Historical Faculty

Walter F. (Jack) Pratt was a professor of contracts and legal history.  He completed his undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt in 1968.  Pratt served in the Army for three years before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship.  He completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Politics at Oxford in 1974 and a JD at Yale in 1977.  Following law school he clerked for Judge Charles Clark of the 5^th Circuit, and then for Chief Justice Warren Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court.  In 1979 he published a book titled Privacy in Britain.  While at Duke Law, he served as visiting associate professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University during the 1984-85 academic year.

Pratt joined the law faculty at Notre Dame in 1986 as an associate professor. In 1998 he received a full professorship and from 1999 to 2005 served as an executive associate dean.  He became dean of the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2006, a position he held until 2011.  Since 2012 he has been the James P. Mozingo III Professor of Legal Research at USC Law.

Sources:

Duke University, School of Law, Bulletin of Duke University School of Law [serial]

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