Leslie S. Wright Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
Cumberland School of Law
Office: Robinson Hall
Email: hpwaltha@samford.edu
Phone: 205-726-2412
Joined faculty in 1975
Teaching & Research Interests: State Constitutional Law, State and Local Taxation, Commercial Law, Bankruptcy, Business Organizations
Practice Experience
- Associate and Partner; Berkowitz, Lefkovitz, Isom & Kushner, Birmingham, 1967-75
Degrees and Certifications
- LL.B., Harvard University Law School, 1967
- A.B., Magna Cum Laude, Harvard College, 1964
Publications
- Currently co-writing Alabama's Supreme Court and Legal Institutions: A History
- Co-author, From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847-1997 (University of Georgia Press, 1997), with Cumberland Professor David J. Langum
Involvement
- Director, Cumberland State Constitutional Law Project
- Fellow, Alabama Law Institute
- Reporter, Business Entities Committee
- Member, American Law Institute and its Consultative Groups on Restatement of Agency and Restatement of Restitution
- Member, American Bar Association Business Law Section and its committees on consumer bankruptcy and partnerships