Rate My Professor Thomas Arthur

Thomas C. Arthur serves as the Emory School of Law Distinguished Professor and L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, a position he has held since joining the faculty in 1982. A graduate of Duke University with an A.B. in 1968 (Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa) and Yale Law School with a J.D. in 1971, Arthur began his legal career as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., advancing to partner before transitioning to academia. At Emory, he progressed from associate professor (1982-1994) to full professor (1994-present), and held administrative roles including associate dean for academic affairs (1989-1997), co-director of the American Law Center in Moscow (1996, 1997), interim vice provost for international affairs and interim director of the Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning (both 2000-2002), and dean of the law school (2002-2005). He also served as of counsel at Trotter, Smith & Jacobs in Atlanta (1984-1992). Arthur teaches courses in administrative law, antitrust, civil procedure I and II, federal courts, and First Amendment: Freedom of Expression, among others.

Arthur's scholarship centers on antitrust law, federal civil procedure, and administrative law. His influential articles include "Farewell to the Sea of Doubt: Jettisoning the Constitutional Sherman Act" (74 California Law Review 263, 1986), "The Costly Quest for Perfect Competition: Kodak and Nonstructural Market Power" (69 New York University Law Review 1, 1994), "A Workable Rule of Reason: A Less Ambitious Role for the Federal Courts" (68 Antitrust Law Journal 337, 2000), "Grasping at Burnt Straws: The Disaster of the Supplemental Jurisdiction Statute" (40 Emory Law Journal 963, 1991, with Richard D. Freer), and "The Problems of Pornography Regulation: Lessons from History" (68 Emory Law Journal 867, 2019). He has contributed chapters to books on competition law and developments in administrative law. Arthur's work has been cited over 740 times according to Google Scholar. Among his honors are the Ben F. Johnson Award for Faculty Excellence (2001), Black Law Students Association Professor of the Year (2010), and the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award (2014). He has chaired key committees such as faculty appointments (1994-1998, 2007-2011) and tenure and promotion (1999-2000, 2011-present), and served on numerous others at the university and law school levels.