Focus on Faculty: Tim Kuhner

RWU has assembled a faculty of excellent teachers and scholars, and this blog entry focuses one of our youngest, Tim Kuhner. Tim graduated magna cum laude from both Bowdoin College and Duke Law School (where he also earned an LL.M in Comparative and International Law). Before coming to Bristol in 2005, Tim clerked for a federal judge on the Eighth Circuit, worked both domestically and internationally in Alternative Dispute Resolution, and published a number of articles (including one in both English and Spanish!). 

Since joining the RWU faculty, Tim has become a very popular teacher of International Law and Human Rights, and had articles accepted for publication in the primary journals at the University of Cincinnati and the University of California-Berkeley.  Click here to read The Foreign Source Doctrine: Explaining the Role of Foreign and International Law in Interpreting the Constitution.

But Tim is not content to operate in the Ivory Tower.  Like many of his RWU colleagues, he is involved in public service, specifically working to ensure free and fair elections.  Even though he has been with us for just over 2 years, Tim has already been named to the Governing Board of Common Cause of Rhode Island, a government watchdog that focuses on campaign reform. Click here for an interview with Tim on his public service work.

This fall Tim is a Visiting Professor at Duke Law School, but he will be back in Bristol to participate in our November program on Law and Terrorism and then fulltime in the spring semester.  Click here for information on that program.