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Daniel F. Piar
Associate Dean for Scholarship and Professor of Law

A.B., Harvard College, magna cum laude
J.D., Yale Law School

Courses taught:
Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law; Constitutional Torts; Criminal Law; Jurisprudence; Trial Advocacy

 

 
dpiar@johnmarshall.edu
(404) 872-3593  Ext. 122
 

Professor Piar joined the John Marshall faculty in 2002. From 1995 to 2001 he worked as an associate and then as a partner at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Atlanta. There he specialized in the federal litigation of labor and employment claims, including class actions and administrative litigation. During 2001 and 2002 he worked in Athens, Georgia as an Assistant District Attorney prosecuting state felony cases. His scholarship centers on the cultural study of constitutional law, especially the law of individual rights. Professor Piar received the Robert J. D'Agostino Teaching Excellence Award from the students of John Marshall Law School in 2007. He also received the 2007 Association of American Law Schools Teacher of the Year Award (JMLS).


Publications


In Progress: The American Religion of Law: From Puritanism to Twenty-First Century Constitutionalism.

 

A Welfare State of Civil Rights: The Triumph of the Therapeutic in American Constitutional Law, 16 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 649 (2007-08).

 

Majority Rights, Minority Freedoms: Protestant Culture, Personal Autonomy and Civil Liberties in Nineteenth-Century America, 14 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 987 (2006).

 

A Uniform Code of Procedure for Revoking Probation, 31 American Journal of Criminal Law 117 (2004).

 

Using Coram Nobis to Challenge Wrongful Convictions: A New Look at an Ancient Writ, 30 Northern Kentucky Law Review 505 (2003)(Symposium Issue).

 

The Uncertain Future of Title VII Class Actions after the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 2001 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 305 (2001).

 


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