Faculty Profile

Charles Gardner Geyh

Associate Dean for Research and John F. Kimberling Professor of Law

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Biography

Professor Geyh's teaching and scholarship focus on the operation of state and federal courts in relation to the political branches of government and the legal profession. He is the author of When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System (University of Michigan Press, 2006), and co-author of Judicial Conduct and Ethics (4th ed., forthcoming, Lexis Law Publishing, 2007, with James Alfini, Steven Lubet, and Jeffrey Shaman). His work on judicial independence, accountability, administration, and ethics has appeared in more than 30 articles, book chapters, and reports.

Geyh is co-reporter to the American Bar Association Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct. He previously served as reporter to three ABA Commissions: the Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary, the Commission on Public Financing of Judicial Campaigns, and the Commission on the Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence. He has also served as reporter to the Constitution Project Task Force on the Distinction Between Intimidation and Legitimate Criticism of Judges, as director of the American Judicature Society's Center for Judicial Independence, as consultant to the Parliamentary Development Project on Judicial Independence and Administration for the Supreme Rada of Ukraine, as assistant special counsel to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on the impeachment and removal of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen, as consultant to the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, and as legislative liaison to the Federal Courts Study Committee. Professor Geyh currently serves on the Board of Directors of Justice at Stake and on the Steering Committee of the Constitution Project's Courts Initiative.

A two-time recipient of the IU Trustees' Teaching Award, Geyh teaches courses on civil procedure, legal ethics, federal courts, and the relationship between courts and legislatures.

Following graduation from University of Wisconsin Law School, he clerked for Judge Thomas A. Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He then worked as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Professor Geyh began his teaching career in 1991 at the Widener University School of Law and joined the law faculty at Indiana in 1998.

Selected Works

• Judicial Conduct and Ethics (with Jeffrey Shaman, Steven Lubet & James Alfini), Newark: Matthew Bender & Company (forthcoming 2007)
• Preserving Public Confidence in the Courts in an Age of Individual Rights and Public Skepticism, in BENCH-PRESS: THE COLLISION OF MEDIA, POLITICS, PUBLIC PRESSURE AND AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY: Palo Alto: Stanford University Press (forthcoming 2007)
• When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle For Control of America's Judicial System, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2006)
• Rescuing Judicial Accountability from the Realm of Political Rhetoric, 56 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 911 (2006)
• Judicial Independence, Judicial Accountability, and the Role of Constitutional Norms in Congressional Regulation of the Courts, 78 IN. L. J. 153 (2003)
• Why Judicial Elections Stink, 64 OH. ST. L. J.43 (2003)
• Courts, Congress, and the Constitutional Politics of Interbranch Restraint, 87 GEO. L. J. 243 (1998)
• Paradise Lost, Paradigm Found: Redefining the Judiciary's Imperiled Role in Congress, 71 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1165 (1996)
• Informal Methods of Judicial Discipline, 142 U. PA. L. REV. 243 (1993)

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