Faculty > Tom Lininger

Associate Professor Director, Public Interest/Public Service Program Contact Room 359 Phone: (541) 346-3662 Email Tom Lininger Courses Legal Profession Evidence Dispute Resolution Selected Issues in Criminal Procedure

Professor Lininger grew up in Southern Oregon. He earned his undergraduate degree at Yale, and his law degree at Harvard. He has worked as a federal prosecutor, as counsel to a subcommittee in the U.S. Senate, and as a litigation attorney with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in San Francisco.

Lininger joined the UO faculty in 2003. He has taught evidence, legal ethics, criminal procedure and alternative dispute resolution. Lininger directs the UO's Public Interest/Public Service Program as well as the Kenneth J. O'Connell Program for Appellate Judges.

In 2004, Governor Ted Kulongoski appointed Lininger to serve as the Chair of the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. The Commission plans Oregon's criminal justice policy and drafts sentencing guidelines used in Oregon's courts.

Lininger has testified before a number of state legislatures on evidentiary issues. He has authored legislation relating to prosecutions of domestic violence and sexual assault. In 2006, Senator Joseph Biden's staff invited Lininger to participate in a work group advising the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on legislative strategies to meet the Supreme Court's new confrontation requirements for hearsay in criminal prosecutions.

Lininger's recent scholarship has appeared, or will shortly appear, in the Michigan Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, and the Stanford Law and Policy Review, among other journals. He also has two book projects underway.

In 2006, Lininger received the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching.