| Robert H. Klonoff | |
|---|---|
| Dean of Lewis & Clark Law School | |
| Term | 2007 – Present |
| Born | 1955 (age 56–57) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Yale Law School |
| Profession | Professor of law |
| Website | http://www.lclark.edu/law/faculty/robert_klonoff |
Robert H. Klonoff is the dean of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, United States.
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Robert H. Klonoff, originally from Portland, Oregon, earned an AB from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1976 with highest honors.[1] He was the school’s Most Outstanding Political Science Student in 1976 and won the Edward Kraft Award for Outstanding Work as a Freshman Student in 1974.[1]
He graduated from Yale Law School in 1979 and won the Benjamin N. Cardozo Prize for Best Moot Court Brief for Academic Year 1978-1979.[1] While at Yale, he met Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor.[2]
Dean Klonoff was law clerk to the Honorable John Robert Brown, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in 1979-1980.[1] He was Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1983-1986.[1] In 1986, he became Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. In that position, he argued a number of cases before the United States Supreme Court.[3]
Klonoff was a visiting professor at the University of San Diego School of Law in 1988-1989.[1] In 1989 he joined the DC office of Jones Day, where he became a partner in 1991.[1] While at Jones Day, he was also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.[1] He continued to handle Supreme Court litigation and also specialized in class action cases, and served as chair of the firm’s pro bono program.[3][4]
In 2003, he joined the faculty of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law as the Douglas Stripp/Missouri Endowed Professor of Law.[1] He became Dean and Professor of Law of Lewis & Clark Law School in 2007.[5][6]
Klonoff’s academic work includes publications in the fields of class actions, trial and appellate advocacy, and aggregate litigation.[1][3] He is the senior author of a leading casebook on class actions, and the author of the Thomson West Nutshell on class actions. He is also the co-author of a leading text on trial advocacy and co-author of a Thomson West Nutshell on federal appellate practice. In addition, he has written numerous articles on class actions and other topics.[7][8]
Klonoff has lectured throughout the United States and in several foreign countries on class actions and appellate litigation.[1] He is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and serves as an Associate Reporter for the ALI’s class action project, “Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.” [9] Klonoff is a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and served as a reporter for the 2005 National Conference on Appellate Justice.[1][10] He is an advisory board consulting editor of Class Action Litigation Report (BNA).[1]
In 2011, Klonoff was named by Chief Justice John Roberts as the academic member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules is responsible for crafting the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. [11]