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Scott Bales
Arizona Supreme Court
Professional Experience
- Justice
- Arizona Supreme Court
- - Current
- Adjunct Professor of Law
- University of Arizona
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- Adjunct Professor of Law
- Arizona State University
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- Separation of Powers, 2007-2013; Election Law, 2001; Origins of the Constitution, 1993; Presidential Powers, 1989-1991; Advanced Civil Procedure, 1988; The Supreme Court, 1988
- Adjunct Professor of Law
- University of Arizona
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- Lewis and Roca LLP
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- American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, 2003 Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys, 2001
- Solicitor General
- Office of the Arizona Attorney General
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- Team AG Award, 2000
- Deputy Assistant Attorney General
- Office of Policy Development, U.S. Department of Justice,
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- Assistant U.S. Attorney
- District of Arizona
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- Special Investigative Counsel
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice
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- Meyer
- Hendricks, Victor, Osborn & Maledon
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- Law Clerk
- U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
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- Law Clerk
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Judge Joseph T. Sneed III
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- Law Clerk
- Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice
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- Harvard University
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- Teaching Fellow, 1979-1983; Social Analysis 10 (introductory economics), 1979-1983; Allyn Young Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economics 1980,1981; Antitrust Law and Economics, 1982-1983; The Supreme Court and the Constitution, 1982
Education
- Harvard Law School
- J.D.
- Activities: Harvard Law Review, Board of Editors, 1981-1983
- Harvard University
- M.A. (1980) | Economics
- Michigan State University
- B.A. (1978)
- Honors: summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa, Phi; Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Epsilon
Awards
- Adjunct Professor of the Year
- University of Arizona
- Foundation for Justice Award
- Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education
- Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney
- U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys
- Team AG Award
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- U.S. Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award
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Professional Associations
- State Bar of Arizona
- Current
- Activities: Appellate Practice Section, Executive Council, 2003-2006; Chair 2004-2005; Task Force on Access to Justice, 2002-2004; Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, 1999-2005; Civil Practice and Procedure Committee, 1996-1998; Criminal Rules Committee, 1995
- Accreditation Committee, ABA Section of Legal Education
- - Current
- American Inns of Court Foundation, Leadership Council
- - Current
- Executive Committee, Appellate Judicial Conference, ABA Judicial Division
- Member
- - Current
- Activities: Chair 2014-15
- American Law Institute
- - Current
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