Faculty Profile

Donald H. Gjerdingen

Professor of Law

In the News

"Marsh v. Marsh rooted in money"Indianapolis Star,  April  2,  2009

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Biography

Professor Gjerdingen researches in the area of legal theory, focusing on the special intellectual structure of American legal thought. His publications include articles on such topics as law and economics, legal education, takings law, and modern legal thought.

On Indiana Law faculty since 1988, Professor Gjerdingen teaches American Constitutional Law for Foreign Lawyers, a class required for international graduate students. Gjerdingen currently teaches Torts, Introduction to American Law, Wills and Trusts, and American Constitutional Law for Foreign Lawyers. He also has extensive teaching experience in constitutional law, environmental law, administrative law, legal theory, jurisprudence, and law and economics.

For his dedication to his many graduate and J.D. students over the years, Professor Gjerdingen has earned the School's Leon Wallace Teaching Award as well as the IU Trustees Teaching Award.

Selected Works

• The Future of Our Past: The Legacy of Classical Common-Law Thought, 68 Indiana L.J. 743 (1993).
• The Politics of the Coase Theorem and Its Relationship to Modern Legal Thought, 35 Buffalo L. Rev. 871 (1986).
• The Future of Legal Scholarship and the Search for a Modern Theory of Law, 35 Buffalo L. Rev. 381 (1986).
• Intergenerational Condemnation, 21 Tulsa L.J. 419 (1986).
• The Coase Theorem and the Psychology of Common-Law Thought, 56 So. Calif. L. Rev. 711 (1983).

Related Links

• Torts course page
• Wills & Trusts course page
• Introduction to Law: The American Legal Mind course page
• American Constitutional Law for Foreign Lawyers course page
• Curriculum Vitae
• Publications