Harry M. Caldwell
Professor of Law
B.A., cum laude, California State University, 1972
J.D., Pepperdine University, 1976
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H. Mitchell Caldwell teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure as well as trial advocacy courses and serves as co-advisor of the law school's highly successful interschool trial teams. Before joining the Pepperdine faculty, he was a trial prosecutor in Santa Barbara and Riverside counties.
Professor Caldwell routinely represents condemned prisoners in the appeals of their death sentences before both the California Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court. He has written extensively in the area of criminal procedure, trial advocacy and the death penalty and is the co-author of Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury (1998), And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (2004) and the just released The Devil's Advocates (Fall 2006). This popular series of books celebrates significant jury trials and the lawyers who tried the cases. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury was selected by the Los Angeles Times as a best non-fiction selection. Caldwell also co-authored The Art and Science of Trial Advocacy for use at the law school level.
Professor Caldwell has received several teaching awards including the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award (1991 and 2000) and the Richard Jacobson Award as the nation's premier trial advocacy teacher in 2000.
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