Personal profile
About
Professor Capowski has written, taught and presented in the areas of administrative law, evidence, civil procedure, lawyering skills, public benefits, public interest law, and fly fishing. The university awarded him emeritus status at the law school at the end of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Before coming to Widener, he directed Cornell’s clinical program and taught at the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting faculty member at New Mexico, West Virginia, and Denver.
Professor Capowski and his students worked with the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence in helping to enact two Pennsylvania laws dealing with domestic violence. He also served on the American Bar Association's Project on Educating to End Domestic Violence: Law School Programs as Resources Against Domestic Violence.
Professor Capowski continues to write and teach in his areas of interest. Since accepting emeritus status, he has presented at a number of conferences and now serves as the Chair of the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
Links
Research Interests
- Administrative Law
- Civil Procedure
- Evidence
-
Reflecting and Foreshadowing: Mathews v. Eldridge: in Part III, The Modern Era. / Capowski, John J.
The Poverty Law Canon: Exploring the Major Cases. ed. / Ezra Rosser; Marie Falinger. University of Michigan Press, 2016. p. 219.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
-
China's Evidentiary and Procedural Reforms, the Federal Rules of Evidence, and the Harmonization of Civil and Common Law. / Capowski, John J.
In: Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2012, p. 455.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
The Uniform Provisions of Evidence: A Major Reform that Maintains China’s Judicial Traditions. / Capowski, John J.
The Theory and Science of Evidence, The Collection of Articles for the Third International Conference, China University of Political Science and Law: 证据理论与科学：第3届国际研讨会论文集, 42, 中国政法大学出版社, 2012 年5月. 2012.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
-
Teaching Values and Lawyering Skills: in Chapter 10, Professional Values and Identity. / Capowski, John J.
Techniques for Teaching Law 2. Carolina Academic Press, 2011. p. 234.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
-
China's Uniform Provisions of Evidence of the People's Court and the Convergence of Civil Law and Common Law. / Capowski, John J.
In: Evidence Science, Vol. 18, No. 5, 2010, p. 589.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article