Patrick WoolleyPatrick Woolley is an American legal scholar working as the Beck, Redden & Secrest Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.EducationWoolley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.CareerPrior to joining the University of Texas as an assistant professor in 1994, Woolley practiced law at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. Woolley's scholarship focuses on civil procedure, conflict of laws, federal courts, and constitutional law.