Bio
Professor Kevin Tierney was born in England and attended the same high school as his father had 30 years before. He attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, B.A. (1964), LL.B. (1965); Yale Law School, LL.M. (1967); and then St. John’s College again, Cambridge, M.A. (1968).
After college and law school, Professor Tierney came to the United States to do graduate work in law. He began teaching law full-time for eight years in Michigan, and joined the UC Law SF faculty in 1979. He has written three books and many articles and is a member of the American Law Institute. He was admitted as a barrister (England, Lincoln’s Inn) in 1966 and was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1976.
Professor Tierney sees law school as a preparation for a lifetime of on-the-job education: law, like all professions, demands players who are continually learning as they are doing.
Scholarship
Books
Darrow: A Biography (Crowell 1979).
How To Be a Witness (Oceana Publications 1971).
Courtroom Testimony: A Policeman’s Guide (Funk & Wagnalls 1970).
Journal Articles
Of Peaks and Valleys, Feast and Famine, Boom and Bust, 15 NEXUS 87 (2010).
Medical Expense Coverage Under a Landlord’s Liability Policy, 9 Cal. Ins. L. & Reg. Rep. 223 (Sept. 1997).
White v. Fireman’s Fund: A Commentary, 7 Cal. Ins. L. & Reg. Rep. 73 (Mar. 1995).
Does the Interest Imposed on Credit Card Balances include Late Payment Charges under Federal Law?, 1995-1996 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 312 (1995-1996).
Contracts and Dentistry, 26 Dental Clinics N. Am. 281 (1982).
Save the Index, 8(1) Bibliographic News 14 (1982) (reprinted at 26(1) Hastings Community 5 (1981)).
Forfeiture of Deposit, 126 New L.J. 180 (1976).
1973 Annual Survey of Michigan Law: Insurance, 20 Wayne L. Rev. 471 (1974). FULLTEXT
Contractual Aspects of Malpractice, 19 Wayne L. Rev. 1457 (1973). FULLTEXT
1971 Annual Survey of Michigan Law: Contracts, 18 Wayne L. Rev. 265 (1972). FULLTEXT
Imprisoning the Unconvicted, 112 Solic. J. 730 (1968).
Notice of Alibi, 118 New L.J. 463 (1968).
Reversing the Supreme Court, 118 New L.J. 641 (1968).
Transatlantic Attitudes Toward Self-Incrimination, 6 Am. Crim. L.Q. 26 (1968). FULLTEXT
Grant of Bail, 117 New L.J. 919 (1967).
Obscenity in the U.S.A., 32 Law Guardian 19 (1967).
Self-Incrimination—Anglo-American Practice, 117 New L.J. 1249 (1967).
Obscenity: An Anglo–American Dilemma, 116 New L.J. 1483 (1966).
Chapters In Books
Clarence Darrow, in World Book 1997 Multimedia Encyclopedia ___ (World Book CD–ROM 1997).
Scopes Trial, in World Book 1997 Multimedia Encyclopedia ___ (World Book CD–ROM 1997).
The Architecture of the University Clubhouse, in The University Club of San Francisco: Centennial History, 1890–1990 app. (Mitchell P. Postal, University Club 1990).
Reverse Bad Faith Suits and Counterclaims, in California Insurance Pleadings and Briefs, at i (Jan. 1987).
Darrow, Clarence Seward, in “D” World Book Encyclopedia 31 (World Book 1985).
Scopes Trial, in “S” World Bank Encyclopedia 177 (World Book 1985).
Book Reviews
Book Review, 69 A.B.A. J. 330 (1983) (reviewing John Mortimer, Clinging to the Wreckage (1982)).
Book Review, 32 Hastings L.J. 1071 (1981) (reviewing Richard Danzig, The Capability Problem in Contract Law (1978)).
Book Review, 31 Hastings L.J. 743 (1980) (reviewing Glanville 78, Textbook of Criminal Law (1978)).
Book Review, 66 A.B.A. J. 1398 (1980) (reviewing Warren Sloat, 1929: America Before the Crash (1979)).
Book Review, 66 Law Libr. J. 227 (1973) (reviewing R.M. Jackson, The Machinery of Justice in England (1967)).
Book Review, 19 Wayne L. Rev. 245 (1973) (reviewing Morton Hunt, The Mugging (1972)).
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Does the Interest Imposed on Credit Card Balances Include Late Payment Charges under Federal Law?, A.B.A. Preview, Apr. 4, 1996, at 312.
Chilling Free Speech Secretly, The Recorder, May 10, 1990, at 6. CATALOG
The Extradition of James Earl Ray, The New Republic, July 13, 1968, at 9.
Education
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St. John's College, Cambridge
B.A. 1964 -
St. John's College, Cambridge
LL.B. 1965 -
Yale Law School
LL.M. 1967 -
St. John's College, Cambridge
M.A. 1968