West Virginia University

Graduate Student, English

College of Law, Department of English

About

B.A., Furman University
M.A., J.D., West Virginia University
LL.M. candidate, Temple University Beasley School of Law

Born in Atlanta and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Allen Mendenhall holds a B.A. in English from Furman University, M.A. in English from West Virginia University, and J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law. A former adjunct legal associate at the Cato Institute, he's an LL.M. candidate at Temple University Beasley School of Law.  His research and writing interests include Law-and-Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Legal and Literary Hermeneutics, Jurisprudence, Transnational Law, and American Studies. He has studied at the University of London (Birkbeck College), the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, Centro Universitario Vila Velha, Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Direito Rio), and the Tokyo campus of Temple University Beasley School of Law. He has numerous publications to his credit, including essays, articles, reviews, and poems, and has written on a wide variety of topics--among them, William Butler Yeats, James Frey, Harper Lee, legal research and writing, the American prison system, and the Dred Scott decision. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in both popular and scholarly periodicals, including The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, The Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, Libertarian Papers, The Southern Literary Messenger, The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, The Student Lawyer, West Virginia History, The Southern Literary Review, The Sigma Tau Delta Review, The Aroostook Review, The West Virginia Lawyer, The Oregon Commentator, Mises Daily, The West Virginia Record, Brazzil Magazine, Liberty, Tributaries, and The Dominion Post.

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Homepage: http://AllenMendenhall.Com