Caprice L. Roberts
Biography
Caprice Roberts is a Professor of Law at West Virginia University. She teaches courses in Federal Courts, Judicial Power & Restraint, Contracts, Remedies, and Postmodern Jurisprudence and has also served as the Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development and Professor of Law. During her tenure, the College of Law faculty has honored her with the “Significant Scholarship Award,” the WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW has selected her for the AOutstanding Faculty Mentor Award@ for outstanding contributions to the law review, and the law students have awarded Professor Roberts the honor of “Professor of the Year.” She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, Chair of the AALS Remedies Section, and a Governor-appointed member of the Independent Commission on Judicial Reform. Professor Roberts is currently co-authoring two casebooks: FEDERAL COURTS: CONTEXT, CASES, AND PROBLEMS (with Michael P. Allen & Michael Finch) (Aspen 2009) and REMEDIES: CASES AND MATERIALS (with Doug Rendleman) (West Group, 8th ed. forthcoming 2009). She has also taught comparative judicial role as part of a Brazilian Law, Business & Politics Program.
Professor Roberts’s recent publications include: The Case for Unjust Enrichment Remedies in Patent Law, 14 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2010); Asymmetric World Jurisprudence, 32 SEATTLE L. REV. 569 (2009); Restitutionary Disgorgement as a Moral Compass for Breach of Contract, 77 U. CINN. L. REV. 991 (2009); A Commonwealth of Perspective on Restitutionary Disgorgement for Breach of Contract, 65 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 945 (2008); Restitutionary Disgorgement and Contract Mitigation, 42 LOY. L.A. L. REV. 131 (2008); “A Desert Grows Between Us”—The Sovereignty Paradox at the Intersection of Tribal and Federal Courts, 65 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 347 (2008); In Search of Judicial Activism: Dangers in Quantifying the Qualitative, 74 TENN. L. REV. 567 (2007); Ratios, (Ir)rationality & Civil Rights Punitive Awards, 39 AKRON L. REV. 101 (2006), reprinted in PUNITIVE DAMAGES: NEW DIMENSIONS (M. N. Bhavani ed., Icfai Univ. Press 2008); Jurisdiction Stripping in Three Acts – A Three String Serenade, 51 VILL. L. REV. 593 (2006).
Her legal career began as a federal law clerk to the Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons of United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. She next clerked on the federal appellate level with the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. After clerking, she joined the Government Enforcement Litigation Section of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C. During her three-year tenure at Skadden, she practiced federal civil litigation and criminal defense. Professor Roberts is admitted to practice law in Washington, D.C., Tennessee, and Georgia.
Professor Roberts graduated Order of the Coif and magna cum laude from Washington and Lee School of Law. She served as Lead Articles Editor of the WASHINGTON AND LEE LAW REVIEW. She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Rhodes College where she graduated cum laude and received the Justice Fortas Award for Excellence in Legal Studies. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She won the Regional Negotiations Competition in Law and served on two National Collegiate Mock Trial Championship Teams. In addition, Professor Roberts completed the Justice and Public Law Semester Program at American University and studied Renaissance art and literature at St. Johns College at Oxford University.