Biography
Professor Ogden is a cum laude graduate of University of California at Los Angeles,
and his J.D. is from the University of California at Davis School of Law. He was the
senior research editor for the UC Davis Law Review. Following law school, he was awarded
the Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship, and worked for the San Mateo Legal Aid Society,
representing clients in numerous administrative hearings, and other civil cases. He
then worked for a small law firm representing clients in many administrative hearings,
as well as civil and criminal litigation. In 1976, he returned to the academic world
as a law and humanities teaching fellow at Temple University School of Law. He earned
an LL.M. degree with a concentration in legal education from Temple in 1978. He joined
the Pepperdine law faculty in 1978, as an associate professor of law. He became a
professor of law in 1982. He was awarded the Chambership Fellowship in Legislation
at Columbia School of Law, and received an LL.M. with a concentration in administrative
law from Columbia in 1981.
Professor Ogden was a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States
on two different projects from 1982-1984, and 1987-1989. He authored the final report
entitled Public Regulation of Siting of Industrial Development Projects, which provided
the basis for A.C.U.S. Recommendation No. 84 1 (1 C.F.R. Section 305-841) adopted
in June, 1984. His second study focused on governmental ethics with an emphasis on
ethics program assessment at the General Services Administration. Professor Ogden
was the editor and contributing author for California Public Agency Practice, a three-volume
treatise on California administrative law published in 1988, and he was the editor
and principal author of the 1997 two-volume revision of that treatise, entitled California
Public Administrative Law, both published by Matthew Bender Publishing Company. Professor
Ogden was an active participant in commenting on consultant reports and proposals
with the California Law Revision Commission study on the California Administrative
Procedure Act (1990 to 1996), and he was a consultant to the California Law Revision
Commission for the Administrative Rulemaking study from 1996-1998. Professor Ogden
served as the Reporter for the revised Model State Administrative Procedure Act (MSAPA)
project of the national conference of commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL)
2006-2010. The Act was adopted by the Uniform Law Commission in 2010.
Professor Ogden was the founding faculty editor of the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution
Law Journal in 1999-2000, and he was instrumental in bringing the Journal of the NAALJ
to Pepperdine Caruso Law School in 2000-2001. He has served as the faculty editor
of the Journal of the NAALJ from 2000 to 2017. Professor Ogden has spoken numerous
times at conferences on topics related to administrative law, legal ethics and judicial
ethics, with an emphasis on Administrative law judges ethical duties. He was the 1999
NAALJ fellowship recipient, and his paper on Demeanor Evidence was published in the
Journal of the NAALJ in spring 2000.
Professor Ogden still teaches Administrative Law online and other courses from time
to time.
Education
- LL.M., Columbia University, 1981
- LL.M., Temple University, 1978
- J.D., University of California, Davis, 1973
- B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1970, cum laude
Articles
- Gregory L. Ogden, Lexis Nexis Expert Commentaries on Key California Supreme Court
Decisions in California Administrative Law, (2 commentaries in December 2007, and
two commentaries in March, 2008)
- Gregory L. Ogden, Challenges in Teaching Remedies, 39 BRANDEIS L.J. 611 (2001) SSRNHeinOnline
- Gregory L. Ogden, Peter Robinson, & Alana Knaster, Public Sector Dispute Resolution
in Local Government: Lessons from the SCAG Project, 1 PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 177 (2001)SSRNHeinOnline
- Gregory L. Ogden, The Role of Demeanor Evidence in Determining Credibility of Witnesses
in Fact Finding: The Views of ALJS, 20 J. NAT'L ASS'N ADMIN. L. JUDGES 1 (2000) SSRNHeinOnline
Reports
- Gregory L. Ogden, Reporter, Revised Model State Administrative Procedure Act, National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) (2006-2010)
Books
- Gregory L. Ogden & Daryl Fisher-Ogden, WEST'S CALIFORNIA CODE FORMS WITH PRACTICE
COMMENTARIES: CIVIL PROCEDURE (West 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015
& 2016 updates) WorldCat
Book Chapters
- Gregory L. Ogden, California Public Administrative Law, in 41 (Chapters 470 to 472B)
and 41A (Chapters 473 to 474C) CALIFORNIA FORMS OF PLEADING AND PRACTICE ANNOTATED
(LexisNexis, quarterly updates, including December 2006, April 2007, September 2007,
August 2009, January 2010, February 2011, August 2011, February 2013 and August 2013) WorldCat
- Gregory L. Ogden, State Administrative Law in California (Chapter 10), in CALIFORNIA
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND LAND USE PRACTICE (Kenneth A. Manaster & Daniel P. Selmi eds.
2005)
- Gregory L. Ogden, Public Records Act in California, in 41 (Chapter 470C) CALIFORNIA
PUBLIC AGENCY PRACTICE (Matthew Bender 2001) WorldCat
Presentations
- Gregory L. Ogden, Co-Chair, Adjudication committee of the ABA Section on Administrative
Law and Regulatory practice, 2012
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker on the new rules of evidence and procedure for the State
Bar of California training for prosecutors and defense counsel in Los Angeles, 2011
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker on developments in legal ethics in California for MCLE program
presented to California bar members volunteering their time to judge Pepperdine Caruso
Law School Dalsimer Moot court competition, 2011
- Gregory L. Ogden, Participant in three day Sakai Conference for learning management
systems in Los Angeles, California, 2011
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker on the debate on compulsory licensing for lawyers as part
of a debate held by the Federalist Society, Los Angeles California, 2011
- Gregory L. Ogden, Co-host and participant, NAALJ Conference, Pepperdine University,
2010
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker, on the Model State APA, Fall 2010 ABA Administrative Law
and Regulatory Practice section meeting, 2010
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker, on the Model State APA, Fall 2010 Symposium at Widener
Law School, 2010
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker on the new rules of evidence and procedure for the State
Bar of California training for state bar court judges in Los Angeles, 2010
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker, Legal ethics and fiduciary duties for estate planning professionals,
Pepperdine Estate Planning Network conference, 2010.
- Gregory L. Ogden, Reporter, Revised 2010 Model State Administrative Procedure Act,
2010
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker, "Legal and Judicial Ethics," National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners (NARUC), NARUC Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 2009
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker, "Judicial ethics for ALJ's and current developments in
federal and state administrative law," NAALJ annual meeting, Orlando, Florida, 2009
- Gregory L. Ogden, Speaker, 1) Demeanor evidence and credibility determinations for
ALJ's; 2) Judicial Ethics for ALJ's and 3) History and Evolution of administrative
agencies, National Association of Hearing Officers (NAHO ) annual meeting, Boise ID,
2009
- Gregory L. Ogden, Presenter, materials on Articles 4, 5, and 6 of the MSAPA, ABA administrative
law section meeting, ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2009
