SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF 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 legal writing and civil procedure. Her teaching reflects the study of legal process, writing, and the cognition of learning. She also serves as an Associate 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:
- 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. In the summer of 2013, he was a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil).
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 Link
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:
- 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 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 has continued to build a reputation as one of legal education's leading innovators. During his more than twelve years as a law school dean, he has established the nation's first hybrid online J.D. program to utilize the now-ubiquitous Zoom platform, the first online joint J.D./M.B.A. program, 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, Dean Boise was Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler-BakerHostetler Chair in Law at Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall 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, and was a visiting professor at Washington & Lee College of Law. He 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.
Preceding the commencement of his academic career, Dean Boise practiced tax law for more than eight 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.
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 of Externships and Career Services
- Director of Externships and Career Services Link
Dafni Kiritsis is an experienced employment law attorney who joined Syracuse Law from Syracuse University's Office of Human Resources, where she held the position of Senior Human Resources Business Partner. In this role, Ms. Kiritsis provided counsel to the most senior leaders at Syracuse University across the full range of human resource issues and served as the escalation point for unit leadership on employee relations matters.
From 2010-2018, Ms. Kiritsis worked as an attorney in the Department of Veteran's Affairs' Office of General Counsel providing advice, counseling, conflict resolution services, and legal representation to VA Medical Center facilities across the Northeast. She represented the VA to address formal complaints filed by employees with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Merit System Protection Board.
Prior to that, Ms. Kiritsis was an attorney with Green & Seifter Attorneys PLLC (now Bousquet Holstein PLLC) where she practiced civil litigation and employment law. Ms. Kiritsis received her J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University and holds a B.A. from Syracuse University.
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Visiting Lecturer
Professor David M. Driesen, University Professor at the College of Law, focuses on constitutional law, law and economics, and environmental law. Professor Driesen has written four books: The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power (Stanford University Press) The Economic Dynamics of Law (Cambridge University Press), the textbook Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach (Aspen Kluwer with Robert Adler and Kirsten Engel) and The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law (MIT Press), which won the Lynton Keith Caldwell Award-a prize offered by The American Political Science Association annually for the best book published in science, technology, and environmental studies. He has also published two edited volumes, Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Future (Cambridge University Press with Alyson Flournoy) and Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy (MIT Press). He has published numerous articles with leading journals, such as Cornell Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Ecology Law Quarterly, Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the Virginia Journal of International Law, Emory Law Journal, and several book chapters.
Driesen engages in public service defending democracy, environmental law's constitutionality and efforts to combat the climate crisis. He has written numerous amicus briefs in Supreme Court cases and has represented Senators Hillary Clinton and others in Clean Air Act litigation in the DC Circuit. He is a member scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), and blogs often on climate disruption issues for CPR and for RegBlog. He has worked as a consultant for American rivers and other environmental groups on Clean Water Act issues and has testified before Congress on implementation of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.
Professor Driesen was a Senior Project Attorney for The Natural Resources Defense Council, in its Air and Energy Program. Before that, he clerked for Justice Robert Utter of the Washington State Supreme Court and worked in the Special Litigation Division of the Washington State Attorney General's Office.
Driesen joined the College of Law faculty in 1995. He was the Distinguished Summer Scholar in 2008 at Vermont Law School and a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School in 2006.
Driesen holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory. Currently, Professor Driesen performs with the Excelsior Cornet Band and the Syracuse University Brass Ensemble.
Education
Yale Law School
J.D. 1989
Yale School of Music
M.Mus. 1983
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor
- Dean J. DiPilato
Job Titles:
- Member of the Council of the ABA Section
Dean Boise is a member of the Council of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar and previously served on both the ABA's Standards Review Committee and the Steering Committee of the AALS's Deans' Forum. He was an inaugural member of the Advisory Council of the Legal Education Police Practices Consortium, which was founded to promote better policing practices throughout the U.S. In 2018, he served as Co-Chair of the transition team for New York Attorney General Tish 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 and is admitted to the bar in New York and Ohio.
Education
New York University School of Law
LL.M. Taxation
University of Chicago Law School
Job Titles:
- Engineer - in - Residence, Innovation Law Center
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. Previously, Dr. Traficonte was a Teaching Fellow in Law and Political Economy at Sciences Po Paris. 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. He has published his work in the Columbia Science and Technology Review as well as 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:
- Crandall Melvin Professor of Law / Director, Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute
Dr. Shubha Ghosh earned his J.D. from Stanford University, with distinction, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. He earned his B.A., cum laude, from Amherst College. Prior to joining Syracuse University College of Law, Ghosh taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School as a chaired, tenured professor and co-director of the Innovation cluster, consisting of faculty in the law and business schools.
Ghosh joined the Syracuse University College of Law in January, 2016, as Crandall Melvin Professor of Law and Director of the Technology Commercialization Curricular Program, a unique program which trains students in intellectual property, business law, and the legal foundations for the commercialization of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other legal property governing technology and innovation. The Program consists of the Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute (SIPLI), which Professor Ghosh manages, and the Innovation Law Center, which offers clinical experience for students in the Program.
Ghosh also works through the state-funded New York State Science and Technology Law Center (NYSSTLC), an entity that guides entrepreneurs, start-ups, universities, and research centers in New York State and beyond. In this capacity, Ghosh frequently works with administrators in Albany who focus on economic development and innovation policy in the State. Most recently, he has advised on the risks to 501(c) entities that collaborate with private enterprise and on intellectual property and technology licensing policies for state research entities.
His extensive research focuses on the development and commercialization of intellectual property and technology as a means of promoting economic and social development. He has published extensively on pharmaceutical, design, copyright protection of standards, competition policy, and other intellectual property issues; antitrust law; legal construction of the marketplace; technology transfer; and the role of intellectual property law and policy in shaping these diverse areas. His most recent book, Exhausting Intellectual Property Rights (Cambridge, 2018) was the subject of a panel discussion at the World Trade Organization in Geneva and the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Ghosh is also a frequent blogger and commentator in webcasts and webinars, including the JOTWELL section on International & Comparative Law; Hedgehogs and Foxes, a blog on law and popular culture; and the webcast series for SIPLI and the Technology Commercialization Law Program.
Working closely with student research assistants and colleagues across various disciplines and jurisdictions, Professor Ghosh is working currently on the following projects:
• Development of LLC law and possible convergence with corporate law principles.
Job Titles:
- Board Member of the Veterans Health Research Institute of Central New York
- Executive Director of the Betty and Michael D. Wohl Veterans Legal Clinic
- Secretary of the Army
- 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.
Appointed by the Secretary of the Army, Kubala continues to advise and support Army leaders by serving as a Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army (CASA) for Upstate New York. She also 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.
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 wellbeing 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
Job Titles:
- Professor at the Syracuse University College
Gary T. Kelder is a tenured Professor at the Syracuse University College of Law, where he has taught since 1975. He received his law degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in 1971. As the recipient of a Criminal Law Education and Research Fellowship, he obtained an LL.M in Criminal Justice at New York University Graduate School of Law in 1972.
Professor Kelder began his career in law teaching at Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he taught from 1972 to 1975. Courses he has taught over his 45 year teaching career include: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Federal Indian Law, Federal Courts, and Conflict of Laws. He taught Conflict of Laws as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School in Spring 2000. During the summers of 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1989, he taught in the Scholarship Program in Law for American Indians operated by the American Indian Law Center, Inc., at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Between 1985 and 2000, he spent eight summers in England co-directing the College of Law's Law in London Externship Program.
Throughout his career teaching law, Professor Kelder has been simultaneously engaged in the practice of both criminal and civil law at the trial and appellate levels. His bar admissions include the states of New York and Massachusetts, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Northern District of New York and the Northern District of Ohio.
In June of 1978, Professor Kelder was the recipient of the Civil Libertarian of the Year Award presented by the Greater Cleveland (Ohio) Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in recognition of his successful efforts in a significant federal habeas corpus action on behalf of a victim of former FBI Director Hoover's targeting of African American dissidents. From 1982 to 1990, he was co-counsel for the Oneida of the Thames Band (Canada) in the Oneida Nation's land claim litigation in the New York federal courts. From 1992 to October 1997, he served as a Chief Assistant District Attorney with the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office. From 1998 to 2000, and again from 2011 to 2016, Professor Kelder worked on complex civil litigation as of counsel to the Syracuse law firm of Gilberti, Stinziano, Heintz & Smith, PC. From 2001 to 2008, he was involved in criminal defense litigation as a solo practitioner and of counsel to the law firm of Cambareri, Cambareri & Koldin, LLP.
Professor Kelder has also authored several articles on criminal procedure for the Syracuse Law Review Survey of New York Law. For three decades, he has provided update outlines and presentations on New York search and seizure law and other topics at Summer Judicial Seminars and Court Attorney Programs sponsored by the New York Office of Court Administration, the New York State Judicial Institute and, more recently, by the New York 5 th, 6 th, and 7 th Judicial Districts. He has provided similar outlines and presentations for programs sponsored by local bar associations and the New York State Magistrate's Association. In 1998, Judith S. Kaye, then Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, appointed Professor Kelder as a committee member of the Grand Jury Project which issued its final report regarding recommended improvements in the operation of New York Grand Juries in March 1999.
Education
New York University Graduate School of Law
LL.M. 1972
Boston University School of Law
J.D., cum laude 1971
State University of New York at New Paltz
B.A., cum laude 1968
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law / Director, Bankruptcy Clinic
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 Landeis, Ripley & Diamond in San Francisco. He also was a judicial extern to the Honorable Lloyd King, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, and later was an attorney advisor to The Honorable Renato Behghe of the United States Tax Court.
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
- Professor of Law / Director, Institute for Security Policy and Law / Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs ( by Courtesy Appointment )
James E. Baker is Director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law, a Professor at the Syracuse College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University.
He previously served as a Judge and Chief Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. The USCAAF is a federal civilian court that hears cases arising in the military justice system. Appeal from the court is to the Supreme Court of the United States. Baker also served as a presidential appointed (Obama) member and Acting Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board.
As a career civil servant, he served as Legal Adviser and Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council. Baker 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
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
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Member and Former Secretary of the Syracuse University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors
Jenny Breen teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Labor Law. Her interdisciplinary scholarship is centrally concerned with democratic governance in the United States and pays particular attention to the roles of gender and labor politics. Her current research examines the Supreme Court's relationship to democratic erosion in the United States. She has also written in the areas of immigration and criminal law. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Utah Law Review, New Labor Forum, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, the University of Hawai'i Law Review, American Criminal Law Review, and the Journal of Policy History.
Prior to arriving at the College of Law, 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.
Breen received her J.D. from Cornell Law School. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Breen is a member and former Secretary of the Syracuse University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (SU-AAUP).
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
B.A. 2002
Job Titles:
- Associate Teaching Professor / Director, Transactional Law Clinic
- Professor and Director of the Transactional Law Clinic at the Law School
Jessica R. Murray was appointed associate Teaching Professor 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
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Director, Disability Law and Policy Program
- Expert
- Professor
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, Disability Law, and Torts.
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.
Prior to joining the College of Law faculty, Professor Macfarlane served as an associate professor at Southern University Law Center and the University of Idaho College of Law. From 2013 to 2015, she served as a teaching fellow at the Louisiana State University Hebert Law Center. 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's scholarship has appeared in or will appear in the Fordham Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, Columbia Law Review Forum, American University Law Review, Tulane Law Review, and Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, among others. She is also a frequent contributor to the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School Bill of Health Blog. Her civil procedure scholarship has focused on federal courts' local rules and practices. 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. The Southern District of New York adopted Professor Macfarlane's recommendations regarding its related cases rules.
Professor Macfarlane has previously served as chair of the American Association of 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, USA Today, The Nation, NPR, and Bloomberg News.
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.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean of Enrollment Management
Kathy Fox is the Assistant Dean of Enrollment Management at the College of Law. In this role, she is responsible for developing enrollment goals and financial aid strategies. This includes developing, modeling, and analyzing data to predict entering class profiles, reviewing applications for admission and rendering final decisions while ensuring admissions activities are in compliance with ABA standards and applicable federal and state laws. Fox also works in conjunction with the Director of Graduate and Law Financial Aid to manage financial aid and provide strategic leadership including planning, executing, and assessing comprehensive recruitment plans for the law school's JD programs. She also supervises the Admissions staff, providing direction and instruction for efficient, high-quality, and accurate operations and services.
Fox was the Assistant Dean of Admissions at Wayne State University Law School from 2016 to 2023. In that position, Fox led an operation that yielded in each year of her tenure a more highly credentialed and diverse class than the previous year. She joined Wayne Law in 2009 as director of employer development in the Career Services office.
From 2002 to 2009, she was deputy director of the Office of Career and Professional Development at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, MI. Before that role, Fox worked as an associate at Haliw Siciliano & Mychalowych in Farmington Hills, MI, and as a law clerk to Senior Judge E. Anne McKinsey of the Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis.
Fox earned a J.D. from what is now Mitchell Hamline School of Law in 1998, the same year she also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh.
Professor Bybee is Vice Dean and Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper '72 Judiciary Studies Professor at the College of Law. He holds tenured appointments in the College of Law and in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He also directs the 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.
Education
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D. Political Science 1995
University of California, San Diego
M.A. 1990
Princeton University
A.B. 1987
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean of Academic and Bar Success
- Professor
Professor Curtis teaches Professional Responsibility and Women and the Law. Her scholarly interests include legal ethics and feminist legal theory.
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:
- Assistant Director of Career Development at the Syracuse University College
- Assistant Director of Career Development Link
Kevin Shults is the Assistant Director of Career Development 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 12Twenty 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:
- 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:
- Crandall Melvin Professor
- Director, Syracuse Civics Initiative
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 of Career Services and Student Experience
- Assistant Dean of Career Services and Student Experience Link
- Executive Expert in M & a
Lily Yan Hughes is an executive expert 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 global technology companies. Hughes brings to the Office of Career Services and the Office of Student Experience fresh and timely leadership and global perspectives. 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 diversity and educating and building future legal leaders.
Prior to Syracuse, Hughes was Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary for Arrow Electronics, Inc., a $29 billion Fortune 150 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 was recently appointed as an independent director on the Board of NUBURU, Inc. (NYSE American: BURU) and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. She was also elected to serve as Vice Chair of the DirectWomen Board of Directors, a non-profit helping 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
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law / Director, London Externship Program
Professor McNeal joined the College of Law faculty in 2005 and served as Director of the Office of Clinical Legal Education from 2005 until 2011. In 2008, she initiated a new Elder Law Clinic, which she directed as the Elder and Health Law Clinic until 2022. Professor McNeal also teaches professional responsibility. Her research and writing focus on elder law, with a particular emphasis on Medicare, clients with diminished capacity, and restorative justice and elder abuse; culture and lawyering; and clinical teaching.
Professor McNeal earned a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a juris doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law. Prior to coming to Syracuse, Professor McNeal was Clinic Director at the University of Montana School of Law, where she supervised students in legal services, disability law, environmental law, and judicial placements and also taught public interest lawyering. Previously, she was Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School and Law School Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law.
Professor McNeal participates in the Syracuse area Elder Justice Task Force and the CNY Restorative Practices Working Group and was Chair of the Aging and the Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 2021. She previously served on the AALS Clinical Section's Task Force on the Status of Clinicians in the Academy, on the AALS Equal Justice Task Force, and as Chair of the Clinical Section. She also has worked extensively on equal justice issues and served as Chair of the Montana Supreme Court's Equal Justice Task Force and as a member of the Montana State Bar's Access to Justice Committee. Professor McNeal also has participated as an ABA site inspection team member.
Education
University of Maryland
School of Law
J.D. 1986
Georgetown University
A.B. 1980
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 2023-2024.
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
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Director, Disability Rights Clinic
- Professor
Professor Schwartz earned a bachelor's degree in English from Brandeis University, a master's degree in Theater Arts from Northwestern University, and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law. He also earned an LL.M. degree from Columbia University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Education, with a concentration in Disability Studies, from Syracuse University.
A member of the New York and Connecticut bars, Professor Schwartz directs the Disability Rights Clinic in the Office of Clinical Legal Education at Syracuse University College of Law where he supervises students in disability advocacy and teaches clinical skills and disability law.
Education
Syracuse University
School of Education
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:
- David M. Levy Professor
- Professor
Nina A. Kohn is the David M. Levy Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Online Education at Syracuse University College of Law, a faculty affiliate with the Syracuse University Aging Studies Institute, and a member of the American Law Institute. She is also the Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Elder Law with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She has served as a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and at the University of Maine School of Law.
In her prior role as Associate Dean for Online Education, Professor Kohn developed JDinteractive, the nation's first fully interactive online J.D. program. In her current role as Faculty Director of Online Education, she guides the program's ongoing development and supports faculty teaching online.
Professor Kohn's scholarly research focuses on elder law and the civil rights of older adults and persons with diminished cognitive capacity. Her work has appeared in diverse fora including the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal Online, the Washington University Law Review, and The Washington Post. Her recent articles have addressed long-term care reform, family caregiving, supported and surrogate decision-making, financial exploitation of the elderly, vulnerability and discrimination in old age, the practical and constitutional implications of elder abuse legislation, the potential for an elder rights movement, and legal education.
The author of Elder Law: Practice, Policy & Problems (Wolters Kluwer, 2d ed. 2020), consistent with her research interests Professor Kohn teaches elder law, family law, trusts and estates, torts, and an interdisciplinary gerontology course.
Professor Kohn has served in a variety of public interest roles, including the Reporter for the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act. She currently serves as the Reporter for the revised Uniform Health Care Decisions Act; Co-Chair of the Elder Rights Committee of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association; and Co-Director of the Aging, Law, and Society Collaborative Research Network.
Professor Kohn earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard University. She clerked for the Hon. Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was awarded a fellowship by the Skadden Fellowship Foundation to provide direct representation to nursing home residents and frail elders. She is a past recipient of the College of Law's Res Ipsa Loquitur award recognizing excellence in teaching, and Syracuse University's Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.
Education
Harvard Law School
J.D., magna cum laude 2002
Princeton University
A.B., summa cum laude 1999
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law / Director, Cold Case Justice Initiative
- Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law
Paula C. Johnson is a professor of law at Syracuse University College of Law and newly appointed to the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission. This commission advises and educates decision makers in the New York Court System on issues surrounding litigants and employees of color, implementing recommendations in addressing these issues to ensure equitable justice in New York State. She earned her B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park; J.D. from Temple University School of Law; and her LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Johnson and Professor Janis McDonald (emerita), co-founded and direct the Cold Case Justice Initiative (CCJI) at Syracuse University College of Law, which investigates racially-motivated murders committed during the civil rights era and in contemporary times. Professor Johnson has held several distinguished teaching posts, including the Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights at CUNY Law School (2005-2006), the Sparks Chair at the University of Alabama School of Law (2008), and the Syracuse University College of Law Bond, Schoeneck and King Distinguished Professorship (2004-2006). She also has taught at law schools at the University of Arizona, University of Baltimore, and Northern Illinois University.
Job Titles:
- Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute
Dr. Blanck is University Professor at Syracuse University, which is the highest faculty rank, granted to eight prior individuals in the history of the University. He is Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University.
Blanck holds appointments at the Syracuse University Colleges of Law, and Arts and Sciences, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, School of Education, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Prior to his appointment at Syracuse, Blanck was Kierscht Professor of Law and director of the Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center at the University of Iowa. Blanck is an Honorary Professor, Centre for Disability Law & Policy, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Blanck received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester, a Juris Doctor from Stanford University, where he was President of the Stanford Law Review, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University.
Blanck has written articles and books on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related laws, and received grants to study disability law and policy. Blanck is Chairman of the Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC), and President of Raising the Floor (RtF) USA. He is a former member of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, a former Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Washington Program, a former Fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and has been a Mary Switzer Scholar. Prior to teaching, Blanck practiced law at the Washington, DC firm Covington & Burling, and served as a law clerk to the late Honorable Carl McGowan of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Education
Stanford University
School of Law
J.D. 1986
Harvard University
Ph.D. 1982
University of Rochester
B.A., magna cum laude 1979
Professor Anand graduated from Stanford University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in political science with honors and distinction and from Yale Law School in 1994 with a Juris Doctor. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel and subsequently worked from 1995-2001 as a civil litigator with Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco. Before coming to Syracuse University, Professor Anand was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, during which time he taught classes in legal ethics and criminal law and received the 2004 Faculty Member of the Year award. In 2022, he received the Syracuse University College of Law Student Bar Association Faculty of the Year Award.
Anand's scholarly interests lie in two directions. First, his research focuses on the intersection of legal theory and legal ethics. More specifically, since he arrived at Syracuse University, he has been writing a series of papers on the "cultural study of the lawyer" (cultural study understood as a form of philosophical-anthropology). The organizing principle of this project is that law in America is a cultural practice and the national commitment thereto-to living as a community under the rule of law-gives rise to a variety of professional obligations for a lawyer, first and foremost of which is that he or she must serve We the People. This argument directly challenges conventional wisdom, which looks not to the American dedication to self-government, but to moral conscience, the adversarial process, or economic self-interest, among other things, when taking up questions of a lawyer's ethics. Those interested in a detailed introduction to the cultural study of the lawyer should read Legal Ethics, Jurisprudence, and the Cultural Study of the Lawyer, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 737 (2008). His most recent publication is Reasoning About Faith: On the Religious Lawyer, 16 FIU. L. Rev. 259 (2022).
Second, Anand's research focuses on the law of the European Union. In particular, over the last few years, he has become interested in the foundational questions associated with EU law and spent the Spring 2023 semester exploring this subject as a Visiting Scholar with the Faculty of Law at the University of Bialystok in Bialystok, Poland, as a Visiting Scholar with the Faculty of Law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and as a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany.
Education
Yale Law School
J.D. 1994
Stanford University
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Principal
- Professor of Law at Syracuse University
Robert Ashford is a Professor of Law at Syracuse University, College of Law, where he teaches or has taught courses in Business Associations, Business Planning, Corporate Finance, Public Corporations, Professional Responsibility, Secured Transactions, and Securities Regulation, and a seminar in Inclusive Capitalism, Property Rights, and Binary Economics. He holds a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. with majors in physics and English literature, graduating first in his class at the University of South Florida. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Stanford University. He is a leading authority in inclusive capitalism, binary economics, and socio-economics.
Ashford is the founder and principal organizer of the Section on Socio-Economics of the Association of American Law Schools and the Society of Socio-Economists. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Athens Institute for Education and Research, and the academic honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Pi Sigma (physics). He has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Socio-Economics, the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, the Board of Advisors of the Syracuse University College of Law, and the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco.
Ashford has authored and co-authored books, articles, book chapters, and monographs on various subjects including banking, binary economics, evidence, implied liability under federal law, economics and democracy, the history of economic thought, inclusive capitalism, professional responsibility, public utility regulation, socio-economics, securities regulation, and tax law. His scholarship has been cited by state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.
He has lectured at universities and conferences in Australia, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Indonesia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and throughout the US. His biography is included in Marquis Who's Who in successive editions beginning in 2015.
Education
Harvard Law School
J.D., cum laude 1969
University of South Florida
B.A., summa cum laude 1965
Job Titles:
- Executive Director, Office of Clinical Legal Education Director, the Sherman F. Levey '57, L'59 Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
Professor Nassau joined the College of Law faculty as an adjunct instructor in 1994, became Professor of Practice in 2009, and became Teaching Professor in 2017. He has taught tax courses since 1994, and has directed the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic since its founding in 2002. He has also taught tax courses at Yale Law School, St. John Fisher College, and the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. After law school, he worked for five years as a tax associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, in New York City; and for many years he provided consulting tax counsel for the firm of Boylan Code, LLP, in Rochester, NY. Professor Nassau received a B.A. in Japanese Studies from Yale in 1981 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1986
Education
Harvard University Law School
J.D. 1986
Yale University
B.A., summa cum laude 1981
Job Titles:
- Founding President of the Association
Professor Robin Paul Malloy is the E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law, and the Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is a leading expert on property, real estate transactions, land use law and zoning, and on law, markets, and marketization. He is a pioneer in his work at the intersection of land use law and disability law. Several of his works on market theory and law are translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese. Professor Malloy has published nineteen books (four with Cambridge University Press) and over 30 scholarly articles, in addition to numerous book chapters and essays. His latest book is titled Law and the Invisible Hand; A Theory of Adam Smith's Jurisprudence (Cambridge 2021). He is a series editor on collections for Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Edward Elgar. Malloy's casebook on Real Estate Transactions (with Smith, now in its 5th edition) is the leading book on the subject and is used at law schools across the country. His casebook on Land Use Law and Zoning is now in its second edition (with Malagrino). Malloy has been the Sun Life Research Fellow at Oxford University, U.K.; the Dickenson Dees Fellow at University of Durham, U.K.; and for three consecutive summers served as a teaching fellow in China (Beijing and Shanghai) with the Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China. He currently serves on the International Advisory Board for the Law and Economics Program at St. Gallens University, Switzerland, and is a member of the Turin School of Local Regulation, Turin, Italy.
Malloy is the founding president of the Association for Law, Property, and Society. He currently serves on the Board of the Veterans Health Research Institute of CNY. He served on the Board of the National Italian American Bar Association for 20 years and was Vice Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeal for the Town of DeWitt, NY for 10 years. He has also served on numerous committees of the Association of American Law Schools.
Education
University of Illinois
College of Law
LL.M. 1983
University of Florida
College of Law
J.D. 1980
Purdue University, Krannert School of Management
B.S. with distinction 1977
Job Titles:
- Administrative Specialist I Link
Samantha Hemingway is an experienced administrative professional. Prior to joining Syracuse University College of Law, Mrs. Hemingway worked as an Administrative Assistant II at Syracuse University's Falk College. She received her B.A. from SUNY Empire State College and is currently working toward her Master's at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, specializing in Public Relations.
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean for Online Education
- 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
Professor Meléndez's teaching and scholarly interests are in the area of family law, domestic violence and the delivery of legal services to women and children. Professor Meléndez joined the College of Law in 2002, teaching on domestic violence. She also has directed the Children's Rights and Family Law Clinic and teaches Family Law. In February 2023, she was appointed Faculty Fellow for the Office of Strategic Initiatives in Academic Affairs and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Syracuse University.
Professor Meléndez earned a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She earned a juris doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Prior to coming to Syracuse, Professor Meléndez supervised the statewide Domestic Violence Representation Project at Legal Services of New Jersey and was an attorney at Essex Newark Legal Services in the area of family law. She also has worked at the Legal Aid Society in New York City representing clients in the areas of housing and public entitlements.
In addition to her litigation experience, Professor Meléndez has engaged in policy work on issues affecting litigants and practitioner at various levels including state and county domestic violence working groups, local and state bar associations and judicial committees. She continues to work extensively on issues pursuing access to justice and the equitable treatment of all within the legal system as well as in our academic environments.
Education
University of Connecticut School of Law
J.D. 1989
State University of New York at Binghamton
B.A. 1985
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law / Director, Advocacy Programs
Professor Todd A. Berger joined the College of Law faculty in 2012. He is currently a Professor of Law, serving as Director of Advocacy Programs. Berger's scholarship is concentrated in the areas of criminal law and procedure, as well as the intersection of trial advocacy and attorney ethics.
Under his direction, the College of Law's Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society competition teams continues an impressive run of results on the regional and national scale. The program is in the top 15 Trial Advocacy program in the nation as ranked by US News & World Report and a top 15 program in the nation as ranked by the Trial Competition Performance Ranking. Professor Berger and students have grown the Advocacy program to create and host the Syracuse National Trial Competition, the National Trial League, the Transatlantic Negotiation Competition, and the National Disability Law Appellate Competition.
Professor Berger is also the Faculty Director of the College's Philadelphia Externship program, where he has placed externs in the legal departments of top Philadelphia-area companies, legal service organizations, and government agencies as well as in the chambers of leading members of the judiciary. He also served as the director of the College's Criminal Defense Clinic from 2012-2019.
In recognition of his excellence in teaching, Berger received Syracuse University's Meredith Teaching Recognition Award in 2017. He also was selected by the graduating classes of 2015, 2020, 2021, and 2022 to receive the College's Res Ipsa Loquitur Award. This honor is given to an outstanding faculty member for "service, scholarship, and stewardship" to the students. Further, Professor Berger is the author of award-winning scholarship, having received the 2021 Edward D. Ohlbaum Paper in Advocacy for his article, Problematic Problems: The Case Against Mock Trial Problems Involving Racist Speech, 94 Temp. L. Rev. Online 1 (2022). The Ohlbaum Paper in Advocacy is selected based on its originality, and usefulness to advocates and students of advocacy.
Before joining the College, Berger was the founding Managing Attorney of the Federal Prisoner Reentry Project at Rutgers School of Law-Camden. Previously, he worked as an assistant public defender with the Defender Association of Philadelphia, representing indigent defendants throughout all stages of the criminal justice system, from arraignment through trial and post-verdict motions. He also worked as a supervisor in both the Municipal Court and Felony Waiver Units, assisting new attorneys in trial preparation and courtroom practice, and in the Major Trials Unit representing clients in jury trials involving serious felony charges. He also was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where he taught in the Criminal Defense Clinic.
Berger earned a bachelor's degree from George Washington University, a Juris Doctor from Temple University School of Law, and an L.L.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University.
Education
Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law
LL.M. 2007
Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law
J.D. 2003
The George Washington University
B.A., magna cum laude 2000
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law Emeritus