. L.J. 71 (1995)



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