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Dennis Taiji Yokoyama
SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 149579
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Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Professional Experience
- Professor of Law
- SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL
- - Current
- Associate Professor of Law, May 2001 to August 2005; Director of the Legal Analysis, Writing, and Skills Program,1995 to 2007; Instructor of Legal Writing 1992 to 2001.
Education
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- J.D. (1990)
- Honors: Cum Laude; American Jurisprudence Award - Evidence; Alumni Association Award – Commencement 1990.
- Activities: Entertainment Law Journal: Articles Editor, Staff Writer; Constitutional Law Teaching Assistant (Prof. Lawrence Solum); St. Thomas More Law Honor Society; Phi Delta Phi International Legal Society; Administrative Peer Counselor.
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- California State University - Los Angeles
- M.S. (1987) | Clinical Psychology (Family Therapy)
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- University of California - Los Angeles
- B.A. (1982) | Psychology
- Activities: National Debate Squad
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Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award (inaugural)
- Asian Pacific American Law Students Association
- Excellence in Teaching Awards
- Southwestern Law School
- (academic years: 2021-2022; 2020-2021; 2017- 2018; 2014-2015; 2012-2013; 1999-2000)
Professional Associations
- Association of Legal Writing Directors
- Founding Member
- - Current
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- California State Bar # 149579
- Member
- - Current
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- The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute
- Assistant Editor
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Publications
Articles & Publications
- Effective Lawyering: A Checklist Approach to Legal Writing and Oral Argument (co-authored with Austen Parrish)
- Carolina Academic Press 2d edition
- Effective Lawyering: A Checklist Approach to Legal Writing and Oral Argument (co-authored with Austen Parrish)
- Carolina Academic Press
- You Can't Always Use the Zippo Code: The Fallacy of a Uniform Theory of Internet Personal Jurisdiction
- 54 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 1147
- The Law of Causation in Actions Involving Third-Party Assaults When the Landowner Negligently Fails to Hire Security Guards: A Critical Examination of Saelzler v. Advanced Group 400
- 40 CALIFORNIA WESTERN LAW REVIEW 80
- Who Owns that Song? (with A. Cyrlin)
- 12 TEXAS ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 4
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