E. Thomas Sullivan

Senior Vice President and Provost; Julius E. Davis Chair in Law

E. Thomas Sullivan

N218 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-624-3399

sulli059@umn.edu

Drake University, B.A.
Indiana University, J.D.

Provost E. Thomas Sullivan was named Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the University of Minnesota on July 1, 2004. Prior to this appointment, he served as the eighth Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School from 1995 to 2002. He finished his term as Dean in July 2002 and was named the Irving Younger Professor of Law, which he held until July 2005. Previously, he served for six years as the Dean of the University of Arizona College of Law, and as Associate Dean at Washington University in St. Louis.

Provost Sullivan's teaching areas include antitrust, civil procedure, regulation of business, complex litigation, and trial practice. He is a nationally recognized authority on antitrust law and complex litigation, having authored or co-authored 8 books and more than 30 articles and essays on antitrust. At the Law School, he has received the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Provost Sullivan graduated, magna cum laude, from law school at Indiana University in 1973, where he served as Articles Editor of the Indiana Law Review. He then served as a law clerk to a federal district judge in Miami, was a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (Attorney General's Honors Program), and was a senior associate at Donovan Leisure, Newton, and Irvine's Washington, D.C., office. He began his teaching career in 1979 at the University of Missouri, Columbia. On two occasions he has been a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He also has twice been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in England. During the fall semester of 2002, he was a visiting professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall).

Provost Sullivan has served as a consultant to the American Law Institute's Project on Complex Litigation and its Federal Code Revision Project, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, as project director and editor for the ABA Antitrust Monograph Project on Nonprice Predation, and as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has been an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University. In August 2002, he became chair of the Council of the Section of Legal Education of the ABA, and has served as chair of the Section's Law School Development Committee. In 2000, he was appointed by the President of the ABA to the Committee on the Future of the Legal Profession. In June of 2003, he received the J. William Elwin Jr. Award from the ABA Section of Legal Education for leadership and contributions to law school development.

A review of his deanship at Minnesota is published at 88 Minnesota Law Review 1 (2003). A symposium in honor of him, entitled "Global Antitrust Law & Policy," is published in three volumes in 48 Antitrust Bulletin 299-1078 (2003).