Rate My Professor Sam Jordan

Samuel P. Jordan is a Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 2007 as Assistant Professor, advancing to Associate Professor with tenure in 2012. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Rhodes College, awarded magna cum laude in 1998, along with the Peyton Nalle Rhodes Phi Beta Kappa Prize; an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies in 2004, supported by the Irving B. Harris Fellowship; and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2004, earned with high honors, Order of the Coif membership, and the Joseph Henry Beale Prize in legal research and writing. Following law school, Jordan clerked for the Honorable Milton I. Shadur, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. He then served as Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School from 2005 to 2007. Earlier, he taught fourth grade in the District of Columbia Public Schools through Teach for America from 1998 to 2000. From 2013 to 2017, Jordan held the position of Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at SLU Law, followed by service as Vice Dean.

Jordan teaches Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II, Conflict of Laws, Federal Courts, Remedies, and Federalism seminars. His research and writing center on civil procedure, federal courts, and conflict of laws, with articles published in prominent journals such as State Power to Define Jurisdiction (with Christopher Bader) in the Georgia Law Review (2013), Reverse Abstention in the Boston University Law Review (2012), Local Rules and the Limits of Transterritorial Procedure in the William & Mary Law Review (2010), Situating Inherent Power Within a Rules Regime in the Denver University Law Review (2010), Setting the Size of the Supreme Court (with F. Andrew Hessick) in the Arizona State Law Journal (2009), Irregular Panels in the Alabama Law Review (2009), and Early Panel Announcement, Settlement and Adjudication in the BYU Law Review (2007). In 2010, he received the Saint Louis University Faculty Excellence Award and was elected Teacher of the Year by SLU Law students. Jordan has contributed to faculty governance through service on Dean Search Committees, Appointments Committees, Scholarship Committee, Academic Standards Committee, and as Faculty Workshop Coordinator and advisor to the Public Law Review. He also chaired the American Association of Law Schools Section on Remedies from 2012 to 2013.