Dean Earl F. Martin

Earl F. Martin Dean & Professor of Law emartin@lawschool.gonzaga.edu (509) 313-3700 B.A., University of Kentucky College of Communications, 1984 J.D., University of Kentucky College of Law, 1987 LL.M., Yale Law School, 1996

Biographical Information

Earl F. Martin became dean of Gonzaga University School of Law on July 1, 2005. Prior to joining Gonzaga, Dean Martin served as Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dean Martin graduated "Order of the Coif" from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1987 and received an LL.M. from the Yale Law School in 1996. Dean Martin teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Torts, and seminars on capital punishment and law and psychology. He served twenty years as an active duty and reserve Judge Advocate General officer in the United States Air Force, retiring in November 2007.

Publications

• Mission-Focused Leadership, in Inside the Minds - Leading a Law School, (Aspatore Books, 2008)
• America’s Anti-Standing Army Tradition and the Separate Community Doctrine, Miss. L.J., Volume 76 (2007)
• Francis v. Franklin (1985), Gardner v. Florida (1977), Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), Gregg v. Georgia (1976), Griffin v. Illinois (1956), Jurek v. Texas (1976), & Mooney v. Holohan (1935), in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006)
• Separating United States Service Members from the Bill of Rights, 54 Syracuse L. Rev. 599 (2004)
• A Daubert Test of Hypnotically Refreshed Testimony in the Criminal Courts, in Handbook of Forensic Psychology (2004)
• Masking the Evil of Capital Punishment, in Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness: Wrath, Sex, Crime (2003)
• A Daubert Test of Hypnotically Refreshed Testimony in the Criminal Courts, 9 Tex. Wes. L. Rev. 151 (2003)
• Masking the Evil of Capital Punishment, 10 Va. J. Soc. Pol. & L. 179 (2002)
• Tessie Hutchinson and the American System of Capital Punishment, 59 Md. L. Rev. 553 (2000)
• Bad Checks Make Bad Law and Bad Policy, 46 A.F.L. Rev. 73 (1999)
• The Juvenile Sex Offender and the Juvenile Justice System, 35 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 279 (1998) (with Marsha Kline Pruett)
• Towards an Evolving Debate on the Decency of Capital Punishment, 66 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 84 (1997)
• The Guessing Game: Emotional Propensity Experts in the Criminal Courts, 21 L. & Psychol. Rev. 29 (1997) (with Phillip W. Esplin)
• Prior Inconsistent Statements: Military Rules of Evidence 613 and 801(d)(1)(A), 39 A. F. L. Rev. 207 (1996)
• Limiting Attorney's Fees in Black Lung Benefits Cases: A Violation of Procedural Due Process?, 2 J. Min. L. & Pol'y 375 (1987)

Presentations

• Panel Moderator, The Changing Face of the Profession: Multigenerational, Cultural, Behavioral, and Attitudinal Differences, 6th Annual WSBA Conference on the Law of Lawyering, Seattle, Wash., December 16, 2008
• Presented on the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China, at Wuhan University School of Law in Wuhan, China, and at Inha University School of Law in Luncheon, South Korea, 2008
• Keynote Speech, Annual Phi Beta Kappa Luncheon, Spokane, WA, May 15, 2008
• Democracy and the American Jury, Appreciation Day hosted by the Spokane County courts, May 5, 2008. 
• The Past, Present, & Future of Legal Education, Kootenai County Bar Association, April 2, 2007
• Promoting Women and Diversity in the Workplace:  Are Legal Employers Meeting the Challenge, panel discussion, Washington Women Lawyers Annual Leadership Symposium, November 17, 2006
• The Past, Present and Future of Legal Education, Senior Lawyers Group of WSBA, September 29, 2006
• Exercising Leadership in an Executive Position, panel discussion, Washington State Bar Association's Leadership Institute, July 14, 2006
• Preparing the Millennial Generation for the Practice of Law, Washington Managing Partners Roundtable, June 16, 2006
• The Past, Present and Future of Legal Education, Benton/Franklin County Bar Association, May 16, 2006
• The Past, Present and Future of Legal Education, Spokane County Bar Association, November 4, 2005
• Separating U.S. Service Members from the Bill of Rights - 2003 Biennial International Conference of the Inter-University Seminary on Armed Forces and Society, Chicago, Ill., October 24-26, 2003
• The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Constitutional Confessions (Guest Lecturer) – Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, November 17-22, 2002
• Masking the Evil of Capital Punishment – Sentencing & Society: Second International Conference, The University of St, Glasgow, Scotland, June 27-29, 2002
• Separating U.S. Service Members From the Bill of Rights – Joint Annual Meeting of the American and Canadian Law and Society Associations, Vancouver, Canada, May 29-June 1, 2002
• Masking the Evil of Capital Punishment – The Third Global Conference: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, Anglo-American College, Prague, Czech Republic, March 15-20, 2002
• Searching for the Place for Religion in the U.S. Military – The Second International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3-5, 2001
• Tessie Hutchinson and the American System of Capital Punishment – Canadian Law and Society Conference 2000, Lake Louise, Banff National Park, June 1-3, 2000
• Tessie Hutchinson and the American System of Capital Punishment – MELUS 2000 Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, La, March 9-12, 2000
• Tessie Hutchinson and the American System of Capital Punishment – 17th Annual Australian Law and Society Conference, Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice, Byron Bay, Australia, December 7-9, 1999
• The Juvenile Sex Offender and the Juvenile Justice System – The Juvenile Justice Counter–Reformation: Children and Adolescents as Adult Criminals, Quinnipiac College School of Law, Hamden, Conn., September 17-18, 1998

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