Mark Pettit, Jr.
Education
University of Chicago Law School
J.D., 1971
Law Review
Executive (Managing) Editor, 1970-71
Order of the CoifBowdoin College
A.B., 1968, summa cum laude
Major - English Literature
Phi Beta Kappa
Previous Employment
Boston University School of Law
Professor (1984 to present)Harvard Law School
Visiting Professor (Fall 1999 and Spring 2001)Boston University School of Law
Associate Dean for Administration (1997 to2000)Boston University School of Law
Associate Professor (1977 to 1984)Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School
Clinical Fellow and Staff Attorney (1973 to 1977)Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, NY
Associate (1971 to 1973)
Subjects taught
Contracts, Evidence, Consumer Law, Commercial Law
Bar Admissions
New York, 1972
Illinois, 1974
Publications
"FMRI and BF Meet FRE: Brain Imaging and the Federal Rules of Evidence," 33 American Journal of Law & Medicine 319 (2007).
"Exercising with Neri v. Retain Marine Corp," 44 St. Louis University Law Journal 1487 (2000).
"Freedom, Freedom of Contract, and the ‘Rise and Fall’," 79 Boston University Law Review 263 (1999).
"Private Advantage and Public Power: Reexamining the Expectation and Reliance Interests in Contract Damages," 38 Hastings Law Journal 417 (1987).
"Modern Unilateral Contracts," 63 Boston University Law Review 551 (1983).
"Representing Consumer Defendants in Debt Collection Actions: The Disclosure Defense Game," 59 Texas Law Review 255 (1981).