Jason P. Nance, Dean, Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law
Christine Hurt, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in Corporate, Partnership, and Securities Law and Professor of Law
Greg Ivy, Associate Dean for Library and Technology
Mary Spector, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning
Jessica Dixon Weaver, Associate Dean for Research
Laura G. Burstein, Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono
Martin L. Camp, Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs
John Churchill, Assistant Dean for Marketing and Strategic Communications
Marcie Davis, Assistant Dean for Career Services
Erica S. Fadel, Assistant Dean for Cultural Intelligence
Christine Powers Leatherberry, Assistant Dean for Administration and Chief of Staff
Jill Nikirk, Assistant Dean for Admissions
Stephen B. Yeager, Assistant Dean for Students Affairs
Gregory L. Ivy, Associate Dean of Library and Technology and Senior Lecturer
Donna Wolff, Associate Director of Underwood Library and Clinical Professor of Legal Research
Thomas Kimbrough, Associate Director for Collection Development and Clinical Professor of Legal Research
Cassie Rae Walker, Assistant Director for Scholarly Initiatives, Director of Advocacy Programs and Clinical Professor of Legal Research
Timothy Gallina, Director of Legal Technology Instruction and Clinical Professor of Legal Research
Angela R. Jones, Senior Technical Services Librarian
Audrah Bartel, Library Specialist (Circulation Desk)
David Black, Library Specialist (Technical Services)
Shannon DeKat, Library Specialist (Technical Services)
Marja Pietilainen-Rom, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian (Technical Services)
Winston Tubb Jr., Circulation/Collection Manager
Sandra Heads-Thorpe, Library Specialist (Circulation Desk)
Christopher Molinar, Library Specialist (Circulation Desk)
Jennifer Staggs, Library Specialist (Circulation Desk)
Laura Amberson, Registrar
Cristela Barillas, Clinic Assistant
Rebekah Bell, Assistant Director, Special Events
Claudia Beltran, Coordinator, Office of Career Services
Malia Brink, Senior Policy Attorney, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Tina Brosseau, Executive Assistant to the Dean, Dean’s Office
Rosemond Odoom Cann, TaLibra Ferguson, Administrative Assistant
Gloria Carranza, Legal Assistant, Legal Clinics
Moira Cary, Associate Director, Recruiting and Events, Office of Career Services Caitlin Charles, Research Specialist, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Emma Cedillo, Communications Specialist
Courtney Cowan, Associate Director, Office of Admissions
Albreesha Culberson, Program Specialist, Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership
Andrew Davies, Director of Research, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Nikki Daoust, Marketing & Communications Specialist
Lynn Dempsey, Director of External Relations
C. Ashley Ellis, Director of Alumni Relations
Clayton Ellis, Director of Development
TaLibra Ferguson, Administrative Assistant, The International Lawyer and Faculty
Christopher Garza, Administrative Assistant, Registrar’s Office and Faculty
Vanessa Gonzalez, Administrative Assistant, Legal Clinics
Kimalee Grace, Assistant Registrar
Natalie Thompson Greco, Director of Programs and Operations, Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation
Caroline Hausman, Data Record Coordinator, Office of Admissions
Shuntavia Hearne, Administrative Assistant, Faculty
Bobbye Heine, Assistant Director, Graduate and International Programs
Eric Hinton, Director, Robert B. Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership
Pamela Hodge, Dean’s Suite Coordinator
Beth Lee, Director, Corporate and Private Sector Development, Office of Career Services
Lisa Montes, Legal Assistant, Legal Clinics
Lynn Moubry, Administrative Assistant, Public Service and Academic Success
Mary Beth Nielsen, Senior Associate Director, Judicial Opportunities, Recruiting and Events, Office of Career Services
Lisa Ponce, Coordinator, Law Reviews
Mackenzie Salenger, Career Advisor, LL.Ms and SJDs, Office of Career Services
Cynthia Romero, Legal Assistant, Legal Clinics
Avery Lupton, Advancement Associate, Alumni and Development
Tania Siddiqi, Law Clerk, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Shelby Sirivore, Research Project Coordinator, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Blane Skiles, Director of Communications, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Victoria Smiegocki, Research Project Manager, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Bob Weathersby, Director, Large Firms, Office of Career Services
Beth Williams, Chief Operating Officer and Administrative Director, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Faculty Law Fellows
Melissa Cason, W.W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic Faculty Law Fellow
Demetrice Lopez, Hunter Center Faculty Law Fellow
Peter Steffensen, Assistant Director of the First Amendment Clinic, Faculty Law Fellow, and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law
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Laura Abelson, Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Abelson’s research interests center on criminal procedure, evidence and criminal law. In particular, she examines ways in which prosecutors, judges, and policy makers rely on poorly defined, untested or underappreciated criminal law norms and theories that can lead to perverse outcomes and unanticipated social harms. Her newest scholarship is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review and the U.C. Irvine Law Review. Professor Abelson served as a Research Fellow at the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, where she partnered with staff to use empirical and experimental methods to critically examine various criminal justice policies and practices and their unintended or unexpected effects. Prior to transitioning to full-time academia, Professor Abelson served for eight years as an assistant federal public defender in Maryland, where she represented indigent clients in all stages of felony trial proceedings and violations of probation and supervised release. She also taught criminal procedure and legal writing at both the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the University of Baltimore School of Law as an adjunct professor and spent several years as a civil rights litigator in private practice. Professor Abelson received an A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University, in Public and International Affairs, and earned her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law.
Hillel J. Bavli, Associate Professor of Law. Hillel J. Bavli is an Associate Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. His teaching and scholarship interests are primarily in the fields of evidence and torts, and he is particularly interested in applications of statistics to law. Professor Bavli’s current work includes a book on character evidence (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and a number of empirical studies. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Legal Studies and Law, Probability & Risk, as well as in law reviews such as the Stanford Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and U.C. Davis Law Review. He also serves on various panels and committees related to his areas of scholarship. His recent service includes, for example, memberships on the American Statistical Association Advisory Committee on Forensic Science, the AALS Section on Evidence Executive Committee, and a government-sponsored panel organized to review and improve proposed standards related to DNA testimony. Professor Bavli received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and his Ph.D. in Statistics in Law and Government from Harvard University. He also holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Economics from Boston University. He 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 also held a fellowship at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science and a visiting fellowship at the Yale Law School Center for Private Law.
Thomas B. Bennett, Associate Professor of Law. Thomas B. Bennett joined SMU Dedman School of Law from the University of Missouri, where he was Associate Professor of Law and Wall Family Fellow and enjoyed a joint appointment at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. He joins the SMU faculty as Associate Professor of Law in fall 2024. Professor Bennett’s research focuses on how complex civil litigation strains the relationship between state and federal courts and impacts the separation of powers. Professor Bennett’s scholarship has appeared or will appear in the NYU Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Missouri Law Review, and the Kentucky Law Journal, and has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the University of Missouri faculty in 2020, he was a Furman Academic Fellow at NYU School of Law and spent four years in private practice litigating appeals, complex civil cases, and administrative matters. Professor Bennett is also a former law clerk to the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Jesse M. Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He holds a J.D. magna cum laude from NYU School of Law and a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College.
Misty Birdsong, Co-Director of Legal Research, Writing, and Advocacy, Director of Academic Success, and Clinical Professor of Law. Misty J. Birdsong earned her B.A. in Philosophy from Baylor University and her J.D. summa cum laude from SMU Dedman School of Law, where she was valedictorian and Editor-in-Chief of SMU Law Review. Prior to joining the law faculty at SMU, Professor Birdsong worked as an associate in the litigation and appellate groups at Baker Botts, LLP. Before Baker Botts, she clerked for The Honorable Robert E. Keeton, Federal District Judge for the District of Massachusetts. Professor Birdsong is a Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing, and Advocacy and Director of Academic Success. She currently teaches Legal Research, Writing, and Advocacy and Advanced Legal Analysis.
Chante Brantley, Director of the VanSickle Family Law Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law. Chante Brantley’s work in the VanSickle Family Law Clinic encompasses teaching and supervising students who will represent low-income residents in matters such as divorce, paternity actions, custody and visitation, and child and spousal support. 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. Professor Brantley 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. Tenets of this bill have expanded to federal kinship care legislation. Professor Brantley received a B.S. from Texas Woman’s University, M.S. in Social Work from The University of Texas at Arlington with a concentration in child welfare law, and her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law.
Martin Camp, Professor of Practice and the Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs at SMU Dedman Law. Dean Camp teaches in the areas of Property and Business Law. Dean Camp has also taught Higher Education Law at the SMU Simmons School of Education Higher Ed Doctoral Program. Before joining SMU in 2005, Dean Camp was a partner for twenty years at Jones Day practicing mergers and acquisitions and Corporate Real Estate Services. From 2005 until 2015, he was the Assistant Dean of Students at the law school. While a practicing attorney he taught Real Estate Transactions and Land Use Law as an adjunct professor at both The University of Texas Law School and SMU Dedman Law. A 1979 graduate of SMU Dedman Law, he has spoken and written extensively for CLE Programs in areas of Real Estate, Land Use and Ethics. Dean Camp is the author of The Law Firm Associate’s Guide to Connecting with Colleagues, published by the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA.
Dale Carpenter, Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law. Dale Carpenter is the Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. He previously served as the Charles J. and Inez Wright Murray Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at SMU. He teaches Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, the First Amendment, and LGBT Rights and the Law. Prior to joining SMU, Professor Carpenter taught for 16 years at the University of Minnesota, where he served as a Distinguished University Teaching Professor and the Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law. He won multiple teaching awards. He is also an editor of Constitutional Commentary. The Texas native received his B.A. degree in history, magna cum laude, from Yale College and received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review. After serving as a law clerk for Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones, he practiced at law firms in Houston and San Francisco. As the author of numerous articles and an award-winning book —Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012), about the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that invalidated America’s sodomy laws — he is often asked by the media to comment on constitutional law, the First Amendment, and LGBT Rights and the Law. Since 2005, he has been an active blogger on the popular legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, which is hosted by Reason.com.
Lance E. Caughfield, Director of Advocacy Programs and Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Advocacy. Lance Caughfield is the Director of Advocacy Programs and Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Advocacy at SMU Dedman School of Law. He is a board-certified appellate attorney, recognized for his work as a practitioner, coach, and instructor in advocacy for almost 30 years. Before joining SMU Dedman Law, Lance worked primarily in civil appeals at the law firm of Baker | Moran. He has extensive experience in trial litigation and in mediation, which he believes is important to understanding and successfully handling appellate work. Lance has handled numerous appeals in state and federal courts throughout the nation, as well as before the Board of Immigration Appeals in pro bono matters. He has coached several teams at SMU Dedman School of Law to national championships, including the 2024 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition moot court national champions. He also writes on advocacy in the Appellate Advocacy Blog and several other publications, including his own chapter on credibility in the ABA’s Litigation Manual: Jury Trials. Lance earned two degrees in Human Communications and Political Science from Abilene Christian University in 1993, then received his J.D. from the University of Texas in 1996.
Carliss Chatman, Associate Professor Law. Carliss Chatman teaches an array of business law, commercial law, and ethics classes including: Contracts and Sales and Leases; Agency and Unincorporated Entities, Corporations, Business Associations, and Securities Regulation; Professional Responsibility; and a Transactional Skills Simulation course with a Mergers and Acquisitions focus that incorporates corporate law and UCC Article 9. Her scholarship interests are in the fields of corporate law, ethics, and civil procedure. Her scholarship is largely influenced by 11 years of legal practice in complex commercial litigation, mass tort litigation and the representation of small and start-up businesses in the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As a result, her scholarship is intersectional with a focus on issues at the heart of commercial litigation: the interplay of business entities, government, and natural persons. Prior to teaching law, Professor Chatman was a commercial litigation attorney in Houston, Texas. In practice, she focused on trial law, appeals and arbitration in pharmaceutical, healthcare, mass torts, product liability, as well as oil, gas and mineral law. In addition to negotiating settlements and obtaining successful verdicts, Professor Chatman has also analyzed and drafted position statements regarding the constitutionality of statutes and the impact of statutory revisions for presentation to the Texas Legislature. Professor Chatman is a 2004 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where she was a member of the Texas Journal of Women and the Law, and served on the Student Recruitment and Orientation Committee. She received her bachelor’s degree in 2001 from Duke University with honors in English.
Anthony J. Colangelo, Professor of Law. Anthony 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 been cited and quoted at 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. Professor Colangelo 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 an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.
Nathan Cortez, Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation and Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor in Leadership and Latino Studies. Nathan Cortez is the Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation, the inaugural Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor of Law in Leadership and Latino Studies, a former Associate Dean of Research, and a Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow. He 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 regulation 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.) or 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 Associated Press, 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 health care 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. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Stanford.
Gregory S. Crespi, Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professor in Commercial and Insurance Law and Professor of Law. Gregory S. Crespi is a 1985 graduate of the Yale Law School. Before entering law school he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa and at the University of Tulsa. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at SMU in 1990 Professor Crespi served in the White House as the Senior Counsel for the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Crespi also practiced law with the firms of Debevoise & Plimpton and Davis, Hockenberg for several years before joining the SMU faculty, working on a range of corporate and commercial law matters. He is the author of two books on securities regulation and over 60 articles on a wide range of legal topics, including disability rights, contract law, corporate law, law and economics, jurisprudence, and legal education. He is a five-time winner of the Law School’s Teacher of the Year award.
Beverly C. Duréus, Clinical Professor of Legal Analysis. Dr. Beverly C. Duréus served as a judicial clerk intern for Chief Judge William Stuart for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Following graduation she worked in civil litigation at Gardere & Wynne, L.L.P. in Dallas, was a shareholder at Chapman & Reese, P.C., and returned to Iowa as an Associate Professor of Law at Drake University where she taught civil procedure, evidence and legal research & writing. She has served as Senior Counsel and the Chair of the Ecclesiastical Section of White & Wiggins, L.L.P. in Dallas since 1994 as a consultant, and is the Founder and President of Katallasso Ministries International™.
Monika U. Ehrman, Professor of Law. Monika U. Ehrman is Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. She was also appointed Professor of Engineering (by courtesy) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at SMU’s Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering. 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). Professor Ehrman earned a B.Sc. 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.
Joanna L. Grossman, Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law and Professor of Law. Joanna L. Grossman is the inaugural Ellen Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law. After graduating with distinction from Stanford Law School, Professor Grossman began her career as a clerk for Ninth Circuit Judge William A. Norris. She also worked as staff counsel at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C. as a recipient of the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship. In addition, she practiced law at the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly LLP. Prior to coming to SMU Dedman School of Law, Professor Grossman taught at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University where she served as the Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law. Professor Grossman writes extensively on sex discrimination and workplace equality, with a particular focus on issues such as sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. Her book, Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace (Cambridge, 2016), provides a lively and accessible discussion of contemporary cases and events that show gender continues to define the work experience in both predictable and surprising ways. She is also an expert in family law, especially parentage law and the state regulation of marriage. She is co-author (with Lawrence M. Friedman) of Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America (Princeton University Press, 2011), a comprehensive social history of U.S. family law. She has published articles in Stanford Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and the Yale Journal on Law and Feminism, among other places. Grossman 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 (Carolina Academic Press, 2015). She is also a regular columnist for Justia’s Verdict, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her work on parentage law.
Christopher H. Hanna, Alan D. Feld Endowed Professor, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law. Christopher H. Hanna is the Alan D. Feld Endowed Professor of Law and the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University. Professor Hanna has been a visiting professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, the University of Texas School of Law, and the University of Tokyo School of Law. In 1998, Professor Hanna served as a consultant in residence to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. From June 2000 until April 2001, he assisted the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation in its complexity study of the U.S. tax system, and from May 2002 until February 2003, he assisted the Joint Committee in its study of Enron. 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, he served as Senior Policy Advisor for Tax Reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Republican staff). Prior to coming to SMU, Professor Hanna was a tax attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Steptoe & Johnson. He has received nine Dr. Don M. Smart Teaching Awards for excellence in teaching at SMU Dedman School of Law. In 1995, he was selected and featured in Barrister magazine, a publication of the ABA Young Lawyers’ Division, as one of “21 Young Lawyers Leading Us Into the 21st Century” (Special Profile Issue 1995). Professor Hanna received his undergraduate degree in accounting at the University of Florida (1984) and his law degrees at University of Florida College of Law (1988) and New York University School of Law (1989). He is a member of the Order of the Coif, Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma and Omicron Delta Epsilon.
Grant M. Hayden, Richard R. Lee Jr. Endowed Professor. Grant M. Hayden received his law degree with distinction from Stanford Law School and holds a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in art history from the University of Kansas. While in law school, he served as editor of the Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Law and Policy Review, and was a member of the Order of the Coif. After graduation he worked as a clerk for Tenth Circuit Judge Deanell Reece Tacha and as an associate at the Washington, D.C. firm of Shea & Gardner. Professor Hayden writes and teaches in the areas of labor law, voting rights, and corporate governance. His publications include articles in the Michigan, California, Vanderbilt, Florida, and North Carolina Law Reviews. He is also the author of American Law: An Introduction (third edition) (Oxford University Press, 2017) (with Lawrence Friedman), Reconstructing the Corporation: From Shareholder Primacy to Shared Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2020) (with Matthew Bodie), and Labor Relations Law: Cases and Materials (fourteenth edition) (Carolina Academic Press) (2021) (with Charles Craver and Marion Crain).
Patricia S. Heard, Clinical Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research. Patricia S. Heard earned her B.B.A. with highest honors from the University of Texas at Arlington, and her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where she 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 is a Clinical Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research. She currently teaches Legal Analysis, Writing and Research. She also serves as Co-Executive Editor of The International Lawyer and The Year In Review, the law journals SMU publishes in cooperation with the ABA’s Section of International Law.
Christine Hurt, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in Corporate, Partnership, and Securities Law and Professor of Law. Christine Hurt joins SMU Dedman School of Law as the inaugural Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in Corporate, Partnership, Business, and Securities Law. Professor Hurt comes to SMU Law from Brigham Young University Law School where she was the George Sutherland Chair and Professor of Law. Professor Hurt joined the BYU faculty as the Rex J. and Maureen E. Rawlinson Professor in 2014, and she served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Curriculum, and then as Associate Dean for Academic Projects. Prior to that, she was a Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Business Law and Policy at the University of Illinois College of Law. Prior to teaching at Illinois, Professor Hurt taught at Marquette University Law School and the University of Houston. As a teaching fellow at Texas Tech University School of Law, she co-pioneered a system of online legal citation exercises, now the Interactive Citation Workbook and its related web-based program on the LexisNexis website. Professor Hurt was 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 in Houston at Baker Botts L.L.P., and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. As a first-year law student, she co-founded the Texas Journal of Women and the Law. Professor Hurt’s teaching and research focuses on securities regulation, corporate tax, micro finance, 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. Recently, she and BYU colleague Gordon Smith published a new edition of the popular treatise “Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership” with Wolters Kluwer. Professor Alan Bromberg, for whom the endowed Centennial Chair position is named, taught at SMU Dedman School of Law for more than 60 years and was a prolific author. His legal writings on corporate tax, partnership, securities, and commodities have been relied upon in more than 500 judicial opinions, including 10 in the United States Supreme Court.
Thomas S. Leatherbury, Director of the First Amendment Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law. Tom Leatherbury is the Director of the First Amendment Clinic at SMU Dedman School of Law. Tom is also an appellate lawyer with forty years of experience in state and federal appeals and trials. During that time, he has worked on commercial, tort, intellectual property and health care cases, as well as class actions. Tom has made 37 appellate and countless trial court arguments and has tried or handled the appellate-related portions of close to 20 jury trials. Tom has also regularly represented traditional and digital publishers and broadcasters in all aspects of media litigation throughout his career, including libel, privacy and other torts, reporter’s privilege, newsgathering and access, misappropriation, and breach of contract actions. Tom is also deeply committed to training young lawyers in Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses and to an extensive range of pro bono work, from family to immigration to constitutional law. Among many other honors, he was recently named a fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, was presented with the Dallas Bar Foundation Justinian Award, and was awarded a Presidential Citation from the State Bar of Texas for his commitment to helping its diversity and inclusion efforts. Additionally, Tom received the Harry M. Reasoner Justice for All Award from the Texas Access to Justice Commission and was named a Senior Statesperson in National First Amendment Law by Chambers USA.
Anna Mance, Assistant Professor of Law. Anna A. Mance joined SMU Dedman School of Law from Stanford Law School where she was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law. 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. Professor Mance’s work has been published or is forthcoming in law reviews and interdisciplinary scholarly journals including the Stanford Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and The Lancet. Her scholarship is informed by her extensive experience in global environmental health and international development as Vice Chair of Policy of the ABA International Environmental Law Committee from 2013 to 2016 where she drafted ABA reports on various initiatives including to ratify UNCLOS and to institute a global lead paint ban, as a Visiting Attorney at the Environmental Law Institute, as a Climate Fellow at NRDC, and as a post-graduate researcher in Global Environmental Health at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health. Professor Mance has also worked on novel approaches to address climate change and sea level rise; she is currently addressing wildlife and biodiversity protection through impact litigation with the interdisciplinary WILDS Project. Professor Mance holds an M.S./MDP from the University of California-Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law. After graduating from law school with honors, Professor Mance spent five years as a litigator at the Miami offices of Aballí Milne Kalil, focusing on transnational disputes and fraud investigations, and served as Global Counsel for BitPesa, based in Nairobi.
George A. Martinez, Professor of Law. George A. Martinez was a teaching fellow in the department of philosophy at the University of Michigan from 1979-81 and a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Texas Christian University from 1981-82. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a litigation associate with the Chicago firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt from 1985-1988, and with the San Francisco firm of Morrison & Foerster from 1988 until 1991. Professor Martinez has published in the areas of the federal courts, legal history, and jurisprudence. He was associate editor of NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas which was published from 1995 to 2016.
Thomas Wm. Mayo, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law. Thomas Wm. Mayo was an associate with the Rochester, New York firm of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle (now 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 then practiced with the Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling LLP in the areas of antitrust, securities fraud, election law, and communications. In addition to his position at SMU, Professor Mayo is an Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and is a co-principal investigator and past Director of SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility (2005-10). He is a co-founder of the Legal Hospice of Texas, the state’s first pro bono legal clinic for persons with HIV/AIDS and terminal illnesses. He was a member of the Council of the Health Law Section of the State Bar of Texas for 23 years and is a founding Fellow and past board member of the American Health Law Association, a Fellow in the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture, and a recipient of the Dallas Medical Society’s Heath Award for his contributions to medicine and leadership in Dallas County. He was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2012 and was the poetry columnist for the Dallas Morning News from 1998-2008. Professor Mayo has previously taught Administrative Law, Business Torts, Civil Procedure, Comparative & International Health Law, Constitutional Law I & II, Election Law, Family Law, Federal Courts, First Amendment Seminar (team-taught), Land Use, Legislation, and Nonprofit Organizations. He currently teaches Law & Medicine: Bioethics; Law & Medicine: Health Care; Law, Literature & Medicine; Legislation & Regulation, Public Health Law & Ethics, and Torts. He has received the law school’s outstanding teacher award three times, as well as the University’s outstanding volunteer award for community service, President’s Associate award as the outstanding member of the tenured faculty, and the University’s Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Award. He has given nearly 300 public lectures on health-law-related subjects and made nearly 2,000 media appearances around the world, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, BBC World Service Radio, The Economist, Anderson Cooper 360, NPR (Morning Edition, All Things Considered), MSNBC, CBS Evening News and NBC (Today, Nightly News)
Orly Mazur, Associate Professor of Law. Orly Mazur teaches and writes in the area of tax law and policy. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of tax law and technology, international and comparative taxation, and taxation in the digital economy. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including the California Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, Columbia Journal of Tax Law, among other law review and peer-reviewed journals. Professor Mazur is actively involved in the academic and legal community. In 2016, she received the university-wide Golden Mustang Teaching Award. In 2022, Professor Mazur was appointed to serve as Vice-Chair to the International Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the State Bar of Texas. She is also a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and has served as a member of the executive committee of the American Association of Law Schools’ Section on Taxation since 2019 and will be its Chair in 2023. Professor Mazur has also been a guest blogger for TaxProf Blog’s Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review and Roundup and was featured in Forbes in 2020. Before joining the SMU faculty, Professor Mazur worked as an associate in the Business Planning and Taxation group at Haynes and Boone, LLP. She 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 a Visiting Assistant Professor and has given short courses on emerging international tax law issues at the International Taxation Academy in Taiwan. Professor Mazur received her B.B.A. and M.P.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin and her J.D., summa cum laude, from SMU Dedman School of Law, where she graduated first in her class was a member of the SMU Law Review. She holds an LL.M in taxation from NYU School of Law.
Sari Mazzurco, Assistant Professor of Law. Sari Mazzurco is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. Professor Mazzurco’s teaching and scholarship focus on law and technology and intellectual property. She writes on the role and limits of law in addressing social, political, and cultural issues associated with digital technologies, information markets, and creative expression. Before joining SMU Dedman Law, Professor Mazzurco earned a Ph.D. in Law at Yale University, where she served as a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. She previously worked as an associate at Covington & Burling LLP where she counseled clients on data privacy, defamation, copyright, and trademark issues, advised on technology transactions, and represented sports and media companies in litigation. She also clerked for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Mazzurco received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.A. from Georgetown University with Honors with Distinction in Government. She also served as a U.S. Department of State Boren Fellow to Israel, where she studied technology diplomacy.
Pamela R. Metzger, Executive Director of the Deason Criminal Law Reform Center and Professor of Law. Pamela Metzger is the Executive Director of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at SMU Dedman School of Law. She 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. Professor 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. Professor 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. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, Professor Metzger 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. Seema Mohapatra is a leading expert in health law and bioethics and has been teaching for over fifteen years. 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. Professor Mohapatra is a tenured full professor and holds the M.D. Anderson Foundation Endowed Professorship in Health Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. Her 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, Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. Professor Mohapatra is the co-editor of “Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten” (with Lindsay F. Wiley) (2022, Cambridge University Press). She is also a co-author of the third edition of the textbook “Reproductive Technologies and the Law” (with Judith Daar, I. Glenn Cohen, and Sonia Suter) (2022, Carolina Academic Press). She serves on the Board of Directors of American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and the nonprofit Population Connection, 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, with Brietta Clark, Lindsay Wiley, and Ruqaiijah Yearby. Upon graduation from law school, she practiced transactional health law and compliance at two large firms in Chicago, Sidley & Austin and Foley & Lardner. Professor Mohapatra earned a J.D. degree from Northwestern University School of Law and has a master’s degree in Public Health with a concentration in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University. She earned a bachelor of arts in Natural Sciences (with a minor in Women’s Studies) from Johns Hopkins University.
Natalie Nanasi, Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and Associate Professor of Law. Natalie Nanasi is an Associate Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women. In the Hunter Clinic, Professor Nanasi supervises students’ representation of survivors of intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and sexual abuse in a broad range of legal matters. She also oversees students as they conduct systemic policy advocacy and community education to find long-term solutions to the problem of violence against women. Professor Nanasi’s research explores the intersection of gender and feminist theory with the Second Amendment and immigration law. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous journals and law reviews, including the Ohio State Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Wake Forest Law Review, Temple Law Review, Villanova Law Review, 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 cutting, domestic and sexual violence, forced marriage, and honor crimes. Professor Nanasi also served as counsel in the landmark asylum case of Matter of A-T- and as an Equal Justice Works Fellow from 2007-2009, with a focus on the U visa. Prior to her work at Tahirih, she was a law clerk to the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz of the District of Columbia Superior Court. Professor Nanasi received her J.D. from Georgetown Law, where she earned an Equal Justice Foundation fellowship for her work at the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center in New Delhi, India, and assisted in the representation of HIV-positive immigrants at Whitman Walker Clinic Legal Services. Prior to her legal career, Professor Nanasi was a rape crisis counselor and supported single teenage mothers at a transitional residence facility in Boston.
Jason P. Nance, Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law. Jason P. Nance is the Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. He received his B.A., cum laude with University Honors with Honors Thesis, from Brigham Young University in 1996, his M.A. in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2002 from The Ohio State University, and his J.D. in 2006 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was Articles Editor and Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Prior to joining SMU, Dean Nance was a member of the law faculty at the University of Florida Levin College of Law from 2011 to 2022. He most recently served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. Previously at UF Law, he served as Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, as an Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Relations, and as an Associate Director for Education and Law at the Center on Children and Families. As Professor of Law, he taught education law, torts and remedies. He also oversaw the continued development and implementation of the Introduction to Lawyering and the Legal Profession Program, which was designed to help first-year law students develop key competencies to become effective lawyers. Prior to joining UF Law, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at 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. Dean Nance’s scholarship explores the intersection between law, education policy and the criminal justice system using empirical and legal methodologies. 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. He served as the reporter for the American Bar Association’s Joint Task Force on Reversing the School-to-Prison Pipeline, where he co-authored a report and proposed resolutions that were adopted by the ABA to help dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline nationwide.
Anna C. Offit, Associate Professor of Law. Anna Offit writes and teaches about criminal law, evidence, juries, prosecutorial ethics, and empirical legal research. Her current scholarship examines trial strategy and the inclusivity of the criminal jury. Her articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Northwestern Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Washington Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, UC Davis Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, and the Political and Legal Anthropology Review. She is also the author of a book, The Imagined Juror: How Hypothetical Juries Influence Federal Prosecutors (NYU Press, 2022). Offit’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S.-Norway Fulbright Foundation, Lois Roth Foundation, and Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Offit received her JD from the Georgetown University Law Center where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and as a law clerk at the Department of Justice’s Office for Civil Rights. She also holds a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University. Prior to joining the faculty at SMU, Offit served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NYU Law School’s Civil Jury Project. She was also the recipient of a Fulbright grant to study the abolition of Norway’s jury system.
Cara Foos Pierce, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Master of Legal Studies Program, B.A. Southwestern University (with honors); J.D. Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law (cum laude). Upon graduation, Professor Pierce clerked for the Honorable David C. Godbey, United States District Judge in the Northern District of Texas. She then joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP’s Dallas office, where she worked for five years on federal securities, constitutional law, trademark, copyright, and employment cases. Professor Pierce next served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Dallas, where she prosecuted a variety of offenses including human trafficking, hate crimes, violent crimes, organized crime, and fraud. She also served as the Human Trafficking Coordinator in the Northern District of Texas, and prosecuted over 80 human trafficking cases. Professor Pierce’s passion for human trafficking reform led her to join the Texas Attorney General’s office as Chief of the Human Trafficking Division. In that role, she supervised civil and criminal human trafficking investigations throughout Texas, and she trained thousands of law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and community members about human trafficking. Professor Pierce also chaired the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Taskforce, leading Texas’ legislative efforts to reduce demand for commercial sex by making it a felony to buy sex from an adult and to raise the age to work at sexually oriented businesses to 21. In addition, Professor Pierce served as the State of Texas’s human trafficking subject matter expert, testifying in federal courts and legislative hearings. Professor Pierce previously served as an adjunct professor in Civil Procedure at William and Mary School of Law and Professional Responsibility at Texas Wesleyan School of Law. At Dedman Law, Professor Pierce’s teaching includes: Advanced Criminal Law: Human Trafficking and Hate Crimes, Advanced Criminal Law: Human Trafficking and Criminal Civil Rights, American Law and Regulation, Litigation and Discovery, White Collar Crime and Internal Investigations, Criminal Law and Policy and Advanced Criminal Law. She also serves as Director of Dedman School of Law’s Master of Legal Studies program.
Carla L. Reyes, Associate Professor of Law. Professor Reyes is a nationally and internationally recognized leader on issues raised by the intersection of business law and technology. Professor Reyes is a Faculty Fellow at the SMU Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity at the SMU Lyle School of Engineering, and serves as a faculty affiliate with the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) and the University College London Centre for Blockchain Research. Professor Reyes also currently serves as the Research Director for the Uniform Law Commission’s Technology Committee, an Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code, and an Expert Member of the UNIDROIT Work Group on Best Practices for Effective Enforcement. Professor Reyes has been an integral participant in legal reform efforts related to blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies. Professor Reyes served as an Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission and American Law Institute 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code, served as an Expert Member of the UNIDROIT Work Group on Private Law and Digital Assets which drafted UNIDROIT principles designed to serve as starting point for legal harmonization of commercial law rules for digital assets, and served as Chair of the Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters. Professor Reyes’ has received several honors for her work. She was named an American Bar Foundation Fellow in June 2021 and named one of the Women of Legal Tech 2020, an honor bestowed by the American Bar Association Legal Technology Resource Center. Additionally, she received the 2023 American Legal Technology Award in Education and was elected to the American Law Institute in December 2023. Prior to joining SMU Dedman School of Law, Professor Reyes served Michigan State University College of Law as an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Technology & Innovation, and taught Business Enterprises, Technology Transactions, Artificial Intelligence & the Law, and Blockchain Law & Policy. Prior to teaching law, Professor Reyes practiced law as an associate in the Blockchain Technology and Digital Currency industry group at Perkins Coie LLP. A former Fulbright Scholar, Professor Reyes had the opportunity to pursue her research as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University from September 2017-August 2019. Professor Reyes also actively contributes to blockchain technology initiatives at the Stanford CodeX as a RegTrax Curator, MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems program, and the American Bar Association.
C. Paul Rogers III, Marilyn Jeanne Johnson Distinguished Law Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law and former Dean. C. Paul Rogers III has served on the SMU Dedman School of Law faculty since 1980 and was dean of the law school from 1988 to 1997. He also served as associate dean for academic affairs from 1982 to 1986. Upon graduation from the University of Texas School of Law in 1973 he practiced law in Pennsylvania before accepting the Krulewitch Fellowship for graduate law study from Columbia Law School. He subsequently joined the faculty of Loyola University of Chicago before coming to SMU. Dean Rogers has published articles in the area of antitrust law, contracts, commercial law, regulated industries, and legal history, and has co-authored an antitrust casebook entitled Antitrust Law: Policy & Practice, now in its fifth edition. Dean Rogers has been of counsel to the Locke Lord law firm in Dallas since 1996 and has spoken widely at academic and legal conferences in the United States and abroad. He has taught courses in contracts, antitrust law, business torts, and sales of goods transactions at SMU. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and a charter member of the Dallas Bar Foundation. Dean Rogers has served as SMU’s faculty athletic representative since 1987, helping to represent the University before the NCAA and the Atlantic Coast Conference. He previously served on the NCAA’s Football Oversight Committee and is former President of the Southwest Conference and a former member of the Cotton Bowl Board of Directors and the NCAA’s Amateurism Cabinet. An avid baseball historian, Rogers has co-authored or edited six books and countless articles on baseball history. Since 1990, he has served as President of the Ernie Banks-Bobby Bragan DFW Chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research.
Julie Forrester Rogers, Provost Faculty Research Fellow and Professor of Law. Julia (Julie) Patterson Forrester Rogers joined the faculty of the SMU Dedman School of Law in 1990 after working as a real estate attorney with the Dallas law firm of Thompson & Knight. Previously, she received her B.S.E.E. with highest honors in 1981 and her J.D. with high honors in 1985 from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of the Texas Law Review, Chancellors, and Order of the Coif. Professor Rogers 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 Edward E. Chase, Jr. and W. Keith Robinson. For advancing research and scholarship at SMU, she was recently selected as a recipient of the 2024-2025 Provost Faculty Research Fellowship.
Eric Ruben, Associate Professor of Law. Eric Ruben’s scholarly interests span constitutional law, criminal law, legal ethics, legal empirics, and legal history. His current scholarship explores the regulation of violence and weapons, and how that regulation intersects with self-defense and Second Amendment rights. Ruben teaches constitutional law, criminal law, professional responsibility, and a seminar on the Second Amendment. Ruben’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Law Review Forum, Minnesota Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Virginia Law Review Online, Yale Law Journal, and Yale Law Journal Forum, and has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals, and in legal briefs. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and frequently provides legal commentary for popular outlets, including ABC News, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Atlantic, Vox, Scotusblog, NPR, and CBS Radio. Prior to joining SMU, Ruben was a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. Before that, he 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. Ruben 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 and Innovation, James Cleo Thompson, Sr. Endowed Professor, Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow, and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor. Meghan J. Ryan is an award-winning teacher and scholar working at the intersection of criminal law & procedure, torts, and law & 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’s research has been widely cited, including by U.S. Supreme Court Justices and other federal and state court judges. Professor Ryan received her A.B., magna cum laude, in Chemistry from Harvard University. She earned her 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 also a member of both the Minnesota Law Review and the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade.
Christina M. Sautter, Professor of Law. Christina Sautter’s research interests lie in corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, and technology-powered investing. Her most current research explores the relationship between markets and corporations. It focuses on new generations of investors’ power to transform corporate governance, analyzing the role of technology and online communications as well as of generational features and affinities. Professor Sautter also has extensively written on M&A. Her M&A scholarship focuses on the sale process of publicly traded companies and the intersection of fiduciary duties and deal terms. She co-authored “Mergers and Acquisitions Law,” a hornbook published by West Academic Publishing. She also is the author of chapters in the “Research Handbook on Mergers & Acquisitions,” “Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten,” and “A Research Agenda for Corporate Law.” Professor Sautter earned her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law, graduating summa cum laude. While in law school, Professor Sautter was a managing editor of the Villanova Law Review and was selected as a member of The Order of the Coif. She received her bachelor’s degree in both Multinational Business Operations and Marketing from Florida State University, graduating summa cum laude.
Shani Shisha, Assistant Professor of Law. Shani Shisha is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. He teaches and writes in the field of intellectual property law, focusing on copyright law, art, and the intersection of law and technology. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, among other publications. Professor Shisha received numerous awards for his scholarly work, including Harvard Law School’s 2023 Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Intellectual Property and the 2022 Foundations of Private Law Prize. His article on copyright remedies has been selected as one of “the most important and timely articles on computer, technology, and the law” of 2022, and his article on copyright formalities has been judged one of the best intellectual property articles of 2023 and selected for inclusion in West/Thomson’s annual Intellectual Property Law Review. Professor Shisha holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School. His dissertation — an interdisciplinary analysis of copyright law — won several awards for scholarly distinction. Before joining the SMU faculty, Professor Shisha taught at Harvard Law School, where he held fellowships with the Berkman Klein Center of Internet & Society and the Project on the Foundations of Private Law. At Harvard, Professor Shisha taught courses and workshops on intellectual property, law and technology, and private law.
Mary Spector, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, Director of Civil/Consumer Clinic and Professor of Law. Mary Spector is a Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning at SMU Dedman School of Law. She oversees all aspects of experiential learning including clinical, externship, legal research, writing and advocacy, trial advocacy, and BOA programs. Additionally, Professor Spector teaches Consumer Law and directs SMU’s Civil/Consumer Clinic where she supervises students representing low-income clients in state and federal courts. Her research interests combine theory and practice to protect the rights of consumers and tenants and to improve access to justice in the civil courts. After receiving her B.A. from Simmons College and her J.D., cum laude, from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Professor Spector served as a law clerk to the late Honorable Jerry Buchmeyer, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas before joining the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as an associate. Outside of the Law School, Professor Spector received the Dallas Bar Association Pro Bono Award and has served on a number of university, professional and community committees and boards.
Marc I. Steinberg, Rupert and Lillian Radford Chair in Law and Professor of Law. Mark I. Steinberg is the Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. He is the former Director of SMU’s Corporate Directors’ Institute, the Director of the SMU Corporate Counsel Externship Program, the former Senior Associate Dean for Academics, and the former Senior Associate Dean for Research at the Law School. Prior to becoming the Radford Professor, Professor Steinberg taught at the University of Maryland School of Law, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the National Law Center of the George Washington University, and the Georgetown University Law Center. His experience includes appointments as a Visiting Professor, Scholar and Fellow at law schools outside of the United States, including at Universities in Argentina, Australia, China, England, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and Sweden. In addition, he has been retained as an expert witness in several significant matters, including Enron, Martha Stewart, Belnick (Tyco), and Mark Cuban. Professor Steinberg received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his law degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles (J.D.) and Yale University (LL.M.). He clerked for Judge Stanley N. Barnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, extern clerked for Judge Anthony J. Celebrezze of the Sixth Circuit, was legislative counsel to U.S. Senator Robert P. Griffin, and served as the adviser to former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg for the Federal Advisory Committee Report on Tender Offers.
Jennifer Rangel Stagen, Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research. Jennifer Rangel Stagen joins the law faculty as full-time faculty at SMU Dedman School of Law, after having been an adjunct lecturer teaching legal research, writing and advocacy. Prior to SMU Dedman Law, 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, Stagen was a partner at a litigation firm in Dallas, where she specialized in securities litigation.
Heather L. Stobaugh, Co-Director of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research, and Clinical Professor of Law. Heather Stobaugh is the co-director of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research, a foundational first-year law school course. She has taught the course since 2008. Prior to attending law school, Professor Stobaugh taught college-level English courses and worked as a freelance writer for many years. After graduation from law school, Professor Stobaugh was an associate at Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal in Dallas. She practiced in the areas of securities law and business litigation, and she served as outside general counsel to a major telecommunications provider. Professor Stobaugh has also represented clients pro bono through the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and has served as a writing coach to associates in national law firms. She currently teaches Legal Analysis, Writing and Research and co-teaches SMU’s Prelaw Scholars Program. Professor Stobaugh received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Dallas in Literary Studies and her J.D. from SMU in 2003, where she was a member of the SMU Law Review and Order of the Coif. She received awards for best student law review comment and best brief.
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. Professor Sumoski, in her clinical course, teaches child advocacy law as well as investigative, case preparation, and trial advocacy skills. Upon graduation from law school, Professor Sumoski began her legal career at the Dallas law firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P., where she became a Partner in 1993. Professor Sumoski served as Pro Bono Partner at Carrington Coleman for fifteen 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. She joined the faculty at SMU Dedman School of Law in 2013. Ms. Sumoski is currently serving on the Supreme Court of Texas Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth, and Families’ Training Committee. She also serves on the Commission’s Committee tasked with developing Standards of Representation for attorneys practicing in the child welfare field. She recently finished a term with the Exam Commission to the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in connection with the child welfare law specialization, having contributed to the development of the requirements to apply for the specialty and the preparation of the initial Exam for the specialty. She has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2010. 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. Professor Sumoski also has served as Chair of the Host Committee for the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference. Professor Sumoski was a member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Bar Association from 2009 to 2015. Professor Sumoski 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 and Texas Bar Foundation.
Joshua C. Tate, Professor of Law. Joshua 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 the fall of 2005, and was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the spring of 2008. In the fall of 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 the Selden Society as a member of the Council and as the Honorary Treasurer for the U.S.A., and is a past chair of the Uniform Acts 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 both 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. He recently published a monograph with Yale University Press on the development of property rights and remedies in medieval England, focusing on issues of jurisdictional conflict with regard to rights of presentation to churches. He 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. David O. Taylor is a Professor of Law at the SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas. He also founded and serves as a Co-Director of the school’s Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation. Professor Taylor earned his bachelor of science, magna cum laude, in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and his juris doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Prior to law school, Professor Taylor worked as an applications engineer at National Instruments Corporation in Austin, Texas. While in law school, he served as an extern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, as a member of both the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and as President of the Harvard Law School Texas Club. After graduating from law school, Professor Taylor clerked for the Honorable Sharon Prost of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Taylor also worked for seven years at the law firm of Baker Botts LLP in its Dallas office. While at Baker Botts, Professor Taylor engaged in patent litigation in various district courts and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His litigation experience includes both bench and jury trials. A registered patent attorney, he also gained significant experience in the fields of intellectual property licensing and patent prosecution. During his time in practice he assisted with several advanced patent law courses at SMU Dedman School of Law, including Patent Litigation, Intellectual Property Licensing, and Patent Prosecution, and successfully represented clients in pro bono matters, including before the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals.
Andrea Tosato, Professor of Law. Andrea Tosato is a leading private law scholar with internationally recognized expertise in the intersection between commercial law and new technologies. In the United States, he serves as the Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code; he is also the Chair of the Sub-Committee for UCC and Emerging Technologies of the American Bar Association Business Law Section. In the United Kingdom, he has advised the Law Commission of England & Wales on its secured transactions and digital assets initiatives. Internationally, he regularly serves as an expert advisor to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Laws (UNCITRAL) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). At present, Professor Tosato is engaged in several international legislative reform projects dealing with the impact of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies on commercial law. In the United States, he was a key contributor to the ULC/ALI Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies Committee that drafted the 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code and Article 12. He is also a member of the ULC Committee working on the enactment of these new laws across the United States. At Unidroit, he is a member of the Drafting Committee of Unidroit Working Group on Digital Assets and Private Law and a member of the Unidroit Working Group developing a Model Law on Warehouse Receipts.
Jenia Iontcheva Turner, Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professor in Criminal Law and Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow. Jenia Iontcheva Turner is the Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professor in Criminal Law at SMU Dedman School of Law, where she teaches criminal procedure, comparative criminal procedure, international criminal law, and international law. Before joining SMU, 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. Professor Turner attended law school at Yale, where she was a Coker Fellow and articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. After her first year of law school, 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. Professor Turner is a member of the American Law Institute, an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a member of the Virtual Criminal Justice Network, an Editorial Board member of the Criminal Law Forum, a member and former Co-Chair of the International Criminal Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, and a member of the Sarah T. Hughes North Texas Federal Criminal Law American Inn of Court.
Kandace D. Walter, Director and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Small Business and Trademark Clinic. Kandace D. Walter is a 2004 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law (J.D.) and 2001 graduate of Florida A&M University (B.S. Chemistry). She is licensed to practice law in Texas and is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (2009). Prior to opening her own law firm in 2016, Ms. Walter was an Assistant District Attorney for the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office as well as an Assistant City Attorney and Community Prosecutor for the Dallas City Attorney’s Office. She also worked for a medium-sized firm focusing on school law and an intellectual property boutique focusing on intellectual property prosecution and business litigation for a wide range of clients. As a solo attorney, Ms. Walter assisted entrepreneurs, small business owners and nonprofits with transactions and intellectual property legal services. Ms. Walter is very involved in the Dallas legal community. Ms. Walter was elected to serve as the 2023 Secretary/Treasurer for the Dallas Bar Association. She will also serve as 2023-24 Vice President for the Barbara M.G. Lynn American Inn of Court. Ms. Walter is a new member of the Texas Intellectual Property Alliance Board of Directors. She has served on the boards of J.L. Turner Legal Association, J.L. Turner Legal Association Foundation, and The NEW Roundtable, Inc. Ms. Walter was recognized as the 2019 Cleo Steele Mentor of the Year by the J.L. Turner Legal Association. She also participated in the Dallas Bar Association 2019 WE LEAD Program and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers 2017 Leadership Class. Ms. Walter also served as the 2019 Chair for the Diversity in the Profession committee of the State Bar of Texas. She also participated in the first post-pandemic Bar None XXXV Show, which raises scholarship funds for the Sarah T. Hughes Diversity Scholarships.
Jessica Dixon Weaver, Associate Dean for Research, Vinson & Elkins Fellow and Professor of Law. Jessica Dixon Weaver is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as Notes Editor for the Virginia Law Review. Professor Weaver 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 in law journals at University of California - Berkeley, University of Virginia, William and Mary, Washington University, Fordham, Washington and Lee, and Tulane. One of her recent works-in-progress, Slavery and the Origins of Family Law, was selected for presentation at the inaugural Yale Law and Political Economy Conference in 2021. She is the co-author of three books, Family Law Simulations: Bridge to Practice (West Academic, 2021), Contemporary Family Law, 6th ed. (West Academic, forthcoming 2023), and Adoption Law: Theory, Policy, and Practice, 3rd ed. (Hein, forthcoming 2024). She serves on the Editorial Board of the Family Law Quarterly, a scholarly peer-reviewed journal of the ABA, and is a founding board member of the Lutie Legacy Society.
Clinical Faculty
Mary Spector, B.A., J.D., Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, Director of the 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 of Law
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 of Law
Kandace Walter, B.S., J.D., Director and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Small Business and Trademark Clinic
Thomas Leatherbury, B.A., J.D., Director of the First Amendment Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law
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
Chris Jenks, Affiliate Research Professor of Law
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
Lackland H. Bloom, Jr., B.A., 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
Joseph J. Norton, A.B., LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D., Diplome, D.Phil., LL.D., LL.D., 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 |
Gregory Hudson |
David J. Parsons |
| Hon. Maria Aceves |
Paul B. Hunker |
Philip B. Philbin |
| Shelbi Barnhouse |
Ronald B. Hurdle |
Hon. Mark Pitman |
| Matthew S. Beard |
Clifton T. Hutchinson |
Ellen A. Presby |
| Hon. Brandon Birmingham |
Coleman Jackson |
Sally Pretorius |
| R. Doak Bishop |
Tom Jackson |
Shane Read |
| Vicki D. Blanton |
Hon. Stacey Jernigan |
Kathleen Lydia Reed |
| Shelby L. Bobosky |
Hon. Kimberly Priest Johnson |
Eugene Rogers |
| Crista Brown-Stanford |
M. Brett Johnson |
Debra Garcia Sanchez |
| Laura G. Burstein |
Jay Jonson |
Ryan Segall |
| David W. Carstens |
Justin L. Koplow |
Gopika Shah |
| Eric Cedillo |
Kent C. Krause |
Eliot Shavin |
| Jeff Daniel Clark |
Gary M. Lawrence |
Shamoil Shipchandler |
| David B. Coffin |
Christine Leatherberry |
Ronald F. Shuff |
| Jason Cohen |
Natalie LeVeck |
Skyanne Simonson |
| Joseph M. Cox |
Jay J. Madrid |
Steven E. Smathers |
| Michael Crafton |
Ernest Martin, Jr. |
Laura Smith |
| James Creedon |
Megan Mason |
Jay Spring |
| Jason M. Daniel |
Smitha Mathews |
Hon. Brantley Starr |
| William Dawkins |
Alana Matthews |
Kaleisha N. Stuart |
| James A. Deekon |
Mike McCollum |
Harry W. Sullivan, Jr. |
| Steve P. Doyle |
David L. McCombs |
Daniel Syed |
| Dennis B. Drapkin |
David G. McLane |
Don Tittle |
| Andrew S. Ehmke |
Luke F. McLeroy |
Betty Ungerman |
| Jonathon Elifson |
Luke Metzger |
Kay Van Wey |
| Sander L. Esserman |
Patsy Y. Micale |
Gabe Vazquez |
| C. W. (Peter) Flynn |
Jared Miller |
Kevin Vela |
| David C. Gair |
B. Tyler Milton |
John Version |
| Bryan A. Garner |
Gregory Mitchell |
Hon. Daniel H. Weiss |
| Daniel Gordon |
Scott P. Montopoli |
Glenn D. West |
| Andrew D. Gray |
David Nachman |
Randall Wilhite |
| Rebecca A. Gregory |
Charles S. North |
Chris Willis |
| John Gross |
Hon. Christine A. Nowak |
Stephen B. Yeager |
| Rebecca M. Halpern |
Terrica Odum |
Christopher Young |
| Eric F. Hinton |
James O’Sullivan |
Joshua Yun |
| Charles M. Hosch |
Hon. Tonya Parker |
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| Mike Howard |
Ryan Parley |
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