Beth Thornburg

Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law

Professor Emerita
Dallas
TX

Professor Thornburg taught and wrote in the area of civil procedure. Drawing on her experience with civil rights and commercial litigation, her scholarship focuses on the procedural fairness of the litigation process, especially at the pleadings, discovery, and jury charge stages. She also wrote and spoke in the areas of comparative procedure, judicial ethics, online dispute resolution, and the intersection of law and culture. Professor Thornburg taught Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Complex Litigation, Texas procedure, Remedies, and an advanced procedure seminar. 

CALI Lessons

This table shows Lessons and podcasts by this author. It includes Lesson title, CALI Topics for the Lesson, the date the Lesson was published on the CALI website, the date the Lesson was last updated, and run/usage totals for the past 30 and 120 days.

Note: usage information for podcasts is not available here and is marked as N/A.

Lesson Title CALI Topic(s) Published in Latest update Runs Past 30 Days Runs Past 120 Days
Discovery: Relevance and Proportionality
  • 1L - First Year Lesson Topics
  • Civil Procedure
2018 March 7, 2019
Discovery Privileges: Work Product
  • 1L - First Year Lesson Topics
  • Civil Procedure
2018 October 17, 2022
Discovery Privileges: Attorney-Client Privilege
  • 1L - First Year Lesson Topics
  • Civil Procedure
2018 August 9, 2018
Discovery Processes
  • 1L - First Year Lesson Topics
  • Civil Procedure
2018 October 17, 2022
Electronic Discovery
  • 1L - First Year Lesson Topics
  • Civil Procedure
2018 October 14, 2022