Biographical Sketch
A former trial lawyer and federal prosecutor, Professor Kirkpatrick has taught evidence and evidence related courses for more than 25 years. He is the coauthor of Evidence Under the Rules (6th ed. Aspen 2008), a coursebook in use at more than 100 law schools, Federal Evidence (3d ed. Thomson/West 2007), a six-volume treatise on the Federal Rules of Evidence, Evidence: Practice Under the Rules (3d ed. Aspen 2009), a one volume treatise for lawyers and judges, and Evidence (4th ed. Aspen 2009), a one volume hornbook for law students.

Professor Kirkpatrick previously served as counsel to the head of the Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice and as a member of the United States Sentencing Commission. He is the former chair of the Evidence Section of the American Association of Law Schools. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a former member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates. Professor Kirkpatrick also has served on the Advisory Committee on Evidence and the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules for the United States Judicial Conference. He was recently appointed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners to serve on the evidence drafting committee for the multi-state bar exam.

Professor Kirkpatrick is the former Philip H. Knight Dean of the University of Oregon Law School, where he was also the Hershner Professor of Jurisprudence and later the Hollis Professor of Legal Procedure. He previously taught as an instructor at the University of Michigan and has been a visiting professor at the University of California (Hastings), the University of Maryland, the University of London (London Law Consortium), University of Adelaide, Suffolk University, and Stetson College of Law.

Education
B.A., Harvard University; J.D., University of Oregon