Law School

After law school, Professor Eisele spent five years in private practice with a law firm (Isham, Lincoln & Beale; 1973-76) and with a public interest group (Lake Michigan Federation; 1976-78). In 1978-79, he taught at the University of Chicago Law School as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow. From 1979 through 1984, Professor Eisele pursued graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Michigan.

After teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Ohio State University (1984-85), Professor Eisele joined the law faculty at the University of Tennessee (1985-92). He visited the University of Cincinnati in 1991 and joined the faculty in 1992. In Cincinnati, he has served on the Board of Directors of H.O.M.E. (Housing Opportunities Made Equal).

Professor Eisele's forthcoming book, BITTER KNOWLEGE: Learning Socratic Lessons of Disillusion and Renewal, is available to pre-order from the University of Notre Dame Press.

Publications

Books

• Bitter Knowledge: Learning Socratic Lessons of Disillusion and Renewal (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009)

Articles, Essays & Book Reviews

• Tom Morawetz's "Robust Enterprise": Jurisprudence after Wittgenstein, 29 Phil. Investigations 140 (2006)
• What We Share, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 493 (2002) (symposium)
• From "Moral Stupidity" to Professional Responsibility, 21 Legal Studies Forum 193 (1997)
• Taking Our Actual Constitution Seriously, 95 Mich. L. Rev. 1799 (1997) (reviewing Ronald Dworkin, Freedom's Law (1996))
• Bitter Knowledge: Socrates and Teaching by Disillusionment, 45 Mercer L. Rev. 587 (1994)
• The Poverty of Socratic Questioning: Asking and Answering in the Meno, 63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 221 (1994)
• Avalon Ethics, 67 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1287 (1992) (reviewing Thomas L. Shaffer, American Lawyers and Their Communities: Ethics in the Legal Profession (1991))
• "Never Mind the Manner of My Speech": The Dilemma of Socrates' Defense in the Apology, 14 Legal Studies Forum 253 (1990)
• "Our Real Need": Not Explanation, But Education, 3 Canadian J. of Law & Jurisprudence 5 (no. 2, July 1990), reprinted in Wittgenstein & Legal Theory 29 (Dennis Patterson ed., Westview Press, 1992)
• Dworkin's "Full Political Theory of Law", 7 Criminal Justice Ethics 49 (1988) (reviewing Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire (1986))
• The Activity of Being a Lawyer: The Imaginative Pursuit of Implications and Possibilities, 54 Tennessee L. Rev. 345 (1987)

Courses

• Introduction to Law
• Jurisprudence
• Legal Imagination
• Property
• Wills, Trusts & Future Interests

November 2009

Tom published Bitter Knowledge: Learning Socratic Lessons of Disillusion and Renewal (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009).

May 2009

Tom received the 2009 Goldman Award for Excellence in Law Teaching.

Summer 2008

Tom's book, Bitter Knowledge: Learning Socratic Lessons of Disillusion and Renewal, was accepted for publication by the University of Notre Dame Press.

November 2007

Tom participated in the Alumni Teach-In Day, as William Sherman (Class of 1994), Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker (Cincinnati, OH), and Christine Buttress (Class of 1979), Graydon, Head & Richey (Cincinnati, OH), taught his Wills & Trusts Class.

Tom's article, Review Essay / Dworkin's “Full Political Theory of Law”, 7 Crim. Just. Ethics 49 (1988), was cited in Norman J. Singer, Sutherland Statutes and Statutory Construction (Thomson West, 2007 Supp.).

October 2007

Tom lead a faculty colloquia at Chase College of Law on Wittgenstein Tests Holmes: On the Proposal to Separate Legal Concepts from Moral Concepts.

February 2007

Tom's article, Avalon Ethics, 67 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1287 (1992) (reviewing Thomas L. Shaffer, American Lawyers and Their Communities: Ethics in the Legal Profession (1991)), was cited in Robert L. Haig, Successful Partnering between Inside and Outside Counsel (West Group, 2007 Supp.).

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Awards

• 2009 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• 2005 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• 2001 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• 1998 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• 1993 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• 1990 Outstanding Teacher Award, National Alumni Association, University of Tennessee
• 1990 Warner Faculty Award, Outstanding Legal Scholarship, College of Law, University of Tennessee
• 1988 Warner Award, Outstanding Teacher, College of Law, University of Tennessee