Joseph G. Cook

Williford Gragg Distinguished Professor of Law
A.B., 1961, J.D., 1964, University of Alabama
LL.M., 1965, Yale University

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Procedure, Jurisprudence

Cook@libra.law.utk.edu

Professor Cook is the senior member of the UT faculty, having joined the faculty in 1965 shortly after receiving the LL.M. degree from Yale University. He was named Williford Gragg Distinguished Professor in 1979 and served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs during 1991–92. Professor Cook is the author or co-author of two multi-volume treatises, Constitutional Rights of the Accused and Civil Rights Actions and Casebooks in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. During the summers of 2000 and 2001 Professor Cook taught in England as a faculty member with the Cambridge Summer Abroad Program. He has received the L.R. Hesler Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service, the Carden Award or Outstanding Scholarship, the Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award (twice), the Forrest W. Lacey Award (twice), and the UT Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award. Professor Cook is a Trustee of the Tennessee Justice Foundation.

Publications

       Books & Chapters:

Co-author, Criminal Law (LexisNexis, 5th ed., 2003, supplemented annually).

Materials on Justice Theory, 2002 (electronic).

Co-author, Criminal Procedure (LexisNexis, 5th ed., 2001, supplemented annually ).

Constitutional Rights of the Accused, 4 vols. (West Group, 3rd ed., 1996, supplemented annually).

Co-author, Civil Rights Actions, 7 vols. (LexisNexis, 1996, supplemented biannually).

       Articles:

A series of 12 “critical surveys” of criminal law in Tennessee, 1969-80, Tenn. L. Rev. vols. 36-49.

Warrantless Searches Incident to Arrest, 24 Ala. L. Rev. 607 (1972).

The Art of Frisking, 40 Fordham L. Rev. 789 (1972).

Varieties of Detention and the Fourth Amendment, 23 Ala. L. Rev. 287 (1971).

Subjective Attitudes of Arrestee and Arrestor as Affecting Occurrence of Arrest, 19 Kan. L. Rev. 173 (1971).

Requisite Particularity in Search Warrant Authorization, 38 Tenn. L. Rev. 496 (1971).

Additional articles in Tenn. L. Rev., Vand. L. Rev., and Case and Comment.

Recent Professional Presentations and Service

Faculty member, Cambridge (England) Summer Abroad Program, 2000 and 2001.

“The Puzzling Case of Lockhart v Fretwell: The Client Who Suffered No Prejudice by His Own Execution,” Constitutional Law Forum, Knoxville Bar Association, 1993.

“The Elements of a §1983 Action,” CLE Program, Tennessee Bar Association, 1992.

Selected Achievements and Affiliations

L.R. Hessler Award for Teaching and Service, 2002.

Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence, 1996.

Forrest W. Lacey Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributions to the Moot Court Board, 1992 and 1995.

Carden Scholarship Award, 1995.

Carden Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 1992.

John S. Sparkman Visiting Professor of Law, University of Alabama, Fall 1990.

Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award, 1974 and 1982.

Trustee, Tennessee Justice Foundation; UT Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, 1969.