Bradley Wendel

Brad Wendel joined the Cornell faculty in 2004, after teaching at Washington and Lee Law School from 1999-2004. Before entering graduate school and law teaching, he was a product liability litigator at Bogle & Gates in Seattle and a law clerk for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

His teaching interests are in the regulation of the legal profession and torts, and his research focuses on the application of moral and political philosophy to problems of legal ethics.

Education

• B.A., Rice University, 1991
• J.D., Duke University Law School,1994
• LL.M., 1998 and J.S.D., 2002, Columbia University Law School

Publications

• “The Rule of Law and Legal-Process Reasons in Attorney Advising,” Boston University Law Review 99, pg. 107 (2019)
• “Autonomy Isn’t Everything: Some Cautionary Notes on McCoy v. Louisiana,” St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics 9, pg. 82 (2018)
• “Technological Solutions to Human Error and How They Can Kill You: Understanding the Boeing 737-Max Products Liability Litigation,” Journal of Air Law & Commerce 84, pg. 379 (2019)
• “The Promise and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence in the Practice of Law,” Oklahoma Law Review 72, pg. 21 (2019)
• “Fiduciary Law,” in Oxford Handbook of New Private Law, eds. Andrew S. Gold, John C.P. Goldberg, Daniel B. Kelly, Emily Sherwin, and Henry E. Smith (Oxford University Press, 2020)