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Jeffrey Standen

Jeffrey Standen

Professor of Law

  • J.D. University of Virginia
  • A.B. Georgetown University, cum laude

Jeffrey Standen joined the Willamette University College of Law faculty in 1990 after serving as deputy general counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. He earned tenure at the college in 1996. Professor Standen has been a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and a scholar in residence at the University of Virginia. He serves as international advisor to the Philippines Court of the Sandiganbayan, the tribunal that adjudicates public corruption cases.

Professor Standen was graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1986. He was editor of the Virginia Law Review and articles editor of the Virginia Tax Review. After graduation, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert Chapman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He entered private practice as an associate with the law firm of Hunton & Williams.

Professor Standen is an active scholar and lecturer and has published articles in numerous prestigious periodicals, such as the California Law Review, the Iowa Law Review and the Washington University Law Quarterly, among others. He teaches Remedies, Evidence, Criminal Law and Procedure, and Sports Law. His Web site, http://thesportslawprofessor.blogspot.com/, is dedicated to the complete integration of sports and law.

Professor Standen received the Robert L. Misner Award for Excellence in Scholarship and was WUCL Professor of the Year in 2004. He serves as chair of the 2007 WUCL Self-Study Committee and as faculty advisor to the Willamette Law Review. Professor Standen is a member of the state bars of Virginia and Oregon. He is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned an A.B. in Political Philosophy in 1982. He studied at the London School of Economics in 1981.

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Books and Chapters

  • Taking Sports Seriously: Law and Sports in Contemporary American Culture (Carolina Academic Press 2009).
  • Commentaries on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, United States Code Service (2004, Lexis Publishing)

Articles

  • Peer Effects in Affirmative Action: Evidence from Law Student Performance (with J. Mark Ramseyer and John R. Lott, Jr., Journal of Economic Literature 2007).
  • The Beauty of Bets: Wagers as Compensation for Professional Athletes, Willamette Law Review (forthcoming 2006; symposium)
  • The New Importance of Maximum Penalties, 53 Drake Law Review 575 (2005) (symposium)
  • The Politics of Miranda, 12 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 555 (2003)
  • The Production of Pro Bono, 12 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 631 (2003)
  • The End of the Era of Sentencing Guidelines: Apprendi v. New Jersey, 87 Iowa Law Review 775 (2002)
  • In Memory of Robert L. Misner, 37 Willamette Law Review No. 1 (Winter 2001)
  • The Exclusionary Rule and Damages: An Economic Comparison of Private Remedies for Unconstitutional Police Conduct, 2000 Brigham Young University Law Review 1443 (reprinted in 28 Search and Seizure Law Report No. 3 (April 2001)
  • Private Remedies for Public Purposes, 36 Willamette Law Review 927 (2000)
  • An Economic Perspective on Federal Criminal Law Reform, 2 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 249 (1998)
  • In Pari Delicto, The Social Critic (Spring 1996)
  • The Fallacy of Full Compensation, 73 Washington University Law Quarterly 145 (1995)
  • Plea Bargaining in the Shadow of the Guidelines, 81 California Law Review 1471 (1993); reprinted in Criminal Law Review (James G. Carr, ed., 1995)
  • Teaching Law to Obedient Students, Willamette Lawyer, Fall 1993
  • Critical Legal Studies as an Anti-Positivist Phenomenon, 72 Virginia Law Review 983 (1986)

Editorials and Internet Materials

  • College Athletes Get Paid (Parts I, II, and III), The Sports Law Blog (guest contributor) (May 2006)
  • Up A Tree Without a Nine-Iron, Legal Times (January 19, 2004)
  • A Good Bet?, Legal Times (December 1, 2003)
  • Can You Hear Them Now?, Legal Times (October 13, 2003)
  • Why Can't Michael Play?, Legal Times (February 14, 2000)
  • Don't Play Pro Se, Legal Times (August 8, 1999)
  • Car Conundrums: Supreme Court Steers Twisting Route Through Fourth Amendment Law, Legal Times ( June 7, 1999)