WASHULAW - Key Persons
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- Career Center LLM Advisor
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- Assistant Director of Student Life
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- Assistant Director for Placement Director, Semester in Practice & Lecturer in
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- Registrar and Academic Advising Program Coordinator
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- Faculty Administrative Assistant
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- Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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- Professor of Practice and Director of Pretrial Program
Professor of Practice Ann Davis Shields specializes in legal writing and analysis; negotiation and mediation; pretrial practice; appellate advocacy; and civil rights and employment law. She regularly presents on issues related to legal writing, analysis, and practice skills at national conferences. In addition to her teaching, she is the Director of the Pretrial Practice & Settlement Program. Professor Shields is a certified Neutral for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. A member of the Missouri Bar, Professor Shields maintains a small private practice as a mediator specializing in employment and civil rights cases.
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- Communications Program Manager
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- Director of Financial Management
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- Director of Educational Technology, School of Law Lecturer in Law
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- Director of Communications & Technology
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- Director of Financial Aid and Student Life
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- Research on Women & Politics, Carrie Chapman Catt Center
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- Special Projects Consultant
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- Director of Admissions, Lecturer in
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- Faculty Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support Group
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- Director of Information Technology
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- Director, Multimedia Technology
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- Professor of the Year, 2013, Washington University School
- Professor of the Year, 2018
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- Co - Interim Law Library Director Director, Public Services / Librarian Lecturer in Law
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- Associate Professor
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Professor Elizabeth D. Katz is an award-winning legal historian. Her research explores the development of family law and criminal law doctrines and institutions, with special attention to the influence of gender, religion, and race. Professor Katz's scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, and the William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law. Her writing for popular audiences has appeared in the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She teaches first-year criminal law, family law, and a seminar on the law's treatment of race and religion in family contexts, historically and today.
Professor Katz's scholarship has been recognized by prizes including the American Society for Legal History's Kathryn T. Preyer Award, the Association of American Law School's Section on Law and Religion Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and the Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Gender and Law. Her research has been supported by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Early Career Scholar Fellowship awarded by the American Society for Legal History; an Albert J. Beveridge Grant from the American Historical Association; the Carrie Chapman Catt Center's Prize for Research on Women and Politics; a fellowship and grant from Harvard's Center for American Political Studies; and a fellowship in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's History and Public Policy Initiative in the Ash Center for Democratic Governance.
Professor Katz received her Ph.D. in History from Harvard University and her B.A., M.A., and J.D. from the University of Virginia. After law school, she clerked for Judge J. Frederick Motz on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. She then worked as a litigation associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. At Covington, she represented clients in matters including white-collar crime and legal ethics at the trial and appellate levels and advised global technology companies regarding data privacy laws and compliance with electronic surveillance requests from U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies. Professor Katz also participated in Covington's six-month pro bono rotation at Neighborhood Legal Services Program, where she represented low-income residents of D.C. in divorce, custody, and child support cases. Immediately prior to joining Washington University Law, she was the inaugural fellow in Stanford Law School's Center for Law and History.
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- Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
- Director, Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic Professor of Practice
Elizabeth Hubertz is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic and a Professor of Practice. Member of the Illinois and Missouri Bars, she is an accomplished litigator, teaching and supervising law and undergraduate students as they handle environmental cases. She also teaches Pretrial Practice and Settlement and Environmental Law in the law school and Introduction to Environmental Law in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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- Executive Director for Law Advancement
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- Executive Assistant to Dean Russell K. Osgood
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- Associate Dean, Student Life
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- Administrative Assistant, Clinical Education Program - Law School
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- Assistant Director of the Career Center Lecturer in
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- Senior Associate Dean of Finance
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- Senior Cataloging Librarian
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- Associate Dean
- Chief of Staff
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- George Alexander Madill Professor of Contracts & Commercial Law Emeritus
Professor Greenfield has been teaching and writing on commercial and consumer law since 1969. His law reform activities include serving as Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Debt-Management Services Act, member of the drafting committee to revise UCC Article 3, Advisor on the ALI's Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts project, and Observer on the drafting committees to revise UCC Article 2 and Article 9, and Observer on the ULC committee to draft the Uniform Consumer Leases Act.
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- Thomas and Karole Green Professor
Gregory P. Magarian is the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He teaches and writes about U.S. constitutional law, with emphasis on the freedom of expression. His first book, Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment, was published in 2017 by Oxford University Press. His work also examines church and state, firearms regulation, and regulations of the political process. He has published widely in leading law journals, made numerous scholarly presentations, and taught and lectured at universities around the world. Professor Magarian served as a judicial clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Louis Oberdorfer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He practiced law at Jenner and Block in Washington, D.C. and taught at Villanova University before joining the Washington University faculty in 2008.
Professor Norwood's research focuses on blackthink, colorism, implicit bias, and the intersection of race, class, and public education in America. She lectures around the world on colorism, various social justice/civil rights issues, implicit (and explicit) bias issues and was part of the national team of experts consulted to advise Starbucks on its national implicit bias training agenda.
She has taught law courses overseas at Universiteit Utrecht in The Netherlands, Fudan University in Shanghai, China, at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, and she guest lectured at National Chiao Tung University School of Law, National Cheng Kung University, and NKFST Law, in Taiwan. As part of the law school's Africa Public Interest Law & Conflict Resolution Initiative, Norwood has supervised public interest externships for law students working in Ghana and Kenya and is now looking at expanding externships to Nigeria.
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- Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law Director, Criminal Justice Clinic
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- Lecturer in Law, Director of Congressional and Administrative Law Externship Assistant Director of Career Center
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- Co - Interim Law Library Director Faculty Services Librarian Lecturer in Law
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- Research Fellow, 2018 - 19 & 2001 - 02, Washington University in St. Louis School
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- International and Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Assistant Dean and Director, Graduate and International Programs, Lecturer in
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- Database Administrator
- Web Developer
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- Assistant Dean
- Director of Facilities
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- Microsoft Research Fellow - Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine
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- Director of Strategic Communications
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- Director of International Programs & Lecturer in Law, International Programs
Juan Del Valle is a Latin American attorney with practice of more than 10 years. As an attorney, he worked with the government of Colombia, created a law firm for foreign investors, a law firm for low-income domestic clients, and conducted negotiations and private mediations for parties from more than 15 countries. Juan worked at law firms including Baker & Mckenzie and has occupied important roles in multinational companies, including acting as Experienced Senior Counsel, head of immigration and US Contracts at Deloitte and Touche and as Ericsson's Legal head for Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.
As a professor, Juan has taught at universities in Brazil, Colombia, and the United States, and in programs for Australian and Asian students. At Washington University in St Louis School of Law, Juan has taught during several years courses including Negotiation, International Dispute Resolution, Contract Management and Negotiation, Law & Psychology, Latin American Legal and Judicial Systems, Mediation & Arbitration Law, and Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution, having been awarded the 2019 Adjunct Professor of the Year Award.
Professor Del Valle earned a Law Degree at Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), an LLM in US Law at Washington University in St. Louis, is Certified in Negotiation Skills by Harvard University and the University of Windsor, and is currently candidate for a Doctorate Degree in Education (EdD) in Leadership and Organizational Psychology.
He is currently the Director of International Programs and Lecturer in Law at WashULaw. He is also the lead professor of the Contract Management Certificate Program offered by the Professional Institute of Washington University School of Law.
Judge Lech Garlicki (born in 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish jurist and constitutional law specialist. Since 1968 he has worked at the Warsaw University (since 1987 as full professor), in the years 1980-1993 was member of the Warsaw bar, in the years 1993-2001 judge of the Constitutional Court of Poland and in the years 2002-2012 judge of the European Court of Human Right (president of the 4th Section in 2011-2012). He served recently, as visiting professor, at the Tel Aviv University, Hong Kong University, New York University, and at Yale. Judge Garlicki is vice-president of the International Association of Constitutional Law and one of the Founding Members of the European Law Institute. He lectured at numerous universities in Europe, the United States, Israel, Japan, China, and Hong Kong. He is author or editor of over 300 publications in different languages, including a five-volume Commentary to the 1997 Constitution of Poland and two-volume Commentary to the European Convention on Human Rights.
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- Academic & Financial Analyst
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- Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law
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- Vice Dean for Institutional Success
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- Interlibrary Loan Assistant, Access Services
Kathleen Clark works in the areas of legal ethics, government ethics, the law of whistleblowing, and national security law. Her academic writing has been cited in hundreds of articles and books and has been excerpted in legal ethics textbooks. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, National Law Journal, Government Executive and The Hill, and her analysis has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Time, Newsweek, National Review and Mother Jones.
She is licensed to practice law in Washington, DC, where she serves on the Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee of the D.C. Bar. When she served as an ethics lawyer for the District of Columbia government, she wrote an Ethics Manual for the District's 32,000 employees. Clark served as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and clerked for Federal District Judge Harold H. Greene. She is a board member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and is an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute's Principles of Government Ethics.
Clark was named the John S. Lehman Research Professor and Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow at Washington University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Cornell University, Utrecht University and the University of Economics and Law in Vietnam. She has led anti-corruption and ethics workshops in Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovenia, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Kosovo, Nigeria, Poland, Russia & Venezuela, and has conducted in-person and web-based ethics training for federal, state and local government agencies. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Physics & Philosophy from Yale College, studied Russian in the Soviet Union and Spanish in Guatemala and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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- Associate Professor of Practice and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic
- Practice and Director, Immigration Clinic
Katie Herbert Meyer is an Associate Professor of Practice and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic. She previously taught Immigration Law and Policy, as an Adjunct Professor. Immediately before joining the Washington University faculty, she served as the Program Coordinator and Supervising Attorney at the Migrant and Immigrant Community Action (M.I.C.A.) Project, in St. Louis. Additionally, she served as the Legal Director at Interfaith Legal Services for Immigrants from 2005-2009. In both of those positions, she served as a field supervisor for students in the Washington University clinical program. She has also worked as an Immigration Staff Attorney at both the Bleisch Law Firm and Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. Her areas of expertise include family-based immigration, refugee and asylum law, naturalization law, removal (deportation) defense, and legal protections for immigrant victims. She has presented trainings on various aspects of immigration and refugee law and policy, and has served as an immigration expert on discussion panels and in media interviews. She is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, where she was presented with several awards for her dedication to public service and public interest law.
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- Faculty Administrative Assistant
Kevin Emerson Collins is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Washington University's Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program. He writes regularly on patent protection for software and biotechnology innovation. Before beginning his legal career, he was a licensed architect and an adjunct professor of architecture, and he is the author of a forthcoming book on the intellectual property of architecture. He clerked for Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Raymond Clevenger III on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kim Thuy Seelinger focuses on sexual and gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict and forced displacement. A Visiting Professor at the Law School, Seelinger is a Research Associate Professor at the Brown School of Social Work, Public Health, and Social Policy. She will also serve as the inaugural director of a new Center on Gender, Migration, and Human Rights, based at the Washington University in St. Louis Institute for Public Health.
Seelinger teaches courses on refugee protection, wartime sexual violence, the investigation of international crimes, and the application of international criminal law in national judicial systems. In addition to teaching, Seelinger conducts cross-disciplinary research on the complexities of providing protection from, and accountability for, conflict-related sexual violence. Seelinger also provides technical assistance to international and local actors working on war crimes trials, legislative reform, and programming to improve support services to atrocity survivors. Most recently, she intervened in the successful prosecution of Hissène Habré, the former president of Chad, and that of Thomas Kwoyelo in Uganda. At the policy level, Seelinger serves on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement, and Protection and was an expert commentator on the International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict (2014, 2017). She serves as the President of the Board of Civitas Maxima, a Swiss-based organization that conducts war crimes investigations in partnership with African human rights defenders. Her current work focuses on refugee protection in Central America, Greece, and at the US Southern border, as well as improving access to healthcare and legal aid for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Uganda and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Prior to joining Washington University School of Law, Seelinger taught at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she directed the award-winning Sexual Violence Program at the Human Rights Center from 2010-2019. Before her work at Berkeley, Seelinger focused on gender-asylum cases and policy as a Staff Attorney at the University of California, Hastings, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies. She started her legal career as a Kirkland and Ellis Public Interest Law Fellow with the Lutheran Family and Community Services in New York City, where she provided deportation defense to low-income immigrants in the immediate wake of 9/11.
Seelinger has won several awards including the Women of Berkeley Law's "Women Advancing the Law - Practitioner of the Year" Award (2019), the International Association for Gender Equity and the Law "Human Rights and Leadership Award" (2017), a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2016), and the Kathi Pugh Award for Exceptional Mentorship of Berkeley Law Students (2015). Her writing has appeared in several academic and news journals, including the California Law Review (online), the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and PLOS Medicine. She is co-editing a volume on the trial of Hissène Habré, forthcoming from Oxford University Press (2020).
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- Assistant Director of Academic Success and Bar Preparation
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- Senior Career Counselor, Career Center
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- Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong
- Expert
- Visiting Professor
Professor Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin is an expert in corporate law and governance. Her research and teaching focus on business law, including corporate governance, corporate finance, capital markets, and securities regulation. She employs empirical methods to dissect and understand the effect of different governance rules and regulatory measures on corporations. She is interested in various topics in corporate governance, such as shareholder activism, securities class action, board independence, dual-class share structure, and governance issues in state-owned enterprises. Her recent projects examine the role of the state in corporate governance, focusing on the effect of formalizing the role of corporate party committees in Chinese companies as well as the implementation of a social credit system on corporations in China. Her research on Chinese corporations has generated policy impacts leading to rule changes and has been cited by the Delaware Court of Chancery, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). She also leads several research grants and consultation projects supported by the government and stock exchanges. Her works have appeared in several leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and she has also been interviewed as a corporate law expert by major media outlets, including The Economist and Bloomberg.
Professor Lin is an associate professor at City University of Hong Kong, School of Law. She is also the director of the LL.M. Programme and the associate director of the Center for Chinese and Comparative Law at City University of Hong Kong. She has held visiting positions at Harvard Law School, IDC Herzliya, and the Institutum Iurisprudentiae. Professor Lin holds a J.S.D. degree from Stanford Law School, where she served as the John M. Olin fellow in law and economics. Before joining academia, she was a commercial lawyer specializing in equity and debt financing.
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- Assistant Director of Financial Aid and Student Life
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- Stack Maintenance and Updating Assistant
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- Associate Director of Accounting
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- Coordinator of Legal English Programs
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- Assistant Dean, Admissions, Lecturer in
Professor Melissa A. Waters is an expert in international law, foreign relations law, international human rights law, and international conflicts of law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of international and domestic law, and in particular on the incorporation of treaties and other forms of international law into domestic legal regimes. She has written extensively on the role of transnational judicial dialogue in shaping international legal norms, and on the debate in Congress and in the media over the use of foreign and international law in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Her work has been cited by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and has been published in numerous top law journals and academic presses. Professor Waters serves on the law school's Faculty Advisory Board for the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute and is Washington University's Ambassador to Utrecht University in the Netherlands in conjunction with the McDonnell International Scholars Academy. She was also a visiting faculty fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Waters clerked for the Hon. Morris S. Arnold, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She also practiced law for the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly, where she was a member of President Clinton's legal defense team. She served in the U.S. State Department as Senior Advisor to Harold Hongju Koh, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor. Additionally, she was a consultant to the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute, specializing in the design, development, and implementation of rule of law and human rights capacity building projects. In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Waters specializes in developing and conducting human rights and rule of law training programs for legal professionals in transitional democracies, most recently partnering with the State Department, the Department of Justice, and ABA/CEELI to train judges and government officials from Iraq and Central Asia. Her work with Iraqi legal professionals has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered. She is a proud native of Elm Springs, Arkansas.
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- George Alexander Madill Professor of Contracts & Commercial Law Emeritus
Professor Greenfield has been teaching and writing on commercial and consumer law since 1969. His law reform activities include serving as Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Debt-Management Services Act, member of the drafting committee to revise UCC Article 3, Advisor on the ALI's Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts project, and Observer on the drafting committees to revise UCC Article 2 and Article 9, and Observer on the ULC committee to draft the Uniform Consumer Leases Act.
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- Research Fellow - Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine
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- Microsoft Research Fellow
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- Associate Director, Cordell Institute
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- Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law Director, Criminal Justice Clinic
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Professor Peter A. Joy is well known for his work in legal ethics, clinical legal education, criminal justice, and trial practice. As director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, he supervises student-lawyers who provide direct legal representation to clients and work with experienced public defenders on criminal matters. Professor Joy has written extensively and presented nationally and internationally on legal ethics, lawyer and judicial professionalism, clinical legal education, and access to justice issues. He served as Vice Dean from 2010 to 2012, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs 2018-2020, and was the inaugural director of the law school's Trial & Advocacy Program from 2002 to 2006. Professor Joy is a recipient of the Association of American Law Schools' (AALS) Pincus Award for outstanding contribution to clinical legal education. He is currently on the Board of Editors for the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, and he is a columnist for the American Bar Association (ABA) quarterly publication Criminal Justice. He is a former member of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Accreditation Committee and Standards Review Committee; a former chair of the AALS Professional Responsibility Section; former chair of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education; former board member of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT); former president of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA); and former member of the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review from 2005-2011. Before becoming a law professor, he was of counsel at Meckler & Meckler in Cleveland, Ohio, and he started his legal career as National Co-Director for the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (LSCRRC) in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been recognized by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell as an AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer for more than 40 years.
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- Administrative Assistant University Advancement School
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- International and Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Assistant Director of Advancement, Annual Fund
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- Adjunct Instructor, Legal English Programs
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- Coordinator, School of Law Student Life & Wellness
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- Senior Associate Director of Alumni Relations
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- Assistant Dean of Academic Services & Registrar
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- Assistant Dean for Placement Lecturer in
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- Adjunct Instructor, Legal English Programs
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- Receptionist
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- Manager of Circulation and Public Services
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- Career Center Coordinator
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- Recruiting Program Manager
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- Circulation and Public Services Assistant
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- Lecturer in Law Director, Technical Services / Librarian
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- Adjunct Instructor, Legal English Programs