About
Professor Steven S. Gensler joined the OU law faculty in 2000 after serving two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law. During 2003-04, Professor Gensler was the Supreme Court Fellow at the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
From 2005 to 2011, Professor Gensler served as a member of the United States Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. He currently serves as a consultant to the Judicial Conference's Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee.
Professor Gensler is the author of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Rules and Commentary (West) and a wide range of articles on federal practice and procedure.
Professor Gensler began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Deannell Reece Tacha on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (1992-93) and to the Honorable Kathryn H. Vratil on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas (1993-94). He then worked as a litigation associate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for four years, most recently with Michael, Best & Friedrich, LLP.
Professor Gensler was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar in 1994 and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Wisconsin Bar Association. He was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2006 and currently serves as a member of the ALI Council.
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American Law Institute
American Bar Foundation
American Bar Association
Wisconsin Bar Association