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Montré D. Carodine
Associate Professor of Law
205-348-7657
mcarodine@law.ua.edu

Areas of Expertise:
Race And Law
Evidence
Civil Procedure

Montré D. Carodine

A native of Louisiana, Professor Carodine earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from Louisiana Tech University and her J.D., cum laude, from Tulane. She was on the Senior Editorial Board of the Tulane Law Review, serving as Senior Notes and Comments Editor. She also received the Gertler Law Review Award for Publishing Best Note. After graduating from law school in 2000, Professor Carodine clerked for the Honorable Carl E. Stewart of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She then practiced as a litigation associate with Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston, Texas, from 2001-2004.  At Fulbright, Professor Carodine handled a variety of matters including cases involving aviation accidents, shareholder disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, toxic tort, chemical exposure, negligence, products liability, and personal injury.  She was also appointed by a federal judge to represent a death row inmate pro bono in his federal habeas proceedings. Professor Carodine was on the law faculty at Washington and Lee University from 2004 to 2007. She teaches Evidence, Race, Racism and the Law, Civil Procedure, and International Litigation.

Professor Carodine’s publications include:

Trust is Something You’ve Gotta Earn, and It Takes Time, in Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture (Austin Sarat ed., University of Alabama Press, forthcoming 2011)

Keeping it Real: Reforming the “Untried Conviction” Impeachment Rule, 69 Maryland Law Review 501 (2010)

“The Mis-Characterization of the Negro”: A Race Critique of the Prior Conviction Impeachment Rule, 84 Indiana Law Journal 521 (2009)

Political Judging: When Due Process Goes International, 48 William & Mary Law Review 1159 (2007)

Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District: The Supreme Court Adopts Actual Knowledge Standard as Basis for School District’s Liability Under Title IX, 73 Tulane Law Review 2181 (1999)