Len Niehoff, ’84, is a professor from practice at Michigan Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Ethics, Evidence, First Amendment, Media Law, and Law & Theology. He also has taught short seminars on a wide variety of subjects, including the history of banned books and the Salem Witch Trials.
Featured Scholarship
"Civil War: A Law at War With Itself - Character Evidence and the Doctrine of Chances"
Litigation
"Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Client? Navigating the Mysteries of Prospective and Organizational Representation"
Litigation
- Litigation
"A Law at War with Itself: Character Evidence and the Doctrine of Chances"
Litigation
"The Joy of the Fight: What Litigators Can Learn from the Marital Arts"
Litigation
- Litigation
Activities
Presented “Speech on Campus: Current Issues” at the University of Vermont 29th Annual Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference, Burlington, Vermont.
Moderated the panel discussion, “Catch and Kill: Does the First Amendment Protect the Right to Buy a Story to Bury It?,” at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law, Miami.
Presented “Privacy in Public Spaces: What is Private in the Digital Age?” at the Privacy@Michigan symposium, University of Michigan.
Participated in the panel discussion, “Ethics for Media Lawyers,” at the Communications Law in the Digital Age seminar conducted by the Practicing Law Institute, New York City.
Presented “Employee Free Speech” and participated in a panel discussion on “Free Speech on Campus” at the 28th Annual Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference, University of Vermont.
Served as a moderator and panelist at the session, “Tweeters Gone Wild: The Ethical and Legal Consequences of Robust and Unrestrained Speech by Litigants and Lawyers Addicted to Social Media,” at the 31st Annual Media and the Law Seminar, University of Kansas School of Law.
Presented his paper, “Of Bee Stings, Mud Pies, and Outhouses: Exploring the Value of Satire Through the Philosophy of Useful Untruths,” at The State of Our Satirical Union: Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell at 30 Symposium, Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and the Law, University of Minnesota.
Served as a moderator for the panel, “Hot Issues in Ethics,” at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law, Napa Valley, California.
Presented “The Free Speech Rights of Employees” at the Free Speech and Campus Unrest Workshop sponsored by the National Association of College and University Attorneys, New Orleans.