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Campos, Paul F

Professor

Positions

• Professor, School of Law

Research Areas

• Law and Society

Research

research overview

• Prof. Campos is an expert on the economics of law school and the legal profession. He studies the market for new and experienced attorneys, in the context of the cost of obtaining a law degree. He is especially focused on the sociology of stigmatization as it applies to lawyers and law graduates who have a 'spoiled identity,' to use Erving Goffman's terminology. Prof. Campos is also an expert on the moral panic regarding weight and health in both America and internationally. He writes widely on both subjects in both academic and popular venues

keywords

• law and society, obesity and health, legal education, legal profession

Publications

selected publications

• book

  • A Fan's Life The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat 2022
  • Don't Go to Law School (unless) A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk 2012
  • The Diet Myth Why America's Obession with Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health 2005
  • The Obesity Myth Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health 2004
  • Jurismania: the madness of American law 1998
  • Against the law 1996

• chapter

  • Medical and Social Scientific Debates Over Body Weight 2011
  • Does Fat Kill? A Critique of the Epidemological Evidence 2010

• journal article

  • A CONSTITUTION FOR THE AGE OF DEMAGOGUES: USING THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT TO REMOVE AN UNFIT PRESIDENT.  Denver Law Review. 85-115. 2020
  • The Economics of American Higher Education in the New Gilded Age.  Utah Law Review. 867-879. 2018
  • The Extraordinary Rise and Sudden Decline of Law School Tuition: A Case Study of Veblen Effects in Higher Education,.  Seton Hall law review. 167-192. 2018
  • The end of the obesity epidemic.  Critical Public Health. 381-382. 2013
  • THE CRISIS OF THE AMERICAN LAW SCHOOL..  Michigan Journal of Law Reform. 177-223. 2012
  • Shame..  Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues. 15-23. 2008
  • Three Versions of Nonsense..  University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 901-905. 2006
  • Response: lifestyle not weight should be the primary target.  International Journal of Epidemiology. 81-82. 2006
  • The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral panic?.  International Journal of Epidemiology. 55-60. 2006
  • The search for incontrovertible visual evidence..  University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 1039-1047. 2001
  • Law enforcement issues and the FLSA..  Journal of the Missouri Bar. 336-344. 2000
  • What the twins saw.  UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW. 711-717. 1999
  • The need for reform of Missouri's peace officer training requirements: a historical, economic and legal perspective..  UMKC law review. 681-705. 1998
  • {Gay rights and the courts: the Amendment 2 controversy} Introduction..  University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 285-286. 1997
  • A text is just a text.  Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. 327-333. 1996
  • The color of money..  University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 921-929. 1996
  • The chaotic pseudotext.  Michigan Law Review. 2178-2228. 1996
  • Forty years in the desert..  Southern Illinois University law journal. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. School of Law. 109-115. 1995
  • This is not a sentence..  Washington University Law Review. 971-982. 1995
  • SECULAR FUNDAMENTALISM.  Columbia Law Review. 1814-1827. 1994
  • A heterodox catechism..  Constitutional Commentary. 65-72. 1994
  • Three mistakes about interpretation..  Michigan Law Review. 388-397. 1993
  • ADVOCACY AND SCHOLARSHIP.  California Law Review. 817-861. 1993
  • That obscure object of desire: hermeneutics and the autonomous legal text..  Minnesota Law Review. 1065-1095. 1993
  • Silence and the word..  University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law. 1139-1144. 1993
  • A mirror for the magistrate..  Constitutional Commentary. 151-160. 1992
  • The paradox of punishment..  Wisconsin Law Review. 1931-1940. 1992

Teaching

courses taught

• LAWS 5624 - Property
  Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2022
  Topics include personal property, estates and interests in land, landlord-tenant, basic land conveyancing, and private land use controls.
• LAWS 6128 - Statutory Interpretation
  Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
  Examines theories of legislation and the relation between legislatures and courts, emphasizing problems of statutory interpretation and other issues in the judicial use or misuse of statutes.
• LAWS 6708 - LAWS:
  Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
  Explores special topics in law. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
• LAWS 7318 - Economics of the American Legal System
  Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2026
  Explores the economics of the American legal system. Topics include the cost of producing lawyers, the market for legal services, the practical challenges of running small and large law firms and the government's role in making legal services available.
• LAWS 7331 - Sports Law
  Primary Instructor - Spring 2025
  Covers the application of rules from agency, antitrust, contracts, constitutional law (including sex discrimination), labor law, property, torts, unincorporated associations and other subjects to those persons involved in the production and delivery of athletic competition to consumers. Explores the development of the application of these rules to a sports setting and related economic issues.
• LAWS 8548 - Seminar: Theory of Punishment
  Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
  Explores the various justifications that philosophers have developed to explain why we have the right to punish. Examines the historical evolution of our punishment system and focuses on the death penalty as a critical contemporary issue in the debate about the proper role of punishment in our society.

Background

education and training

• J.D., University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1989
• M.A., University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1983
• B.A., University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1982

International Activities

geographic focus

• New Zealand  Country