Jack Whiteley

Jack Whiteley

Associate Professor of Law
434 Mondale Hall

Degrees

University of St. Andrews, M.A.
Yale Law School, J.D.

Expertise

  • Property Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Evidence

Jack Whiteley writes about property, environmental law, and evidence. He is interested in the conceptual and historical foundations of these fields. His work has appeared in law reviews and philosophy journals. Before joining Minnesota, he taught and practiced environmental law as a fellow at Georgetown's Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. He was previously an associate at Cleary Gottlieb and a law clerk for Judge Richard R. Clifton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School and an undergraduate degree from the University of St Andrews. 

Evidence


Property


Environmental Law


Climate Law


Journal Articles

The Clean Water Act and Avoidance Creep, 109 Minnesota Law Review 3053 (2025)
Cultural Cognition and the Thoughtful Judge, 100 Indiana Law Journal 621 (2025)
The Three-Verdict Problem, 30 Legal Theory 105 (2024)
Perpetuities in an Unequal Age, 117 Northwestern University Law Review 1477 (2023)
Property in Wolves, 108 Cornell Law Review 617 (2023)
How Jurors' Beliefs Count, 90 Mississippi Law Journal 383 (2021)