Professor of Law, Emeritus
E-mail: cfthomps@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)262-5055
Office: Room 6376, Law School
Education:
A.B.('56), Harvard University
M.A.,('62) Oxford University
J.D.('60), Harvard Law School
LL.D (Hon.'08) Michigan State University
Teaching Areas:
Contracts
Jurisprudence
Legal Education
Property Law
Recently Taught Courses
829 Jurisprudence
980 African Law: Sudan Seminar
Research Interests:
African, Asian Legal Systems
Biography
Professor Thompson is the former Dean of the Law School and has served as a dean and professor at the Universities of Idaho and Hawaii. He also was the dean of the Haile Sellassie University School of Law in Ethiopia and co-founded the faculty of law at the University of Zambia. In addition, Professor Thompson has taught law in the Sudan, Zambia and Ethiopia, as well as U.S. law schools. Most recently, he was Acting Dean from January 2007 through August 2008 at the College of Law of Michigan State University.
Professor Thompson served full-time in Indonesia as Legal Education Advisor for the government from 1993 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2004. His research interests revolve primarily around lawyers, law, and social change in developing countries.
Professor Thompson teaches Comparative Law, International Development, African and Asian Law, Contracts, Jurisprudence, Negotiable Instruments and Real Property.
