Author Eugene R. Milhizer
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
E.R. MILHIZER
Author of Dissecting Anatomy of a Murder
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
Eugene R. Milhizer
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As an Army Judge Advocate, Dean Emeritus Milhizer participated in hundreds of appeals, tried scores of criminal cases, and served in multiple leadership positions. For three years, he held a teaching appointment at the Judge Advocate General's School at the University of Virginia. In 2001, he joined the Ave Maria School of Law faculty and his course of offerings have included Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, National Security Law and Military Law. Dean Emeritus Milhizer has been an invited presenter at law schools across the country and his legal scholarship has been published in many prestigious law journals. In May 2006, he was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and in April 2009, he was appointed Acting Dean of the Law School. In January 2010, he was appointed the Law School's second President and Dean, and he served in that position until his return to full-time teaching in the summer of 2014. During the summer of 2009, under his leadership, the Law School successfully accomplished the unprecedented feat of relocating from Michigan to Florida.
"Storytelling, of course, is not the special province of a courtroom. It is as old as humankind. Before there was writing, there was storytelling. Prehistoric cave drawings tell stories. Myths, legends, fables, religion, prayers, and proverbs all tell stories. As children, our parents read stories to us. Later, we learned stories in classrooms and told them on the playground. Even as adults, we immerse ourselves in stories, whether they are conveyed by written materials, television, films, or a friend. Stories entertain and inform. They are the connective tissue of a culture. We receive and process information most meaningfully through stories and storytelling. Although we sometimes memorize facts for an exam, we comprehend and create memories through stories."
Eugene R. Milhizer, Preface of "Rough Justice"
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