Dan B. Dobbs

Curriculum Vitae

Personal data and summary

B. Nov. 8, 1932, Fort Smith, Arkansas. M. Betty Jo Teeter, 1953. Children: Katherine, George, Becky, and Jean. Practice of law, 1956-60. Graduate work 1960-6 1. Teacher of law since 1961.

Degrees

B.A., University of Arkansas, 1956
LL.B., University of Arkansas, 1956
LL.M., University of Illinois, 1960
S.J.D., University of Illinois, 1966

Professional experience

Practice and Clerking
Admitted in Arkansas 1956
Practice of Law, Dobbs, Pryor & Dobbs, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 1956-1960
Law Clerk, Judge John E. Nfiller, U.S. District Judge, Western District of Arkansas, 1958

Teaching

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, and Aubrey L. Brooks Professor, University of North Carolina, 1961-1977
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas, (Summer) 1962
Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, 1966-67
Visiting Professor, Cornell, 1968-69
Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, 1974
Visiting Professor, University of Arizona, 1974; Professor, 1978 -date.

Other

Member, American Law Institute
Continuing legal education and Appellate Judges' seminars and conferences, various years
Chair, Torts and Remedies sections of the Association of American Law Schools, various years
Graduation speaker, University of Arizona, College of Law, May, 1990

Publications

Books

Handbook on the Law of Remedies-Damages, Equity and Restitution, West Pub. Co., 1973 (1003 pp.)

Problems in Remedies, West Pub. Co. 1974 (137 pp.) (with analytic teachers' notes, 252 pp.)

Page Keeton, Dan Dobbs, Robert Keeton & David Owen, Prosser & Keeton on Torts (5th edition 1984) (Co-author, with Page Keeton, chief editor, Judge Robert Keeton and David Owen) (1286 pp.; Lawyer's Edition, with appendices, 1456 pp.)

Torts and Compensation, (198 5) (927 pp.) (with analytic teachers' notes, 1223 pp.)

Page Keeton, Dan Dobbs, Robert Keeton & David Owen, Prosser & Keeton on Torts, Supplement to 5th Edition (1987) (General Editor & Co-author with Page Keeton, Robert Keeton and David Owen)

Torts and Compensation (1990 Supplement)

The Law of Remedies—Damages, Equity and Restitution (2d ed., 3 vols. Practitioner Treatise Series, 1993)

The Law of Remedies—Damages, Equity and Restitution (1 volume abridgment 1993)

Torts and Compensation (2d ed 1993)

Dan B. Dobbs and Paul T. Hayden, Torts and Compensation (3d ed. 1997)

Dan B. Dobbs, The Law of Torts (Westgroup  2000)

Torts and Compensation (4th ed 2001)

Articles

Student work:

Note, 8 ARK. L. REV. 184 (1954)

Note, 9 ARK. L. REV. 59 (1954)

Comment, Judicial Regulation of Procedure, 9 ARK. L. REV. 146 (1954)

Comparative Negligence, 9 ARK. L. REV. 357 (1955) (student work printed as article)

Articles written in practice:

Recent Developments in the Law of Judgments, 10 ARK. L. REV. 468 (1956)

Note, Act 296, Comparative Negligence (Amendment), 11 ARK. L. REV. 391 (1957)

Short-term trusts: a good, short summary of how they save taxes under 1954 Code, 7 J. TAXATION 16 (1957) (reprinted from a state bar speech)

Other articles:

The Decline of Jurisdiction by Consent, 40 N.C.L. Rev. 49 (1961)

Conclusiveness of Personal Injury Settlements: Basic Problems, 41 N.C.L.

Rev. 665 (1963), condensed, 7 PER. INJ. CONMENT. No. 4, 31 (1964)

Amendment, 42 N.C.L. Rev. 858 (1964)

Torts Survey, 43 N.C.L. Rev. 906 (1965) (with Robert G. Byrd)

Book Review, 44 N.C.L. Rev. 1187 (1966)

Book Review, 44 N.C.L. Rev. 518 (1966)

Trial Court Error as an Excess of Jurisdiction, 43 Tex. L. Rev. 854 (1965)

The Validation of Void Judgments: The Bootstrap Principle, Part II—The Scope of Bootstrap, 53 Va. L. Rev. 1241 (1967)

Beyond Bootstrap: Foreclosing the Issue of Subject-Matter Jurisdiction before Final Judgment, 51 Minn. L. Rev. 491 (1967), reprinted, 5 Mod. Prac. Comment. 21 (1967)

Medical Malpractice—Rejection of the But-For Test, 45 N.C.L. Rev. 799 (1967) (Note)

Trespass to Land in North Carolina—Part 1, The Substantive Law, 47 N.C.L. Rev. 31 (1968)

Trespass to Land in North Carolina—Part II, Remedies for Trespass, 47 N.C.L. Rev. 334 (1969)

Contempt of Court: A Survey, 5 6 Corn. L. Rev. 184 (1971)

Pressing Problems for the Plaintiff's Lawyer in Rescission: Election of Remedies and Restoration of Consideration, 26 Ark. L. Rev. 322 (1973)

Should Security be required as a Pre-Condition to Provisional Injunctive Relief, 52 N.C.L. Rev. 1092 (1974)

Tort Remedies, in Ali-Aba Tort Trends 1975, p. 61 (New York Course of Study, 1975), printed in 4 Ali-Aba Course Materials J. 67 (1977)

Recent Developments in Remedies for Death and Personal Injury, 27 Bar Notes 95 (1976) (Journal of the North Carolina Bar Association)

Belief and Doubt in Malicious Prosecution and Libel, 21 Ariz. L. Rev. 607 (1979)

Tortious Interference with Contractual Relationships, 34 Ark. L. Rev. 335 (1980)

Awarding Attorney Fees against Adversaries: Introducing the Problem, 1986 DUKE L.J. 43 5;

The Market Test for Attorney Fee Awards: Is the Hourly Rate Test Mandatory?, 28 ARIZ. L. REV. 1 (1986)

Comment on Galanter, The Day after the Litigation Explosion: Can You Care for People and Still Count the Costs?, 46 Md. L. Rev. 49 (1986).

Reducing Attorney Fees for Partial Success: A Comment on Hensley and Blum, 1986 Wis. L. Rev. 835 (1987)

Accountability and Comparative Fault, 47 LA. L. Rev. 939 (1987) (also translated into Japanese)

Ending Punishment in Punitive Damages: Deterrence Measured Remedies, 40 ALA. L. Rev. 831-917 (1989)

Chapters

Chapter on Remedies, BALLANTINES PROBLEMS IN LAW (5th ed. 1975)

Chapter, "Can You Sue the Government?" in Reader's Digest FAMILY LEGAL GUIDE (1981)

Magazine Article

Law and the Sick Room, Saturday Review, Aug. 3, 1968, p. 43, condensed, Consultant, Feb. 1969, p. 41

August 2001