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William E. Boyd

Chester Smith Professor Emeritus of Law

Complete List of Publications

Education

  • Law and Computer FellowStanford University
    1971
  • LL.M. Harvard University
    1967
  • J.D. Wayne State University
    1966
    Editor-in-Chief, Wayne Law Review
  • A.B. University of Michigan
    1963

Admitted to Practice

  • Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Federal District Court of Arizona
  • Michigan
  • Arizona

Work Experience

  • Senior Lecturer in Law
    1998 - present
  • Consultant
    Electronic Courts Project, Federal Judicial Conference
    1998
  • Professor of Law
    University of Arizona College of Law
    1972 - 1998
  • Special Advisor to the Vice Provost for Information Technology
    University of Arizona (one-half time Law College and one-half time Center for Computing and Information Technology (CCIT))
    1994 - 1995
  • Consultant
    St. Petersburg University Law School, St. Petersburg, Russia (Rule of Law Consortium/ARD-Checci, Washington, D.C.)
    1994
  • Consultant
    1992 - present
  • Consultant
    Indian Management Association Self-Determination Communications Network
    1991
  • Director of Computer Development
    University of Arizona (one-half time academic and one-half-time administrative)
    1988 - 1994
  • Consultant
    Louisiana State Board of Regents Law and Technology Center Project
    1987 - 1988
  • Visiting Professor
    University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
    Summer 1987
  • Consultant
    Arid Land Studies -- Kellogg Foundation funded project (Development of Commercial Codes for Adoption by Indian Tribes looking to self-determination)
    1981 - 1987
  • Visiting Scholar
    University of Michigan
    Spring 1980 - 1981
  • Visiting Professor
    Wayne State University
    Fall 1979 - 1980
  • Faculty Member
    Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Institute, Southwest Regional
    1979
  • Director
    Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), Southwest Regional
    1972
  • Special Master
    Navajo Tribe
    1969
  • Clerk and Special Administrative Assistant
    The Honorable Kenneth O'Connell, Oregon Supreme Court
    1968
  • Associate
    Fischer, Sprague, Franklin, and Ford, Detroit, Michigan
    1966

Organizations

  • Member, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
    President
    January 1998 - January 2002
  • Chair, American Association of Law Schools, Law and Computer Section
    1992 - 1993
  • Member, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
    1988 - present

Public & Institutional Service

  • Invited Participant, Conference on Electronic Courtrooms (Federal Judicial Center, Washington, D.C.)
    September 2000
  • Member, Federal District Court Automated Practice Committee
    1989
  • Referee, National Science Foundation Consumer Bankruptcy Proposal
    1989
  • Member, Federal Bankruptcy Judge Nominating Committee
    1989
  • Member, Board of Directors, Tohono O'odom Legal Services
    1985 - 1987

Awards

  • Recipient, Major Grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research to support a sabbatical project entitled "New Frontiers in Instructional Software"
    1992
Emeritus