Jamelle C. Sharpe
Assistant Professor
Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Scholar
Professor Jamelle Sharpe joins the Illinois faculty from the University of Chicago School of Law, after serving as the Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law. Professor Sharpe received a B.A. from the New York University in 1997. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2003, where he served as the managing editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Following law school, he worked as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City, and then clerked for Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Professor Sharpe's research and teaching interests include Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Complex Civil Litigation, and Federal Courts.
