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Professor Thomas G. Kelch

Professor Thomas G. Kelch
Professor of Law

714-444-4141 x234
tkelch@law.whittier.edu

 

Education:
B.G.S., University of Michigan, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., University of Michigan, magna cum laude; M.A., University of California Irvine.
M.B.A., University of Southern California, Beta Gamma Sigma;

Profile:
Of Counsel to Peitzman, Glassman, Weg & Kempinsky, Los Angeles, CA.

Subjects:
Animal Law; Bankruptcy; Commercial Transactions I and II; Contracts; Corporations; Professional Responsibility.

Author:
Toward a Non-Property Status for Animals,
6 N.Y.U. ENV. L. J. 531 (1998); The Mythology of Waivers of Bankruptcy Privileges, 31 IND. L. REV. 897 (1998) (Co-authored with Michael K. Slattery); The Role of the Rational and the Emotive in a Theory of Animal Rights, 27 BOSTON COLLEGE ENV. L. REV. 1 (1999); Animal Experimentation and the First Amendment, 22 WESTERN NEW ENGLAND LAW REVIEW 467 (2001); Forward Contracts, Bankruptcy Safe Harbors and the Electricity Industry, 51 WAYNE L. Rev. 49 (2005).