rrocklin

Full Name
Robert Rocklin
First Name
Robert
Last Name
Rocklin
Affiliation
Instructor
Title
Pro Tem Instructor
Departments
Law
Programs, Research and Outreach
Legal Studies
Teaching Level
Undergraduate
Interests
Criminal law, criminal justice, law & psychology
Profile Section
Biography

Bob Rocklin is a pro tem instructor in the law school’s undergraduate legal studies program, and with the Prison Education Program’s Inside-Out program.  Since 1998, he has taught JD, masters, and undergraduate courses at Willamette University College of Law and UO School of Law.  He spent over two decades as an appellate lawyer with the Oregon Department of Justice and as a staff attorney at the Oregon Court of Appeals, concentrating primarily on criminal law. After handling a number of death penalty appeals when he was in practice, he now teaches a course on the death penalty.  Rocklin received his A.B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, his JD from UCLA, and his M.S. in Psychology from the UO.

Publications

Joan M. Rocklin, Robert B. Rocklin, Christine Coughlin, & Sandy Patrick, An Advocate Persuades (Carolina Academic Press 2023).

Robert B. Rocklin & Kathleen Correll, The Death Penalty, in Criminal Law (Oregon CLE 2005).

Academic Interests

Law and psychology, legal decision making, judicial decision making, empirical legal studies, death penalty, appellate advocacy, criminal law, criminal justice.

Courses

Criminal Law (UG); The Death Penalty (UG)

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