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 Douglas
A. Blaze
Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Art Stolnitz and Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law
B.S., 1976, Dickinson College
J.D., 1984, Georgetown University
Advocacy Clinic, Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Case Development,
Trial Practice
Blaze@libra.law.utk.edu
Professor Blaze, who received a J.D. summa cum laude degree from Georgetown
University, joined the faculty in 1993 as Director of Clinical
Programs. He came to Tennessee from Phoenix, Ariz., where he worked
in private practice and later joined the faculty at Arizona State University.
Professor Blaze is co-author of The Law of Negligence in Arizona.
His work has been published in the Arizona State, Georgetown, Tennessee
and William & Mary law reviews. Professor Blaze is the immediate past-chair
of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and is a member of several
other bar committees. In 2004, Professor Blaze received the Thomas Jefferson
Prize. He received the Bass, Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service
to the Bench and Bar in 1996 and 2004, the Harold Warner Outstanding Teacher
Award in 1997, and the Carden Institutional Service Award in 2000 and 2005.
Publications
Books & Chapters:
The Law of Negligence
in Arizona (Michie, 1992)(with Lankford)(Michie,
3rd ed., 2003).
Sum and Substance
Quick Review of
Civil Procedure
(West 2003).
Articles:
Remembering Bob Ritchie, For the Defense: Special Issue (TACDL May 2007).
Toward Equal Access to Justice: Rethinking the Role of Law Schools, 2 Tenn. J. L. & Policy 66 (2005).
Crisis in Legal Aid: The Challenges and Some Solutions, 39 Tenn.
B.J. 12 (January 2003).
Bridging the Gap: A Professional Practice Skills Program for New Lawyers,
Tenn. B.J. (April 1999, at 1).
Deja Vu All Over Again: Reflections on Fifty Years of Clinical Education,
64 Tenn. L. Rev.
939 (1997).
Dedication for Charles Henderson Miller, 64 Tenn.
L. Rev. xi(1997).
Presumed Frivolous: Application of Stringent Pleading Requirements
in Civil Rights Litigation, 31 William &
Mary L. Rev.
935 (1990).
The Effect of Law Schools on Bench/Bar Relations,The
Maricopa Lawyer,
Vol. 9, No. 7 (July 1990).
The Nomination of Robert Bork: Revisiting the Constitution,19
Ariz. St.
L. J. 467 (1987).
Double Jeopardy, in 13th Annual
Criminal Procedure
Project, 72 Geo.
L. J. 497 (1983).
Recent Professional Presentations and Service
"Revisiting/Revising Student Practice Rules," AALS Conference
on Clinical Legal Education, San Diego, May 2004.
"Service of Process in Tennessee," Tennessee Professional Investigators
Association, Gatlinburg, April 2004.
Various NITA Training Programs (depositions, motion practice, experts,
negotiation, fact investigation) for law firms around the country, 1999-present.
"Trial Practice Training for Legal Services Lawyers," Tennessee
Access to Justice Conference, Montgomery Bell State Park, October 2003.
"Deposition Training for Legal Services Lawyers," Tennessee
Access to Justice Conference, Nashville, October 2002.
Advocacy Teacher Training, U.S. Dept. of Justice/NITA, Columbia, S.C.,
July 2001.
"Building a Better Lawyer," Harry Phillips, American Inn of Court, Nashville,
May 2001.
"Recent changes in the Federal Rules of Procedure," Federal Bar Association,
Chattanooga, July 2000.
“Recent Litigation Over Discrimination in Mortgage Lending,” Tri-State
Housing and Equal Opportunity Conference, Gatlinburg, Tenn., April 1998.
Selected Achievements and Affiliations
Associate of American Law Schools (AALS), Clinical Education Committee.
2004 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education Planning Committee.
2004 Thomas Jefferson Prize.
2003 B. Runey Green Award from Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services.
Chair, Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services, 2001-2004.
Reporter, Hamilton Burnett American Inn of Court, 2000-2002.
1997 Harold Warner Outstanding Teacher Award.
2004 and 1996 Bass, Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the
Bench and Bar.
Board of Directors, Knoxville Legal Aid Society, 1994-1999.
Member, TBA Legal Education and the Bar Committee.
Member, Tennessee Bar Association Access to Justice Committee, 1994-present.
Judge Pro Tem, Arizona Court of Appeals, 1990.
Mancopa County Bar Association Outstanding Faculty Award, Phoenix, Ariz.,
1990.
Reporter, Ninth Circuit Local Rules Review Committee, 1992-93.
Member, Hamilton Burnett American Inn of Court.
Works in Progress
Article on rethinking the role of law schools in advancing the cause
of increased access to justice.
September 13, 2007
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