Carl J. Circo
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Associate Professor of Law

B.A., J.D.

Email: ccirco@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-2714
 

Carl CircoProfessor Carl Circo joined the faculty in 2003. He teaches real estate transactions, construction law, land use, and decedents' estates. He also supervises students in the Corporate Counsel Externship.

Professor Circo earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and his J.D. from the University of Nebraska. Following law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Judge Warren Urbom of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. He has served as an assistant professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, and an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

He is admitted to practice in Arkansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. For more than 20 years, he practiced with a large Midwestern law firm where he devoted most of his time to real estate and business transactions and construction law. Since 1995, he has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward/White.

Professor Circo is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He served terms as the president of the Kansas Bar Association's Real Property, Probate, & Trust Law Section and was the chair of the American Bar Association on Design & Construction Committee. His recent publications include articles on construction and design law and real estate transactions.

Law Review and Professional Journal Articles
  • "Placing the Commercial and Economic Loss Problem in the Construction Industry Context" (in progress).
  • "Using Mandates and Incentives to Promote Sustainable Construction and Green Building Projects in the Private Sector: A Call for More State Land Use Policy Initiatives" (in progress).
  • "Contract Theory and Contract Practice: Allocating Design Responsibility in the Construction Industry," 58 Fla. L. Rev. 561 (2006).
  • "An Exchange of Collegial Memoranda on the Attachment of a Judgment Lien to Real Property Subject to a Buy-Sell Agreement," 2006 Ark. L. Notes 93 (co-authored with Robert Laurence).
  • "When Specialty Designs Cause Building Disasters: Responsibility for Shared Architectural and Engineering Services," 84 Neb. L. Rev. 162 (2005).
  • "Why Is this Boilerplate in My Real Estate Contract?" 2005 Ark. L. Notes 1.
  • "Building a Better Construction and Design Contract," Prac. Law., July 2000, at 21.
  • "Small Construction Contracts: Big Issues," Prob. & Prop., Nov. - Dec. 1997, at 32.
  • "The Role of Lender's Counsel in the Design and Construction Process: Contract Review, Conditional Assignments of Contracts, and Related Due Diligence," 24 Real Prop., Prob. & Tr. J. 557 (1990) (co-author and primary editor).
  • "Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment and Other Coercive Behavioral Interventions as Criminal Sanctions: Reflections on Vitek v. Jones," 59 Wash. U.L.Q.81 (1981).
  • "Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure: A Proposal for the Management of Section 2254 Cases in the Federal District Courts," 31 Okla. L. Rev. 914 (1978).
Book Chapters
  • "Drafting Deeds of Trust," in Missouri Practice Methods of Practice Transaction Guide 319 (2001) (co-author).
  • "Introduction to Construction Contracts," in Kansas Construction Law Ch.1 (Harold A. Houck ed., 2000) (co-author).
  • "Deeds," in Kansas Real Estate Practice and Procedure Handbook Ch.10 (Carl J. Circo & Lewis A. Heaven, Jr. eds., 4th Ed. 1999).
  • "Kansas Construction and Design Law," in A State-by-State Guide to Construction & Design Law: Current Statutes and Practices 287 (Carl J. Circo & Christopher H. Little eds., 1998) (co-author).
  • "Loan Documentation," in Troubled Construction Loans: Law and Practice 13 (Stanley P. Sklar ed., 1991).
Books Edited
  • Kansas Real Estate Practice and Procedure Handbook (Carl J. Circo & Lewis A. Heaven, Jr. eds., 4th Ed. 1999).
  • A State-by-State Guide to Construction & Design Law: Current Statutes and Practices (Carl J. Circo & Christopher H. Little eds., 1998).
News

Arkansas Bar Association Appointments
June 2007