Jeffrey Schmitt

Title/Position

Assistant Professor of Law

Department

Faculty

E-mail Address

Phone Number

(904) 680-7676

Room

292

Building

Baypine

Background

Prior to joining the faculty at Florida Coastal School of Law, Professor Schmitt served as a law clerk to Judge Susan H. Black of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Judge Timothy J. Corrigan of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. He also worked as an associate at Jones Day in Cleveland, Ohio. While in law school, he served as an essays editor on the Virginia Law Review.

Expertise

  • Legal History
  • Ethics

Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, 2007
Miami University, B.A. (Economics and Political Science), magna cum laude, 2004

Teaching & Scholarship

  • Professional Responsibility & Ethics Civil Procedure
  • Legal History
  • Slavery and the Law

Publications

An Historical Reassessment of Full Faith and Credit, 20 GEO. MASON L. REV. (forthcoming Jan. 2013)
The Antislavery Judge Reconsidered, 29 LAW & HIST. REV. 797 (2011) (peer-reviewed)
Rethinking Ableman v. Booth and States’ Rights in Wisconsin, 93 VA. L. REV. 1315 (2007)