Law 鈥� 黑料不打烊 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:03:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 A. Joseph Warburton /faculty-experts/a-joseph-warburton/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:54:21 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125836 Professor Warburton researches corporate finance, financial regulation, mutual funds, and bankruptcy. His research is largely empirical, and focuses on areas where finance and law intersect. He has published his research in leading journals in finance and law. Warburton鈥檚 research has attracted significant outside funding, including major research grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the World Bank. He teaches courses in financial management, corporate financing transactions, and commercial transactions, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prior to his academic career, he was a banking and finance attorney. In addition to his position at the Whitman School, Warburton also holds an appointment at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Law.

 

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Robert G. Nassau /faculty-experts/robert-g-nassau/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:21:59 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125827 Professor Nassau joined the College of Law faculty as an adjunct instructor in 1994, and became Professor of Practice in 2009. He has taught tax courses since 1994, and has directed the since its founding in 2002.

He has also taught tax courses at Yale Law School, St. John Fisher College, and the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. He presently provides consulting tax counsel for the firm of Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson, L.L.P., in Rochester, New York. After law school, he worked for five years as a tax associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, in New York City. Professor Nassau received a B.A. in Japanese Studies from Yale in 1981 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1986.

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Lauryn P. Gouldin /faculty-experts/lauryn-p-gouldin/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:03:19 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125816 Professor Lauryn Gouldin teaches constitutional criminal procedure, criminal law, evidence, constitutional law, and criminal justice reform. Her scholarship focuses on the Fourth Amendment, pretrial detention and bail reform, and judicial decision-making.

In 2015, in recognition of her excellence in teaching, Professor Gouldin was selected by the 黑料不打烊 Meredith Professors to receive the Teaching Recognition Award. In 2014 and in 2015, the College of Law Student Bar Association honored Professor Gouldin with the Outstanding Faculty Award.

In 2017, the AALS Criminal Justice Section recognized her article, 鈥淒efining Flight Risk,鈥� as the first runner-up in the Section鈥檚 Junior Scholars Paper Competition. In 2015, in recognition of her excellence in teaching, Gouldin was selected by the 黑料不打烊 Meredith Professors to receive a Teaching Recognition Award. In 2014 and 2015, the College of Law Student Bar Association honored Gouldin with the Outstanding Faculty Award. At their commencement, the Class of 2018 awarded her the College of Law鈥檚 Res Ipsa Loquitur Award for outstanding service, scholarship, and stewardship.

Her research can be seen here,

 

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Todd A. Berger /faculty-experts/todd-a-berger/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:19:45 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125314 Todd Berger is a Professor of Law and serving as Director of at the College of Law. Berger鈥檚 scholarship is concentrated in the areas of criminal law and procedure, as well as the intersection of trial advocacy and attorney ethics.

Under his direction, the College of Law鈥檚 Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society competition teams continues an impressive run of results on the regional and national scale. The program is in the top 15 Trial Advocacy program in the nation as ranked by US News & World Report and a top 15 program in the nation as ranked by the Trial Competition Performance Ranking. Professor Berger and students have grown the Advocacy program to create and host the 黑料不打烊 National Trial Competition, the National Trial League, the Transatlantic Negotiation Competition, and the National Disability Law Appellate Competition.

Professor Berger is also the Faculty Director of the College鈥檚 Philadelphia Externship program, where he has placed externs in the legal departments of top Philadelphia-area companies, legal service organizations, and government agencies as well as in the chambers of leading members of the judiciary. He also served as the director of the College鈥檚 Criminal Defense Clinic from 2012-2019.

 

 

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Jonathan Martinis /faculty-experts/jonathan-martinis/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:34:00 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=168759 Jonathan Martinis, Esq., J.D., is the Senior Director for Law and Policy in the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at 黑料不打烊. He is based at BBI’s Washington, D.C. office and leads the institute’s national and international efforts.

Martinis has over 20 years of experience representing and advocating for people with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act. He served as lead counsel in Brinn v. Tidewater Transportation District Commission, the first case to hold that people with disabilities have a right to paratransit transportation on a next-day basis. He was also lead counsel in Winborne v. Virginia Lottery, in which the court held that the Lottery must ensure that all private businesses selling Lottery tickets are accessible to people with disabilities.

Most notably, in 2013, Martinis represented Jenny Hatch in the nationally acclaimed 鈥淛ustice for Jenny鈥� case. Martinis helped Ms. Hatch secure her right to live where and how she wants, to make her own decisions, and direct her own life. Jenny鈥檚 case was the first trial to hold that a person with disabilities has a right to engage in 鈥淪upported-Decision Making,鈥� where people work with trusted friends, family members, and professionals to help them understand the situations and choices they face, so they may make their own decisions 鈥� rather than be subjected to a unnecessary permanent, plenary or full guardianship.

 

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C. Cora True-Frost G’01, L’01 /faculty-experts/c-cora-true-frost-g01-l01/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:25:52 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155609 Associate Professor Cora True-Frost G’01, L鈥�01 specializes in international law and constitutional and human rights law. Her primary research interests include the development of international norms, with a particular focus on the role of international organizations and the United Nations Security Council in these processes.

Her scholarship draws on experiences defending individuals accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes, and leading the Nongovernmental Organization Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security at the UN headquarters to advocate to the UN Security Council. She is a co-editor and author of听The First Global Prosecutor: Promise and Constraints with Martha Minow and Alex Whiting. The subjects of her published articles and chapters encompass ICC prosecution, terrorism and human rights law, and the UN Security Council and international norms.

Before joining the faculty, Professor True-Frost was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, where she earned an LL.M., taught first-year legal research and writing, and taught a seminar in International Law. She was also a Safra Foundation Fellow at Harvard University. Professor True-Frost earned a J.D./M.P.A.听magna cum laude听as one of two Law Fellows at the 黑料不打烊 College of Law and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She was Lead Articles Editor of the听黑料不打烊 Law Review听and a member of the Moot Court Honor Society.

Before entering academia, Professor True-Frost founded the Women鈥檚 Justice Unit at the Judicial Systems Monitoring Programme in East Timor, which continues to serve women today. She also served as Legal Consultant to the Fofana Defense Team at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She was a Litigation Associate at Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP and a Summer Associate at White & Case LLP.

In recognition of her excellence in teaching, Professor True-Frost received 黑料不打烊鈥檚 L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award in 2017. In 2018, the graduating LL.M. class awarded her the Lex Lucet Mundum award for her significant impact on master鈥檚 degree students. In addition to her research and teaching, Professor True-Frost is the Faculty Director of Impunity Watch and an advisor to the College of Law鈥檚 Philip A. Jessup international Law Moot Court Competition team. She also serves as Faculty Advisor to the National Women鈥檚 Law Student Association and the 黑料不打烊 Program on Refugee Assistance. In 2015, she was appointed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to be a member of the state Developmental Disabilities Planning Council.

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Robin Paul Malloy /faculty-experts/robin-paul-malloy/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:02:01 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155605 Professor Robin Paul Malloy is the E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law, and the Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is a leading expert on property, real estate transactions, land use law and zoning, and on law, markets, and marketization. He is a pioneer in his work at the intersection of land use law and disability law.

Several of his works on market theory and law are translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese. Professor Malloy has published eighteen books and over 30 scholarly articles, in addition to numerous book chapters and essays. He is a series editor on collections for Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Edward Elgar. Malloy鈥檚 casebook on real estate transactions (with Smith, now in its 5th edition) is the leading book on the subject and is used at law schools across the country.

Malloy has been the Sun Life Research Fellow at Oxford University, U.K.; the Dickenson Dees Fellow at University of Durham, U.K.; and for three consecutive summers served as a teaching fellow in China (Beijing and Shanghai) with the Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China. He currently serves on the International Advisory Board for the Law and Economics Program at St. Gallens University, Switzerland, and is a member of the Turin School of Local Regulation, Turin, Italy.

Malloy is the founding president of the Association for Law, Property, and Society. He also serves on the Board of the National Italian American Bar Association, the Board of the Central New York Research Corporation, and is Vice Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeal for the Town of DeWitt, NY. He has served on numerous committees of the Association of American Law Schools. He has chaired and served on a wide variety of committees at the College of Law. Malloy is also a member of the Purdue University President鈥檚 Council.

Mallloy received his B.S. from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, his J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law, and an LL.M. from the University of Illinois College of Law.

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Jenny Breen /faculty-experts/jenny-breen/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:37:43 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155597 Dr. Jenny Breen is an Associate Professor of Law in the College of Law at 黑料不打烊. Most recently as a College of Law Faculty Fellow, Professor Breen worked as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the College of Law Breen practiced immigration law.

Dr. Breen鈥檚 interdisciplinary research explores democratic politics in practice, including the politics of work and immigration. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Policy History and the American Criminal Law Review. As a student at Cornell Law School, she received the Ida Cornell Kerr and William Ogden Kerr Memorial Prize for academic excellence and the Marc E. and Lori A. Kasowitz Prize for Excellence in Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy. She also was a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies.

Breen received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her J.D., summa cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 2015.

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Peter D. Blanck /faculty-experts/peter-d-blanck/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:30:27 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155595 Dr. Peter Blanck is University Professor at 黑料不打烊, which is the highest faculty rank, granted to eight prior individuals in the history of the University. Dr. Blanck is also the Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at 黑料不打烊.

Blanck holds appointments at the 黑料不打烊 Colleges of Law, and Arts and Sciences, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, School of Education, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Prior to his appointment at 黑料不打烊, Blanck was Kierscht Professor of Law and director of the Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center at the University of Iowa. Blanck is Honorary Professor, Centre for Disability Law & Policy, at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Dr. Blanck has written articles and books on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related laws, and received grants to study disability law and policy. Blanck and College of Law Professor Robin Paul Malloy are editors of the Cambridge University Press series Disability Law and Policy. Blanck is Chairman of the Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC), and President of Raising the Floor (RtF) USA.

He is a former member of the President鈥檚 Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, a former trustee of YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities Network, a former Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Washington Program, a former Fellow at Princeton University鈥檚 Woodrow Wilson School, and has been a Mary Switzer Scholar. Prior to teaching, Blanck practiced law at the Washington, DC firm Covington & Burling, and served as law clerk to the late Honorable Carl McGowan of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

Blanck received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester, a Juris Doctor from Stanford University, where he was President of the听Stanford Law Review,听and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University.

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Kristen Barnes /faculty-experts/kristen-barnes/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:25:03 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155591 Kristen Barnes is a Professor of Law in the College of Law at 黑料不打烊. Professor Barnes teaches courses on Property, Housing Law, and Voting Rights Law. Dr. Barnes鈥檚 scholarship focuses on anti-discrimination and equality law, property, housing, education, constitutional law, and pensions. She has published articles in top law review journals including Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy, Harvard Journal of Racial and Ethnic Justice, and Chicago-Kent Law Review.

The American Bar Foundation awarded Dr. Barnes a residency as a visiting scholar for the 2019-2020 and 2018-2019 academic years. She has presented her work at numerous prestigious conferences such as the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting, Harvard Law School鈥檚 Institute of Global Law and Policy Conference, the Association of Law, Property, and Society Annual Conference, Loyola Law School鈥檚 Constitutional Colloquium, and Fordham Law School鈥檚 International and Comparative Urban Law Conference.

Professor Barnes has served in several AALS leadership roles including Chair of the Section on Property Law, Chair of the Real Estate Transactions Section, and Chair-Elect of the European Law Section. In the international arena, Barnes has served as Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting (2019). She is also a member of the University of California – Berkeley鈥檚 Comparative Law Equality Working Group. Prior to entering academia, Professor Barnes practiced commercial real estate law in Chicago and clerked for a federal district court judge in the Northern District of Illinois.

Barnes received her B.A. in Political Science from Vassar College, J.D. from Harvard Law School, and Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University.

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Hon. James E. Baker /faculty-experts/hon-james-e-baker/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:17:32 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155584 The Hon. James E. Baker is a professor at the College of Law with a courtesy appointment in the Maxwell School. Also serving as Director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law, Judge Baker teaches classes on national security law, emerging technologies and national security, ethics, leadership, intelligence, and the laws of war.

Judge Baker is one of the most highly regarded national security lawyers and policy advisors in the nation. Starting his career as an Infantry Officer in the US Marine Corps, Judge Baker subsequently joined the staff of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan before serving the US Department of State, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and National Security Council. Mostly notably, he served on the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces for 15 years鈥攖he last four as Chief Judge鈥攂efore stepping down in 2015. The Court hears appeals arising under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and its decisions are subject to review by the US Supreme Court. Judge Baker authored more than 250 opinions for the Court, addressing criminal law and procedure, rules of evidence, jurisdiction, and the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution.

Since 2015, when he was appointed by President Barack Obama, Judge Baker has served as a Member of the Public Interest Declassification Board, established by Congress in 2000 to promote transparency in national security activities. He is also a Member of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ROLI) Board of Directors; a former Consultant for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity; and a former Chair of the American Bar Association鈥檚 Standing Committee on Law and National Security, which promotes public understanding of, and careers in, national security.

In addition to his exemplary public service, Judge Baker has been a teacher and scholar his entire career. He has taught as an Adjunct or Visiting Professor at Yale Law School (his alma mater, where he received a B.A. and J.D.); University of Iowa College of Law; University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Washington University School of Law; and the Georgetown University Law Center. His courses have included those on Managing National Security, Challenges in National Security, Federal Courts, and Ethics and Leadership. In 2017-2018, Judge Baker was Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at MIT鈥檚 Center for International Studies, where he pursued scholarship on emerging technologies and artificial intelligence. Previous recipients of this prestigious fellowship include former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Adm. William Fallon, former Commander of US Central Command.

Judge Baker is the author of two books,听In the Common Defense: National Security Law for Perilous Times听(Cambridge University Press, 2007) and听Regulating Covert Action听(Yale University Press, 1992, with Michael Reisman). As a Marine Corps Reserve Officer (1979-2000), he authored the revised听Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Subjects addressed in his numerous book chapters and articles range from military justice, transnational law, and covert operations to teaching national security, effective presidential transitions, and the ethics of national security law. Among his several awards, Judge Baker has been honored by the National Security Council, Central Intelligence Agency, and the US Army Command and General Staff College (Honorary Master of Military Arts and Science, 2009).

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David Cay Johnston /faculty-experts/david-cay-johnston/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 03:01:26 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=158666 David Cay Johnston is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in the College of Law at 黑料不打烊. Johnston currently teaches Law In Action, a new pre-law course for undergraduates that examines the principle and theory of American law. He previously taught courses focused on the law of the ancient world, property and tax law, and other business regulations.

Johnston received a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of taxes in听The New York Times. He is the author or editor of seven books, four of them听New York Times听补苍诲听Wall Street Journal听产别蝉迟蝉别濒濒别谤蝉.

He is currently the editor-in-chief of DCReport.org, which covers what the president and Congress do, not what they say. In March 2017 he published at DCReport the summary pages of Donald Trump鈥檚 2005 federal income tax return.

His journalism career began in 1968 as a 19-year-old front page staff writer for the San Jose Mercury. Johnston has exposed political spying and brutality by the Los Angeles Police Department, exposed foreign agents, revealed news manipulations that caused a six-station Midwest broadcast chain to be forced out of business, revealed Enron did not pay taxes and that some companies use a Bermuda mail box to escape American taxes. He also solved a 1980 Southern California murder by confronting the killer, winning freedom for an innocent man sentenced to life in prison. His听罢颈尘别蝉听reporting shut down so many tax dodges and prompted so many prosecutions that he was called the 鈥渄e facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States.鈥�

Johnston’s next book will propose a 21st Century tax system to replace the existing Internal Revenue Code.

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J. Christopher Hamilton /faculty-experts/j-christopher-hamilton/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:00:36 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=156360 J. Christopher Hamilton is an assistant professor of television, radio, and film in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at 黑料不打烊. As an attorney and professor, Hamilton鈥檚 work focuses on the monetization of content and leveraging distribution outlets in the television, film and digital streaming industries. In addition to brokering content deals and teaching about their dynamic revenue and financing models, Hamilton is also a passionate executive producer.

Prior to joining Newhouse, Hamilton worked as a business affairs executive and attorney for media conglomerates such as ViacomCBS, Disney, Warner Media and then Lionsgate, as vice president of Digital Studios, Over-the-Top Services and International Co-Productions. After a career in cable television (MTV Networks), network television (ABC Studios) and over-the-top streaming (Kevin Hart鈥檚 鈥淟augh Out Loud Network鈥�), Hamilton embarked on an entrepreneurial path as co-owner of streaming service听听and closed development and distribution deals with networks like HBO and BET.

Hamilton is also a frequent guest speaker at film festivals (South by Southwest and PAFF), media companies (Verizon-Yahoo) and professional organizations (the Black Entertainment & Sports Lawyers Association and Ghetto Film School), and the co-founder of a non-profit organization,听, supporting the professional development of black law students and attorneys.

Hamilton earned a Juris Doctorate and master’s degree in television, radio and film听from 黑料不打烊. Hamilton also completed an executive training program at Harvard Business School through a fellowship underwritten by Lifetime Television.

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Nina Kohn /faculty-experts/nina-kohn/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:13:50 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=134849 Nina A. Kohn is the David M. Levy Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Online Education in the College of Law at 黑料不打烊. Kohn is also a faculty affiliate with the 黑料不打烊 Aging Studies Institute.

Kohn is a member of the American Law Institute, and she serves as the Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She has served as a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and at the University of Maine School of Law.

In her prior role as Associate Dean for Online Education, Kohn developed the College of Law鈥檚 online JD program (JDinteractive), the nation鈥檚 first fully interactive online JD program. In her current role as Faculty Director of Online Education, she guides the program鈥檚 ongoing development and supports faculty teaching online.

Professor Kohn鈥檚 scholarly research focuses on elder law and the civil rights of older adults and persons with diminished cognitive capacity. Her work has appeared in diverse fora including the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, and the Washington Post. Her recent articles have addressed family caregiving, supported and surrogate decision-making, financial exploitation of the elderly, vulnerability and discrimination in old age, the practical and constitutional implications of elder abuse legislation, the potential for an elder rights movement, and legal education.

She authored the textbook Elder Law: Practice, Policy & Problems (Wolters Kluwer, 2d ed. 2020). Consistent with her research interests, Professor Kohn has taught elder law, family law, trusts and estates, torts, and an interdisciplinary gerontology course.

Professor Kohn has served in a variety of public interest roles, including as Reporter for the Third Revision of the Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act. She currently serves as the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission鈥檚 Study Group on the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act, Co-Chair of the Elder Rights Committee of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association; Co-Director of the Aging, Law, and Society Collaborative Research Network; and Vice Chair of the Association of American Law Schools鈥� Section on Mental Disability.

Professor Kohn earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard University. She clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was awarded a fellowship by the Skadden Fellowship Foundation to provide direct representation to nursing home residents and frail elders. She is a past recipient of 黑料不打烊 College of Law鈥檚 Res Ipsa Loquitur award recognizing excellence in teaching, and 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.

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Beth Kubala /faculty-experts/beth-kubala/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 20:00:52 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=135109 Elizabeth Kubala is a Teaching Professor and the Executive Director of the Betty and Michael D. Wohl Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC). At 黑料不打烊, Kubala oversees VLC operations, supervises student attorneys in representation of veterans, teaches the Veterans Legal Clinic Seminar, and supports veteran community relations.

Kubala joined the College of Law from the 黑料不打烊 Institute for Veterans and Military Families, where she served since 2015 as a Senior Director, managing the delivery of programs and services across the nation for service members, veterans and their families.

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Paula C. Johnson /faculty-experts/paula-c-johnson/ Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:53:01 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125818 Paula C. Johnson is professor of law at 黑料不打烊 College of Law. She currently serves as co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), a national organization of approx. 800 law professors. At 黑料不打烊, she teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, voting rights, professional responsibility, and a seminar on women in the criminal justice system.

At 黑料不打烊, Prof. Johnson serves on a broad range of College of Law and University committees. She currently serves on the Chancellor鈥檚 Search Committee, and has served as co-chair of Sistaprof, an organization of Africana women professors at 黑料不打烊, and served as co-chair of the S.U. Senate鈥檚 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Concerns Committee. Her public service includes membership on the boards of the Hiscock Legal Aid Society, the Center for Community Alternatives, and the Battered Women鈥檚 Justice Project National Advisory Committee.

In 2003, she received the Unsung Heroine Award from the 黑料不打烊 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Committee, and the Woman of the Year Award from the 黑料不打烊 African American Male Congress.

 

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Gregory L. Germain /faculty-experts/gregory-l-germain/ Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:40:04 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125815 Professor Germain teaches and conducts research in the areas taxation, commercial law and bankruptcy and corporate law. He publishes widely on the subject of bankruptcy. In 2009, Professor Germain, working with Legal Services, established an internship at the College of Law, through which second and third-year law students work with people going through bankruptcy. The students help gather information, prepare filings and represent the clients in court.

Professor Germain practiced law for 17 years following graduation from law school, first as an associate for Latham and Watkins in Los Angeles, and then as an associate and partner for Landeis, Ripley & Diamond in San Francisco. He also was a judicial extern to the Honorable Lloyd King, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, and later was an attorney advisor to The Honorable Renato Behghe of the United States Tax Court.

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Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett (Ret.) /faculty-experts/vice-adm-robert-b-murrett-ret/ Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:43:39 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=122341 Robert B. Murrett serves the Deputy Director of the , and is a faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.听 He holds a courtesy faculty appointment with the听听and is on the Advisory Board of the听, both at the University.

A specialist in defense analysis, military intelligence, national security, and international relations, Murrett teaches popular courses in the Maxwell School on the 鈥淯S Intelligence Community: Governance and Practice鈥� and 鈥淯S Defense Strategy, Military Posture, and Combat Operations鈥�; leads capstone projects for the Veterans Administration, Rand, and IDA; and organizes legendary 鈥渟taff rides鈥� for students to discuss military leadership and strategy at Fort Stanwix and Oriskany in Upstate New York and the Gettysburg, PA, National Military Park.

Before joining 黑料不打烊, Murrett was a career intelligence officer in the US Navy, serving in assignments throughout the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East through 34 years of duty, retiring as a Vice Admiral.听Murrett was the fourth Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from July 2006 through July 2010. Prior to his appointment, he听served as the Director of Naval Intelligence from April 2005 until July 2006.

Following his commissioning, Murrett was assigned as an afloat intelligence officer, including Mediterranean, North Atlantic, and western Pacific deployments aboard USS Kitty Hawk, USS America, and USS Independence.听He was assigned to Defense Intelligence College in 1980, then detailed to the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot as a watch stander and briefing officer for Navy civilian and military leaders. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Assistant Intelligence Officer for Commander, Second Fleet. In 1989, Murrett reported to Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, where he was assigned as Operational Intelligence Officer. From 1992 to 1995, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence for Commander, Carrier Group Eight, and deployed to the European and Central Command theaters.

Between 1995 and 1997, Murrett was Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence for Commander, Second Fleet, and served concurrently as N2 for NATO鈥檚 Striking Fleet Atlantic. From June 1997 until September 1998, he was assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations Staff as Executive Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. He was then assigned as Director, Intelligence Directorate, Office of Naval Intelligence in September 1998. He assumed the duties of Commander, Atlantic Intelligence Commance August 12, 1999.听Murrett served as the Director for Intelligence, U.S. Joint Forces Command, from August, 2000 through January 2002. From February 2002 through March 2005, Murrett was assigned as the Vice Chair Director for Intelligence, on the Joint Staff.

Murrett received a B.A. in history from the University of Buffalo and a M.A. in government and strategic intelligence from Georgetown University and the Defense Intelligence College.

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David M. Driesen /faculty-experts/david-driesen/ Mon, 19 Jun 2017 16:36:10 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=120303 David M. Driesen is a University Professor in the College of Law at 黑料不打烊, focusing on environmental law, law and economics, and constitutional law.

Professor Driesen engages in public service mostly focused on defending environmental law鈥檚 constitutionality and supporting efforts to address global climate disruption. He has written numerous听听cases and has听. He is a member scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), and blogs often on climate disruption issues for CPR and for RegBlog. He has worked as a consultant for American rivers and other environmental groups on Clean Water Act issues and has testified before Congress on implementation of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.

Professor Driesen was a Senior Project Attorney for The Natural Resources Defense Council, in its Air and Energy Program. Before that, he clerked for Justice Robert Utter of the Washington State Supreme Court and worked in the Special Litigation Division of the Washington State Attorney General鈥檚 Office.

Driesen has written three books: The Economic Dynamics of Law (Cambridge University Press), the textbook Environmental Law a Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach (Aspen Kluwer with Robert Adler and Kirsten Engel) and The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law (MIT Press), which won the Lynton Keith Caldwell Award鈥攁 prize offered by The American Political Science Association annually for the best book published in science, technology and environmental studies. He has also published two edited volumes, Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Future (Cambridge University Press with Alyson Flournoy) and Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy (MIT Press). He has published numerous articles with leading journals, such as Cornell Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Ecology Law Quarterly, Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the Virginia Journal of International Law, and several book chapters.

Driesen holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School.

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Shubha Ghosh /faculty-experts/shubha-ghosh/ Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:30:27 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=110704 Professor Ghosh serves as Director of the and as Crandall Melvin Professor of Law after nearly twenty years of law school teaching. His focus is on the development and commercialization of technology as a means of promoting economic and social development. He has written extensively on pharmaceutical patents, parallel importation, antitrust law, commercialization and other uses of data, and the role of intellectual property policy in shaping these diverse areas.听commercialization and other uses of data and the role of intellectual property policy in shaping these areas

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William Banks /faculty-experts/william-banks/ Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:21:16 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=110699 A highly regarded and听internationally recognized scholar,听topics of Banks鈥� wide-ranging research include national security and counterterrorism law; laws of war and asymmetric warfare; drones and targeted killing; transnational crime and corruption; cybersecurity, cyberespionage, and cyber conflict; human security; emergency and war powers; emergency preparedness and response; prosecuting terrorists; civilian-military relations; and government surveillance and privacy.听Banks is most recently the co-author (with Stephen Dycus) of听(Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016). He is the author, co-author, and/or editor of numerous other titles, including National Security Law (Aspen, 2016) and Counterterrorism Law (Aspen, 2016)鈥攂ooks that have听helped set the parameters for these fields of study鈥攁s well as听Counterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare(Oxford UP, 2012) and New Battlefields/Old Laws: Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare (Columbia UP, 2011).

The subjects of Banks鈥� more than 100 published听book chapters and articles range from the military use of unmanned aerial vehicles, to terrorism in South America, to the role of the military in domestic affairs. Recent writing includes 鈥淩egulating Cyber Conflict;鈥� 鈥淩egulating Drones: Military Law and CIA Practice and the Shifting Challenges of New Technologies;鈥� 鈥淓xceptional Courts in Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA);鈥� and 鈥淧rogrammatic Surveillance and FISA: Of Needles in Haystacks.鈥澨鼳dditionally, Banks has spearheaded numerous interdisciplinary research projects for INSCT, including ; ; and , a collaboration with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (UN CTED).

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Keith Bybee /faculty-experts/keith-bybee/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:18:19 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=103959 Professor Bybee is Vice Dean and Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper 鈥�72 Judiciary Studies Professor at the College of Law. He holds tenured appointments in the College of Law and in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

He also directs the (IJPM), a collaborative effort between the College of Law, the Maxwell School, and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Bybee鈥檚 areas of research interest are the judicial process, legal theory, political philosophy, LGBT politics, the politics of race and ethnicity, American politics, constitutional law, codes of conduct, and the media.

His books include听听(Princeton, 1998; second printing, 2002),听(Stanford, 2007), and听All Judges Are Political鈥擡xcept When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law听(Stanford, 2010). His most recent book is听听(Stanford, 2016). He is currently at work on a grant-funded project examining the positive uses of fake news.

 

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Thomas M. Keck /faculty-experts/thomas-m-keck/ Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:54:22 +0000 http://sunews.leibowitz.co/?post_type=faculty-experts&p=56105 Thomas M. Keck is the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics and Professor of Political Science at 黑料不打烊’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Dr. Keck is the author of and , as well as articles in the , ,, and . He is currently leading an NSF-funded project on the political beneficiaries of free expression jurisprudence worldwide.

As holder of the Sawyer Chair since 2009, he directs the (SLAPP), an interdisciplinary initiative devoted to advancing teaching and research in the field of law and politics. SLAPP hosts a regular seminar series in which leading law-and-politics experts from around the country present their current research, and it also provides funding for doctoral students in the Maxwell School’s political science program who are pursuing law-and-politics research of their own.

He is also a听Senior Research Associate at the .

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