Overview

At the College of Law since 1997, Professor Liebig teaches Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research.  Previously, he has taught Contracts, Election Law, Summer Legal Placement, Courts Colloquium, and Narrative Strategies and the Law, and has served as Associate Director of the Writing Resource Center. 

Professor Liebig earned his B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He clerked for Judge Peter C. Dorsey on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, and for Judge Bailey Aldrich on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He worked several years as a litigator in private practice in Hartford and Boston, before leaving practice to earn an M.F.A. in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. 

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Teaching areas

• Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research I and II
• Summer Legal Placement

Professional affiliations and memberships

• Member (on inactive status) of the Iowa, Connecticut, and Massachusetts Bars
• Member, Iowa State Bar Association

Awards and honors

• Jack and Dee Wilome Award for Outstanding LAWR Professor, 2025
• Ferguson Carlson Fellowship recipient, 2026