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Robert F. Cochran Jr.
Director, The Herb and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics and Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: robert.cochran@pepperdine.edu

• J.D., University of Virgina, 1976
• B.A., Carson-Newman College, 1973, magna cum laude

Professor Cochran is the co-author of Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility West (1994); Cases and Materials on the Legal Profession, 2nd ed. West (1996); The Counselor-at-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling, 2nd ed. Matthew Bender (2006); Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought Yale University Press (2001); and Law and Community: The Case of Torts Rowman and Littlefield (2003)

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Selected Works:

• Book Review (Barak, THE JUDGE IN A DEMOCRACY), BOOKS & CULTURE (forthcoming).
• Lawyers, Actors, and Role-Playing, 3 CLS MAGAZINE 16 (Spring 2007).
• Robert F. Cochran, Jr. & Thomas L. Shaffer, "Technical" Defenses: Ethics, Morals, and the Lawyer as Friend, 14 CLINICAL L. REV. 337 (2007).
• Catholic and Evangelical Supreme Court Justices: A Theological Analysis, 4 U. ST. THOMAS L.J. 296 (2006).
• The Catholic Court Appeal: Why So Many Catholic Justices on the Supreme Court? Why Now?, TOUCHSTONE, Jul./Aug. 2006, at 40.
• Introduction: Can The Ordinary Practice of Law be a Religious Calling?, 32 PEPP. L. REV. 373 (2005).
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