Jeffrey W. Stempel is the William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he teaches insurance law, civil procedure, evidence, professional responsibility and pretrial litigation. Before joining the UNLV faculty in 1999, Professor Stempel was Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and the Fonvielle & Hinkle Professor of Litigation at Florida State University College of Law. Prior to bcoming a law professor, he was a civil litigator.
Professor Stempel is the author of numerous publications, including The Law of Insurance Contract Disputes and Interpretation of Insurance Contracts: Law and Strategy for Insurers and Policyholders (Little, Brown & Co. 1994). He has also written many scholarly law review articles addressing insurance law issues.
Professor Stempel has also co-authored two books on civil procedure, Fundamentals of Pretrial Litigation (5th ed. 2001) and Motion Practice (4th ed. 2001), as well as the general book for students Foundations of the Law (1994) and many articles on issues of civil procedure, federal statutes, arbitration, professional responsibility and the adversary system.
Professor is a member of the State Bar of Nevada, the Minnesota Bar, the American Law Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, the american Judicature Society, and the Law & Society Association. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1981. After graduation, Professor Stempel served as law clerk for U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Broderick of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.