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Gerald B. Wetlaufer
Professor of Law
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BA, Princeton University, 1967
JD, Yale Law School, 1972 - Email gerald-wetlaufer@uiowa.edu
- Phone 319-335-9107
- Office 420 Boyd Law Building
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Professor Wetlaufer joined the Iowa law faculty in 1985 after thirteen years of private practice and seven years as a partner with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross. While in private practice, Professor Wetlaufer specialized in antitrust law and economics, including antitrust litigation attendant to numerous contested tender offers; plaintiffs' Title VII class actions seeking to desegregate the construction industries in Washington, D.C.; other forms of complex federal litigation and administrative representation; and complex negotiations. As a student at Yale Law School, he served as research and teaching assistant to Professor Alexander M. Bickel.
Professor Wetlaufer's research and writings deal with the law of executive privilege; the various and often incompatible theoretical perspectives at work in contemporary American law (e.g., formalism, legal realism, legal process, the positivist/analytic tradition, law and economics, contemporary critical theory); the forms of legal argument; the rhetorics of negotiations; and the ethics of strategic behavior both in civil litigation and in negotiations. His courses include Civil Procedure, Theories of Law in Twentieth-Century America, The Rhetorics and Ethics of Negotiations, Legal Realism & Critical Legal Studies, and Law & Economics.