Congress and the Federal Courts.

Professor Tobias has been the Williams Professor at the University of Richmond School of Law since appointed in 2004. He engaged in private practice with Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Virginia (1972-1975) prior to serving as counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Separation of Powers. Professor Tobias joined the law faculty at the University of Montana School of Law in 1975 and later became a founding faculty member at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (1998). He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Professor Tobias has served on the District Court Local Rules Review Committee of the Ninth Circuit Chief District Judges Conference, the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group, U.S. District Court for the District of Montana and the Study Committee to Review the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure. He has authored numerous law journal articles, as well as many op-ed pieces about Congress and the federal courts. Recent publications include: "Fourth Circuit Publication Practices," Washington & Lee Law Review; "The Federal Appellate Court Appointments Conundrum," Utah Law Review; "Doing Right By Charles Alan Wright," University of California at Davis Law Review; "More Proposals to Simplify Modern Federal Procedure," Georgia Law Review; "Justice Byron White and the Importance of Process," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly; "From a Cattle Ranch to the Supreme Court," Arizona State Law Journal; and "Unmasking Federalism," Cornell Law Review.

Professor Tobias is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School.