Director of Lawyering
Thomas Cobb is director of Mitchell Hamline’s Lawyering program and was a senior law lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law. He clerked for Justice Susan M. Leeson at the Oregon Supreme Court and was an Assistant Attorney General in the Appellate Division at the Oregon Department of Justice.
Professor Cobb’s graduate studies include literature, rhetoric, and translation theory. He taught and studied in France under an IIE-Fulbright Grant, then received a fellowship to study literature and art history at the University of Chicago.
Professor Cobb’s current research interests include legal rhetoric, statutory interpretation, immigration law, and evidence.
Education
J.D., University of Minnesota
M.A., University of Chicago
M.A., Reed College
B.A., University of Alabama
Experience
University of Washington School of Law
Senior Lecturer, 2008–19
Lecturer, 2004–08
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Institut de Droit Comparée, Lyon, France
Visiting Professor, Spring 2010
The Evergreen State College
Adjunct Member of the Faculty, Winter 2006
Oregon Department of Justice
Assistant Attorney General (Honors Program), Appellate Division, 2003–04
Oregon Supreme Court
Judicial Law Clerk, Justice Susan M. Leeson, 2001–03
Federal Public Defender’s Office, Portland, Oregon
Law Clerk, 2000
Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners (LAMP), University of Minnesota Law School
Student Attorney/Student Clinic Director, 1999–2000
Sprenger & Lang
Law Clerk, 1999
Legal Assistant/Network Administrator, 1997–98
Legal Aid Society, Minneapolis
Volunteer Law Clerk, 1997–98
Assistant Editor
Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors
Memberships
Rhetoric Society of America
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
National Council of Teachers of English
