John Parry

Biography

John Parry teaches courses on civil litigation. He is one of the country’s leading scholars of international extradition and the law surrounding torture. More broadly, his scholarly work assesses the legal structures that restrain or permit the exercise of state power on individuals, with a particular emphasis on civil rights law, foreign relations and international law, and criminal justice.

Before coming to Lewis & Clark, Parry was assistant and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He also practiced law for several years with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. He is a former law clerk to the Hon. James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former chair of the Supreme Court Office of the Harvard Law Review.

Parry is the author of “Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity” (Michigan 2010).  He has written a casebook on civil rights litigation, co-authored the leading treatise on federal summary judgment, and co-authored a casebook on criminal law. He has also edited three collections of scholarly essays. His articles have appeared in a number of law reviews and edited collections.

Parry was elected to the American Law Institute in 2010. He also serves as the law school’s representative to the Oregon Law Commission. In 2013, Parry was named a Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar in recognition of his exemplary teaching and scholarship. In 2016, he was named the Edward Brunet Professor of Law.

Specialty Areas and Course Descriptions

• Civil Procedure,
• Civil Rights Litigation,
• Conflict of Laws,
• Federal Courts,

Academic Credentials

• AB, summa cum laude, Princeton University
• JD, magna cum laude, Harvard Law School

Bibliography

Separately Published Works

• Summary Judgment: Federal Law and Practice (Thomson Reuters) (with Edward Brunet and Martin H. Redish) (annual editions)
• Cases and Problems in Civil Rights Litigation: State, Federal, and International Perspectives (Semaphore Press 2016) (updated regularly)
• The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013) (editor with L. Song Richardson)
• Understanding Torture: Law, Culture, and State Violence (University of Michigan Press, 2010)
• Rights, Citizenship, and Torture: Perspectives on Evil, Law and the State, (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009) (editor with Welat Zeydanhoǧlu)
• Evil, Law and the State: Perspectives on State Power and Violence (Rodopi Press, 2006) (editor)
• Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Lawyering Strategies, LexisNexis (1st ed. 2005; 2nd ed. 2010; 3d ed. 2013) (with David Crump, Neil P. Cohen, and Penelope Pether)

Works Published As Part of a Collection

For a complete list of publications, see Professor Parry’s CV.

• The Political Theory of Treaties in the Restatements of Foreign Relations Law, 6 Brigham Young University Law Review 1581 (2015)
• Rethinking Personal Jurisdiction After Bauman and Walden, 19 Lewis & Clark Law Review 607 (2015)
• International Law in State Courts: Sovereignty, Resistance, Contagion, and Inevitability, 20 Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution 57 (2012)
• Oklahoma’s Save Our State Amendment and the Conflict of Laws, 65 Oklahoma Law Review 1 (2012)
• Due Process, Borders, and the Qualities of Sovereignty — Some Thoughts on J. McIntyre Machinery v. Nicastro, 16 Lewis & Clark Law Review 827 (2012)
• Oklahoma’s Save Our State Amendment: Two Issues for the Appeal, 64 Oklahoma Law Review. 1 (2011)
• Rewriting the Roberts Courts’ Law of Treaties
• International Extradition, the Rule of Non-Inquiry, and the Problem of Sovereignty, 90 Boston University Law Review 1973 (2010)
• Torture Nation, Torture Law, 97 Georgetown Law Journal 1001 (2009)
• Congress, the Supremacy Clause, and the Implementation of Treaties, 32 Fordham International Law Journal 1209 (2009)
• A Primer on Treaties and § 1983 After Medellin v. Texas, 12 Lewis & Clark Law Review 35 (2008) (symposium on Medellin v. Texas)
• Rights and Discretion in Criminal Procedure’s “War on Terror”, 6 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 323 (2008) (refereed)
• Light at the End of the Pipeline?: Choosing a Forum for Suspected Terrorists, 156 University Pennsylvania Law Review PENNUMBRA 356 (2008) (with Amos Guiora)
• Torture Warrants and the Rule of Law, 71 Albany Law Review 885 (2008) (symposium on the life and work of Alan Dershowitz)
• Finding a Right to be Tortured, 19 Law and Literature 207-227 (2007) (refereed) (symposium on law and literature after 9/11)
• Terrorism and the New Criminal Process, 15 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 765-835 (2007)
• Sanchez-Llamas in Context, 11 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1-15 (2007) (introduction to symposium on Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon
• Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine: The Case of Amelia Norman, 78 American Literature 325-355 (June 2006) (with Andrea L. Hibbard) (refereed)
• Pain, Interrogation, and the Body: State Violence and the Law of Torture, in Evil, Law and the State: Perspectives on State Power and Violence 1-16 (John T. Parry ed., Rodopi Press 2006)
• “Society Must Be [Regulated]”: Biopolitics and the Commerce Clause in Gonzales v. Raich, 9 Lewis & Clark Law Review 853-877 (2005) (symposium on Gonzales v. Raich)
• The Shape of Modern Torture: Extraordinary Rendition and Ghost Detainees, 6 Melbourne Journal of International Law 516-533 (2005) (solicited and refereed)
• “Just for Fun”: Understanding Torture and Understanding Abu Ghraib, 1 Journal of National Security Law & Policy 253-284 (2005) (symposium on torture)
• Progress and Justification in American Criminal Law, 40 Tulsa Law Review 639-670 (2005) (symposium in honor of Lawrence M. Friedman)
• Constitutional Interpretation, Coercive Interrogation, and Civil Rights Litigation after Chavez v. Martinez, 39 Georgia Law Review 733-838 (2005)
• Escalation and Necessity: Defining Torture at Home and Abroad, in Torture: A Collection 145-164 (Sanford Levinson ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2004, expanded paperback edition 2006)
• No Appeal: The U.S.-U.K. Supplementary Extradition Treaty’s Attempt to Create Federal Jurisdiction, 25 Loyola of L.A. International and Comparative Law Review 543-579 (2003) (symposium on international extradition)
• What is Torture, Are We Doing It, and What if We Are?, 64 Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Review 237-262 (2003)
• Collective and Individual Responsibility for Acts of Terrorism, in Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach 107-126 (Margaret S. Breen ed., Rodopi Press 2003)
• The Lost History of International Extradition Litigation, 43 Virginia Journal of International Law 93-171 (2002)
• Interrogating Suspected Terrorists: Should Torture be an Option?, 63 Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Review 743-766 (2002) (with Welsh S. White) (symposium on terrorism); reprinted in Civil Liberties vs. National Security in a Post-9/11 World(Katherine B. Darmer et al. eds., Prometheus Books 2004)
• Judicial Restraints on Illegal State Violence: Israel and the United States, 35 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 73-149 (2002)
• The Virtue of Necessity: Reshaping Culpability and the Rule of Law, 36 Houston Law Review 397-469 (1999)
• Culpability, Mistake, and Official Interpretations of Law, 25 American Journal of Criminal Law 1-78 (1997)

Other Writings

• Remembering Welsh White, 4 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 11-13 (2006)
• Set Them Free?, Newsday, 19 February 2006
• A Persisting Challenge: Civil Rights Act Continues to Transform United States, Pitt Chronicle, 25 August 2004
• Counterfeiting, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed. 2002)
• Should we Torture Terrorists?, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 18 November 2001 (with Welsh S. White)
• Bush Pardons Clinton!, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 20 December 2000
• The Misrule of Law, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11 October 1998
• The Supreme Court, 1989 Term – Leading Cases: Grady v. Corbin, 104 Harvard Law Review 149-158 (1990)
• Recent Case, Loss of Enjoyment of Life Damages: McDougald v. Garber, 103 Harvard Law Review 811-817 (1990)