TORTS: John L. Diamond, Lawrence Levine, and M. Stuart Madden

 

JOHN L. DIAMOND teaches torts, criminal law, and mass media law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.  He attended Yale University, where he graduated magna cum laude and received departmental honors with exceptional distinction in social science. After graduation, Professor Diamond studied in England at Emmanuel College of Cambridge University for a year and was awarded a Diploma in Criminology.  He then went on to Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  After law school, Professor Diamond served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas P. Griesa of the U.S. District Court in New York.  Before joining the Hastings faculty, Professor Diamond was associated with the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, where he practiced in the litigation department.

 

Professor Diamond is the author of Cases and Materials on Torts and co-author of Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (with Saltzburg, Kinports and Morawetz) and Understanding Torts (with Levine and Madden).  Professor Diamond has been elected six times by the graduating class at Hastings to give the faculty commencement address.  He is also a recipient of four other awards for teaching excellence.  Professor Diamond and his wife, Lucia, with their son enjoy the beach, the snow, and tennis.

 

LAWRENCE C. LEVINE is Professor of Law at University of the Pacific – McGeorge School of Law. He clerked for Judge Eugene F. Lynch (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California) and was an associate with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco for two years. Professor Levine was an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Hastings College of Law before coming to McGeorge in 1985.

 

Professor Levine is co-editor of A Torts Anthology (with Davies and Kionka), co-author of Tort Law and Practice (with Vetri, Finley and Vogel), and co-author of Understanding Torts (with Diamond and Madden).

 

Professor Levine also has been a frequent panelist, lecturer, and speaker on legal issues involving sexual orientation. He has served on the State Bar Committee on Sexual Orientation Discrimination as well as the board of directors on the Aids Legal Referral Panel of Northern California and Sacramento Lawyers for the Equality of Gays and Lesbians. He was the director of the Minority Students Program at McGeorge from 1994-1996.

 

M. STUART MADDEN is Distinguished Professor of Law at Pace Law School. An editor of the Georgetown Law Journal while at Georgetown University Law Center, Professor Madden was a partner in a District of Columbia law firm before coming to Pace and specialized in civil and administrative litigation.

 

Professor Madden has published the Toxic Tort Deskbook, the three-volume text Madden and Owen on Products Liability, the casebook Environmental and Toxic Torts (with Boston) and Understanding Torts (with Diamond and Levine).  He is the author of numerous articles in general and products liability law reviews and is active in tort-related projects of the American Law Institute. Professor Madden has testified before the House and the Senate on products liability legislation.