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FULL-TIME FACULTY

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; U.S. Dist. Court, D. MA, 1974; U.S. Supreme Court

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, 2010 )

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", Too: From Inside the Law School Classroom to filmandlaw.com, 19 VA. J. SOC. POL'Y & L. 496 ( 2012 ) (with Kate Nace Day)

Execution Watch: Mitt Romney's "Foolproof" Death Penalty Act and the Politics of Capital Punishment, 45 SUFFOLK L. REV. 1 ( 2011 )

International Human Rights, A Fool Proof Death Penalty Act, and the Politics of Capital Punishment, VI :1-2 JURNALUL DE STUDII JURIDCE/JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES/ROMANIA ( 2011 )

"Just Trying To Be Human in This Place": Storytelling and Film in the First-Year Law School Classroom, 39 STETSON L. REV. 247 ( 2009 ) (with Kate Nace Day)

Executing the Death Penalty: International Law Influences on United States Supreme Court Decision-Making in Capital Punishment Cases, 32 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L L. REV. 599 ( 2009 )

"Like Snow Falling on a Branch...": International law Influences on Death Penalty Decisions and Debates in the United States, 38 DENV. J. INT'L L. & POL'Y 115 ( 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. 167 ( 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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