Robert E. Mensel
Professor of Law
Email: rmensel@stu.edu
Phone: 305.474.2421
Mail:
St. Thomas University College of Law
Faculty Suite (209)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Education:
B.A, Wesleyan University
J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law
M.A., Rutgers University
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Expertise:
Constitutional Law
Law and History
Robert E. Mensel
Robert Mensel is Professor of Law at St. Thomas University Collegeof Law. He received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, after receiving a B.A. in English Literature from Wesleyan University. He also holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in U.S. History from Rutgers University. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has been named professor of the year five times at the College of Law. He writes in the field of Nineteenth Century American legal history. He teaches Legal History, Torts I and II, Conflict of Laws, and other courses.
Scholarship
Articles:
Robert E. Mensel, Jurisdiction in Nineteenth Century International Law and Its Meaning in the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 32(2) St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 329 (2013).
Robert E. Mensel, Nothings into Something: Intrinsic Value and Counterfeit Money in Antebellum Law and Culture, 37 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 111 (2011). HeinOnline
Robert E. Mensel, From College to the Clinic: Five Proposals to Bridge the Skills Gaps, 6 U. Mass. Roundtable Symp. L.J. 105 (2011). HeinOnline
Robert E. Mensel, The Antiprogressive uses of privacy in the Federal Courts, 1860-1937, 3 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 109 (2009) http://www.fclr.org/fclr/articles/html/2009/jmffedctslrev3.pdf. HeinOnline
Robert E. Mensel, Originalism and ancestor worship in the post-heroic era: the Dred Scott opinions, 17 Widener L.J. 29 (2007). HeinOnline
Robert E. Mensel, “A Diddle at Brobdingnag”: Confidence and Caveat Emptor During the Market Revolution, 38 U. Mem. L. Rev. 97 (2007). HeinOnline
Robert E. Mensel, Right feeling and knowing right insanity in testators and criminals in nineteenth century American law, 58 Okla. L. Rev. 397 (2005). HeinOnline
Robert E. Mensel, ‘Privilege against public right:’ a reappraisal of the Charles River Bridge case, 33 Duq. L. Rev. 1 (1994). HeinOnline
Robert E. Mensel, “Kodakers Lying in Wait”: Amateur Photography and the Right of Privacy in New York, 1885-1915, 43 Am. Q., J. Am. Stud. Ass’n 24 (1991) (Peer Reviewed).
- Conflict of Laws
- Property
- Torts
