By Andersen Cook, [email protected]

Professor

Scott Bauries will teach Federal Courts, Civil Procedure, and Conflict of Laws. In future academic years he hopes to add State Constitutional Law and potentially Complex Litigation to his list of courses.

“My main scholarly interests lie in judicial decision making, including theories of interpretation and then judicial role,” says Bauries. “My recent work develops a fiduciary theory of state constitutions and examines the implications of such a theory for some common constitutional interpretation and judicial decision-making problems.”

Bauries has long been interested in education, beginning his career in academia as a middle and high school teacher in Florida. In order to become a school administrator, he was required to get a Master’s in Educational Leadership. One of the required courses for the degree was School Law, and taking it changed the course of his future.

“I was hooked,” says Bauries. “I applied to the Ph.D. program at the University of Florida, and the man who became my doctoral Chair convinced me to become the “test subject” for a joint J.D./Ph.D. program… I initially intended to teach in a college of education, but I found that I had a real interest in and aptitude for legal thinking, so I changed my focus to legal academia.”

Bauries spent the last 14 years teaching at the University of Kentucky College of Law, but he is no stranger to the Palmetto State. In college he spent several months selling...

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