International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Jerome M. Organ

A native of Wisconsin, Jerry Organ graduated magna cum laude from Miami University and attended Vanderbilt University School of Law as a Patrick Wilson Scholar. At Vanderbilt, Organ served as an editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif. After clerking for Justice William G. Callow of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Organ entered private practice with Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee. Organ practiced law for five years, predominantly in the environmental law area, before joining the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, where he taught for ten years, participating in the unique first-year program for integrating dispute resolution. He left Missouri in 2001 to become one of the founding faculty members of the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Organ is co-author of a casebook called Property and Lawyering in which he and his coauthors integrate instruction on the skills and values of the profession with the doctrinal law of property. He became Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of St. Thomas in 2005.