Jack Whiteley

Jack Whiteley teaches and researches in property, environmental law, and evidence. He is interested in the conceptual and historical foundations of these fields. His scholarship has appeared in Legal Theory, the Cornell Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Northwestern University Law Review. Before joining Minnesota as an associate professor of law in 2023, 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 Steen & Hamilton LLP and a law clerk for the Honorable 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 (United Kingdom).