Pre-Law
Advisory Board Member

Professor Patrick Schiltz, Esq.

Mr. Schiltz currently holds the St. Thomas More Chair in Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He teaches classes on Civil Procedure and Evidence, he writes in the areas of legal ethics and federal procedure, he works with federal judges to improve the rules governing the appellate courts, and he frequently serves as a media commentator on legal issues. Mr. Schiltz received his undergraduate degree from the College of St. Scholastica and his law degree from Harvard Law School. After serving as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Mr. Schiltz practiced law at the Minneapolis firm of Faegre & Benson, where he represented, among many others, the Star Tribune, the Minnesota Vikings, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Mr. Schiltz left practice in 1995 to join the faculty of Notre Dame Law School, where he was elected "Teacher of the Year" in 1999. In 2000, Schiltz accepted an invitation to return to Minnesota to help found a new Catholic law school for the University of St. Thomas. He had premary responsibility for almost every significant aspect of creating the new law school, including shaping and expressing the mission; hiring the administrators, faculty, and staff; and designing the curriculum.

Mr. Schiltz wrote an article regarding his pre-law experience while attending the College of St. Scholastica. The article titled Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Politics and Law was published in the College of St. Scholastica Times Magazine in May of 1988.