OUR FACULTY

• Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
• Visiting Faculty
• Special Faculty Appointments
• Pence Law Library Faculty
• Adjunct Faculty (Spring 2012)
• Adjunct Faculty (Fall 2011)
• Adjunct Faculty (Summer 2011)
• Emeritus Law Faculty

Professor Figley, the Associate Director of the Legal Rhetoric Program, came to WCL in 2006. Prior to joining WCL, he was a career litigator for the U.S. Department of Justice, representing the United States and its agencies in appellate and district court litigation involving torts, national security, and information law. Figley is a graduate of Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he was leading articles editor for the Journal of Air Law & Commerce. Since joining the WCL faculty, Figley has presented at scholarly symposia, has written for national legal writing publications and scholarly journals, and has given writing workshops to national organizations and government agencies. In addition to Legal Rhetoric, he teaches first year Torts and upper level Advanced Lawyering Skills: Tort Litigation.

• Selected Publications

  • Paul Figley, Using The Federal Torts Claim Act (ABA forthcoming 2012).
  • Paul Figley, In Defense of Feres: An Unfairly Maligned Opinion, 60 Am. U. L. Rev. 393 (2011).
  • Paul Figley & Jay Tidmarsh, The Appropriations Power and Sovereign Immunity, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1207 (2009).
  • Paul Figley, Understanding the Federal Tort Claims Act: A Different Metaphor, 44 Tort Tr. & Ins. Prac. L.J. 1105 (2009). SSRN Link
  • Paul Figley, Teaching Novice Legal Writers to Complete Their Arguments; A Useful Metaphor, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute (Fall 2007).