James T.R. Jones

Professor of Law

E-mail: jtjone01@louisville.edu
Phone: 502-852-6973
Fax: 502-852-0862
Office: 261

James T.R. Jones received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1975 and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1978. Before entering an academic career, he clerked for a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. In addition, he worked in private practice for firms in New York and Florida. In 1985, he entered teaching as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He joined the faculty of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville in 1986.

Professor Jones has written a number of articles, including seven on the use of tort law to enforce the legal rights of domestic violence victims. He also has spoken extensively on this topic, most recently in 2000 at the Symposium on Integrating Responses to Domestic Violence conducted at the Loyola University of New Orleans School of Law and co-sponsored by that institution and the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence.

His research and teaching interests include domestic violence, with an emphasis on professional liability, torts, decedents' estates, legal writing, written advocacy, and mental health in legal academia.

Professor Jones belongs to the Florida Bar and the Legal Writing Institute.

Pictured in the photo to the left are Professor Jones and Professor Elyn R. Saks, Associate Dean for Research and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Professor Jones, who has bipolar disorder, wrote "Walking the Tightrope of Bipolar Disorder: The Secret Life of a Law Professor"; Professor Saks, who has schizophrenia, wrote the acclaimed memoir The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2007). Professors Jones and Saks are the only law professors in the United States publicly to acknowledge having severe mental illnesses. Since Professor Jones has disclosed his condition he has spoken extensively on successful professionals with severe mental illness.

This photograph was taken by Kathleen Murphy Jones, Esq. on March 11, 2008 at the Gould School of Law shortly before Professor Jones delivered his talk entitled "Severe Mental Illness in the Academy: A Law Professor's Story."

The following photos were taken at the Diversity Forum Series at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law where Professor Saks gave her address:
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
on October 27, 2008. A video of Professor Saks' address may be viewed at http://media.law.louisville.edu/saks


Elyn Saks in the Mosiac Lounge	Professor Jim Jones's Introduction

Elyn Saks's Slideshow Presentation	Elyn Saks Besides Justice Brandeis's Crypt

This photo of Elyn Saks and her husband Will Vinet was taken by Jim Jones at the Joe Huber Family Farm and Restaurant in Starlight, Indiana on October 26, 2008.

Courses Taught

Torts I and II

Decedents' Estates

Basic Legal Skills

Written Advocacy Seminar

Introduction to Legal Study

Publications

Body, Body, Who Gets the Body? The Resolution of Bodily Remains Cases, Wealth Strategies J., Apr. 2009, http://www.wealthstrategiesjournal.com/articles/2009/04/-72-1024x768-normal-0.html

Severe Mental Illness in the Academy: A Secret Revealed, Louisville Bar Briefs, Feb. 2008, at 10-11

Community Challenge: Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Person in the Office Next Door, Louisville Courier-Journal, Jan. 21, 2008, at A8

Surviving the Scourge of Schizophrenia: A Law Professor's Story, 19 Hastings Women's L.J. 105-20 (2008) (reviewing Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2007))

Walking the Tightrope of Bipolar Disorder: The Secret Life of a Law Professor, 57 J. Legal Educ. 349-374 (2007)

Book Review, A Compelling Look at Schizophrenia, Louisville Courier-Journal, Sept. 15, 2007, at A9

Kentucky Addresses a Landowner's Duty to Those Off the Premises: The Saga of Falling Trees Louisville Bar Briefs, June 2007, at 4

Anna Nicole Smith and the Right to Control Disposition of the Dead, Louisville Bar Briefs, May 2007, at 24-25

Integrating Domestic Violence Issues into the Law School Torts Curriculum, 47 Loy. L. Rev. 59-80 (2001)

Book Review, 73 Temp. L. Rev. 219-26 (2000)

Liability in Delict for Failure to Report Family Violence (co-authored with Michael L. Lupton), 116 SALJ 371-85 (1999)

Kentucky Tort Liability for Failure to Report Family Violence, 26 N. Ky. L. Rev. 43-65 (1999)

Battered Spouses' Damage Actions Against Unresponsive South African Police, 114 SALJ 356-70 (1997)

Reporting Sex Abuse Allegations, Louisville Courier-Journal, Jan. 3, 1996, at A7

Battered Spouses' Damage Actions Against Non-Reporting Physicians, 45 DePaul L. Rev. 191-262 (1996)

Trains, Trucks, Trees and Shrubs: Vision-Blocking Natural Vegetation and A Landowner's Duty to Those Off The Premises, 39 Vill. L. Rev. 601-32 (1994), reprinted in 45 Def. L.J. 463-96 (1996)

Battered Spouses' State Law Damage Actions Against the Unresponsive Police, 23 Rutgers L.J. 1-78 (1991)

Battered Spouses' Section 1983 Damage Actions Against the Unresponsive Police After DeShaney, 93 W. Va. L. Rev. 251-357 (1991)

Evidentiary Autopsies, 61 U. Colo. L. Rev. 567-624 (1990), reprinted in 40 Def. L.J. 251-317 (1991)

The Deliberative Process Privilege (written with Professor Russell L. Weaver), 54 Mo. L. Rev. 279-321 (1989)

Note, Ethical Problems for the Law Firm of a Former Government Attorney: Firm or Individual Disqualification?1977 Duke L.J. 512-31

Presentations

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment," Psychopathology class, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, July 8, 2009, Louisville, Kentucky.

Spoke about the professional success of some who secretly suffer from severe mental illness for a training class, Crisis Intervention Team, Louisville Metropolitan Police Department, Louisville, Kentucky, March 3, 2009.

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment," Mental Health Nursing class, School of Nursing, University of Louisville, February 23, 2009, Louisville, Kentucky.

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment," Annual Staff Gathering, The Center for Supported Living, Seven Counties Services, Inc., January 16, 2009, Louisville, Kentucky.

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment," Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Sections on Law and Mental Disability and Law and Disability, program on "Law Professor Narratives of Mental Illness," January 8, 2009, San Diego, California.

"A Mental Health Primer for Student Services Professionals," Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Section on Student Services, program on "Pluralism and the Student Services Professional," January 7, 2009, San Diego, California.

Spoke with The Honorable Susan Schultz Gibson, Jefferson Circuit Court, Division 12, Elizabeth A. Garcia-Gray, M.D. and Marsha D. Wilson, C.S.W., Seven Counties Services, Inc. on "Living With a Mental Illness" on "State of Affairs," WFPL radio, November 7, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky.

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment," Annual Meeting, Indiana Conference of Rehabilitative Psychiatric Services (ICORPS), November 6, 2008, Columbus, Indiana.

“Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment,” undergraduate and graduate Psychology and Social Work students, Spalding University, October 29, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky.

Spoke with The Honorable Susan Schultz Gibson, Jefferson Circuit Court, Division 12 on “Two Voices, Two Perspectives: Mental Illness, Treatment and Recovery" as the Mental llness Awareness Week Program for NAMI Louisville, October 6, 2008.

“Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of Louisville, September 25, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky.

Keynote speaker, NAMI Walk, September 13, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky.

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment,” Psychopathology class, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, September 11, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky.

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment," clinical staff, Wellspring, July 17, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky.

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment," Governor's Scholars Program session, Bellarmine University, July 2, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky.

"Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment," Psychopathology class, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, June 4, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky.

Psychiatry, Mental Health and the Law class, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, April 15, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky, spoke on "Severe Mental Illness in the Academy: A Law Professor's Story."

Student Health Law Association, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, spoke on March 19, 2008 on "Severe Mental Illness in the Academy: A Law Professor's Story."

Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, spoke on March 11, 2008 on "Severe Mental Illness in the Academy: A Law Professor's Story."

Symposium on Integrating Responses to Domestic Violence conducted at the Loyola University of New Orleans School of Law and co-sponsored by that institution and the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence, spoke on October 27, 2000 on "Integrating Domestic Violence Issues Into the Law School Torts Curriculum."

Council on Health Services and Policy Research, University of Louisville School of Medicine, spoke on April 25, 2000 on "Reporting Family Violence in Kentucky."

Conference on Violence Against Women from a Domestic and International Perspective, sponsored by the University of Louisville Women's Center, spoke on March 30, 2000 on "Reporting Family Violence in Kentucky."

Grand Rounds for the Department of Psychiatry, University of Louisville, spoke on December 9, 1999 on "Reporting Family Violence in Kentucky."

Educational Staff Meeting for Faculty, Staff and Students of Outpatient Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Louisville, spoke on October 28, 1999 on "Reporting Family Violence in Kentucky."

Legal Ethics class, School of Allied Health, University of Louisville, spoke on October 21, 1999 on "Reporting Family Violence in Kentucky."

Fourth Annual Postgraduate Clinical Forensic Medicine Conference, which was sponsored by the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Emergency Physicians in association with the Division of Forensic Pathology, University of Louisville School of Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, spoke on June 3, 1997 on "Liability Issues Related to the Nonreporting of Domestic Violence."

Commission on the Status of Women and The Women's Studies Program, University of Louisville, program on Woman Battering: An Exploration of the Issues, November 7, 1996, spoke on "Liability Suits As An Incentive to Law Enforcement."

University of Louisville School of Law, Back to Law School Faculty Colloquium, Professionalism and Ethics: The Special Challenges of Specialization, October 18, 1996, Louisville, Kentucky, spoke on "Conflicts and Responsibilities in Domestic Violence Cases."

National College of District Attorneys, Sixth Annual National Conference on Domestic Violence, October 16, 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, spoke on "Professional Liability in Domestic Violence Situations."

Jefferson County, Kentucky Office for Women, 1996 Domestic Violence Conference, April 19, 1996, Louisville, Kentucky, spoke on "Failure to Protect? Rights, Responsibilities, and Liabilities of Professionals."

University and Community Service

Member, Board of Directors, Mental Health Association of Kentucky (MHAKY) 2007-present

Co-Facilitator; Member, Board of Directors; Vice President; Manic Depressive and Depressive Association of Louisville, Inc. 2006-present

Member, Board of Directors, NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Louisville 2008-2009

Member, Civil Remedies Committee of the Governor's Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 2002-03

University Parking Appeals Committee 1987-2004 (chair 1991-2003)

University Staff Grievance Hearing Officer 1992-2003

University Parking Planning and Policy Committee 1991-2001

Law School Reinstatement and Probation Committee 1989-2004, 2005-present (chair 1993-95, 2001-04, 2005-08)

Law School Library Committee 1988-91, 1992-94, 1995-2000, 2007-present (chair 1990-91, 1992-94)

Law School Economic Welfare Committee 2008-present

Law School Curriculum Committee 2005-08

Law School Pirtle-Washer Moot Court Advisor 1986-93, 1995-97, 1998-2003, 2006-07

Law School Student Development and Academic Support Committee 1990-2004 (chair 1993-2003)

Law School International Law Opportunities Committee 1997-2002 (co-chair 1998-2001)

Louis D. Brandeis School of Law