Robert G. Schwemm

Ashland Professor of Law
College of Law Building, Room 234
Office: (859) 257-6013
schwemmr@uky.edu

Robert G. Schwemm is the Ashland Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he has taught since 1975. Prior to becoming a law teacher, he practiced in Washington, D.C., with Sidley & Austin, and then was chief trial counsel for the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities in Chicago, Illinois. He is a graduate of Amherst College and the Harvard Law School. Professor Schwemm teaches civil procedure, constitutional law and civil rights.

His publications include a treatise entitled Housing Discrimination: Law and Litigation and articles in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, and Yale Law & Policy Review. His litigation experience includes three cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, the most recent of which (Meyer v. Holley) was decided in 2003. He served as Acting Dean of the College in 1998-99.

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