International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Francis J. Mootz III

Professor Jay Mootz draws from his practice experience as a commercial litigator and his graduate work in philosophy to sustain varied scholarly projects. He has written in traditional doctrinal areas such as insurance, contract and sales law, and he also has undertaken an ambitious agenda of interdisciplinary scholarship exploring relationships between law and contemporary European philosophy. Professor Mootz is a regular presenter at academic symposia focusing on issues of legal theory. He has given talks in Europe and Africa, and during October 2007 he will be giving a series of lectures in South America. He is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the interdisciplinary journal, Law, Culture and the Humanities, and is an active member of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, the Law and Society Association, and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities.