INTERNATIONAL LAW - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law / Professor of Finance, Whitman School of Management
A. Joseph Warburton holds a shared appointment at Syracuse University, as Professor of Law at the College of Law and Professor of Finance at the Whitman School of Management.
Professor Warburton's research focuses on corporate finance, financial regulation, investment management, and bankruptcy & financial distress. His research is largely empirical, and focuses on areas where law and finance intersect.
Professor Warburton has published his research in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and the Journal of Banking & Finance. He has been invited to present his work at leading academic and policy venues including the American Finance Association and the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, and his papers have been accepted (three times) to the prestigious Yale-Stanford-Harvard junior faculty forum.
His research has been cited in a number of Congressional hearings and White House reports and in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg. Professor Warburton's research has attracted significant outside funding, including major research grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the World Bank.
Since joining Syracuse in 2009, Professor Warburton has held simultaneous appointments in the University's law school and its business school (as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor) with voting rights in each school.
Prior to his academic career, Professor Warburton was a banking and finance attorney with the Wall Street law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York City and with the law firm of Jenner & Block in Chicago. Professor Warburton has also served as in-house counsel with Wells Fargo and Global Crossing. In all, Professor Warburton has nearly a decade of experience representing major financial institutions and public corporations in complex financing matters.
Professor Warburton earned a law degree (cum laude) from the University of Michigan Law School and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He also holds a master's degree in financial economics from the University of London and a master's degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania. His A.B. (magna cum laude) is from Brown University.
Education
University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Job Titles:
- Director, Legal Communication and Research
Professor Milner teaches civil procedure and legal writing. Her teaching reflects the study of legal process, writing, and the cognition of learning. She serves as a Lead Editor for Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD. Before joining the faculty, Professor Milner clerked for three Maryland appellate judges: Andrew L. Sonner, Alan M. Wilner, and Patrick L. Woodward. She also served as Assistant Legal Counsel to the Governor of Maryland, Parris N. Glendenning.
Education
George Washington University Law School
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law at Syracuse University
Andrew T. Kim is a Professor of Law at Syracuse University, College of Law. He teaches and researches in the areas of Administrative Law, Immigration Law, and Torts. His work has been published or is forthcoming in law journals, including the George Washington Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and William & Mary Law Review, among others, and has been cited in a leading treatise and in briefing to U.S. federal courts. He has been invited to present his work at universities and conferences both nationally and internationally.
Professor Kim received his B.A. from Duke University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Upon graduation, he clerked for the Hon. John R. Gibson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Prior to entering law teaching, he was an Honors Program Trial Attorney with the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice.
Education
Harvard Law School
Job Titles:
- Administrative Specialist I, Syracuse University College
Antonina Bendo is an Administrative Specialist I at Syracuse University College of Law, where she provides dedicated support to ensure the smooth operation of administrative processes. A proud alumna of Syracuse University, Antonina graduated in 2023 with a B.A. in Psychology and minors in Child and Family Policy, Sociology, and Human Development and Family Science.
With a strong foundation in hospitality and a passion for fostering positive change, Antonina is excited to contribute to the university that shaped her academic and professional journey.
Outside of work, Antonina enjoys spending time with family, exploring nature, learning new hobbies, and thrifting, and she hopes to obtain her J.D. degree.
Job Titles:
- Visiting Professor at Federal University of Bahia
Gidi is a Visiting Professor at Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) and at ITAM (Mexico). In 2011, Gidi was the Marcel Storme Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Ghent Law School (Belgium). In 2012, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law.
Gidi served for several years as the Associate Reporter and Secretary to the American Law Institute / UNIDROIT project on Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure, a project geared to producing uniform rules of civil procedure for international litigation and arbitration.
He drafted the Model Class Action Code for Civil Law Countries, published in several languages. This work led to invitations to serve as a Co-Reporter in a project sponsored by the Ibero-American Institute of Civil Procedure to create a Model Class Actions Code for Latin America. Gidi also helped draft comprehensive class action legislation for the Mexican Senate and the Brazilian Ministry of Justice.
He has written books and articles in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and in other languages. He speaks Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and English fluently, and has working knowledge of French.
Education
PUC University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ph.D. 2003
University of Pennsylvania, USA
S.J.D. 2001
PUC University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
LL.M. 1993
Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
J.D. 1990
Job Titles:
- Special Advisor to the Office of Career Services
Barry Weiss brings over three decades of hiring and career development experience as Administrative Officer for the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office and broad and deep networks in the Upstate NY area and across the country. Mr. Weiss will assist with counseling and advising students on job search strategies and will support both students and alumnae in reaching their employment objectives.
Mr. Weiss has taught undergraduate honors courses at Syracuse University. He received his dual degrees in Political Science and Journalism from Syracuse University and his Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Member of the Massachusetts
Brian Sirman is an Associate Professor of Law. He teaches Civil Procedure, Health Law, Business Associations, and other courses.
Sirman was most recently a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Massachusetts School of Law. Previously, he was a litigation associate in Ropes & Gray's Boston office, where he worked on complex civil litigation matters and regulatory inquiries, with an emphasis on healthcare fraud claims. He has also held teaching positions in the humanities and social sciences at Boston University and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences.
His current research focuses on the relationship between law and manners, exploring both the philosophical considerations and the practical implications for individuals, businesses, courts, and lawmakers. His most recent article "Loophole Entrepreneurship" appeared in the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law. Sirman is also an expert in Brutalist architecture, and his book, Concrete Changes: Architecture, Politics, and the Design of Boston City Hall, was published in 2018 by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Sirman received his J.D., summa cum laude, from William & Mary Law School. He earned his Ph.D. from Boston University's American & New England Studies Program.
Sirman is a member of the Massachusetts bar, and he is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and Nebraska, as well as the U.S. Tax Court.
Education
William and Mary Law School J.D. summa cum laude 2022
Boston University Ph.D. 2015
Boston University Graduate Certificate in Teaching College Writing, 2012
Boston University M.L.A, 2008
Boston University B.A. 2002
Job Titles:
- Associate Teaching Professor / Director, Housing Clinic
Casey Weissman-Vermeulen joins the College of Law in Spring 2025 as an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Housing Clinic.
Prior to joining Syracuse Law, Weissman-Vermeulen worked as a staff attorney at CNY Fair Housing, Inc., a fair housing advocacy and enforcement organization committed that serves residents throughout Central and Northern New York. At CNY Fair Housing, Weissman-Vermeulen litigated a variety of cases in federal and state court and before government agencies. He also contributed to the organization's policy work, helping to research and draft reports on barriers to affordable housing opportunities for minority and low-income households in the Syracuse area.
Before his time at CNY Fair Housing, Weissman-Vermeulen served for seven years as a trial attorney in the Fair Housing Enforcement Division of the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. There, he worked on a variety of fair housing investigations and enforcement actions, assisted in drafting fair housing regulations and guidance, and contributed to government briefs in cases raising important questions of statutory interpretation under the Fair Housing Act.
During law school, Weissman-Vermeulen interned at anti-poverty, civil rights, and environmental organizations, as well as in North Carolina local government. Before his legal career, Weissman-Vermeulen helped coordinate national environmental policy campaigns at a Washington, D.C.-based environmental health organization.
Weissman-Vermeulen received his J.D. and a master's degree in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.S. in natural resources from Cornell University.
Education
University of North Carolina J.D., with honors 2012
Cornell University B.A. 2005
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Lecturer
- Professor of Law at the University of Bialystok
Charles Szymanski teaches Labor and Employment Law in the JDinteractive Program. Szymanski is a professor of law at the University of Bialystok in Poland and is a regular visiting professor at the University of Trento in Italy.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a member of the Order the Coif. Before relocating to Europe, he practiced in Philadelphia as an attorney for boutique law firms representing labor unions at the regional and national level.
Szymanski served as Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section. His current research interests include the role of technology and AI on workers' rights; the intersection of sustainability, environmental standards, and labor law; and globalization and the future of trade unions. Szymanski is a frequent speaker on U.S., comparative and international labor law, and is the author of numerous articles on these subjects.
Job Titles:
- Dean Emeritus and Professor
- Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law
Craig M. Boise became the 12th Dean and Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law in July 2016, where he continued to build a reputation as one of legal education's leading innovators. Professor Boise concluded his deanship of the College of Law on June 30, 2024.
During his thirteen years as a law school dean, he established the nation's first online J.D. program to utilize a virtual classroom; the first online joint J.D./M.B.A. program; the nation's only joint J.D./LL.M in advocacy law; one of the earliest Master of Legal Studies programs for non-lawyers; the nation's first law-school based incubator for solo practitioners, and a "risk-free" J.D. program granting a master's degree in law to students who complete their first year of law school but elect not to pursue a law career.
Before coming to Syracuse, Boise was Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler-BakerHostetler Chair in Law at Cleveland State University College of Law. He has held faculty positions at DePaul University College of Law, where he was also Director of the Graduate Tax Program, and Case Western Reserve University School of Law where he began his academic career, and was a visiting professor at Washington & Lee College of Law.
Boise has taught a variety of tax courses, and his scholarship on US corporate and international tax policy and offshore financial centers has been published in the Texas International Law Journal, the George Mason Law Review, and the Minnesota Law Review, among others.
Before beginning his academic career, Boise practiced tax law for nearly nine years at Cleary Gottlieb LLP and Akin Gump LLP, in New York, and at Thompson Hine LLP, in Cleveland, OH. He clerked for the Hon. Pasco M. Bowman II, of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Dean Boise earned his LL.M. in Taxation from NYU, his J.D. from the University of Chicago, and his bachelor's degree in political science, summa cum laude, from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he also completed substantial coursework in piano performance at the university's Conservatory of Music.
From 2020 to 2023, Boise was a member of the Council of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which accredits all U.S. law schools; and on its Standards Review Committee from 2013 to 2018. He was an inaugural member of the Advisory Council of the ABA's Legal Education Police Practices Consortium, founded in 2020 to promote better policing practices throughout the U.S.; is one of four members of the applicant screening committee for the New York Board of Law Examiners; and is a member of the Independent Review Committee of the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government. He previously served on the Steering Committee of the AALS's Deans' Forum, and as co-chair of the Executive Committee of the AALS's Deans' Section.
In 2018, Boise served as Co-Chair of the transition team for New York Attorney General Letitia James. He is a past member of the New York State Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law and the New York State Bar Association's COVID-19 Recovery Task Force. He has been admitted to the practice of law in Missouri, New York, and Ohio.
Education
New York University School of Law
LL.M. Taxation
University of Chicago Law School
Daan Braveman, graduated from the University of Rochester and obtained his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as law clerk to Justice Samuel J. Roberts of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and then worked as an attorney for the Greater Upstate Law Project located in Rochester. While at the Project he was engaged in civil rights litigation throughout New York State.
Braveman subsequently joined the faculty of the Syracuse University College of Law where he taught and published in the areas of Civil Rights, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Federal Indian Law. He also initiated and taught in the College's Public Interest Law Firm clinical program. From 1994-2000, he served as Dean of the College.
In 2005, he was inaugurated as the President of Nazareth College, an independent school with nearly 3000 students located in Rochester, New York. Nazareth regularly has been selected by the Princeton Review for its publication in The Best Colleges in the United States. It also has been recognized as one of the largest producers of student Fulbright Scholars among schools in its category. Carnegie Foundation named the College to its selective list of community engagement schools and Nazareth was one of five schools in the country to receive the President's Award for Community Engagement, the highest honor awarded to schools for their community service.
During his tenure as President, the College expanded its programs in Health and Human Services, established the Arts Center as the premier mid-sized arts venue in the region, increased international programs, adopted a unique core educational program, and established the Center for Life's Work. The College completed construction of the York Wellness and Rehabilitation Institute, which houses the College's inter-professional Health and Human Services programs and clinics that serve underserved patients in the local community. It opened Peckham Hall, home of the Integrated Center for Math and Science, which Princeton Review ranked as one of the top 20 science laboratory facilities in the country. The College also opened the Jane and Laurence Glazer Music Performance Center and recently dedicated the Golisano Training Center, which includes a unique partnership between the College and Special Olympics.
In 2020, Braveman retired as President and accepted his current position as Senior Higher Education Counsel at the law firm of Harter, Secrest & Emery. Braveman serves as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative, and serves on the Boards of the Farash Foundation, WXXI, the Discovery Charter School, and the Golisano Children's Hospital.
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of Externships and Career Services
Professor English is the W. F. Fratcher and Earl L. Jenkins Professor of Law at the University of Missouri. He joined the MU Law faculty in 1999, following a career as an estate planning partner with the Chicago law firm of D'Ancona & Pflaum and teaching at the Universities of South Dakota and Santa Clara. Professor English is an Adjunct Professor with the College of Law teaching Estate Planning in the JDinteractive Program.
Professor English is best known for his work with the Uniform Law Commission, for which he was the Reporter for the Uniform Trust Code, the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, and the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act, and was the Chair of the drafting committee for the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship and Other Protective Arrangements Act. Professor English is a former Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Real Property Trust and Estate Law, a former Chair of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging, a former member of the ABA House of Delegates, and a former Chair of the Probate and Trust Committee of the Missouri Bar. In addition, he is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a Uniform Law Commissioner for the State of Missouri, and a Life Member of the American Law Institute.
Professor English is co-author of the three-volume treatise, Tax, Estate and Financial Planning for the Elderly, published by Lexis, successor author of volumes 4A, 4B, and volumes 5 through 5D of Missouri Probate Practice, published by West Publishing, co-author of the book Wills, Trusts, and Estates, and Principles of Wills, Trusts and Estate, published by West Academic, and co-author of the Fiduciary Accounting and Trust Administration Guide, published by ALI-ABA. At the University of Missouri, he teaches Estates and Trusts, Elder Law, and first-year Property.
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor
- Dean J. DiPilato
- Enterprise Leader
David Eilers is an enterprise leader focused on the convergence of technology development, innovation platforms, and user engagement. He serves as Adjunct Faculty at the College of Law's Innovation Law Center and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management's MBA program teaching Corporate Entrepreneurship,
Over the course of his career Eilers has pioneered new products, opened new international markets, and developed new business models. His focus on the healthcare industry has resulted in strategic growth through his work with the Marmon Group/ Roundtable Healthcare Partners, resulting in a $785 Million acquisition. He continued his innovation work by co-founding a technology accelerator for Welch Allyn Medical (now Baxter Int'l), launching the Life Reimagined Institute for AARP, and co-developing the IN90 program for the American Hospital Association (AHA) Center for Innovation.
In addition to teaching, Eilers is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with an early-stage venture fund and is a Master Coach for the Squadify Team Assessment platform. He often speaks to global enterprises interested in the human-centered design and high-performance teams.
Eilers earned a B.S. in Communications/Marketing from Syracuse University.
Dean J. DiPilato joined Mackenzie Hughes in 2017 as a partner. He concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation, as well as financial litigation, intellectual property matters, construction litigation, and healthcare law. Dean has represented privately and publicly held corporations in a wide variety of civil litigation in state and federal court, including matters involving contract disputes, construction issues (defect and negligence claims), securities class actions and investigations, healthcare litigation, computer software litigation (licensing agreement and copyright disputes), and patent and trademark litigation.After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, he received his Juris Doctor from the Columbia University School of Law in 1998, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Job Titles:
- Engineer - in - Residence, Innovation Law Center
Professor Bailey teaches courses in Banking Law and Business Valuation Law. Her scholarship centers on issues in banking law, federal preemption, freedom of speech, and securities law. Professor Bailey's recent article, The New York Times and Credit Rating Agencies: Indistinguishable under First Amendment Jurisprudence was published as the lead article in the Denver Law Review. Professor Bailey is the recipient of the 2015 American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers Annual Writing Competition Award for A Defense of the Doctrine of Preemption: Revealing the Fallacy that Federal Preemption Contributed to the Financial Crisis published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Professor Bailey's article was selected as the winner of the award after an invitation to enter her article in the competition.
Professor Bailey practices law with Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Syracuse, New York. She concentrates her practice in representing public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions. Professor Bailey has managed all phases of corporate transactions, commercial contract negotiation, intellectual property licensing, private equity investment, financing, and associated regulatory compliance matters. She is experienced in mergers and acquisitions, stock purchases, asset purchases, joint ventures, divestitures, recapitalizations, redemptions, software licensing, secured financings, private placements, public securities filings, and corporate governance issues. Professor Bailey has particular experience in banking law and regulation and business valuation matters.
Professor Bailey previously practiced with Latham & Watkins, LLP in Washington, D.C. where she represented clients in all facets of corporate transactional and regulatory matters.
Professor Bailey received her juris doctor from Cornell Law School where she completed a concentration in Business Law and Regulation and served as Research Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. While at Cornell, Professor Bailey held positions as a teaching assistant and a research assistant.
Professor Bailey is admitted to practice in New York, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Prior to entering law school, she was a commercial loan officer with the Bank of New York.
Education
Cornell Law School
J.D. 1999
State University of New York at Albany
B.S., magna cum laude 1988
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law
Dr. Dan Traficonte is an Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law and a faculty affiliate of SU's Autonomous Systems Policy Institute. He was awarded the 2024-2025 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award for Early Performance. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Economy at MIT, where he was also a research associate on the Institute-wide Work of the Future Task Force, and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. His teaching and research focus on law, political economy, innovation, and economic development. His written work has focused in particular on patents and the role of federal R&D programs and university research in shaping science and technology. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and the Cardozo Law Review.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. 2021
Harvard Law School
J.D. 2017
University of Chicago
B.A. 2013
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law at the University of Missouri
Job Titles:
- Board Member of the Veterans Health Research Institute of Central New York
- Executive Director, Office of Clinical Legal Education
- Teaching Professor
Elizabeth Kubala is a Teaching Professor and the Executive Director of the Betty and Michael D. Wohl Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC). At Syracuse University, Kubala oversees VLC operations, supervises student attorneys in the representation of veterans, teaches the Veterans Legal Clinic Seminar, and supports veteran community relations.
Kubala joined the College of Law from the Syracuse University Institute for Veterans and Military Families, where she served as a Senior Director from 2015-2019, managing the delivery of programs and services across the nation for service members, veterans, and their families.
She retired from the U.S. Army at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel following 22 years of active service. She served in numerous staff and leadership positions throughout her military service, with her last assignment as a Military Judge while stationed at Fort Drum, NY.
Kubala received her commission as a military intelligence officer from West Point. Following graduation, she served as a platoon leader, company executive officer, and battalion intelligence officer at Fort Hood, TX. Selected for the Army's Funded Legal Education Program, she attended law school and transitioned into the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps.
As an Army lawyer, Kubala initially served as an administrative law attorney, ethics counselor, and prosecutor at Fort Hood. Later, while assigned to the Pentagon, she served as a legal advisor to the Army Inspector General, and then as a legal advisor to the Army Staff in the Office of the Judge Advocate General. From the Pentagon, she performed public affairs duties as the media spokesperson for the Military Commissions trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. During an overseas tour in Germany, she served as the Executive Officer for the U.S. Army Europe's legal office. For her final assignment in the Army, she presided over military courts-martial cases as a Military Judge at Fort Drum.
Kubala serves on the West Point Association of Graduates Advisory Council, which provides advice to the governing body of the Association of Graduates at the United States Military Academy. She is a Civilian Aide Emerita to the Secretary of the Army (CASA) for Upstate New York.
Locally, Kubala serves as a Board Member of the Veterans Health Research Institute of Central New York, which conducts, promotes, and supports the medical research and education activities of the Syracuse, Canandaigua, and Bath VA Medical Centers, and advances the well-being of veterans and the general public by these endeavors.
Kubala earned her L.L.M. in 2005 from the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School; J.D. in 2000 from the University of Missouri, Kansas City; and B.S. in 1993 from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Education
The Army Judge Advocate General's School
Eugene McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Law. He teaches Contracts, Business Associations, and related courses.
Prior to joining Syracuse University College of Law, McCarthy was an Assistant Professor of Business Law at James Madison University and Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield. At James Madison, he was the recipient of the Dr. Otto C. Brenner Memorial Award for the Outstanding Teacher in the College of Business. McCarthy was also a corporate associate in the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
His research addresses corporate law, white-collar crime, public health, education, and U.S. legal history. His recent work appears in the Brooklyn Law Review, Rutgers University Law Review, and the Syracuse Law Review, among other law journals.
McCarthy received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. He is admitted to the State Bar of California.
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 2016
UCLA School of Law, J.D. 2008
Penn State University, M.A. 2005
Rutgers College, B.A. 2001
Professor Germain joined the College of Law faculty in 2002, and teaches and conducts research in the areas contracts, taxation, commercial law, bankruptcy, and corporate law. He publishes widely on the subject of bankruptcy. Beginning in 2009, Germain established a pro bono bankruptcy program and bankruptcy clinic, through which law students assist low income residents through the bankruptcy processes. The students help gather and organize the client's financial information, prepare filings and represent the clients in court.
Germain practiced law for 17 years following graduation from law school, first as an associate for Latham and Watkins in Los Angeles, and then as an associate and partner for Landels, Ripley & Diamond in San Francisco. He also was a judicial extern to the Honorable Lloyd King, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, and later was an attorney advisor to The Honorable Renato Behghe of the United States Tax Court.
Education
University of Florida
LL.M. 2001
University of California, Hastings College of Law
J.D., magna cum laude 1985
University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. 1982
Job Titles:
- Vice Chancellor, Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Job Titles:
- Director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy
Judge Jamie Baker is the Director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law as well as a Professor at the Syracuse College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He also serves as a judge on the Data Protection Review Court.
Baker previously served as a Judge and Chief Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Baker also served as a presidentially appointed member (Obama) and Acting Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board. As a career civil servant, Baker served as Legal Adviser and Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council. He has also served as Counsel to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board, an attorney in the U.S. Department of State, an aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and as a Marine Corps infantry officer. In 2017-18, Baker was the Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies, MIT.
In addition to teaching at Syracuse University, Baker has taught at Yale, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Washington University (St. Louis), and Georgetown. He is the author of numerous articles and three books: The Centaur's Dilemma: National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution (Brookings 2021); In the Common Defense: National Security Law for Perilous Times (Cambridge 2007); and, with Michael Reisman, Regulating Covert Action (Yale 1992).
Education
Yale Law School
J.D. 1990
Yale University
B.A., cum laude 1982
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor
- Professor
Professor Howard Leib is an attorney and educator with over forty years' experience at each. As an intellectual property and entertainment attorney, he has represented clients such as KISS, Whitney Houston, and Bobby McFerrin, as well as corporations such as Atlantic Records, Universal Entertainment, and Rhino Entertainment. As an educator, he has taught for numerous schools, including both the College of Law and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Cornell Law School, Touro Law Center, New York University and City University of New York. He also teaches students in China as part of the Neo Scholars program.
He is a graduate of Columbia University and Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he graduated with honors and was a member of both the Law Review and the Moot Court Board. Leib is the author of the lead essay in the collection "Teach Law with a Sense of Humor: Why (and How to) Be a Funnier and More Effective Law Teacher and Laugh All the Way to Your Classroom" from The Curious Academic Publishing.
Izabela Kraśnicka joins the College of Law to teach a 2025 summer course "Transnational Lawyering in the European Union: A Comparative Study of EU and US Legal Practices and Perspectives".
Kraśnicka is a University Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland. She was an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University College of Law, taught in two ABA-accredited summer programs with the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and with Michigan State University College of Law. She was a Visiting Professor at the Lancaster University (UK) and Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania).
Her primary research is focused on international public law (with special emphasis on the law of the air and law of international organizations), U.S. Constitutional law, and constitutional European Union law, as well as the practical approach to legal education.
Kraśnicka has published over 80 scholarly articles, in Polish and English. Her most recent works include a book chapter "Has Belarus Violated International Law?" (Routledge 2024), the article "Gender Equity in Deanship of the Central and Eastern European Law Schools" in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 2024, and the book "Legal System of the United States. An introduction (Temida 2, 2023)". She has also co-authored the article "Polish Response to the War in Ukraine: The Protection of Refugees" for the 2023 special issue of the Syracuse Law Review.
She received her master's degree, doctoral degree and post-doctoral degree in law from the University of Bialystok Faculty of Law. She was a recipient of the Boeing Corporation Scholarship and the Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship.
Jack Graves teaches Contracts, Commercial Transactions, Arbitration, Evidence, and Crypto & Digital Assets in JDinteractive. Before Syracuse University, he taught at Touro Law Center, where he served as Professor of Law and Director of Digital Legal Education and launched its FlexTime J.D. program. His academic career includes previous appointments at the University of Colorado, Stetson University, Franklin Pierce (now University of New Hampshire) and Syracuse University (as a visitor in the fall of 2005).
Graves' teaching and writing focus on contracts, commercial law, and arbitration (including both domestic and international sales and arbitration law), as well as digital lawyering (technology leveraged delivery of legal services). His teaching experience also includes Business Organizations, Evidence, Professional Responsibility and Basic Business for Lawyers. His most recent writing projects focus largely on teaching materials tailored to an assessment intensive, online teaching environment, including the innovative Learning Contracts (West 3d ed., 2022, with Henry Blair); International Sales & Commercial Arbitration (2017 online edition); and Sales Law (2020 online edition) for embedded use within an asynchronous online course.
Graves has played a significant role at a national level in the development of online legal education in J.D. programs. He participated as one of the original members of the Working Group on Distance Learning in Legal Education (and collaborated in its original publication of a manual for best practices); developed and delivered two fully asynchronous courses through iLaw Distance Learning to law schools around the country; and he serves as a frequent speaker at leading conferences on online legal education.
Graves earned his J.D. from the University of Colorado in 1994 and his B.A. from the University of Colorado in 1974.
Education
University of Colorado
School of Law
J.D. 1994
University of Colorado
B.A. 1974
Jim Williams teaches Employment Law. Since 2004 he has been an Attorney at the Syracuse office of Legal Services of Central New York (LSCNY). LSCNY provides free civil legal services to low-income people in 13 Central New York counties. His practice focuses on employment rights and economic justice issues. He also is the Managing Attorney for Special Projects including Consumer, Education, Employment, Healthcare, Immigrant Rights, Juvenile Justice & Jails, Mental Health & Homelessness and Racial Justice. He is a past President of the Onondaga County Bar Association and remains active on OCBA's Community Engagement and Diversity & Inclusion Committees. He is a past President of LeGaL, the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and the Network of Bar Leaders in New York City. He has served as a member of the House of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association, and was a founding Board Member of the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County. Prior to joining LSCNY, he was the Executive Director of the National Employment Law Project (NELP) in New York City and also served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Labor Bureau of the New York State Department of Law. He is 1986 graduate of Brooklyn Law School.
Education
Brooklyn Law School
J.D. 1986
New York University
B.A. 1981
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor
- General Counsel of the Eastern Company
Jared L. Landaw is the General Counsel of The Eastern Company (Nasdaq: EML), an international manufacturer of engineered products with operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Asia. From 2021 to 2024, he served as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: TAST), a publicly traded company operating approximately 1,100 restaurants in 23 states with over 25,000 employees. In 2024, Carrols was sold to Restaurant Brands International in a successful transaction that he helped lead internally.
Prior to joining Carrols, Mr. Landaw was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Barington Capital Group, L.P., a collaborative activist investment firm where he worked from 2004 to 2021. Before that, he served as the Vice President - Law at International Specialty Products Inc. (formerly NYSE: ISP) and as an attorney at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
Mr. Landaw holds a B.A. from Colgate University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Managing Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. He has served as a director of two publicly traded companies and has authored several articles on board composition and corporate governance.
Education
Columbia University
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Professor
Professor Jenny Breen researches and writes on democracy with particular attention to democratic erosion and the United States Supreme Court. Her interdisciplinary work examines the relationship between democratic governance and the Supreme Court from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. Professor Breen has also engaged in empirical and historical research regarding labor unions, women workers, and immigration law. She was awarded the 2022-2023 Laura J. and Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition for Early Performance.
Prior to arriving at the College of Law, Professor Breen practiced immigration law and then worked as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also taught Politics at Ithaca College, including courses on U.S. Politics and the Politics of Work.
Professor Breen received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Breen is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the Syracuse University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (SU-AAUP). She teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Labor Law.
Education
Cornell Law School
J.D., summa cum laude 2015
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D 2011
University of Pennsylvania
M.A. 2007
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jessica Naclerio works for The Foti Law Firm, PC and handles mostly violent felony cases in State Court. Her practice also includes criminal cases pending in Federal Court and she is a member of the CJA Panel. Prior to working at Foti Law, she was with the Monroe County Public Defender's Office for seven years. She received the Jeff Jacob's Award for Outstanding Representation in a Criminal Case in 2019. In her free time, she serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Youth and enjoys getting outside with her dogs.
Education
DePaul University
Job Titles:
- Director, Transactional Law Clinic
- Professor
Jessica R. Murray was appointed Teaching Professor in Fall 2025 and Director of the Transactional Law Clinic at the Law School in Fall 2019. Jessica previously served as Co-Director of the Community Development Law Clinic at the Law School and before that was a Consulting Attorney on intellectual property issues in that Clinic.
Jessica was previously in private practice in Rochester, NY, where she was a partner at several firms and focused her practice on business and intellectual property.
Jessica's interests include entrepreneurship, business and not-for-profit start-ups, and protection of intellectual property assets.
Jessica is a member of the Board of Directors of the Thousand Islands Art Center (Clayton, NY). She is a member of the American Bar Association and a past member of the New York State Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee Executive Committee and the New York State Bar Association House of Delegates, the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys, and the International Trademark Association. She is a past chair of the Monroe County Bar Association Business Law Section and a former member of the Center for Youth Services (Rochester, NY) Board of Directors and Advisory Board, and of the Board of Directors of Causewave Community Partners (formerly The Advertising Council of Rochester). Jessica was a recipient of the Rochester Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Award and the Advertising Council of Rochester's Lantern Award for outstanding volunteer service.
Jessica received her B.A. in Government from Dartmouth College in 1985 and J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1988.
Education
Cornell Law School
J.D. 1988
Dartmouth College
B.A. 1985
Job Titles:
- Professor, Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics
John T. Wolohan is a sports lawyer, academic, consultant, and author. He joined the Syracuse University Sport Management program in 2011 and the Syracuse University College of Law in 2014. In addition to publishing numerous articles and book chapters, Professor Wolohan has published two books. The first one: "Law for Recreation and Sport Managers" by Cotten and Wolohan is the leading sport law textbook used by undergraduate sport management programs in the United States. The second book: "Sports Analytics and How Numbers are Changing Sports" is the top selling textbook on sports analytics.
Professor Wolohan has been teaching and working in the fields of sport management, sports law, and sports media for more than30 years with a research focus on athlete's rights, drug testing, sports media, sports gambling, and sport analytics. Professor Wolohan has taught as a visiting professor and served as scholar-in-residence at the China University of Political Science and Law (China), Shanghai University of Political Science and Law (China), University of Lleida (Spain), Sheffield Hallam University (England), University of Pretoria (South Africa) and as a guest lecturer at Beijing Sport University (China).
Professor Wolohan is a highly sought-after expert, and his opinion is regularly sought after. He has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Forbes, NPR, CCTV, and many other international. national and local publications and broadcasts. In addition, Professor Wolohan is a frequent speaker, panelist, and moderator at professional organizations, law schools, and sport business conferences. He has spoken or moderated at, among others, the American Bar Association, the Sports Lawyers Association, National Sports Law Institute, Sport and Recreation Law Association, the Australian & New Zealand Sports Law Association, William J. Clinton Distinguished Lecturer, University of Arkansas, Clinton School of Public Service, United States Sports Congress, Athletic Business Conference, International Sport Business Symposium, the European Association of Sport Management, Alibaba, and Tencent's Digital Sports Global Summit.
Professor Wolohan, who is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, received his J.D. from Western New England University School of Law, his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and his M.A. from Syracuse University.
Education
Syracuse University
M.A. 2018
Western New England University School of Law
J.D. 1992
University of Massachusetts
B.A. 1985
Job Titles:
- Expert
- Professor of Law / Director, Disability Law and Policy Program
Professor Katherine Macfarlane is a leading expert on civil procedure, civil rights litigation, and disability law. She serves as Director of the College of Law's Disability Law and Policy Program and teaches Civil Rights Litigation, Constitutional Law, and Disability Law. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute.
Professor Macfarlane's scholarship has appeared in or will appear in the Georgetown Law Journal, Ohio State Law Journal, Washington Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Columbia Law Review Forum, American University Law Review, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, among others.
During the 2022-2023 academic year, Professor Macfarlane served as Special Counsel to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. There, she worked on the Department's overhaul of the regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, focusing on the regulations' higher education provisions. From 2016 to 2019, Professor Macfarlane was a member of the District of Idaho's Local Rules Advisory Committee and led a review of the rules' compliance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 83.
Professor Macfarlane has previously served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Disability Law and co-founded the first AALS affinity group for disabled law professors and allies. She frequently presents and writes about students, lawyers, and professors with disabilities, and the challenges they face in obtaining reasonable accommodations. Professor Macfarlane has also testified before the Louisiana Legislature and addressed the Congressional Arthritis Caucus in Washington, D.C. She is frequently quoted by media outlets reporting on civil rights litigation and disability, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, USA Today, NPR, Law360, and The Nation.
Prior to joining academia, Professor Macfarlane was an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Department serving as lead counsel in federal civil rights actions. As an associate in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's Los Angeles and New York offices, she represented plaintiffs in securities litigation. She clerked for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Macfarlane received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University, and her J.D., cum laude, from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she served as Chief Articles Editor of the Loyola Law Review. She is admitted to practice in California and New York. Professor Macfarlane spent her childhood in Rome, Italy, and is fluent in Italian and Spanish.
Professor Bybee is a Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper '72 Judiciary Studies Professor at the College of Law. He holds tenured appointments at the College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He also directs the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM), a collaborative effort between the College of Law, the Maxwell School, and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Bybee's areas of research interest are the judicial process, legal theory, political philosophy, LGBT politics, the politics of race and ethnicity, American politics, constitutional law, codes of conduct, and the media. His books include Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation (Princeton, 1998; second printing, 2002), Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politics, and the Media (Stanford, 2007), and All Judges Are Political-Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law (Stanford, 2010). His most recent book is How Civility Works (Stanford, 2016). He is currently at work on a grant-funded project examining the positive uses of fake news.
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean of Students
- Professor
Professor Curtis teaches Professional Responsibility and Women and the Law. Her scholarly interests include legal ethics and feminist legal theory. She was awarded the 2024-2025 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award for Continuing Excellence.
Before joining the College of Law, Professor Curtis was both Director of Legal Writing and Director of Academic Support at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. She also spent eight years on the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall as a Legal Writing Professor of Law. Prior to joining Cleveland-Marshall, she served as Assistant State Public Defender in the Office of the Ohio Public Defender, and before that was in private practice as an associate at Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn, LPA (now Ice Miller LLP). While in practice, Professor Curtis focused primarily on appellate practice and has argued multiple cases in the Supreme Court of Ohio and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Curtis holds a J.D. cum laude from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law where she was Executive Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal, and a B.A. from Saint Mary's College.
Education
The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
J.D., cum laude 2005
Saint Mary's College
B.A. 1999
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law at Syracuse University
Kevin Noble Maillard is Professor of Law at Syracuse University. He is the co-editor of Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World (with Rose Villazor, Cambridge 2012).
Professor Maillard focuses on family law, civil liberties, and popular culture. He has written about and lectured on sex, race, and family in the United States. At the College of Law, he teaches family law, wills and trusts, adoption law, and popular culture. He is a contributor to the New York Times, and is a writer for The Atlantic. He has appeared as a legal commentator on MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera America, and CNN.
Professor Maillard received his B.A. in public policy from Duke University, his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. Originally from Oklahoma, he is a member of the Seminole Nation, Mekusukey Band.
Education
University of Michigan
Job Titles:
- Associate Director of Career Services at the Syracuse University College
Kevin Shults is the Associate Director of Career Services at the Syracuse University College of Law. Prior to his position at the Law School, Kevin was working for the Syracuse University's iSchool and Financial Aid Office, and has been with Syracuse University for over 10 years. Kevin received his MSIM from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies with a Certification of Advanced Study in Information Security and holds a B.A. in Business Economics from SUNY Cortland.
Kevin's primary goal is to empower and guide aspiring legal professionals on their path to success. He is dedicated to providing comprehensive support, ensuring that students have the tools and knowledge necessary to make informed decisions about their future legal careers. You can find Kevin hard at work maintaining the Orange Core Career Services Management system, and overseeing the OCI (On-Campus Interview) Programs.
Outside of work, Kevin enjoys various outdoor activities including hiking, skiing, fishing, and cycling. Kevin also enjoys spending time with his family and cheering on the Syracuse University Orange men's and women's sports teams.
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean for Faculty Research / Professor
- Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor
- Professor
Kristen Barnes is an Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law. Professor Barnes teaches courses on Property, Housing Law, Voting Rights Law, and International Law. Barnes received her B.A. in Political Science from Vassar College, J.D. from Harvard Law School, and Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University. Dr. Barnes's scholarship focuses on anti-discrimination and equality law, property, housing, education, constitutional law, and pensions. She has published articles in top law review journals including Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy, Harvard Journal of Racial and Ethnic Justice, and Chicago-Kent Law Review.
The American Bar Foundation awarded Dr. Barnes a residency as a visiting scholar for the 2019-2020 and 2018-2019 academic years. She has presented her work at numerous prestigious conferences such as the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting, Harvard Law School's Institute of Global Law and Policy Conference, the Association of Law, Property, and Society Annual Conference, Loyola Law School's Constitutional Colloquium, and Fordham Law School's International and Comparative Urban Law Conference.
Professor Barnes has served in several AALS leadership roles including Chair of the Section on Property Law, Chair of the Real Estate Transactions Section, and Chair-Elect of the European Law Section. In the international arena, Barnes has served as Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting (2019). She is also a member of the University of California - Berkeley's Comparative Law Equality Working Group. Prior to entering academia, Professor Barnes practiced commercial real estate law in Chicago and clerked for a federal district court judge in the Northern District of Illinois.
Education
Duke University
Ph.D 2003
Harvard Law
J.D. 1990
Vassar College
A.B. 1987
Job Titles:
- Externship and Career Advisor
Kristen Duda currently serves as the Externship and Career Advisor at Syracuse University's College of Law where she is a dedicated advocate for student success. Working closely with students to support their academic and professional development, including providing guidance and resources for externship placements. She offers one-on-one advising, helps students navigate program requirements, and collaborates with faculty and staff to ensure students are well-positioned for career advancement.
Throughout her career, Kristen has demonstrated a strong commitment to student success and organizational growth. She has played key roles in developing and managing experiential learning opportunities, supporting certificate programs, and advising students on academic and career pathways. Her collaborative approach, paired with exceptional communication skills, has allowed her to foster productive relationships with faculty, staff, students, and external partners.
Her previous roles at Syracuse University's Institute for Security Policy and Law, the Chancellor's Office, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and United Way of Central New York further highlight her expertise in donor relations, sponsorship development, and large-scale event management. She has successfully secured major sponsorships, implemented new technologies for fundraising events, and increased community engagement through targeted media and outreach strategies.
Outside of work, Kristen enjoys spending time with her family, that include two mini golden doodles, visiting the ADK's and trying new restaurants around Syracuse.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Teaching Excellence
Professor Lape received her J.D. with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She practiced as an associate in the probate department at a leading Boston law firm before beginning her teaching career. She taught at Temple University and at UNC at Chapel Hill before coming to Syracuse.
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Crandall Melvin Professor
In 2022, Syracuse University named Professor Gouldin a Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence. Professor Gouldin had previously been selected by the Syracuse University Meredith Professors to receive a Teaching Recognition Award in 2015. At their commencement, the Class of 2018 awarded her the Res Ipsa Loquitur Award for outstanding service, scholarship, and stewardship. In 2014 and 2015, the Student Bar Association Honored Professor Gouldin with the Outstanding Faculty Award.
Professor Gouldin also directs the College of Law's Syracuse Civics Initiative, which develops community-facing civics education programming in partnership with other departments at the University, local judges and attorneys, and community organizations that support civics education. In this role, she organizes the College of Law's annual Supreme Court Preview and various middle and high school programs at the law school, including the annual Youth Law Day program.
Professor Gouldin graduated from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and received her J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York and for the Hon. Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also spent several years as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, working on matters involving white collar and regulatory defense, internal investigations and compliance, and securities litigation. Before joining the College of Law faculty, Professor Gouldin served as the Assistant Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University School of Law.
Education
New York University
School of Law
J.D., magna cum laude 2000
Princeton University,
Woodrow Wilson School
A.B. 1995
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean
- Chairman of the DirectWomen Board of Directors
Lily Yan Hughes is a former law firm partner and S&P and Fortune 500 global executive with expertise in M&A, governance, corporate finance, and securities, with experience working for highly regulated financial services companies and banks, real estate operating and development companies, and multi-national technology companies. Hughes leads the Admissions & Financial Aid, Career Services, Marketing & Communications and SU Abroad Programs Offices at Syracuse Law. As a first-generation lawyer, the first in her family to graduate from college, and an immigrant to the United States at the age of 11, Hughes brings a passion for building future legal leaders.
Prior to Syracuse, Hughes was Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary for Arrow Electronics, Inc., a Fortune 150 global company. At Arrow, she was a member of the Executive Committee and led the company's global legal, trade risk, and compliance teams.
From 2015 to 2019, Hughes was Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Public Storage, an S&P 500 and FT Global 500 company. From 1997 to 2015, she served in roles of increasing responsibility, including her last role as Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Corporate, M&A, and Finance of Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest wholesale information technology and mobile devices distributor (and a former Fortune 100 company). Prior to that, Hughes was an Associate Director in the Property Management Department of the nationwide leader in cancer treatment and research City of Hope and a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. She began her legal career as an associate at McKenna, Conner & Cuneo in Los Angeles.
Hughes received the National Diversity Council Power 50 (Women in the C-Suite) award in both 2021 and 2020. She also received American Law Media's National Women in the Law award as General Counsel of the Year for 2018. Most recently, Agenda-The Financial Times publication focused on board and governance-named Hughes to its Diversity 100 list, a directory of 100 board-ready director candidates from groups historically underrepresented in the boardroom.
Hughes serves as chair of the DirectWomen Board of Directors, a non-profit focused on accelerating opportunities for women legal leaders to serve on corporate boards.
She received her J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law and holds a B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley.
Professor Harding teaches in the areas of civil procedure, alternative dispute resolution, and securities regulation, and conducts research in the arbitration law and practice area. She earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University and a juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center where she was Articles and Notes Editor of the American Criminal Law Review. After graduation, she entered private practice with a leading New York City law firm, specializing in corporate and commercial litigation.
Education
Georgetown University
Law Center
J.D., cum laude 1986
Boston University
B.A., summa cum laude 1982
Before entering teaching, Professor Szto practiced law in New York City, representing banks in financing matters. She also co-founded a legal aid organization specializing in immigration law. Among other schools, she has previously taught at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, and Valparaiso University School of Law.
Szto has written extensively on issues such as the role of real estate agents and housing discrimination, and she has published a bilingual law text on American property law in China. Her articles-on Chinese-American property ownership, anti-corruption law, real estate, and Chinese law and ritual-have appeared in the Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, Fordham International Law Journal, Minnesota Journal of International Law, and elsewhere.
She is serving as Chair of the College of Law Inclusion Council for 2024-2025.
Education
Columbia University
School of Law
J.D. 1986
Westminster Theological Seminary
M.A. 1983
Wellesley College
B.A. 1981
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Fellow in Residence
Monica Luna joins the College of Law as a teaching professor of legal writing. Most recently, she was a legal writing professor at Western State College of Law in Southern California, and she served as a visiting professor at Cal Western School of Law during the 2019-2020 academic year. She has taught courses in family law, community property, and academic support, and she served as Director of Western State's Family Practice Certificate Program.
A specialist in family law practice and crossover social and legal issues related to family law and domestic violence, Todd's research has appeared in Akron Law Review and Western State University Law Review. She also has written on academic integrity and practice-oriented courses, and she has presented conference papers on legal writing, client communications, appellate advocacy, cultural literacy, and other topics.
Before her law career, Luna attended graduate school at the University of California at Irvine, completing both a master's degree in Social Ecology (with an emphasis on Human Development Studies) and the Elementary Education Teaching Internship Program. She taught elementary school for several years before earning her J.D. at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2007. At UCLA she was Bergstrom Child Welfare Law Fellow and Copyright Editor of the Women's Law Journal. After law school, she was associate attorney at Stegmeier & Gelbart LLP and the Law Office of John A. Bledsoe.
Education
University of California Los Angeles School of Law
J.D. 2007
University of California, Irvine
M.A. 1998
University of California, Irvine
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean for Academic Programs
- Professor
Shannon Gardner is a Teaching Professor at Syracuse University College of Law, where she has served as a member of the faculty since 2010. Professor Gardner teaches a number of legal writing classes in the Juris Doctor (J.D.) program. She also teaches Introduction to the American Legal System in the Masters of Law (LL.M.) program.
Professor Gardner has twice received the Lex Lucet Mundum Award (in 2017, 2019, and 2021), an award selected by the graduating international LL.M. students for excellence in teaching. As part of the international program at the College of Law, Professor Gardner has taught courses on the American legal system around the world, including Lebanon and Italy, as well as presented at conferences regarding teaching American law to international students.
Professor Gardner also is active in the College of Law's Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honors Society (AHS), coaching intercollegiate appellate moot court teams, judging intracollegiate and intercollegiate moot court competitions, and mentoring students regarding appellate and trial advocacy.
Prior to joining the faculty of the College of Law, Professor Gardner was a federal criminal prosecutor with the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California for 11 years. She served first as a trial attorney (in both the Major Frauds Section and the Narcotics Section) and, subsequently, as an appellate attorney in the Criminal Appeals Section. In the Criminal Appeals Section, she authored numerous briefs and argued several cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before becoming a federal prosecutor, Professor Gardner was an attorney in private practice with the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, and served as a clerk on the United States District Court for the Central District of California, to the Honorable William J. Rea.
Professor Gardner received her J.D. from the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (cum laude and Order of the Coif) and her B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Education
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
J.D., cum laude 1994
University of California at Los Angeles
B.A. 1991
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law Emeritus