Justin K. Schwartz
Assistant Professor
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312.427.2737 ext. 855
E-mail: 7schwartzj@jmls.edu

AB, cum laude, Princeton University
MPhil, with honors, Cambridge University
MA, University of Michigan
PhD, University of Michigan
JD, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Order of the Coif

Prior to attending law school, Justin Schwartz taught Philosophy at Kalamazoo College and Ohio State University. While pursuing his JD degree, he was articles editor for the Ohio State Law Journal and received numerous honors. After graduating third in his class, Professor Schwartz was a law clerk for the late Hon. Walter J. Cummings and Hon. Ilana Diamond Rovner, both with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From 1999 through 2002, he was a law clerk for Hon. Elaine E. Bucklo with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Professor Schwartz has been a litigation associate with the Chicago firms Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis. He has lectured extensively and published widely, and his article in Legal Studies, "Relativism, Reflective Equilibrium, and Justice," received the 1999 Berger Prize in Philosophy of Law from the American Philosophical Association. He is currently writing on class action attorney fees and several topics in legal theory.

Professor Schwartz came to John Marshall as a visiting professor in 2006 and joined the full-time faculty in 2007. He teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Federal Courts, White Collar Crime, and Employment Discrimination.