Joseph L. Costello earned his juris doctor degree in law from the University of Louisville/Brandeis School of Law, Louisville, Kentucky, in 1969 and a diploma in advanced international legal studies from the University of the Pacific/McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California, in 1989. His graduate studies in international law were completed at the University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. Mr. Costello was a partner in a St. Croix, Virgin Islands law firm from 1970 to 1978 and employed as a legal intern by a maritime law firm in London, England in 1988. He judged oral argument in the John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition in San Francisco, California in 2007.

• Hensley v. Insurance Company of North America, 551 F.2d 35 (3^rd Cir. 1977) (driver & passenger shot alighting from motor vehicle);