Professor Case joined the University of Mississippi School of Law faculty in 2007 after six years on the faculty of the University of Memphis School of Law. He teaches environmental law, environmental and toxic torts, administrative law, property, civil procedure, and contracts.  He coaches the law school’s environmental law moot court team, which competes annually at the Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition in White Plains, New York. The Ole Miss Law School team won the championship at the Pace NELMCC in both 2011 and 2012 and also received a Best Brief award both years.  Professor Case’s moot court teams have qualified for the finals three times and the semifinals six times (out of approximately 75 law schools competing) at the Pace competition over the past ten years.

Case received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi in English and Political Science.  He earned his J.D. from the University of Mississippi in 1988, where he served as comments editor of the Mississippi Law Journal, and an LL.M. from Columbia University in 1993.  From 1998 to 2001, Professor Case was a Bridgestone Americas Fellow in Environmental Management at Vanderbilt University and a senior research associate with the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2004 in Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Law, Management and Policy.

Following graduation from the Ole Miss Law School, Professor Case completed judicial clerkships with the Honorable Rhesa H. Barksdale of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable James C. Sumner of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Professor Case was in private law practice for seven years, first as an associate and later a partner, with the Jackson, Mississippi law firm of Ott & Purdy. He also served as an attorney in the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch).

Professor Case’s legal scholarship primarily focuses on environmental regulation and management. His book Environmental Law (co-authored with Professor Ron Rychlak), part of the Legal Almanac Series: Thomson Reuters’ Law for the Layperson, was recently re-released by West Publishing (after its original publication by Oxford University Press in 2010). His second book for Oxford University Press – Model Problems and Outstanding Answers: Environmental Law – is forthcoming in 2012. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and essays, including articles in the Emory Law Journal, the Environmental Law Reporter, the Mississippi College Law Review, the Mississippi Law Journal, the University of Colorado Law Review, the University of Memphis Law Review, the Washington & Lee Law Review, and the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review.