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Hillel J. Bavli, Associate Professor of Law, B.A., 2003, Boston University; J.D., 2006, Fordham University School of Law; LL.M., 2011, Harvard Law School; A. M. (Statistics), 2013, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Ph.D. (Statistics in Law and Government), 2017, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Professor Bavli’s teaching and scholarship interests are in the fields of evidence, torts, complex litigation, law and economics, and empirical legal studies. He is particularly interested in applications of statistics to law, including the use of experimental and quantitative methods to evaluate law-related interventions and applications of probability theory, Bayesian analysis, sampling, and causal inference to study and improve the law. An experienced litigation attorney, Professor Bavli has practiced in the fields of complex commercial litigation, antitrust law, and criminal law, most recently at the firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. Prior to joining SMU’s faculty, Professor Bavli designed and taught a seminar course on the economic analysis of law in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He received numerous awards for distinction in teaching for the course. He has completed a Fulbright Fellowship studying game theory in Jerusalem, Israel, as well as short-term clerkships at the Supreme Court of India and the Supreme Court of Rwanda. He recently held a visiting fellowship at the Yale Law School Center for Private Law, and he is an affiliate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
Lackland H. Bloom, Jr., Larry and Jane Harlan Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Law, B.A., 1970, Southern Methodist University; J.D., 1973, University of Michigan. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif, as well as administrative editor of the Michigan Law Review, Professor Bloom was a law clerk to Chief Judge John R. Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He later was associated with the Washington firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. A specialist in constitutional law, he has published two books with the Oxford University Press. The first, Methods of Interpretation: How the Supreme Court Reads the Constitution, published in 2009, received the Godbey Lecture Series Authors Award in 2010. The second book, Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?, was published in 2014. Professor Bloom has published articles concerning affirmative action, copyright and free speech, defamation and offensive speech. He has recently delivered talks to the Bill of Rights and the Intellectual Property sections of the Texas Bar. He also delivered a four-part Godbey Lecture Series entitled “Constitutional Law 101: One Hundred and Twenty-five Years of Supreme Court Precedent in Four Hours.” He teaches courses in constitutional law, freedom of speech and religion, and copyright.
Chante Brantley, Director of the VanSickle Family Law Clinic and Clinical Professor, B.S., 1991, Texas Woman’s University; M.S.S.W., 1998, The University of Texas at Arlington, J.D, 2006, The University of Texas School of Law. Professor Brantley’s work in the VanSickle Family Law Clinic encompasses teaching and supervising students who will represent and counsel low-income clients in family law matters such as divorce, paternity actions, custody and visitation, child support, modifications, court-appointed amicus or attorney ad-litem, protective orders, mediation and adoption. Students in the clinic also collaborate with judges, Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP), and other community organizations to improve access to justice. Professor Brantley created and established the pro se “Self-Help Desk” at George L. Allen Sr. courthouse, in collaboration with Dallas County Law Library, judges, DVAP and Dallas Bar Association to assist self-represented family law litigants complete pro se forms and fill routine procedural questions. Since the inception of this innovative legal program in 2017, students and Professor Brantley have assisted approximately 1500 pro se litigants. Prior to joining the faculty at SMU Dedman School of Law, Professor Brantley was managing attorney and mediator at Barnes Prox Law, PLLC, which focused exclusively on family law matters. She began her career as a Child Protective Services caseworker, transitioning to law working as a legislative aide to Texas State Senator Royce West. Professor Brantley’s experiences as a caseworker helped shaped the health and human services legislation she spearheaded for Senator West which enhanced the lives of many families across Texas. Most notably, she recommended the “Grandparents’ Bill” which provides financial assistance to grandparents raising their grandchildren with the goal of preserving family ties. Tenents of this bill have expanded to federal kinship care legislation. Professor Brantley was recognized by the Texas Senate in Senate Resolution 1022 (78th Regular Session) for her outstanding work as a legislative aide. In 2021, Professor Brantley receive the Lois Bacon Special Services Award presented by DVAP for her leadership, mentoring student associates in the practice of law, the clinic’s pro bono work, and its partnership with DVAP.
Dale Carpenter, Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law, B.A., 1989, Yale College; J.D., 1992, University of Chicago Law School. Professor Carpenter teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, the First Amendment, and LGBT rights and the law. Professor Carpenter’s book, Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas (Norton, 2012), was chosen a Notable Book for 2012 by the New York Times, won the Lambda Literary prize for best non-fiction of 2012, and garnered excellent reviews in the Times, the New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and many other journals and newspapers. Professor Carpenter graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable Edith H. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1992 to 1993. After his clerkship, he practiced at Vinson & Elkins in Houston and at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. From 2000 to 2016, he taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was a Distinguished University Teaching Professor and held the law school’s chair in Civil Rights law. Since joining SMU in 2016, he has twice received the Dr. Don M. Smart Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. His scholarship has been published in the Supreme Court Review, Michigan Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, University of Minnesota Law Review, and many other edited legal journals. His other work has appeared in many newspapers around the county, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is frequently interviewed on a range of topics by local and national new media. Carpenter is a member of the state bars of Texas and California, and of the American Law Institute. Since 2004, he has served as an editor of Constitutional Commentary. Since 2005, he has been an active blogger on the popular legal blog, the Volokh Conspiracy, which is hosted by Reason.com.
Anthony J. Colangelo, Professor of Law, B.A., 2000, (Phi Beta Kappa) Middlebury College; J.D., 2003, (Order of the Coif) Northwestern University; LL.M., 2006, Columbia University; J.S.D., 2009, Columbia University. Professor Colangelo’s scholarly and teaching interests are in the fields of conflict of laws, civil procedure, U.S. foreign relations law, and private and public international law and theory. Professor Colangelo’s articles have appeared in top general and specialty journals and have also been cited and quoted in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court levels as well as in U.S. Military Commissions, regarding, among other things, the scope of U.S. law relating to piracy, terrorism, child-sex tourism, military contractors, and human rights abuses. He has also partnered with the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability with respect to the legality of use of nuclear weapons under international law. Prior to coming to SMU, Professor Colangelo held an Associate-in-Law research and teaching fellowship at Columbia Law School. Before Columbia, he worked as a litigation associate at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP in the New York and Rome offices. Professor Colangelo clerked for the Honorable Ralph K. Winter, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Middlebury College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University, where he was Notes Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. He holds a LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.
James Coleman, Associate Professor of Law, B.A., 2001, Harvard College; J.D., 2007, Harvard Law School. Professor Coleman comes to SMU from the University of Calgary, where he taught at both the law school and the business school. Before Calgary, he served on the faculty at Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law. Beginning this fall, he will teach oil and gas. He has earned two degrees from Harvard University — a J.D. (cum laude) and B.A. in biology (magna cum laude with highest honors in field). Upon graduation from law school, he served as clerk for Eighth Circuit Judge Steve Colloton, and then practiced energy, environmental, and appellate law as an associate in the Washington, D.C., firm of Sidley Austin LLP for three years. Coleman’s scholarship addresses regulation of North American energy companies, focusing on how countries account for and influence regulation of fuel and electricity in their trading partners and how global energy companies respond to competing pressures from investors and regulators in multiple jurisdictions. He publishes the Energy Law Professor blog and you can follow him on Twitter at @energylawprof.
Nathan Cortez, Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor in Leadership and Latino Studies, Co-Director of The Tsai Center for Law, Science & Innovation, and Professor of Law, B.A., 1999, University of Pennsylvania; J.D., 2002, Stanford University. Professor Cortez teaches and writes in the areas of health law, administrative law, and FDA law. His varied research focuses on emerging markets in health care and biotechnology, regulatory theory, government uses of information, and First Amendment treatment of corporate and commercial speech. Professor Cortez has also become one of the world’s leading legal scholars on medical device regulation, particularly devices that rely on artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning. He has published two recent books: Food and Drug Law (5th edition, 2022) (with Peter Barton Hutt, Lewis Grossman, Erika Lietzan, and Patti Zettler); and Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics (3rd edition, 2019) (with Glenn Cohen and Tim Jost). Professor Cortez presents his research around the world, to governments, regulators, professional societies, industry, and fellow academics. He has presented work at the law schools of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, among others, and at the medical schools of Harvard, Stanford, and Vanderbilt, among others. His work is recognized internationally and has been translated into Chinese. Professor Cortez is part of several grant-funded projects sponsored by the U.S. and Canadian governments. He also provides frequent commentary to the media, including the Chicago Tribune, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, NPR, Science, WIRED, and the Washington Post. Professor Cortez co-founded the Texas Legal Scholars Workshop and the SMU Food Law Forum. He has been a peer reviewer for top legal and medical publications, including Health Affairs, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, and the Yale Law Journal. He has been a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). Before joining the SMU faculty, Professor Cortez practiced with the Washington D.C. law firm Arnold & Porter, as part of its pharmaceutical, health care, and biotech practice. He represented clients in regulatory matters, with a special emphasis on health care fraud and abuse, FDA enforcement, privacy, and the Medicare and Medicaid programs. He represented clients during litigation, in corporate transactions, during agency enforcement actions, and during congressional investigations and hearings.
Gregory S. Crespi, Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professor in Commercial and Insurance Law, B.S., 1969, Michigan State University; M.S., 1974, George Washington University; Ph.D., 1978, University of Iowa; J.D., 1985, Yale Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at SMU, Professor Crespi served in the White House as the senior counsel for the Council of Economic Advisers under the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. Professor Crespi also practiced law for several years with the firms of Debevoise & Plimpton and Davis, Hockenberg. He is the author of two books and a number of articles on law and economics, securities regulation, contract law, business law, disability rights, student loan programs, presidential impeachment, legal education, income inequality, and other topics. Professor Crespi teaches in the areas of contract law, law and economic analysis, and income inequality.
Ruth A. Cross, Director of the Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy Program and Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy, B.A., 1975, University of Texas at Austin; J.D., 1978, University of Texas School of Law. After graduation, Professor Cross worked in the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld and Arter & Hadden as a litigator, with an emphasis on appellate practice, and she clerked for the Dallas Court of Appeals. She is heavily involved in creating the research project that serves as the basis for the Jackson Walker Moot Court Oral Advocacy Competition and serves as faculty adviser to the Jackson Walker Moot Court Board. Professor Cross teaches courses in Texas pretrial procedure, Texas trial and appellate procedure, appellate advocacy, and legal research, writing and advocacy. She taught legal research and writing as an adjunct at SMU during 1984–99 before joining the faculty on a full-time basis. She also served as Associate Dean for Administration from 2008-2015.
Beverly C. Duréus, Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy, B.A., 1983, Drake University; J.D., 1986, Drake University Law School; Th.M., 1999, Dallas Theological Seminary; D.Min.2016, SMU Perkins School of Theology. Professor Duréus teaches legal research, writing and advocacy, and a course on federal judicial externships. Her scholarship interests and teaching experiences also include civil procedure, evidence, alternative dispute resolutions and an integration of religion and jurisprudence. Professor Duréus serves as a co-executive editor of The International Lawyer and The Year in Review. She was nominated for the Provost’s Teaching Award in 2020 and 2021. She was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2023 by the Women in Law Organization of Dedman Law for her outstanding service to women at the law school and in her community. She was also selected as “Blackulty of the Year 2022” by the Dedman School of Law Black Law Students Association for her “service to the Dedman School of Law and the Black Law Students Association.” At Drake University Law School, Professor Duréus was a member of the National Order of the Barristers and Phi Alpha Delta, served as the chair of the Moot Court Board and obtained numerous awards for oral advocacy. Prior employment experiences include working for the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, associate professor of law at Drake Law School, shareholder at Chapman & Reese P.C., chair of the Ecclesiastical Section at White & Wiggins LLP, and associate at Gardere & Wynne LLP. She is the president and founder of Katallasso Ministries International and a faculty consultant, and adviser to the Black Law Students Association and the Christian Legal Society. She is also the former president of the Dallas Association of Black Women Attorneys and a member of the William MacTaylor American Inn of Court, Dallas Bar Foundation fellow, Board of Counselors at Drake Law, Who’s Who in American Law Schools, American Association of Law Schools, J.L. Turner Legal Association, and Dallas and American bar associations. She was selected for Who’s Who in Black Dallas in 2017 and 2018 and has accepted the invitation to become a member of The National Black Lawyers - Top 100, an elite national network of African American attorneys. Her selection was based on her legal successes and professional reputation in Texas. Her most recent publication is as a contributing author in Lessons from Successful African American Lawyers (Evangline M. Mitchell, Esq., ed., Hopes Promise Publishing LLC) (2020).
Monika U. Ehrman, Professor of Law, B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Alberta; J.D. from SMU Law; and LL.M. from Yale Law School. During law school, she was a research assistant for the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy; a fellow in the Kauffman Program in Law, Economics and Entrepreneurship; and an editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Her teaching courses have included Property, Natural Resources Law, Energy Law, Water Law, Real Estate Transactions, Oil & Gas Law, Oil & Gas Environmental Law, Remedies, Negotiations, and Transactional Energy Contracts. Professor Ehrman joined the SMU Dedman School of Law faculty full-time as Professor of Law in fall 2023. Prior to joining SMU, Professor Ehrman taught at the University of North Texas at Dallas and at the University of Oklahoma, where she led the energy and natural resources program and served as the Faculty Director of the Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center at the College of Law. While at the University of Oklahoma, she also held a courtesy appointment at the Michael F. Price College of Business, where she taught in the Executive MBA and Energy Management programs. Prior to teaching, she served as general counsel of a privately held energy company; senior counsel with Pioneer Natural Resources; and associate attorney at Locke Lord LLP. Before law school, Professor Ehrman worked as a petroleum engineer in the upstream, midstream, and pipeline sectors of the energy industry. In addition to her experience with the technical aspects of the industry, she also worked as an analyst in the areas of commodity risk management and energy trading. She is currently secretary of the AALS Section on Natural Resources & Energy, and she is on the editorial board of the Journal of World Energy Law & Business (published by Oxford University Press). She has previously served as Treasurer and was on the Executive Committee of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (2021–2022) and was Vice President Education for the Association of International Energy Negotiators (2019–2021). Her scholarly interests are in the areas of natural resources, energy, property, and environmental law & policy. She is principal investigator of a multi-year team grant awarded in 2021 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study the impact of the clean energy transition on Native American communities. She is also researching the mischaracterization of natural resources in property law, currently writing on atmospheric modification, mining & wildfire policy. She has been published in law reviews, interdisciplinary journals, books, and is a co-author of Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law (West Academic 8th ed.), with John Lowe, Owen Anderson, Christopher Kulander, Burke Griggs, and James Coleman.
Joanna L. Grossman, Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law and Professor of Law, B.A., 1990, Amherst College; J.D. 1994, (Order of the Coif) Stanford University. She teaches in the areas of gender law, family law, and trusts and estates. She is an expert in sex discrimination law and has written extensively about educational and workplace equality, with a special focus on issues such as sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. Her most recent books include The Walled Garden: Law and Privacy in Modern Society (Rowman & Littlefield 2022), Nine to Five: How Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace (Cambridge 2016), and Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America (Princeton 2011). She is the co-author of four legal textbooks: Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (8th ed. 2019), Gender Law and Policy (3rd ed. 2020), Family Law in a Changing America (2020), and Wills, Trusts, and Estates: A Contemporary Approach (2019). She is the coeditor of Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (Cambridge University Press 2009), an interdisciplinary anthology that explores persistent gaps between formal commitments to gender equality and the reality of women’s lives, and Family Law in New York, a guide to domestic relations law in a state that is a “leader” with few followers. A graduate with distinction from Stanford Law School, Professor Grossman served as the articles development editor of the Stanford Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. She served as a law clerk to Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before spending a year as staff counsel at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., as recipient of the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship. She practiced law from 1996 to 1998 at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Williams & Connolly. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, she was the Sidney & Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law at Hofstra Law School in New York. Professor Grossman is a regular columnist for Justia’s Verdict and an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Christopher H. Hanna, Alan D. Feld Endowed Professor, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law, B.S., 1984, J.D., 1988, University of Florida, LL.M., 1989, New York University. Professor Hanna has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law, the University of Florida College of Law and the University of Tokyo School of Law, and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and the Japanese Ministry of Finance. In 1998, Professor Hanna served as a consultant in residence to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. From June 2000 to April 2001, he assisted the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation in its complexity study of the U.S. tax system; from May 2002 to February 2003, he assisted the Joint Committee in its study of Enron; and, upon completion of the study, he continued to serve as a consultant to the Joint Committee on tax legislation. From May 2011 until December 2018, Professor Hanna served as Senior Policy Adviser for tax reform to the United States Senate Committee on Finance. Prior to coming to SMU, Professor Hanna was a tax attorney with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Steptoe & Johnson. His primary duties included tax planning for partnerships and corporations on both a domestic and international level, and also tax controversy. He has received the Dr. Don M. Smart Teaching Award for excellence in teaching at the SMU Law School on nine separate occasions. In 1995, he was featured in Barrister magazine, a publication of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, as one of “21 young lawyers leading us into the 21st century” (special profile issue 1995). He has authored numerous articles in various areas of taxation including international taxation, corporate taxation, partnership taxation and tax accounting. Professor Hanna has written three books, Comparative Income Tax Deferral: The United States and Japan (2000), Corporate Income Tax Accounting (2022) and Tax Policy in a Nutshell (2nd ed. 2022), and was the principal drafter of the Senate Finance Committee’s report, Comprehensive Tax Reform for 2015 and Beyond (2014). Professor Hanna is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Tax Counsel.
Grant M. Hayden, Professor of Law, B.A., 1989 (Phi Beta Kappa) University of Kansas; M.A., 1991, University of Kansas; J.D., 1995 (Order of the Coif) Stanford University. Professor Hayden received his law degree with distinction from Stanford Law School and holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and a Master of Arts in art history from the University of Kansas. At Kansas, he taught the history of Western art and led efforts to organize the graduate teaching assistants into a collective bargaining unit. As a law student, he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Law and Policy Review. Professor Hayden served as a law clerk to Judge Deanell Reece Tacha of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and worked as an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Shea & Gardner. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, Professor Hayden was at the Hofstra University School of Law, where he was chosen by four graduating classes to be the faculty commencement speaker. He writes and teaches in the areas of corporate governance, voting rights, labor law, and employment discrimination. His recent publications include articles in the California, Fordham, Michigan, and Vanderbilt Law Reviews. He is also the author of American Law: An Introduction (Oxford University Press 2017) (with Lawrence M. Friedman), Reconstructing the Corporation: From Shareholder Primacy to Shared Governance (Cambridge University Press 2020) (with Matthew T. Bodie), and Labor Relations Law: Cases and Materials (fourteenth edition, Carolina Academic Press 2021) (with Charles B. Craver and Marion G. Crain).
Patricia S. Heard, Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy, B.A., University of Texas at Arlington, J.D., University of Texas School of Law. While in law school, Professor Heard was a member of the Texas Law Review. Prior to joining the law faculty at SMU, Professor Heard was an attorney with several different firms in the Dallas area, specializing primarily in transaction work and civil litigation. In addition, she was in-house counsel for a large corporation in Birmingham, Alabama. Professor Heard currently teaches legal research, writing and advocacy, and also serves as a co-executive editor of The International Lawyer and The Year in Review.
JoAnn A. Hubbard, Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy, B.S. (pharmacy), University of Oklahoma; J.D., 1987, University of Oklahoma. While in law school, Professor Hubbard was articles editor of the Oklahoma Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. Prior to joining the SMU faculty in 2000, she was an associate in the Dallas office of Jones Day. After practicing for several years, she joined an independent Texas banking group as its vice president and general counsel. In 2003, she was the assistant director of the SMU Dedman School of Law Corporate Directors’ Institute. Her current teaching area is legal research, writing and advocacy.
Christine Hurt, Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in Corporate, Partnership, and Securities Law and Professor of Law, B.A., Texas Tech University, J.D., The University of Texas School of Law. Professor Christine Hurt joined the SMU Dedman School of Law faculty as the inaugural Bromberg Chair in Fall 2022. Prior to that, she was the George Sutherland Chair and Professor of Law at Brigham Young University Law School, where she served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Curriculum from May 2016 through December 2019 and then as Associate Dean for Academic Projects from January 2020 through August 2020. Professor Hurt has also taught at the University of Illinois College of Law, Marquette University Law School, and University of Houston Law Center. Professor Hurt’s teaching and research focuses on securities regulation, corporate tax, microfinance, torts, and business associations. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Corporation Law, Iowa Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, American Bankruptcy Law Journal, UC-Davis Law Review, and Cardozo Law Review. She is the lead author, with Gordon Smith, of the popular treatise “Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership” with Wolters Kluwer. Professor Hurt recently concluded a three-year term as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA, which hears appeals regarding broker-dealer and registered representative violations of FINRA and SEC rules. Before entering law teaching, Professor Hurt practiced corporate law for a number of years in Houston at Baker Botts, LLP, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. As a first-year student at the University of Texas School of Law, she co-founded the Texas Journal of Women and the Law.
Greg Ivy, Associate Dean for Library and Technology and Senior Lecturer in Law, B.B.A., 1981, University of Texas at Austin; J.D., 1984, University of Houston College of Law, 1989; M.A., University of Chicago, 1989. Upon graduation from law school, Dean Ivy practiced with the firms of Buchanan, Barnett, Schofield & Kent and Cowles & Thompson, predominantly in the area of toxic tort litigation. He has served as director of the Underwood Law Library since 2015. Dean Ivy serves on and has chaired numerous committees of the American Association of Law Libraries. He has published in journals such as the AALL Spectrum and SMU Law Review. He teaches the Advanced Legal Research course and lectures on legal research in other courses.
Chris Jenks, Professor of Law, B.S., 1992, United States Military Academy; J.D., 2001, University of Arizona College of Law; LL.M., 2006, The Judge Advocate General’s School; LL.M., 2009, Georgetown University Law Center (with honors). Professor Jenks is a senior fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law & Land Warfare at West Point, a professorial fellow with the Program on the Regulation of Emerging Military Technology in Australia and at SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, and a member of the Council at the International Institute for Humanitarian Law in Sanremo, Italy. Professor Jenks’ research interests are at the intersection of the law of armed conflict, accountability norms and emerging technology. He is the co-author of two editions of a law of armed conflict textbook a forthcoming criminal law textbook and has published book chapters with both Oxford and Cambridge University presses. His articles have appeared in the law reviews and journals of Harvard, Berkeley, Georgetown, Stanford, & Washington & Lee and the International Review of the Red Cross. His blog posts have been featured on Lawfare, Just Security, and Opinio Juris. He has appeared before the Appeals Chamber at the International Criminal Court, testified to the U.S. Congress Helsinki Commission, and presented at United Nations experts meetings, to House and Senate Staffers on Capitol Hill, at the American Society of International Law, the Council on Foreign Relations, and at universities and institutes around the world. During the 2021-2022 academic year he served as a resident fellow at CNA’s Center for Autonomy and AI in Arlington, Virginia. From 2017-2018 he was on leave from SMU and served as the Special Counsel to the Department of Defense General Counsel in Washington, D.C.. In 2015 he served as a Fulbright Research Scholar at Melbourne Law School in Australia. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, Professor Jenks served for more than 20 years in the U.S. military, first as an infantry officer serving in Germany, Kuwait and as a NATO peacekeeper in Bosnia, and then as a judge advocate serving near the demilitarized zone in the Republic of Korea and later in Iraq, where he provided law of armed conflict advice on targeting and detention issues during combat operations. In his final military assignment he served as the Chief of the U.S. Army’s International Law branch in the Pentagon.
Jeffrey Kahn, Professor of Law, B.A., 1994, Yale University; M.Phil., 1996, Oxford University; D.Phil., 1999, Oxford University; J.D., 2002, University of Michigan. Professor Kahn’s doctoral dissertation was published by Oxford University Press as Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia (2002). Following graduation, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas P. Griesa of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Kahn was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice from October 2003 until April 2006, litigating a nationwide docket of constitutional, statutory and administrative law issues. In 2005, he was briefly detailed to the Criminal Division to conduct research in Russia on Russian criminal procedure for the Justice Department’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training. In fall 2006, that office sent him to Armenia to advise senior officials of the Armenian Ministry of Justice. During the spring 2006 term, Professor Kahn served as an adjunct assistant professor of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, an O’Brien fellow in residence at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and a visiting professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Professor Kahn was named the 2007–08 teaching fellow by SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and a 2008–09 Colin Powell Fellow at John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. He won the Don M. Smart Teaching Award for the 2010–11 academic year. His articles have been published in the Michigan Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law and many other periodicals and edited volumes. His most recent book is Mrs. Shipley’s Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists (University of Michigan Press, 2013: paperback 2014). Professor Kahn teaches and writes on American constitutional law, administrative law, Russian law, human rights and counterterrorism.
John S. Lowe, George W. Hutchison Chair in Energy Law and Professor of Law, B.A., 1963, Denison University; LL.B., 1966, Harvard University. A Maxwell Fellow in Malawi in 1966–69, Professor Lowe practiced law privately in Columbus, Ohio, from 1970–75. He then became a member of the faculty at the University of Toledo, where he served as assistant and associate professor in 1975–78. He joined the faculty of the University of Tulsa in 1978 as professor and associate director of the National Energy Law and Policy Institute, and came to SMU in 1988. Professor Lowe has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas, the distinguished visiting professor of natural resources law at the University of Denver, the Visiting Judge Leon Karelitz Chair of Oil and Gas Law at the University of New Mexico and the Visiting Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Chair of Energy Law and Policy at the University of Alberta. He is a former chair of the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Law of the American Bar Association and a former president of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law [formerly the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation]. He is author of Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law, Oil & Gas Law in a Nutshell, Oil and Gas Law and Taxation, and International Law and Petroleum Transactions. Professor Lowe teaches courses on oil and gas law, and oil and gas contracts. He also teaches as a senior fellow of the faculty of law at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, as a visiting professor at the faculty of law at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia, and as an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has been an international legal adviser in the Commercial Law Development Program of the United States Department of Commerce, and he is a member of the bars of Texas, Oklahoma, and Ohio, as well as a member of the consumer and commercial arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association and the commercial arbitration panels of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution
George A. Martinez, Professor of Law, B.A., 1976, Arizona State University; M.A. (philosophy), 1979, University of Michigan; J.D., 1985, Harvard University. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Martinez was a teaching fellow in the department of philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1979–81 and a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Texas Christian University in 1981–82. He was a litigation associate with the Chicago firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt in 1985–88 and with the San Francisco firm of Morrison & Foerster in 1988–91. Professor Martinez has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Illinois and has presented papers at numerous universities including Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Buenos Aires. Professor Martinez has published numerous law review articles in the areas of federal courts, critical race theory and jurisprudence. His work has been reprinted in a number of leading anthologies on critical race theory. He is an editor of A Reader on Race, Civil Rights and American Law: A Multiracial Approach. He is associate editor of Law and Business Review of the Americas. Professor Martinez teaches in the areas of civil procedure, complex litigation, federal courts and jurisprudence.
Thomas Wm. Mayo, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law, B.A. (Philosophy), 1971, Amherst College; J.D. (magna cum laude), 1977, Syracuse University College of Law. After law school, where he was editor-in-chief of the Syracuse Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif, Professor Mayo was an associate with the Rochester, New York, firm of Nixon Peabody LLP, after which he served as a law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was then associated with the Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling, where he practiced in the areas of antitrust, securities fraud, communications and election law. Since coming to SMU in 1984, Professor Mayo has previously taught civil procedure, federal courts, land use law, family law, nonprofit organizations, business torts, constitutional law, legislation, election law, and administrative law. He currently teaches health care law; bioethics and law; public health law and ethics; law, literature and medicine; legislation and regulation; and torts. He was elected to membership in the American Law Institute (2012) and is a charter member of the Fellows of the American Health Lawyers Association, and a fellow in the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture. He received SMU’s Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award for 2012–14, and he is a member of SMU’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He also received the 2007–08 SMU President’s Associates Award as the outstanding member of the University’s tenured faculty. He has been awarded the School of Law’s Dr. Don M. Smart Award for Teaching Excellence in three different decades, and in 1988–89, he received the University’s Outstanding Community Volunteer Award for community service. In 2002, he received the Dallas County Medical Society’s Heath Award for outstanding leadership and contributions to medicine. He is also an adjunct professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and since 1989 has been of counsel to Haynes and Boone LLP. Professor Mayo was the longtime poetry columnist for The Dallas Morning News.
Anna A. Mance, Assistant Professor of Law, B.A., 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison; J.D., 2008, University of Miami School of Law; M.S.-MDP, 2016, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Mance’s teaching and scholarly interests are in the areas of environmental law, climate law, international law and development, transnational law, civil procedure, and public governance and accountability. Her recent work assesses the relationship between state capacity to address climate change and private enforcement of environmental law. Prior to joining the SMU Law faculty, Professor Mance served as a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School where she taught Global Federal Litigation and legal research and writing to first year law students. Before joining Stanford, Professor Mance was a litigator at the Miami offices of Aballí Milne Kalil, P.A., focusing on transnational disputes and fraud investigations, and served as Global Counsel for BitPesa, based in Nairobi. Her scholarship is informed by her extensive experience in global environmental health and international development through her work as a Visiting Attorney at the Environmental Law Institute, a Climate Fellow at NRDC, and a post-graduate researcher in Global Environmental Health at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health. Her work has been published in law reviews and interdisciplinary scholarly journals including the Stanford Law Review and The Lancet. She is a member of the bar in Florida and California.
Orly Sulami Mazur, Associate Professor of Law, B.B.A., M.P.A., 2004, (summa cum laude) University of Texas; J.D., 2008, (Order of the Coif) SMU Dedman School of Law; LL.M., 2013, New York University. Professor Mazur is a 2016 recipient of the University’s Golden Mustang Teaching Award and a 2013 recipient of the David F. Bradford Memorial Prize by NYU School of Law for the best paper in the field of taxation. Professor Mazur is a graduate of the SMU Dedman School of Law, where she graduated first in her class and was a member of the SMU Law Review. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, Professor Mazur worked as an associate in the business planning and taxation group at Haynes and Boone, LLP, where she advised clients on tax aspects of securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and other business restructurings, and represented investment funds in their formation, operation and dissolution. Professor Mazur has also worked as a certified public accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, where she focused her practice on international taxation. Professor Mazur has previously taught tax courses at SMU as an adjunct professor and visiting assistant professor and has given short courses on emerging international tax law issues at the International Taxation Academy in Taiwan. Her current research focuses on international and comparative taxation, the intersection of tax law and technology, and tax policy. Professor Mazur teaches a range of tax courses to J.D. and LL.M. students.
Pamela R. Metzger, Director of the Deason Criminal Law Reform Center and Professor of Law, B.A., 1987, Dartmouth College; J.D., 1991, New York University School of Law. Pam Metzger is a nationally recognized expert on the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, public defense, and criminal legal ethics, and her research focuses on combining theory and practice to improve our criminal legal system. Metzger came to SMU in 2017 from Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, where she taught for 16 years. From 2001 to 2008 she directed Tulane’s Criminal Litigation Clinic, becoming a leading voice in reforming the criminal justice system in Louisiana. When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, she fought tirelessly to help 8,000 indigent defendants left incarcerated without legal representation. Metzger’s work has appeared in publications such as the Yale Law Journal, George Washington Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Southern California Law Review, and has been cited by leading authorities and by the United States Supreme Court. She served as an Assistant Federal Defender in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and worked in private criminal practice in New York City. She was also a visiting law professor at Washington and Lee University, where she directed the Alderson Legal Clinic for Women in Prison.
Seema Mohapatra, M.D. Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law (B.A. Natural Sciences with a minor in Women’s Studies, Johns Hopkins University, MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University, J.D., Northwestern University School of Law), is a leading expert in health law and bioethics. Prior to joining SMU, Mohapatra was a tenured professor with over a decade of experience, most recently at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where she twice earned the Dean’s Fellow title and award for outstanding scholarship. Upon graduation from law school, she practiced transactional health law and compliance at two large firms in Chicago, Sidley & Austin and Foley & Lardner. Mohapatra’s research centers around health care equity, the intersection of biosciences and the law, assisted reproduction and surrogacy, reproductive justice, and public health law. Mohapatra’s work has been published in various top law reviews, including the Emory Law Journal, the University of Colorado Law Review, the Harvard Law and Policy Review, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, and numerous peer reviewed journals, such as Hastings Center Report. Mohapatra is a co-investigator on a Making a Difference Grant from the Greenwall Foundation, where she is surveying laws related to periviable births with a focus on how they could be more equitable for nontraditional families. Professor Mohapatra is the co-editor of “Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten” (forthcoming 2023, Cambridge University Press). She is also a co-author of the third edition of the textbook “Reproductive Technologies and the Law” (Carolina Academic Press, 2022). She serves on the Board of Directors of American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and the Ethics Advisory Committee at the UNMC Global Center for Health Security. She also co-chairs the Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy Initiative.
Jason P. Nance, Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law, B.A., 1996, Brigham Young University; M.A., 2000, The Ohio State University; Ph.D., 2002, The Ohio State University; J.D., 2006, University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to arriving at SMU, Dean Nance was the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He also served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at UF Law. He teaches Education Law, Remedies, Torts, and Introduction to Lawyering. He focuses his research on racial inequalities in the public education system, school discipline, the school-to-prison pipeline, students’ rights, and the legal profession. His scholarship has been published in multiple law reviews and peer-reviewed journals. His research has been cited extensively by courts, party and amicus briefs, law journals, books, treatises, and social science journals and featured in numerous national media outlets. In 2022, he and Professor Michael Heise (Cornell Law School) won the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Call for Papers Competition for an article they co-authored. From 2015-2016, Professor Nance served as the reporter for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Joint Task Force on Reversing the School-to-Prison Pipeline, where he co-authored a report and helped draft resolutions aimed to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline nationwide that were adopted by the ABA. Prior to joining the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2011, Professor Nance was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Villanova University School of Law and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics at The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology. He also was a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP for several years and clerked for the Honorable Kent A. Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Before attending graduate school and law school, Professor Nance was a public school math teacher in a large, metropolitan school district in Houston, Texas.
Natalie Nanasi, Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and Associate Professor of Law, B.A., 2000, Brandeis University; J.D., 2006, Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Nanasi’s work involves teaching and supervising students who represent survivors of gender-based violence in a broad range of legal areas, including, humanitarian immigration claims, family law matters, and post-conviction relief. Her scholarship analyzes the intersection of gender and feminist legal theory with humanitarian immigration law and firearms law and policy. Professor Nanasi’s articles have appeared in numerous journals and law reviews, including the Ohio State Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Temple Law Review, Harvard Law & Policy Review, NYU Review of Law and Social Change and Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. Prior to arriving at SMU, Professor Nanasi was a Practitioner-in-Residence and the Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at American University, Washington College of Law (WCL). Before joining the faculty at WCL, she was the Senior Immigration Attorney and Pro Bono Coordinator at the Tahirih Justice Center, where she represented immigrant women and girls fleeing human rights abuses such as female genital mutilation/cutting, domestic violence, human trafficking, forced marriage, honor crimes and sexual violence. She also served as counsel in the landmark asylum case of Matter of A-T- and as an Equal Justice Works Fellow from 2007-2009. Prior to her work at Tahirih, Professor Nanasi was a law clerk to the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz of the District of Columbia Superior Court. Before her legal career, Professor Nanasi was a rape crisis counselor and assisted single teenage mothers at a transitional residence facility in Boston.
Joseph Jude Norton, James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor in Financial Institutions Law, A.B., 1966, Providence College; LL.B., 1969, University of Edinburgh; LL.M., 1970, University of Texas; S.J.D., 1973, University of Michigan; Diplôme (droit privé), 1976, Hague Academy of International Law; D.Phil. (law), 1995, Oxford University; LLD (h.c.), 2002, University of Stockholm; LLD, 2005, University of London. Professor Norton primarily teaches domestic and international business and banking-related courses along with courses on international economic development law. He holds the James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellowship and Professorship in Financial Institutions Law at the School of Law, where he has been a tenured full professor of law since 1981 and an adjunct professor since 1973. He jointly held the Sir John Lubbock Professorship in Banking Law and head of the International Financial Law Unit at the University of London from 1993 until 2005, and he was the Cameron Professorial Fellow in Banking Law at London in 1988–93. In the spring 2005 term, he held the Nomura Distinguished Visiting Professorship in International Financial Systems at the Harvard Law School. In 1999–2001, he held the Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished University Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, where he was co-founder of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law. He currently holds visiting university professorships at the Peking University Law Faculty and the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He previously held a chaired visiting professorship at the Banking Law Center, University of Johannesburg (RAU) South Africa; a visiting professorial fellowship at the Mandela Institute, Wits University, Johannesburg; and a professorial fellowship in financial law and institutions at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London). In addition, he held a visiting professorship position at the University of Muenster Law Faculty for eight years, and he was a visiting professor at Soochow University Law Faculty, Taipei. He was the editor-in-chief on the International Lawyer journal for 14 years, and he is currently editor-in-chief of the Law and Business Review of the Americas. He is general editor of three major international book series, and he sits on the advisory boards of five international journals. In September 2001, he was honored with a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Stockholm in recognition of such accomplishments; and in 2005, he was awarded an earned LL.D. degree from the University of London for his writings in 1996–2001. He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy (law) degree in international banking from Oxford University, and a Doctor of the Science of Law degree in international and European Community law from the University of Michigan Law School. He has published more than 50 books and 150 articles on related subjects, and he has lectured on banking and finance law, international business law, financial sector reform and corporate/enterprise governance issues worldwide. He has practical experience with international and domestic (U.S.) banking and capital markets transactions; international financial regulatory matters; bank, corporate and asset restructuring; asset securitization; and enterprise governance respecting small, medium-sized, “publicly held” and multinational enterprises. He has consulted with a broad range of governmental and intergovernmental authorities worldwide, including the World Bank; the International Monetary Fund; the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the Korean government; the South African Development Community; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Bank of Thailand; the Bank of England; and the Czech, Estonian and Mauritian banking authorities. He has served as a member of the World Bank/IMF Core Consultative Group Bank Insolvency Initiative and of the London Financial Law Panel, and is currently on the Banking Panel of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. He also has served as an academic consultant to the Latin American Association of Bank Supervisors and to the International Association of Deposit Insurers, and as an adviser with respect to the Thai, Korean and Indonesian financial crises in the mid-1990s. He has successfully supervised more than 40 Ph.D. (law)/S.J.D. students during the past two decades and is currently supervising or cosupervising four doctoral students. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Commercial Lawyers and the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, and he holds the Martindale Hubbell AV (highest professional lawyer) rating. He has served as a corporate/banking partner (director) of a major Texas law firm; as a consultant to several other major Texas law firms, working for two of these at their London offices; as a member of the American Bar Association and Texas Banking committees; as a council member of the ABA’s International Law and Practice Section; and as a member of the United Kingdom/International Chamber of Commerce Banking Committee. He is founder and director of SMU’s Institute of International Banking and Finance and of the reactivated SMU Law Institute of the Americas. For 10 years, he was the director of SMU’s annual Institutes of Banking Law, Commercial Lending and Finance, and of Lender Liability, and for four years, of SMU’s Bankruptcy Law Institute. He is a member of the Advisory Board to the SMU Tower Center for Political Studies. He is a former president, and for 11 years, he was a member of the board of directors of the North Central Texas Legal Service (for the poor). Professor Norton is the founder and executive director of the London (now Global) Forum for International Economic Development Law. He has produced 55 books and more than 155 articles, and he has presented more than 120 papers in 26 countries. His current research interests concern global and U.S. financial sector reform, the reform of international economic and financial institutions/arrangements, comparative and global corporate governance issues, and inadvertent liabilities in enterprise relationships. His most recent books include Law, Culture and Economic Development: A Liber Amicorum for Professor Roberto MacLean (2007); Corporate Governance Post-Enron: Comparative and International Perspectives (2006); Universalism v. Multilateralism: Policy Challenges for the 21st Century (2005); Festschrift for Sir Joseph Gold (2002); and Financial Sector Law Reform in Emerging Economies (2000).
Anna C. Offit, Assistant Professor of Law, B.A., 2008, Princeton University (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude); M.Phil., 2009, University of Cambridge; J.D., 2012, Georgetown University Law Center; Ph.D., 2018, Princeton University. Professor Offit’s teaching and research interests span criminal law, evidence, comparative law, legal ethics, law and society, and anthropology. She has applied empirical research methods to the study of prosecutorial ethics and lay participation in legal systems, and as a Fulbright scholar to Norway observed and analyzed the abolition of all-layperson juries in appellate criminal cases. Professor Offit served as a law clerk at the Department of Justice’s Office for Civil Rights throughout law school as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Prior to joining SMU Law’s faculty, Professor Offit served as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Oslo’s Department of Public and International Law, a Graduate Prize Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and as a post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Civil Jury Project at New York University School of Law. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S.-Norway Fulbright Foundation, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Lois Roth Foundation. Professor Offit’s work has been published in law reviews and interdisciplinary journals including the Northwestern University Law Review, the Washington Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Fordham Law Review, the UC Irvine Law Review, and the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, among others. She is a member of the bar in New York and New Jersey, and of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.
Carla L. Reyes, Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Law, B.A., 2004, Whitworth University; J.D., 2009, Duke University School of Law; LLM (International and Comparative Law), 2009, Duke University School of Law; MPP, 2009, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy. Professor Reyes’ research and teaching interests include business law (commercial and corporate), and emerging technology, including blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. Particularly well respected for her scholarly contributions at the intersection of business law and blockchain technology, Professor Reyes has published articles in the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Washington Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, and the Fordham Law Review, among others, was appointed by Texas Governor Abbot in 2021 to serve as the Chair of the legislatively created Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters, and recognized as one of the American Bar Association Legal Resource Center’s 2020 Women of Legal Technology. Professor Reyes currently serves as the Research Director of the Uniform Law Commission’s Technology Committee, as co-Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code (with University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Tosato), an Expert Member of the UNIDROIT Work Group on Digital Assets and Private Law, an Expert Member of the UNIDROIT Work Group on Best Practices for Effective Enforcement, leadership positions related to the uniform commercial code and legal analytics at the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, and leadership positions related to business law and technology law at Association of American Law Schools. Prior to joining the faculty of the SMU Dedman School of Law, Professor Reyes served as an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Technology & Innovation at Michigan State University College of Law from 2018-2020, a Faculty Associate at the Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Law & Society from 2017-2019, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law from 2016-2018. Prior to law teaching, Professor Reyes practiced law in the Technology, Transactions and Privacy group of Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle, Washington, where she focused on payments law, electronic financial services, and blockchain technology.
C. Paul Rogers III, Marilyn Jeanne Johnson Distinguished Law Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law and former Dean, B.A., 1970, J.D., 1973, University of Texas; LL.M., 1977, Columbia University. Professor Rogers practiced law in Pennsylvania before accepting the Krulewitch Fellowship for graduate law study from Columbia University Law School. He subsequently joined the faculty of Loyola University of Chicago and came to SMU in 1980. He has published articles in the areas of antitrust law, contracts, commercial law, regulated industries and legal history and has coauthored an antitrust casebook, Antitrust Law: Policy & Practice, now in its fourth edition. He has also taught courses in contracts, antitrust law, business torts and sales of goods transactions and served SMU School of Law as associate dean for academic affairs in 1982–86 and as dean in 1988–97. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation and the Dallas Bar Foundation. Professor Rogers is the University’s faculty athletic representative, representing SMU before the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the American Athletic Conference. He previously served on the NCAA’s Academic, Eligibility and Compliance Cabinet and is currently on its Football Oversight Committee.
Julie Forrester Rogers, Professor of Law, B.S.E.E., 1981 (summa cum laude), J.D., 1985 (magna cum laude), The University of Texas at Austin. During law school, Professor Rogers was a member of the Texas Law Review, Chancellors, and Order of the Coif, and upon graduation, she achieved the highest score on the February 1986 Texas Bar Exam. After law school, Professor Rogers practiced as a real estate attorney with the Dallas law firm of Thompson & Knight before joining SMU’s law faculty in 1990. She teaches in the areas of Property, Real Estate Transactions, and Land Use. She writes and speaks on real estate finance, the residential mortgage market, predatory lending, and other topics in real property law. She was one of the first legal scholars to write about the problem of predatory lending in the subprime mortgage market, and she was awarded the John Minor Wisdom Award for Academic Excellence in 1995 for her first predatory lending article. She is co-author of a property law casebook, Property Law: Cases, Materials and Questions, with W. Kieth Robinson and the late Edward E. Chase. Professor Rogers served the University as Associate Provost for Student Academic Services from 2015 through 2018, overseeing the Altshuler Learning Enhancement Center, the Center for Academic Support of Student Athletes, the Office of International Student and Scholar Services, the President’s Scholars Program, the Hunt Scholars Program, the University’s Study Abroad Programs, the SMU-in-Taos campus, and SMU’s Plano campus. Professor Rogers served as Dean ad interim of the law school from June 2013, through June 2014, as faculty coordinator for the University’s OE2C project from 2014 through 2015, and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the law school from 1995 to 1996. Professor Rogers is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and she is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the Dallas Bar Foundation. She served on the executive committee of the American Association of Law Schools Real Estate Transactions Section from 2010 through 2016, chairing the section in 2015. She served as a member of the Texas State Bar Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section Council from 2015 to 2019, and she served on the section’s committee that drafted the Texas Assignment of Rents Act, which became law in 2011. She currently serves as Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Mortgage Modification Act Drafting Committee.
Eric Ruben, Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Law, B.A., 2003, Dartmouth College; J.D., 2007, NYU School of Law. Professor Ruben’s research and teaching interests include criminal law, professional responsibility, and the Second Amendment. He is a prominent commentator on the right to keep and bear arms, publishing articles in the California Law Review (forthcoming), Duke Law Journal, Yale Law Journal Forum, and Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, as well as popular outlets such as The Atlantic, New York Times, Vox, Jurist, and various legal blogs. Prior to joining SMU, he was a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. Before that, Professor Ruben worked as a criminal defense attorney at Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello, P.C. and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Julio M. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He received his J.D. from NYU School of Law, where he was an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review, and his B.A. from Dartmouth College, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Meghan J. Ryan, Co-Director of The Tsai Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law, A.B., 2002, Harvard University, J.D., 2005, University of Minnesota. Professor Ryan is an award-winning teacher and scholar working at the intersection of criminal law and procedure, torts, and law and science. Her current research focuses on the impact of evolving science, technology, and cultural values on criminal convictions and punishments, as well as on civil liability and remedies. This includes research on forensic science, wrongful convictions, sentencing, cruel & unusual punishments, and toxic torts. Professor Ryan received her A.B., magna cum laude, in Chemistry from Harvard University. . She earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and received the American Law Institute-American Bar Association Scholarship and Leadership Award. She was a member of both the Minnesota Law Review and the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade. After graduation, Professor Ryan clerked for the Honorable Roger L. Wollman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She also worked as an associate in the trial group at the Minneapolis-based law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, where she focused her practice on commercial and intellectual property litigation, as well as on white-collar defense and compliance. Additionally, Professor Ryan has conducted research in the areas of bioinorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and experimental therapeutics at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, Professor Ryan taught at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Mary Spector, Associate Dean for Clinics, Director of Civil/Consumer Clinic, and Professor of Law, B.A., 1979, Simmons College; J.D., 1986, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Professor Spector is a 2009 recipient of the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Section’s Bellow Scholar Award, the University’s Golden Mustang Teaching Award and the School of Law’s Don Smart Directed Student Research Award. She was a law clerk to Judge Jerry Buchmeyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas before joining the Dallas law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as an associate. She served as a member of the adjunct faculty from fall 1991 to spring 1995. During that time, she served as a supervising attorney with the SMU Legal Clinic and as a field instructor with the SMU/Legal Services of North Texas externship program. She has served on the board of directors of several community organizations and as a member of the Consumer Law Section Council of the State Bar, the Legal Education Subcommittee of the Texas Access to Justice Commission and the United States District Court Advisory Committee for the Northern District of Texas. She has testified before Congress and before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on matters relating to debt collection and credit reporting. She teaches consumer law and directs the Civil/Consumer Clinic. Professor Spector writes in the area of property law, clinical teaching and consumer credit. Her current research focuses on consumer debt, including student loans, and uses empirical research to explore trends in collection.
Marc I. Steinberg, Rupert and Lillian Radford Chair in Law and Professor of Law, A.B., 1972, University of Michigan; J.D., 1975, UCLA; LL.M., 1977, Yale University. Following law school, Professor Steinberg served as law clerk to Judge Stanley N. Barnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and as legislative counsel to U.S. Senator Robert P. Griffin. He subsequently served as special projects counsel and confidential legal adviser to the general counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Before joining the SMU law faculty, Professor Steinberg was professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law, visiting professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, visiting associate professor at the National Law Center, George Washington University, and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. More recently, he has been a visiting professor of law at UCLA and University of Miami. In addition, he has lectured and consulted on company law in Australia, Austria, China, England, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and Taiwan. He also has held the title of visiting professorial fellow in international securities regulation for the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at the University of London, as well as visiting professor of law at Heidelberg University, Bar Ilan University, and a number of other premier universities. Professor Steinberg is the author of more than 150 law review articles as well as 40 books. His Oxford University Press book Rethinking Securities Law was awarded Winner Best Law Book in the United States for 2021 by American Book Fest. He is editor-in-chief of the Securities Regulation Law Journal and co-editor-in-chief of The International Lawyer. He is on the advisory board of The Journal of Corporation Law and is a member of the American Law Institute. He teaches in the corporate and securities law areas.
Jennifer Rangel Stagen, Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy, B.A. with high honors, 1994, University of Texas at Austin, J.D., 1997, University of Texas School of Law. Before joining the law faculty at SMU, Professor Stagen was a partner with a noted Dallas appellate firm. While there, she worked side-by-side with distinguished former Texas Supreme Court and Dallas Court of Appeals justices, prevailing in some of the most significant and high-profile appeals in the State of Texas. In addition, Professor Stagen was a partner at a litigation firm in Dallas, where she specialized in securities litigation. Professor Stagen currently teaches Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy at SMU.
Heather L. Stobaugh, Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy, B. A., 1994 (magna cum laude), University of Texas at Dallas; M.A., 1997 (magna cum laude), University of Texas at Dallas; J.D., 2003 (cum laude), Southern Methodist University. After graduation, she was an associate at Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal in Dallas. She practiced primarily in the areas of securities law and business litigation, and she served as outside general counsel to a major telecommunications provider. Stobaugh also has represented numerous pro bono clients, including a renowned nonprofit animal welfare organization for which she wrote an amicus brief that resulted in a favorable interpretation of a revised Texas statute. In law school, Stobaugh was a member of the SMU Law Review and Order of the Coif. She also received awards for best student law review comment and best brief. Stobaugh was inducted as a faculty member into the Order of the Barristers, and in 2019, she received the Distinguished Faculty Award by the Women in Law organization. Her current teaching area is legal research, writing and advocacy.
Diane M. Sumoski, Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic, Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Institute for Children’s Rights and Clinical Professor, B.A., 1984, Franklin & Marshall College; J.D., 1987, Cornell Law School (cum laude). Sumoski, in her clinical course, teaches child welfare law as well as investigative, case preparation and oral and written advocacy skills. Sumoski is board certified in Child Welfare Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Upon graduation from law school, she began her legal career at the Dallas law firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal LLP, where she became a partner in 1993. Sumoski served as pro bono partner at Carrington Coleman for 15 years and supervised associates in all family law pro bono cases at the firm. She also served on the firm’s executive committee for five years. Sumoski is a member of the Training Committee for the Supreme Court of Texas’Children’s Commission. She is also serving on the Commission’s Standards of Representation Committee. She recently served on the Advisory Committee for a Child Welfare Law Specialty and then as a member of the Child Welfare Law Exam Commission for the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. She was a member of the inaugural board of directors of the Region 3 Foster Care Consortium and served on the Board of Directors of Legal Aid of Northwest Texas. She has held numerous leadership positions in the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, including director of the section’s Public Service Division, chair of the Expert Witnesses Committee, chair of the Woman Advocate Committee, chair of the Special Committee of the Future of Multidistrict Litigation and co-chair for the section’s annual meeting. Sumoski also has served as chair of the Host Committee for the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference. Sumoski served for eight years as a member of the board of directors of the Dallas Bar Association. She has served as chair of numerous DBA committees, resulting in her being awarded with the JoAnna Moreland Outstanding Committee Chair award in both 2008 (for her service as the chair of the Pro Bono Activities Committee) and 2012 (for her service as chair of the Judiciary Committee). She currently serves as co-chair of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Committee and vice-chair of the Law in the Schools Committee. In 2021, Sumoski received the DBA’s Kim J. Askew Distinguished Public Service Award for her lifelong service to the bar and the community. With respect to her pro bono efforts in private practice, Sumoski received the Women’s Legal Advocacy Award from Legal Services of Northwest Texas in 2010 for her work benefiting women and children and the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program’s award for Outstanding Pro Bono Coordinator in 1998 and 2005. She also served as chair of the DBA’s Equal Access to Justice Campaign, which raises funds to support pro bono legal services to the poor as provided through the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and Legal Services of Northwest Texas. Professor Sumoski’s article “Bridging the Gender Gap” was published in The Litigation Manual (First Supplement 2007). She has also given numerous presentations at American Bar Association meetings and Dallas Bar Association meetings, publishing companion pieces and is a frequent speaker on child welfare law. She is admitted to practice law in all districts of Texas as well as in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and is a life fellow in the Dallas Bar Foundation, Texas Bar Foundation, and American Bar Foundation.
Joshua C. Tate, Professor of Law, B.A. 1996, Pomona College; M.A., 2000, M.Phil., 2001, Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; J.D., 2002, Yale Law School; Ph.D., 2009, Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Professor Tate’s research and teaching focus on legal history, property, and trusts and estates. He has been a full-time faculty member at SMU Dedman School of Law since fall 2005, and he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in spring 2008. In fall 2012, he was a Lloyd M. Robbins Senior Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, serves as the Selden Society as a member of the Council and as Honorary Treasurer for the U.S.A., and is a past chair of the Uniform Acts for Trust and Estate Law Committee for the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section and the Sutherland Prize Committee for the American Society for Legal History. Professor Tate has given invited presentations at numerous academic conferences, colloquia and workshops in the United States and abroad. From 2013 to 2015, he gave a series of more than sixty lectures in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. His recent book Power and Justice in Medieval England: The Law of Patronage and the Royal Courts (Yale University Press, 2022) is a study of the development of property rights and remedies in medieval England, focusing on issues of jurisdictional conflict with regard to rights of presentation to churches. Professor Tate is admitted to practice in Texas and Connecticut.
David O. Taylor, Co-Director of The Tsai Center for Law, Science & Innovation, and Professor of Law, B.S. (mechanical engineering), 1999, Texas A&M University (magna cum laude); J.D., 2003, Harvard University (cum laude). At Harvard Law School, Professor Taylor was a member of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. After graduation from law school, Professor Taylor clerked for the Honorable Sharon Prost of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, he also worked in the intellectual property department of the law firm of Baker Botts LLP in its Dallas office. While at Baker Botts, Professor Taylor engaged in patent prosecution, patent licensing, and patent litigation in various district courts and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also assisted with various advanced patent law courses at SMU and successfully represented clients in pro bono matters, including before the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals. Professor Taylor has served on various committees and task forces of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and as an officer of both the Computer Law Section and the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association. He is a founding member of The Honorable Barbara M.G. Lynn American Inn of Court. He has served on the Advisory Council for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also is the founding editor of FedCircuitBlog. He regularly serves as a consultant regarding appeals to the Federal Circuit, and he has served as an expert witness before domestic and international tribunals on matters pertaining to intellectual property and contract disputes. Professor Taylor has published articles in law reviews at New York University, Georgia, Connecticut, University of California Davis, Michigan State, Mississippi, Tennessee, SMU, and Temple, in intellectual property journals at University of California Berkeley, Texas, Fordham, and Santa Clara, and in a book published by Cambridge University Press. He has testified before the Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on matters relating to patent law. His scholarship focuses on patent law, patent policy, patent litigation, and civil procedure. Professor Taylor teaches contracts, intellectual property, patent law and advanced patent law courses. He serves as a faculty advisor for the SMU Science and Technology Law Review and the SMU student chapter of the Federalist Society, and he is an Honorary Barrister of the SMU Board of Advocates.
Jenia Iontcheva Turner, Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professor in Criminal Law and Professor of Law, B.A. (international relations), 1999, Goucher College; Caplan Scholar, Cambridge University, 1997–98; J.D., 2002, Yale Law School. At Yale Law School, Professor Turner was a Coker Fellow and articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. In 2000, she was a summer clerk at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and, the following summer, she worked at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Houston and the New York and Paris offices of Debevoise & Plimpton. In 2002–04, Professor Turner served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught legal research and writing and comparative criminal procedure. Her teaching and scholarship interests include criminal law and procedure, comparative criminal procedure and international criminal law. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of over thirty law review articles and book chapters, as well as three books: Plea Bargaining Across Borders (2009); The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (with Darryl K. Brown and Bettina Weisser, 2019) and Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (with Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright, and Kay L. Levine, 6th ed. 2019).
Jessica Dixon Weaver, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law, B.A., 1992, University of Pennsylvania; J.D., 1995, University of Virginia. While at the University of Virginia School of Law, Professor Weaver served as notes development editor of the Virginia Law Review. Professor Weaver teaches Family Law, Advanced Family Law, Professional Responsibility, and Children and the Law. She joined the tenure track faculty in 2009 and became the first African American female to earn tenure at SMU Dedman School of Law in 2015. Prior to being on tenure track, Professor Weaver was the founding director of and she was recognized as an Extraordinary Minority in Texas Law for her work as clinic director and a child advocate. She is an expert in family law regulation (also known as child welfare law) and the intersection of race, gender, and family law. Her current research and scholarship focus is the impact of slavery laws, race, and gender on marriage and divorce in the antebellum era. She also theorizes about multi-generational living and intergenerational caregiving for elders and children. Professor Weaver’s scholarship has been published most recently in the Yale Law Journal Forum and in law journals at University of California - Berkeley, University of Virginia, William and Mary, Washington University, Fordham, Washington and Lee, and Tulane. She is the co-author of two books, Family Law Simulations: Bridge to Practice (West Academic, 2021) and Contemporary Family Law, 6th ed. (West Academic, forthcoming 2023). She has received numerous awards at SMU, including the 2019-20 and 2020-21 Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Research Fellowship from SMU Dedman School of Law, the 2019 Gerald J. Ford Senior Research Fellowship, and the 2020-21 Thomas W. Tunks Distinguished University Citizen Award. From 2021- 2023, Professor Weaver was the chair of a university-wide Task Force on Social Justice and Equity, which is charged with exploring various ways that SMU can expand faculty research, scholarship, and student opportunities within social justice and equity movements.
Leo Yu, Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy, LL.B., 2010, Dongguan University of Technology; LL.M., 2013, Southern Methodist University School of Law; J.D., 2015, Southern Methodist University School of Law (cum laude). Professor Leo Yu obtained his J.D. and LL.M from SMU Dedman School of Law. After law school, he joined the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America, where he litigated a series of federal cases involving complex civil rights and constitutional issues. He then joined the City of Dallas as a Senior Assistant City Attorney, and he handled cases relating to land use, environmental violations, and public nuisance. Professor Yu’s primary research interests are civil rights litigation and Asian American Jurisprudence. He has published articles and op-eds on the systemic discriminations against the Asian community, and his research connects geopolitical tensions and immigrants’ racial identities in America. Also, as an educator who received legal educations from the U.S. and China, he is fully bilingual, and passionate about comparative law issues between Asia and the U.S., and the legal education for foreign attorneys in America. Professor Yu held multiple leadership positions at the Bar. He served as a director of the Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) from 2021 to 2023, representing young attorneys in the Dallas area. Professor Yu is a frequent speaker and moderator on civil rights, equality, and diversity issues. He is the creator of the Podcast, Plead the Fifth (Cir.), a platform for attorneys to discuss the Fifth Circuit’s jurisprudence on constitutional issues and criminal justice reform.
Mary Spector, B.A., J.D., Associate Dean for Clinics, Director of Civil/Consumer Clinic, and Professor of Law
Natalie Nanasi, B.A., J.D., Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and Associate Professor of Law
Chante Brantley, B.S., M.S., J.D., Director of the VanSickle Family Law Clinic and Clinical Professor
Diane M. Sumoski, B. A., J.D., Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic, Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Institute for Children’s Rights and Clinical Professor
Kandace Walter, B.S., J.D., Associate Professor of Law, Small Business and Trademark Clinic
Thomas Leatherbury, B.A., J.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law, First Amendment Clinic
Michael McCollum, LL.B., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law, Criminal Clinic
Greg Mitchell, B.S., J.D., LL.M., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law, Federal Tax Clinic
Debora Garcia Sanchez, B.A. J.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law, Criminal Clinic
Eliot Shavin, B.A., J.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law, Civil Clinic
Osman Siddiq, B.S., J.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law, Patent Clinic
Melissa Cason, Law Fellow, W.W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic
Demetrice Lopez, Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women
Peter Steffensen, Law Fellow, First Amendment Clinic
The Honorable Brandon Birmingham, 292 Judicial District Court for Dallas County
The Honorable Xiomara Davis-Gumbs, U.S. Immigration Judge, U.S. Department of Justice
The Honorable A. Joe Fish, United States Senior District Judge for the Northern District of Texas
Bryan A. Garner, President of LawProse Inc.
The Honorable H. DeWayne Hale, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas
The Honorable Kimberly C. Priest Johnson, United States Magistrate Judge for the Easter District of Texas
The Honorable Christine A. Nowak, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Roy Ryden Anderson, B.A., J.D., LL.M., Professor Emeritus of Law
Maureen N. Armour, B.A., M.S.W, J.D., Professor Emeritus of Law
William J. Bridge, B.S.F.S., J.D., Professor Emeritus of Law
Gail Daly, B.A, M.A, J.D., Professor Emeritus of Law
William V. Dorsaneo, III, B.A, J.D, Professor Emeritus of Law
Linda S. Eads, B.A., J.D., Professor Emeritus of Law
Jeffrey M. Gaba, B.A., J.D., M.P.H, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Law
Ndiva Kofele-Kale, B.A, M.A, J.D. Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Law
Henry J. Lischer, Jr, B.B.A., J.D., LL.M., Professor Emeritus of Law
John S. Lowe, George W. Hutchison Chair in Energy Law Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law
Charles J. Morris, B.A., LL.B., Professor Emeritus of Law
Frederick C. Moss, A.B., J.D., LL.M., Professor Emeritus of Law
Victoria Palacios, J.D., Professor Emeritus of Law
Kenneth L. Penegar, A.B., J.D., LL.M., Professor Emeritus of Law
Walter W. Steele, Jr, LL.B., Professor Emeritus of Law
Elizabeth G. Thornburg, B.A., J.D., Professor Emeritus of Law
Harvey Wingo, B.A., M.A., J.D., Vinson & Elkins Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Law
Peter Winship, A.B., LL.B., LL.M., Professor Emeritus of Law
Note: The list of faculty adjuncts provided here is advisory only. In any given term, a particular adjunct may not be able to teach because of other commitments. This is especially true because many of SMU’s adjuncts are professionals or scholars who are in high demand throughout Dallas and the nation.
| Reeni Ann Abraham |
Lucas G. Henry |
Philip B. Philbin |
| Geoffrey Amsel |
Eric Hinton |
Ellen A. Presby |
| Rebecca Armstrong |
Charles M. Hosch |
Sally L. Pretorius |
| Blake A. Bailey |
Greg Hudson |
Shane Read |
| Jay Balfour |
Paul B. Hunker, III |
Kathleen Lydia Reed |
| Daniel Baucum |
Clifton Hutchinson |
Stuart Reynolds |
| Misty Birdsong |
Tom Jackson |
George Rodriguez |
| Matthew Beard |
Brett Johnson |
Michelle Saenz-Rodriguez |
| Shelby L Bobosky |
Kimberly Johnson |
Debra Garcia Sanchez |
| Laura G. Burstein |
Richard Jay Johnson |
Christa Sanford |
| Martin L. Camp |
Racheal Jones |
Steven H. Schulman |
| David W. Carstens |
Per Juvkam-Wold |
Eliot Shavin |
| Wilson Chu |
Christian Kelso |
Shamoil Shipchandler |
| Daniel Clark |
Thomas Kimbrough |
Bart Showalter |
| David B. Coffin |
Elish J. Kobre |
Ronald F. Shuff |
| Robert Colwell |
Justin L. Koplow |
David A. Silva |
| John M. Cone |
Kent C. Krause |
Jeffrey B. Simon |
| John M. Cox |
Doug Land |
Steven Smathers |
| James Creedon |
Gary M. Lawrence |
Jordan C. Strauss |
| Liz Dahm |
Christine Leatherberry |
Harry W. Sullivan, Jr. |
| Jason Daniel |
Thomas Leatherberry |
Daniel Syed |
| William Dawkins |
Michael Louis |
Elizabeth Lee Thompson |
| James A. Deeken |
Jay J. Madrid |
Don Tittle |
| Steve Doyle |
Ernest Martin, Jr. |
Andrew Van Noord |
| Dennis B. Drapkin |
Mike McCollum |
J. Brian Vanderwoude |
| William Drexel |
David L. McCombs |
Kay L. Van Wey |
| Andrew S. Ehmke |
Patsy Yung Micale |
Kevin Vela |
| Sander L. Esserman |
Marisa J. Miller |
John Vernon |
| C. W. Flynn |
Jared Miller |
Brandi Wade |
| Jay G. Finklestein |
Joshua Mishoe |
Cassie Walker |
| David C. Gair |
Greg Mitchell |
Kandace Walter |
| Timothy Gallina |
B. Tyler Milton |
Timothy L. Watson |
| Randy Gordon |
Paige Holden Montgomery |
Glenn D. West |
| Erica Gilley Green |
Scott Montopoli |
Bill Whitehill |
| Rebecca A. Gregory |
Christopher Nolland |
Russell Wilson, II |
| Joseph F. Guida |
Gerald N. Olson |
Tracy Graves Wolf |
| Susan M. Halpern |
David J. Parsons |
Erik B. Wulff |
| Amanda Harvey |
Michael D. Pegues |
Donna Wolff |
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