Bryant G. Garth
Dean and Professor of Law
B.A., magna cum laude, with highest honors in American Studies, 1972, Yale University; J.D., 1975, Stanford University; Ph.D., European Doctorate in Law, 1979, European University Institute, Florence, Italy; Member, California and Indiana State Bars
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Room: BW500
Beginning his tenure as Dean at Southwestern in Fall 2005, Bryant G. Garth brings the perspective of an internationally recognized scholar, law professor and former dean. "It is an exciting time," he says, "to be in the midst of helping law students prepare for and build fulfilling, successful careers that best serve the public interest."
Proficient in four foreign languages, Dean Garth was editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal Of International Studies and went on to serve as a judicial clerk to Judge Robert Peckham of the Federal District Court, Northern District of California. In 1979, he joined the faculty of Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, where he taught civil procedure, legal profession, international and comparative law and human rights, and served as Dean from 1986 to 1990.
Dean Garth was appointed in 1990 as the Director of the American Bar Foundation (ABF), the independent nonprofit research center established by the ABA for the empirical study of law, legal institutions and legal processes. Under his guidance over the next 14 years, the Foundation became a preeminent resource for lawyers, scholars, legal educators, and policy makers throughout the world.
The author or co-author of more than 16 books and 75 articles, Dean Garth's research focus has been on the legal profession, dispute resolution, globalization and the rule of law. Drawing on this expertise, he has served as a consultant to such entities as the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development and major philanthropic foundations. In recent years, Dean Garth has addressed more than 100 forums across the U.S. as well as more than a dozen foreign countries. He has held numerous leadership positions within the ABA and the Association of American Law Schools, currently chairing the advisory board of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement and serving on the executive coordinating committee of the pioneering "After the J.D." study of lawyer careers. According to Dean Garth, "Information from these and other studies will help us take the lead in designing innovative curricula and programs that best suit our students' needs."
Publications
Books and Chapters
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF PALACE WARS (with Y. Dezalay; University of Chicago Press, 2002) Korean translation (Greentree Publishing, 2007)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION ETHICS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE (editor with P. Bernard; American Bar Association, 2002)
LOOKING BACK AT LAW'S CENTURY (editor with A. Sarat and R. Kagan; Cornell University Press, 2002)
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF PALACE WARS: LAWYERS, ECONOMISTS AND THE CONTEST TO TRANSFORM LATIN AMERICAN STATES (University of Chicago Press, 2002; Spanish translation, Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos, 2002; French translation, Seuil, 2002) (with Y. Dezalay)
GLOBAL PRESCRIPTIONS:THE PRODUCTION, EXPORTATION, AND IMPORTATION OF A NEW LEGAL ORTHODOXY (editor with Y. Dezalay; University of Michigan Press, 2002)
HOW DOES LAW MATTER? (editor with A. Sarat; Northwestern University Press, 1998)
JUSTICE AND POWER IN SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES (editor with A. Sarat; Northwestern University Press, 1998)
DEALING IN VIRTUE: INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER (University of Chicago Press, 1996) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Pro Bono as an Elite Strategy in Early Legal Careers" in PRIVATE LAWYERS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST: THE EVOLVING ROLE OF PRO BONO IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION (with R. Dinovitzer; R. Granfield and L. Mather, eds.; Oxford University Press, 2009)
"Comment: A Revival of Access-to-Justice Research Symposium on 'Access to Justice'" in SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME, LAW AND DEVIANCE Vol. 13 (Rebecca L. Sandefur, ed.; Elsevier Press, 2009)
"Derechos humanos y filanthropía hegemonic," ANTROPOLOGÍA DE LAS ELITES ETNOGRAFÍAS CONTEMPORÁNEA (with Y. Dezalay; August 2009)
"Merchants of Law as Moral Entrepreneurs: Constructing International Justice from the Competition for Transnational Business Disputes" in ANALYZING LAW'S REACH: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON LAW AND SOCIETY, American Bar Foundation (with Y. Dezalay; American Bar Association, 2008)
"From the Foreign Policy Establishment to the Legalization of Foreign Policy" in The Cambridge History of Law in America Vol. III (with Y. Dezalay; M. Grossberg and C. Tomlins, eds.; Cambridge University Press, 2008)
"National Usages for a 'Global' Science: The Dissemination of New Economic Paradigms as a Strategy for the Reproduction of Governing Elites," in GLOBAL SCIENCE AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY: STUDIES IN HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE (with Y. Dezalay; G. Mallard, C. Paradeise and A. Perrbaye, eds.; Routledge, 2008)
"Law, Lawyers & Empire," in THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LAW IN AMERICA, VOL. III (with Y. Dezalay; Cambridge University Press, 2008)
"The Globalization of Law," in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LAW AND POLITICS (K.
Whittington, D. Kelemen and G. Caldeira, eds.; Oxford University Press,
2008)
"Law and Power," in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES (David S. Clark, ed.; Sage Publications, 2007)
"Willard Hurst," in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES (David S. Clark, ed.; Sage Publications, 2007)
"Law and Society," in OUP ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (2007)
"International Strategies and Local Transformations: Preliminary Observations of the Position of Law in the Field of State Power in Asia" in RAISING THE BAR: THE EMERGING LEGAL PROFESSION IN EAST ASIA (W. Alford and S.Miyazawa, editors; Harvard University Press, 2005) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Patterns of Foreign Legal Investment and State Transformation in Latin America" in LEGAL CULTURE IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (L. Friedman and R. Perez Perdomo, editors; Stanford University Press (in English) and UNAM-Mexico City (in Spanish), 2002) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Dollarizing State and Professional Expertise: Transnational Processes and Questions of Legitimation in State Transformation, 1960-2000" in TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL PROCESS (M. Likosky and J. Perkovitch, editors;
Butterworths, 2002) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Of Brain Surgeons and Barber Shops: The Economic Impact of MDPs on the Legal Profession and Legal Practice" in MULTIDISCIPLINARY PARTNERSHIPS: LAWYERS, CONSULTANTS, AND CLIENTS (S. McGarry, editor; Law Journal Press, 2002) (with C. Silver)
"The Big Five versus Big Law: Confrontational Rhetoric in the Service of Legitimating Shifting Relationships between Business and Law" in THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE PRACTICE OF LAW (J. Drolshammer and M. Pfeifer, editors; Kluwer Law International, 2001) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Constructing Law Out of Power: Investing in Human Rights as an Alternative Political Strategy" in CAUSE LAWYERING AND THE STATE IN GLOBAL CONTEXT (A. Sarat and S. Scheingold, editors; Oxford University Press, 2001) (with Y. Dezalay)
"The Import and Export of Law and Legal Institutions: International Strategies in National Palace Wars," in ADAPTING LEGAL CULTURES (J. Feest and D. Nelkin, editors; Hart Publishing, 2001) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Comparative Law and the Legal Profession: Notes Toward a Reorientation of Research" in LAWYERS' PRACTICES AND IDEALS (J. Barcelo and R. Crampton, editors; Kluwer Law International, 1999)
"Droits humins I filanthropia hegemonica" in SOCIETAT CIVIL I TRANSFORMACIO DE L'ESTAT AL LLINDAR DEL SEGLE XXI (P. Casanovas editor; Fundacio Caixa de Sabadell, 1999) (with Y. Dezalay)
Articles
"Exploring Inequality in the Corporate Law Firm Apprenticeship: Doing the Time, Finding the Love," 22 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LEGAL ETHICS 1361 (with J. Sterling; 2009)
"L'imperialism moral: Les jurists et imperialisme americain; (Philippines, Indonesia)," 171-172 ACTES DE LA RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES SOCIALES 40 (with Y. Dezalay; March 2008)
"Lawyer Satisfaction in the Process of Structuring Legal Careers," 41 LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW 1 (with R. Dinovitzer; 2007)
"Introduction: Taking New Legal Realism to Transnational Issues and Institutions," 31 LAW AND SOCIAL INQUIRY 939 (2007)
"Rebuilding International Law after the September 11 Attack: Contrasting Agendas of High Priests and Legal Realists," 4 LOYOLA INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 3-11 (2007)
"The Changing Social Role of Urban Law Schools," 389 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 36 (with J. Sterling and R. Dinovitzer, 2007)
"Exporting and Importing Democracy and the Rule of Law: Understanding Colonial Processes and their Impacts," NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS (January/February 2007)
"From the Cold War to Kosovo: The Rise and Renewal of International Human Rights Law as a Socio-Legal Field," 2 ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 231 (with Y. Dezalay; 2006)
"Les usages nationaux d'une science 'globale': La diffusion de nouveaux paradigmes économiques comme stratégie hégémonique et enjeu domestique dans les champs nationaux de reproduction des élites d'État," 48 SOCIOLOGIE DU TRAVAIL 308 (with Y. Dezalay; 2006)
"Observations from the After The Bar Survey of the Bar Class Of 2000," 24 QUINNIAPAC LAW REVIEW 539 (with R. L. Nelson, R. Dinovitzer, J. S. Sterling, G. Z. Wilder and T. K. Adams; 2006)
"Is It Time for a New Legal Realism?" 2005 WISCONSIN INTERDISCIPLINARY LAW REVIEW 335 (with H. Erlanger, J. Larson, E. Mertz, V. Nourse and D. Wilkins; 2006)
"Lawyers in Their Habitats: Law Firms Contemplating Transnational Mergers Should Start Thinking Like Anthropologists," LEGAL AFFAIRS (January/February 2006)
"Connivance des elites internationalisees," LE MODE DIPLOMATIQUE (with Y. Dezalay; June 2005)
"Philip Corboy and the Construction of the Plaintiffs' Personal Injury Bar," 30 LAW AND SOCIAL INJURY 269 (with S. Parikh; 2005)
"Introduction: Science and the Law, A Relation in Transition," 44:5 JUDGE JOURNAL 1 (2005)
"The Legal Construction of a Politics of Notables: The Double Game of the Patricians of the Indian Bar in the Market of Civic Virtue," 29 RETFÆRD. NORDIC LEGAL JOURNAL 42 (with Y. Dezalay; 2006)
"The Confrontation Between the Big Five and Big Law: Turf Battles and Ethical Debates as Contests for Professional Credibility," 29 LAW AND SOCIAL INQUIRY 615 (Summer 2004) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Introduction. Multidisciplinary Practice After Enron: Eliminating A Competitor But Not the Competition," 29 LAW AND SOCIAL INQUIRY 591 (Summer 2004)
"Noblesse Oblige as an Alternative Career Strategy," 41 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW 93 (2004)
"Law and Society as Law and Development," 37 LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW 3005 (2003)
"Building Strong and Independent Judiciaries Through the New Law and Development: Behind the Paradox of Consensus Programs and Perpetually Disappointing Results," 52 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 383 (2002)
"The MDP Challenge in the Context of Globalization," 52 CASE WESTERN LAW REVIEW 903 (2002) (with C. Silver)
"Tilting the Justice System: From ADR as Idealistic Movement to a Segmented Market in Dispute Resolution," 18 GEORGIA STATE LAW REVIEW 927 (2002)
"La construction juridique d'une politique de notables: Le double jeu des patriciens du barreau Indien sur le marché de la virtu civique," 45 GENÉSES 69 (December 2001) (with Y. Dezalay)
"A Dolarização do Conhecimento Técnico Profissional e do Estado: Processos Transnacionais e Questoes de Legitimação na Transformação do Estado," 43 REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS (June 2000) (with Y. Dezalay)
"L'imperialisme de la vertu," LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE 8 (May 2000) (with Y. Dezalay)
"James Willard Hurst in the Establishment and Definition of the Field of Law and Social Science," 18 LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW 37 (1999)
"From Legal Realism to Law and Society: Reshaping Law for the Last Stages of the Social Activist State," 32 LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW 409 (1998) (with J. Sterling)
"Droits de l'homme et philanthropie hegemonique," 121-22 ACTES DE LA RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES SOCIALES 3 (March 1998) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Le 'Washington Consensus': Contribution a une sociologie de l'hegemonie du neoliberalism," 121-22 ACTES DE LA RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES SOCIALES 3 (March 1998) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Two Worlds of Civil Discovery: From Studies of Cost and Delay to the Markets in Legal Services and Legal Reform," 39 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 597 (1998)
"Law, Lawyers, and Social Capital: 'Rule of Law' Versus Relational Capitalism," 6 SOCIAL AND LEGAL STUDIES 109 (1997) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Reflections on an Uncomfortable Relationship: Civil Procedure and Empirical Research," 49 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW 103 (1997)
"Fussing about the Forum: Categories and Definitions in Dispute Resolution as Stakes in a Professional Competition about the 'Rules of the Game,'" 21 LAW AND SOCIAL INQUIRY 285 (1996) (with Y. Dezalay)
"Merchants of Law as Moral Entrepreneurs: Constructing International Justice Out of the Competition for International Business Disputes," 29 LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW 27 (1995) (with Y. Dezalay)
