The International Law Faculty



Gary J. Simson
Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law
Phone: 216/368-3283

Gary J. Simson, the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law, joined Case School of Law as Dean in July 2006. He served in that capacity through the fall semester of 2008, when he returned to full-time teaching. Following his graduation in 1974 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, he clerked for the Hon. J. Joseph Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Simson began his teaching career at the University of Texas School of Law in 1975, was promoted to full professor in 1977, and joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1980.

At Cornell he served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 1997-2000 and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2000-04. Professor Simson has taught, and written extensively on, constitutional law and conflict of laws. His constitutional law scholarship in recent years has addressed such controversial issues as sex education, Supreme Court appointments, school vouchers, the death penalty and religion, and single-sex schools. He is also the author of a leading conflict of laws casebook now in its fourth edition and various articles in the field.