He is also a contributing author to Rice’s Attorney-Client Privilege in the United States (Thomson Reuters, annually, 2023), a leading treatise on the privilege. His seventh text, a practitioner’s discovery resource for new attorneys, is due to be published soon.
In addition to these books, Professor Janssen is also the author of various journal articles, book chapters, and bar review materials on federal civil procedure, and has lectured widely on civil procedure topics.
Professor Janssen’s scholarship also includes an emphasis on constitutional religious liberty and the Religion Clauses to the United States Constitution, an area of law in which he has written, spoken, and litigated.
While a student at the American University’s Washington College of Law, Professor Janssen was the executive editor of the American University Law Review, a dean’s fellow, a moot court board member, an interschool moot court competitor, and the first-year moot court champion. After law school, he served as a law clerk to a federal district court judge (Hon. James McGirr Kelly, E.D. Pa.) and to a federal court of appeals judge (Hon. Joseph F. Weis, Jr., 3d Cir.).
Before joining the Charleston School of Law faculty, Professor Janssen taught, while in active practice, as an adjunct instructor at Temple University School of Law for five academic terms and as an adjunct teaching business law at Saint Joseph’s University.
J.D., Washington College of Law at American University B.A., magna cum laude, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pa.