Louise Weinberg

Harvard Law School Teaching Fellowship, 1972-74
Brandeis University, Visiting Lecturer, Law and History, 1974-75
Suffolk University, Associate Professor of Law,1975-76
Stanford University, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, 1976-77
Suffolk University, Professor of Law, 1978-1979
University of Texas, Visiting Professor of Law, 1979
     Professor of Law, 1980-1985
     Raybourne Thompson Professor of Law, 1985-2000
     William B. Bates Chair in the Administration of Justice, 2001-

A.B. Cornell (Summa cum Laude), 1954
J.D., Harvard, 1969
Clerkship, Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr., 1971-72
LL.M. Harvard, 1974

Associate in litigation, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, 1969-71

American Law Institute
     Adviser, Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws.[9]

Association of American Law Schools

Chairmanships:
     Section on Conflict of Laws
          Chair, 2013-2014
          Chair, 1990-1991
     Section on Admiralty and Maritime Law
          Chair, 2005-2006
     Section on Federal Courts
          Acting Chair, 2004-2005
          Chair, 2003-2004
          Chair, 2002-2003

World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
     Forum Fellow, 1995-

Philosophical Society of Texas[10]
     Speaker, Annual Meeting, 2017
     Panel Chair, Annual Meeting, 2012
     Speaker, Annual Meeting, 1989

Phi Beta Kappa

• Federal Courts: Judicial Federalism and Judicial Power (West Pub. Co., 1200 pp. 1994) & Supps.
• Conflict of Laws (Matthew Bender 2011, 2002, 1996) (co-authors William Richman and William Reynolds).

• Sovereign Immunity and Interstate Government Tort, 54 U. MICH. J. L. Rev. 1-85 (2020)
• Age of Unreason: Rationality and the Regulatory State, 53 U. MICH. J. L. REF. 1-80 (2019)
• Luther v. Borden: A Taney-Court Mystery Solved, 37 PACE LAW REVIEW 700-764 (2017)
• A Radically Transformed Restatement for Conflicts, 2015 U. OF ILLINOIS L. REV. 1999-2052 (2015)
• What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Extraterritoriality: Kiobel and the Conflict of Laws, 99 CORNELL L. REV. 1471-1531 (2014)
• A General Theory of Governance: Due Process and Lawmaking Power, 54 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1057-1121 (2013)
• Unlikely Beginnings of Modern Constitutional Thought, 15 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 291-330 (2012)

• Courts, United States Federal," THE OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY 255-262 (2009)
• Dred Scott and the Crisis of 1860, in Symposium, 82 CHI-KENT L. REV. 97-140 (2007)
• Theory Wars in the Conflict of Laws, 103 MICH. L. REV. 1631-1670 (2005).
• Our Marbury, 89 VA. L. REV. 1235-1412 (2003)
• “Of Theory and Theodicy: The Problem of Immoral Law,” in LAW AND JUSTICE IN A MULTISTATE WORLD: A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR T. VON MEHREN, 473-502 (Symeon Symeonides, ed. 2002)
• When Courts Decide Elections: The Constitutionality of Bush v. Gore, in Symposium, 82 B.U. L. REV. 609-666 (2002).
• Of Sovereignty and Union: The Legends of Alden, 76 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1113-1182 (2001).
• Holmes' Failure, 96 MICH. L. REV. 691-723 (1997)
• The Federal-State Conflict of Laws: “Actual” Conflicts, 70 TEX. L. REV. 1743-1798 (1992)
• Against Comity, 80 GEORGETOWN L. J. 53-94 (1991)
• The Monroe Mystery Solved: Beyond the “Unhappy History” Theory of Civil Rights Litigation, in Symposium, 1991 B.Y.U. L. REV. 737-765 (1991)
• Federal Common Law, 83 NW. U. L. REV. 805-852 (1989)
• Choice of Law and Minimal Scrutiny, 49 U. CHI. L. REV. 440-488 (1982).
• The New Judicial Federalism, 29 STAN. L. REV. 1191-1244 (1977)

• Louise Weinberg's author page on SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
• Louise Weinberg's faculty profile page at the University of Texas School of Law
• Louise Weinberg's faculty publications page, University of Texas School of Law
• Steven Weinberg

• Justice Stephen Breyer, MAKING OUR DEMOCRACY WORK: A JUDGE’S VIEW (2011)
• A. J. Bellia, FEDERALISM (2017, 2010) (work anthologized)
• Edward A. Purcell, Jr., BRANDEIS AND THE PROGRESSIVE CONSTITUTION (2000) (Chapter IV is a discussion of Weinberg’s position on federal common law)
• Gene R. Shreve, A CONFLICT-OF-LAWS ANTHOLOGY (1997) (work anthologized)
• Stuart, CONCEPTS OF FEDERALISM (1979)
• Westlaw.com (873 citations)
• Social Science Research Network, 2,213 downloads)
• United States Court of Appeals (4th Cir. 2016)
• United States Court of Appeals (D.C. Cir. 2010)
• United States Court of Appeals (4th Cir. 2010)
• United States District Court, Eastern Dist. N.Y. (2000)
• Supreme Court of New Jersey (2008)
• Court of Appeals of Arizona (1997)
• Law Reviews, 871 references [2020]
• SSRN, 2213 downloads [2020]

Louise Weinberg (born Goldwasser) is married to Steven Weinberg, a physicist and Nobel laureate. She is a native New Yorker; her father was a lawyer, her mother a teacher. An enduring influence was her maternal grandmother, Fany Feldman, an immigrant from Russia. At the age of 14, Weinberg won first prize in a national short story contest. She was a columnist for her school and college newspapers.

Louise Weinberg and Steven Weinberg, with five other couples, founded The Tuesday Club of Austin, now with over 200 members and a branch in Atlanta. Co-founders included Hon. Jerre Williams and Hon. Mary Pearl Williams, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman and Nancy Inman, Austin-American Statesman Editor Arthur Rosenfeld and Ruth Rosenfeld, Chancellor Hans Mark and Marion Mark; and Professors Walt Rostow and Elspeth Rostow.

Louise Weinberg is a member of Town and Gown, Austin; and Headliners Club, Austin[11]

Ballet Austin, 1985-1989. Weinberg first proposed the establishment of the Ballet Austin School of Ballet, now the Butler Center for Dance and Fitness.

Austin Foreign Affairs Council, Philip Bobbitt presiding.

• Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
• Charles Alan Wright
• Philip Bobbitt
• Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr.
• Henry M. Hart Jr.
• Karl Llewellyn
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.