Paul T. Hayden
Professor of Law
and Jacob Becker Fellow
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1064
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: paul.hayden@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, cum laude, with distinction, Yale University
JD, University of California Los Angeles, Order of the Coif
While in law school, Paul Hayden was review editor for the Federal Communications Law Journal. After graduating, he went on to clerk for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He has held positions as an associate with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Los Angeles; as law clerk to the Honorable J. Spencer Letts, United States District Court, Central District of California; associate with Boren, Sloan & Rosen in Los Angeles; and as professor at Indiana University School of Law. He is the author or co-author of three casebooks and numerous law review articles on the subjects of torts, legal ethics, and legal education. Hayden has been a member of the Loyola's full-time faculty since 1995.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Resident professor, Loyola-Brooklyn Bologna Summer Program, University of Bologna, Italy, Summers 2007, 2006, 2001. On-site co-director, 2007 and 2001.
Admitted to practice before all courts in California, United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Member, American Law Institute
Member, ALI Consultative Group, Restatement (Third) of Torts
Member, American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility
Global Issues in Tort Law (with Julie Davies) (Thomson-West 2008).
Ethical Lawyering: Legal and Professional Responsibilities in the Practice of Law (Thomson-West 2d Ed. 2007; 1st Ed. 2003)
Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for Injury (with Dan B. Dobbs) (Thomson-West 5th Ed. 2005; 4th Ed 2001; 3rd Ed 1997)
"Putting Ethics to the (National Standardized) Test: Tracing the Origins of the MPRE," 71 Fordham Law Review 1299 (2003)
"Butterfield Rides Again: Plaintiff's Negligence as Superseding or Sole Proximate Cause in Systems of Pure Comparative Responsibility," 33 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 887 (2000)
"Applying Client-Lawyer Models in Legal Education," 21 Legal Studies Forum 301 (1997)
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Law Professor: Some Cautionary Thoughts on Teaching Moral Lessons in the Professional Responsibility Course," 21 Legal Studies Forum 257 (1997)
Comparative Tort Law, Ethical Lawyering, Torts, Torts II, Products Liability