Professor
Callister is a tenured Associate Professor of Law and since 2003 has served
as Director of the Leon E. Bloch Law Library at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Paul D. Callister · Jeffrey E. Thomas
Professor
Callister is a tenured Associate Professor of Law and since 2003 has served
as Director of the Leon E. Bloch Law Library at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
Prof. Callister also teaches Cyberlaw and Advanced Legal Research. His publications, some of which have received recognition, have focused on the relationship of information environment to legal institutions, jurisprudence, stability and the rule of law. His relevant publications include: Law's Box: Law, Jurisprudence and the Information Ecosphere, 74 UMKC Law Review 263-334 (2005); an invited symposium submission, Identity and Market for Loyalties Theories: The Case for Free Information Flow in Insurgent Iraq, 25 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 123-153 (2006); The Internet, Regulation and the Market for Loyalties: An Economic Analysis of Transborder Information Flow, 2002 University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy 59-107 (cosponsored by the Illinois College of Law, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Institute for Government and Public Affairs).
Some of Prof. Callister’s conference addresses, panels, and papers include presentations at the National Defense University in Washington D.C.; the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasia Law Initiative’s conference in Prague, Czech Republic; and law schools in Nanjing, Peking, and Chongqing, China. Prof. Callister is a Fellow of two Salzburg Seminars and served as Chair of the Copyright Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries (including responsibility as spokesperson on copyright issues for the 5,000-member organization).
Prof. Callister received his B.A. from Brigham Young University (1988), majoring in philosophy; his J.D. is from Cornell Law School (1991), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell International Law Journal; and his M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000). Prior to becoming law library director, Prof. Callister was an Assistant Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois College of Law, in Urbana-Champaign (2000-2003) and was a shareholder at the firm of Callister & Callister in Glendale, California (1991-2000), where he practiced in the areas of qualified retirement plans, estate planning, and transactional law.
email: thomasje@umkc.edu · phone: 816-235-2378 · vita
Jeffrey
E. Thomas is an Associate Dean for International Programs and Professor of
Law, with tenure, at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. He is
the former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UMKC Law School
(2005-2007) and the past Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs for the UMKC
campus (2003-2007).
Dean Thomas has taught Torts, Civil Procedure, and Insurance Law; published numerous articles and book chapters on tort and insurance law; and serves as the editor-in-chief of the multi-volume Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide. Relevant publications include: Terrorism Insurance: What is the Government’s Role (a work in-progress presented at the Searle Center Research Symposium on Insurance Markets and Regulation at Northwestern University Law School); The U.S. Model for Terrorism Insurance: An Analysis, Proceedings of the International Security and Counteracting Terrorism Conference (Lomonosov Moscow State 2007); Insurance for Terrorism: Analyzing the US Model, Eleventh Annual Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association Conference (2007); Insurance Implications of Sept. 11th and Possible Responses, 35 Urban Lawyer 727 (2002); An American Law Professor in China: Thoughts on the Future of the Rule of Law, The Frontier of Science Society (in Chinese, 2001) and Legal Culture and “the practice”: A Postmodern Depiction of Rule of Law in America, 48 UCLA Law Review 1495 (2001).
Dean Thomas has been a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar; a Fulbright Lecturer at Nankai University, Department of Law, Tianjin, China; and a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago School of Law. He has also served as a consultant on legal education reform to law schools in Jordan on behalf of the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative.
Dean Thomas received his B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from Loyola Marymount University (1983), majoring in Political Science, and his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law-Boalt Hall (1986), where he was executive editor of the California Law Review. Dean Thomas clerked for the U.S. District Court in Hartford, Connecticut (1986-1987) and was an associate at Irell and Manella in Newport Beach, California (1987-1981), where he focused on commercial and insurance litigation.