University of Virginia School of Law (Beginning Fall 2012)

Jessica K. Lowe Associate Professor of Law University of Virginia School of Law (beginning fall 2012) Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University

129 Dickinson Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 703-861-6573 (cell) [email protected] EDUCATION:

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Expected 2012 Ph.D. Candidate, 4.0 GPA Specialties: American Legal History; American Cultural History; History of the American South Dissertation: Murder in the Shenandoah: The Case of Commonwealth v. John Crane and Law in Federal Virginia Fields: American History, 1787-1896, American Legal History 1800-1900, English Constitutional History Readers: Hendrik Hartog (Advisor; Princeton), Daniel Rodgers (Princeton), Stanley Katz (Princeton), William Nelson (NYU Law School), Peter Onuf (University of Virginia). Selected honors: APGA Teaching Award; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship; Graduate Prize Fellowship, University Center for Human Values.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2002 J.D. cum laude Areas of concentration: Legal History; Criminal Law; Federal Procedure Research assistant: For Professor George Fisher Activities: Managing Board, Harvard Journal on Legislation; Teaching Fellow, Social Analysis 10 (see below) Faculty mentors: Christine Desan, Richard Parker, William Stuntz Clerkships: U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (see below). Bar memberships: District of Columbia Bar, admitted 2003; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, admitted 2002; Virginia State Bar, admitted 2002

Yale University, New Haven, CT 1998-1999 Coursework towards M.A.R. Area of concentration: Christian Ethics Selected honors: Marquand Scholar (top first year students), Associates-Advisors Scholarship

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 1998 B.A. with high honors Major: Political and Social Thought (interdisciplinary), Economics Areas of concentration: American History; Political Theory; Religious Ethics; Economics Thesis: “Ten Thousand Recollections: The Struggle over Thomas Jefferson and Slavery,” winner of the Sorensen Prize (best departmental thesis) and Anne Hope Van Schaack Prize (best essay on Jefferson). Advisors: Peter Onuf, William Lee Miller

Northwest High School, Northwest Local Schools (Public), Canal Fulton, OH 1994 Valedictorian National Merit Finalist; Robert C. Byrd Scholar; Student Council President

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Associate Professor, University of Virginia School of Law Beginning Fall 2012 Charlottesville, VA Specialties: Will be teaching American legal history, including law at the founding; crime in American history; constitutional history to 1877; and criminal law.

Hon. Robert B. King, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 2004- 2005 Charleston, WV/Richmond, VA Law clerk: Reviewed cases, drafted bench memos, and composed judicial opinions on various issues, including federal sentencing appeals in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Booker- Fanfan decision.

Hon. Janet C. Hall, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut 2003- 2004 Bridgeport, CT Law clerk: Oversaw progress of criminal and civil docket, helped to draft numerous judicial opinions, crafted jury instructions, assisted in drafting preliminary rulings in the highly publicized Burt v. Rumsfeld, in which Yale Law professors challenged the “Solomon Amendment” (making federal grant money contingent on access of military recruiters to campus), and participated in other aspects of trial court business.

Jones Day 2002-2003; Summer 2001 and 2004 Washington, DC Associate: Assisted with several matters before the U.S. Supreme Court, including: Patrickson v. Dole Food Co. (composed first drafts of petition for certiorari and participated in research and drafting of reply brief); Archer v. Warner (researched issues for oral argument); Grutter v. Bollinger (composed sections of MIT et al. amicus brief); and Smith v. City of Jackson (assisted with merits brief). Coordinated initiation of class action lawsuit by physicians against major malpractice insurer, drafted complaint, composed motions and responses, and assisted with discovery.

Arnold and Porter Summer 2001 Washington, DC Summer Associate: Worked in firm’s environmental and anti-trust litigation groups.

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia Summer 2000 Alexandria, VA Intern: Worked on kidnapping and drug prosecutions, drafted motions and appellate brief, and attended day of FBI training at Quantico, VA, facility.

Hon. Ralph Regula, U.S. Congress (OH-16th) Summer 1998 Washington, DC Intern: Served as legislative intern for home district congressman, and worked on FY1999 appropriations for the Department of Interior.

FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES:

Doctoral-related: Princeton University Center for Human Values, Graduate Prize Fellow (2011-12) Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award (2011) Program in American Studies, Summer Research Prize (2011) PEO Scholar, PEO International (2010-2011) Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies (2010-2011) Harvey Fellowship, The Mustard Seed Foundation (2009-12) Princeton University Graduate School Fellowship (2005-2010) Princeton University History Department, Davis Merit Prize (2005-2006) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2005-06)

Previously held: Marquand Scholar, Yale Divinity School (1998-99) Sorensen Prize for best departmental thesis, University of Virginia (1998) Anne Hope Van Schaack Award for Jefferson studies, University of Virginia (1998) Phi Beta Kappa (1998) Omicron Delta Kappa (1997) Lawn Resident, University of Virginia (1997-98) Echols Scholar, University of Virginia (1995-98) Dean’s List, University of Virginia (1995-1998) National Merit Finalist Scholarship (full tuition and fees), University of Kentucky (1994-95) Dean’s List, University of Kentucky (1994-1995) Robert C. Byrd Scholar (1994-1998) National Merit Finalist Corporation Scholarship, Maytag Corporation (1994-1998)

SELECT PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS-IN-PROGRESS: “Farming, Fighting, and the Hermeneutics of Southern Legal History” (article draft, to be submitted spring 2012)

Murder in the Shenandoah: The Case of Commonwealth v. John Crane and Law in Federal Virginia (book manuscript in progress)

Sacred Texts: A History of Textualism in the American South, 1776 to 1865 (book proposal in progress).

“Guarding Republican Liberty: St. George Tucker and Judging in Federal Virginia” in Sally Hadden and Patricia Minter eds., Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History (Athens: University of Georgia Press, forthcoming 2012).

“A Separate Peace? The Politics of Localized Law in the Post-Revolutionary Era.” 36 Law & Social Inquiry 788 (Summer 2011).

“Thomas Jefferson and Slavery,” in Critical Mass (Spring 1998) (excerpt from thesis) (University of Virginia student publication).

“Outdated Legacy?” (Jefferson and Slavery), The Cavalier Daily, January 14, 1998, p. 5.

“Jefferson and Religion,” The Cavalier Daily, Wednesday, March 26, 1997, p. 5.

“Beyond Jefferson,” (Madison and Monroe in the University’s founding), The Cavalier Daily, November 19, 1997, p. 5.

“University Union: Cabell, Jefferson build village,” The Cavalier Daily, November 19, 1996, p. 5.

SELECT PRESENTATIONS:

Presenter, “Murder in the Shenandoah: Commonwealth v. John Crane and Law in Federal Virginia,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (“SHEAR”) Annual Meeting, forthcoming July 18-22, 2012.

Presenter, “Writing Republican Liberty: St. George Tucker and Law in Federal Virginia,” The Virginia Forum, James Madison University, forthcoming March 29-31, 2012.

Invited Presentation, “Murder in the Shenandoah: Commonwealth v. John Crane and Law in Federal Virginia,” Mount Holyoke College, February 6, 2012.

Invited Presentation, “A Separate Peace? Commonwealth v. John Crane and Law in Federal Virginia,” University of Virginia Law School, January 19, 2012. Presenter, “Murder in the Shenandoah: From Center to Periphery in the Case of John Crane,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, June 2, 2011.

Commentator (with William Forbath, Kunal Parker, and Eran Shalev), Author Meets Reader Panel on Law’s Imagined Republic by Steven Wilf, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, June 2, 2011 (panel withdrawn by author).

Presenter, “Murder in the Shenandoah: The Case of Commonwealth v. John Crane,” University of Virginia Early America Seminar, March 28, 2011.

Presenter, “Rethinking Virginia Identity through Commonwealth v. John Crane,” The Virginia Forum, Washington and Lee University, March 26, 2011.

Presenter, “American Liberty and Legal Science: The Thought of St. George Tucker,” Law of the Land, jointly sponsored conference of the Supreme Court of Virginia and Library of Virginia, TBD (postponed from March 2010) (panel with David Konig, Charles Hobson, and Ellen Pearson).

Presenter, “Rules of Engagement: Adjudicating the ‘Fair Fight’ in Early National Virginia,” The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Conference, September 25, 2009.

Presenter, “Farming, Fighting, and the Hermeneutics of Southern Legal History,” Modern America Workshop, Princeton University, September 21, 2009.

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning 2011-2012 Princeton University Fellow: One of a small group of veteran graduate student teachers charged with training Princeton University graduate preceptors (teaching assistants) for 2011-2012 academic year. Responsibilities include leading orientation and facilitating teaching workshops. Position was received by invitation.

History 385, Law in American Society Fall 2010 Princeton University Preceptor: Led discussions and graded papers for two sections of sophomore, junior, and senior students in large lecture course focusing on American legal history, taught by Professor Hendrik Hartog. Course topics ranged from the legal history of the American Revolution to the law of slavery to contemporary legal ethics. Received Princeton’s highest graduate student teaching honor, the 2011 Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award, based on nominations from students, the course professor, and the Department of History.

Social Analysis 10, Introduction to Micro- and Macro-Economics 2000-2002 Harvard University Teaching Fellow: Primary instructor for 20 students in Harvard’s year-long introductory macro- and micro-economics course. Unlike a typical course arrangement, in “EC 10” material is delivered in section, and students attend large lectures with faculty only occasionally and on specialized subjects – such as the trading of “rights to pollute” – to demonstrate the ways in which course concepts are applied in faculty research. Teaching fellows are responsible for introducing and delivering the content of the course by lecturing two to three times per week, and for developing and grading problem sets and examinations in conjunction with other instructors. For two semesters, the students in my section had among the highest average grades – graded by other instructors, blindly and according to objective criteria – in the 1000+ person course.

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

Co-Organizer, “Jeffersonian Democracy: From Theory to Practice,” Princeton University Conference: Co-sponsored by the Papers of Thomas Jefferson and the Princeton Colonial Americas Workshop, forthcoming spring 2012. Co-Coordinator, Colonial Americas Workshop, Princeton University (2009-present): Currently coordinate year-long academic workshop that provides the primary Princeton forum for discussions of Early America. Recent guests have included Peter Onuf, Virginia Scharff, David Konig, Steven Wilf, Andrew Shankman, and Craig Hammond.

Co-Organizer, “Southern Nation,” Princeton Program in American Studies Graduate Student Conference (2010): In charge of designing, planning, and organizing two-day conference exploring the complex and sometimes ambivalent relationship between the American South and the American nation, historically and in the present.

Graduate History Association member-at-large (2009-10), social coordinator (2005-06): Member of history graduate student government association, charged with organizing academic and social events for history department students and faculty.

SELECT OTHER EXPERIENCE:

Harvard Law School Journal on Legislation 1999- 2002 Cambridge, MA Managing Board (2001-2002): Responsible for managing issues of student-run legal journal, including supervision of article acceptance and editorial process.

Mount Vernon Ladies Association (Mount Vernon) Summer 1999 Merrifield, VA Docent: Worked as historical interpreter at George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association (Monticello) 1996- 1998 Charlottesville, VA Interpreter, Plantation Life Guide: Led tours of Jefferson’s home and of nearby slave quarters at Mulberry Row, facilitating discussions among visitors about Jefferson and slavery at Monticello. Assisted on a volunteer basis with the “Getting Word” project, which interviewed descendants of Monticello slaves.

University of Virginia Honor System 1996- 1998 Charlottesville, VA Honor Advisor: Counseled students accused of Honor offenses and facing expulsion under the University’s Honor System. Also worked amidst great controversy to institute various measures designed to address and remedy Honor System’s racial bias.

University of Virginia Guide Service 1996- 1998 Charlottesville, VA Historian (1997-1998): Trained students to serve as tour guides for the University’s admission and historical tours; wrote a bi-weekly column for the student newspaper on University and Virginia history. References

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