Craig R. Callen
Professor of Law
421 Law College Building
Michigan State University College of Law
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
517/432-6805
callen@law.msu.edu
Degrees: J.D. 1974, Harvard Law School; B.A. with honors and high distinction 1971, University of Iowa
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Biography: Professor Callen served as a Distinguished Scholar and Visiting Professor at MSU College of Law in the fall of 2002 before accepting a permanent appointment in January, 2003 as Professor of Law. Previously, Professor Callen held the J. Will Young Professorship at Mississippi College School of Law, where he had taught since 1983, with visiting professorships at the University of Colorado, the University of Tennessee and the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. Professor Callen served as an assistant professor at Oklahoma City University School of Law (1980-83) and a writing instructor and visiting assistant professor at the University of Miami School of Law (1978-80). Before he started teaching, Professor Callen practiced law with firms in Chicago and Milwaukee. His primary research interest is the law of evidence and its relation to procedure, psychology and reasoning. He has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Evidence Section, and is currently a member of the ABA Criminal Justice Section's Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure and Evidence. Since 1998, he has been editor-in-chief of International Commentary on Evidence, an experimental electronic journal. He edited a book on comparative expert evidence and currently is writing a volume of the New Wigmore on Evidence. Professor Callen is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He teaches Civil Procedure and Evidence. In 2003, Professor Callen organized a conference of evidence scholars at MSU Law, entitled "Visions of Rationality in Evidence Law." The papers from that conference are published in 2003 Michigan State Law Review 847-1364.