Phone: (205) 726-2424
Fax: (205) 726-2587
E-mail: djlangum@samford.edu
Education
- A.B., Dartmouth College, history, 1962
- J.D., Stanford University Law School, 1965
- M.A., San Jose State University, history, 1976
- LL.M., University of Michigan Law School, legal history, 1981
- S.J.D., University of Michigan Law School, legal history, 1985
- Clerk, Judge Murray Draper, California Court of Appeals, 1965-66
Practice Experience
- Associate, Dunne, Phelps & Mills, San Francisco, 1966-68
- Partner, Christenson, Hedemark, Langum & O’Keefe, San Jose, California, 1968-78
Academic Experience
- Dean and Professor, Nevada School of Law, 1983-85
- Professor of Law, Detroit College of Law, 1978-83
- Adjunct Professor, Lincoln University School of Law, 1968-78, and San Francisco Law School, 1966-67
Joined Cumberland Faculty: 1985
Teaching and Research Interests: evidence; property; and legal history
- Author of Law and Community on the Mexican California Frontier: Anglo-American Expatriates and the Clash of Legal Traditions, 1821-1846 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987)
- Author of Crossing Over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act (University of Chicago Press, 1994)
- Author of William M. Kunstler: The Most-Hated Lawyer in America (New York University Press, 1999)
- Scholar in Residence, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming, spring 1998. Golieb Fellow, New York University Law School, fall 1991
- President, American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, 2000-2003