Donald G. Marshall

Professor of Law and Law Alumni Distinguished Teacher

Donald G. Marshall

446 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-6326

marsh003@umn.edu

Williams College, B.A.
Yale University, LL.B.

Professor Donald G. Marshall is an outstanding teacher as well as an expert on torts and evidence. He teaches evidence, torts, products liability, medical malpractice, insurance, and media law. Professor Marshall was selected as Teacher of the Year in 1971 and 1979. He was also honored with the Stanley V. Kinyon Teaching and Counseling Award in 1983, 1989, 1991, and 1995. In 1995, he was appointed as the first Law Alumni Distinguished Teacher.

Professor Marshall earned a B.A. degree from Williams College and an LL.B. degree from Yale University, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After receiving his LL.B. degree, Professor Marshall clerked for Justice Haydn Proctor of the New Jersey Supreme Court. From 1961 to 1967, he was an associate and then partner of the law firm of Lowenstein and Spicer in Newark, New Jersey.

Professor Marshall joined the University of Minnesota Law School faculty in 1967. He has been a consultant to the New Jersey Corporation Law Revision Commission and to the Minnesota Association of Juvenile Court Judges. In the former capacity, he drafted much of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act; in the latter, he authored the Rules of Procedure and Official Forms for Minnesota Probate-Juvenile Courts. Professor Marshall is a member of the Minnesota and New Jersey Bar Associations.