Morris S. Arnold
 

Hon. Morris S. Arnold
Firm: United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Address: Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse
Room 24.329
111 South 10th Street
St. Louis, MO 63102
Phone: (501) 324-6880
Fax: (501) 324-6860
E-mail: Contact Us
Web site: http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/
Position Bar Admissions Education
Honors Published Works Affiliations
Current Employment Position(s):
Senior Judge

Appointed 1992 by President Bush
Bar Admissions:
Arkansas, 1968
Pennsylvania, 1984
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Arkansas, 1968
U.S. District Court Western District of Arkansas, 1968
Education:
Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971
S.J.D., Doctor of Judicial Science
Honors: Highest-ranking Graduate, University of Arkansas School of Law, 1968,
Law Review: Editor-in-Chief and Note Editor, Arkansas Law Review

Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969
LL.M., Master of Law(s)

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Leflar Law Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1968
LL.B., Bachelor of Law
Editor-in-Chief, University of Arkansas Law Review

Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
Honors: Attended 1959-1961

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1965
B.S.E.E., Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering

Published Works:
Editor, On the Laws and Customs of England: Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne, 1981

Select Cases of Trespass from the King's Courts, 1307-1399, 1985, 1988, 2 vol.

Unequal Laws Unto A Savage Race: European Legal Traditions in Arkansas, 1686-1836, 1985

Arkansas Colonials (with Core), 1986

1686-1804: A Social and Cultural History, Colonial, Arkansas, 1991

Transmissibility of Contingent Interests, 20 Arkansas L. Rev. 190, 1966

The Doctrine of Worthier Title in Arkansas, 21 Ark. L. Rev. 394, 1967

The Origin of Jeofail (with J.H. Baker), 87 Law Q. Rev. 166, 1971

Law and Fact in the Medieval Jury Trial: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, 18 Am. J. Legal Hist. 267, 1974

Ex Nihilo Nihil, 83 Yale L.J. 895, 1974

Transcending Debt and Covenant, 85 Yale L.J. 990, 1976

Fourteenth-Century Promises, 35 Cambridge L.J. 321, 1976

Book Review of Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860, 126 U. Pa. L. Rev. 241, 1977

Statutes as Judgments: The Natural law Theory of Parliamentary Activity, 126 U. Pa. L. Rev. 329, 1977

Accident and Mistake in the Fourteenth-Century Law of Torts, 128 U. Pa. L. Rev. 361, 1979

A Historical Inquiry Into the Right to Trial by Jury in Complex Civil Litigation, 128 U. Pa. L. Rev. 829, 1980

A Modest Replication to a Lengthy Discourse, 128 U. Pa. L. Rev. 986, 1980

An Early Opinion of an Arkansas Trial Court, 5 U. Ark. Little Rock L. J. 397, 1982

The Relocation of Arkansas Post to Ecores Rouges in 1779, 42 Ark. Hist, Q. 317, 1983

The Arkansas Colonial Legal System, 1680-1776, U. Ark. Little Rock L.J. 391, 1984

The Arnolds of Southwest Arkansas: 102 Years of Law, 18 Arkansas Lawyer 136, July, 1984

Old Natura Brevium and Old Tenures, Professional Books, Ltd., London, England, 1974

The Year Book of 2 Richard II (1378-79) Ames Foundation, Harvard Law School: 1975

Select Cases of Trespass From The King's Courts, 1307-1399, Select Society, Volume 100, 1985

Select Cases of Trespass From the King's Courts, 1307-1399, Selden Society, Volume 103, 1987

Colonial Arkansas 1686-1804: A Social and Cultural History, 1991

Studies in Legal History (Editor) University of North Carolina Press in Association With the American Society for Legal History, (Twelve Volumes Published) 1975-1980

George L. Haskins, 134 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1, 1985

Towards an Ideology of the Early English Law of Obligations, 5 Law and History Review 505, 1987

Doing More Than Remembering the Ninth Amendment, 64 Chicago-Kent Law Review 265, 1988

A Judges' View of Legal History, 4 Benchmark 265, 1990

The Myth of John Law's German Colony on the Arkansas, LA History, 1989

Book Review, The Assize of Novel Disseisin (Donald W. Sutherland), 18 American Journal of Legal History 364, 1974

Book Review, De Legibus Et Eonsuetudinibus Angliae (Samuel E. Thorne's Translation of Bracton), 91 Harvard Law Review 517, 1977

Book Review, A History of the Offense of Blasphemy (Leonard W. Levy), 80 Michigan Law Review 772, 1982

Book Review, The County Courts of Medieval England 1150-1350 (Robert C. Palmer), Harvard Law Review, 1982

Verdict According to Conscience (Thomas A. Green), 38 Stanford Law Review 265, 1985

Classes/Seminars Taught:
Teaching Fellow in Law, Harvard Law School, 1969 - 1970

Professor of Law, Indiana University, 1971 - 1976

Professor of Law and History, University of Pennsylvania, 1977 - 1981

Associate Dean, University of Pennsylvania, 1978 - 1979

Altheimer Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Arkansas, Little Rock Law School, 1981 - 1984

Professor of Law and History, University of Pennsylvania, 1984 - 1985

Dean, Indiana University School of Law, 1985 - 1986

Visiting Professor, Stanford University School of Law, 1985

Speaker, The Civil Jury in Historical Perspective, ATLA Conference on the Jury at Harvard Law School, Summer, 1986

Remarks, Georgia Legal History Foundation Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6, 1987

Speaker, Synopsis of the History of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1987

Speaker, Birkett Williams Lecture, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, September 17, 1987

Speaker, English Inns of Court, William Overton American Inn of Court, Little Rock, 1990

Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge University

Member of the Faculty of Law, Cambridge University Lent and Easter Terms, 1978

Visiting Professor of Law, University of Texas, Summer 1977, 1982

Visiting Professor of Law, University of Michigan, Summer, 1981

Honors and Awards:
Tau Beta Pi

University of Pennsylvania, M.A., Honorary, 1977

University of Pennsylvania, J.D., Honorary, 1986

Frank Knox Memorial Fellow from Harvard University to University of London, 1970

Jim G. Ferguson Memorial Award - Highest-ranking Law Students, 1968

Price A. Dickson Memorial Legal Writing Award-Best Student Contribution to Arkansas Law Review, 1968

American Jurisprudence Legal History Award, 1966

Price A. Dickson Memorial Writing Award-Best Qualifying Note, 1966

National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participation Award, 1963

Dean's List, Engineering and Law School

Omicron Delta Kappa

Eta Kappa Nu

Harry A. Levin Memorial Prize for Teaching Excellence, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1980

Harry A. Levin Memorial Prize for Teaching Excellence, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1984

Law School Nominee for University-Wide Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1984

Chevalier de Pordre des Palmer Academiques, 1985

Professional Associations and Memberships:
American Law Institute
Member

Arkansas Bar Association
Member

Republican Party of Arkansas, 1982 - 1983
State Chairman

American Society for Legal History, 1981 - 1985
President

American Society for Legal History, 1977 - 1985
Member, Board of Directors

Selden Society
Vice President

Medieval Academy of America
Member

Arkansas Arts Center, 1981 - 1983
Vice President and Member, Board of Directors

Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia
Member, Board of Directors

Nature Conservancy of Arkansas
Member, Board of Directors

WXPN Radio Station, Philadelphia, 1980
Chairman of the Board

Systa-Matics, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1972 - 1975
Member, Board of Directors

Systa-Matics, Inc., 1973 - 1975
Engineering Consultant

Past Employment Positions:
Western District of Arkansas, United States District Judge, 1985 - 1992

Indiana University Law School, Dean and Foskett Professor, 1985

Arnold & Arnold Attorneys, Texarkana, Arkansas, Of Counsel, 1974 - 1985

Chancery Court, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Special Master, 1983

Private Practice, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1980 - 1983

Arkansas Supreme Court, Special Chief Justice, 1982

Republican Party of Arkansas, General Counsel, 1981

Office of the President, University of Pennsylvania, Vice President/Director, 1980 - 1981

Office of the President, University of Pennsylvania, Director, 1979 - 1980

Arnold & Arnold Attorneys, Texarkana, Arkansas, Associate, 1968

Fraternities/Sororities:
Sigma Pi
Theta Tau
Birth Information:
1941, Texarkana, Texas, United States of America
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