WASHU LAW - Key Persons
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- Visiting Research Associate
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- Assistant Director of Student Life
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- Senior Director of Admissions
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- Assistant Director of Distance Education
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- Registrar and Academic Advising Program Coordinator
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- Marketing Content Specialist
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- Assistant Dean of Law Community Development
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- Director of Operations and Admissions Communications
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- Director of Budget and Finance
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- Faculty Administrative Assistant
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- Director of Educational Technology, School of Law Lecturer in Law
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- Digital Content & Brand Support Specialist
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- Senior Director of Advancement
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- Associate Director of Advancement, Annual Fund
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- Director of Financial Aid and Student Life
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- Special Projects Consultant
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- Director of Faculty & Access Services
- Director of Faculty and Access Services Lecturer in Law
Christopher D. Galanos joined WashU Law in 2024 as the Director of Faculty & Access Services. In this role he oversees WashU Law Library's faculty services program. He also serves as a Lecturer in Law, teaching Legal Research Methodologies to first-year students, as well as advanced legal research courses for second- and third-year law students.
Before joining WashU Law, Galanos was the Access & Operations Librarian and a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law from 2022-2024 where he taught legal research and advanced legal research courses. Prior to that, he spent three years as a Reference Librarian and Lecturer at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University (2019-2022). In addition to providing research and reference services to the Moritz community, Professor Galanos taught Legal Analysis and Writing I (legal research and objective writing) and Legal Analysis and Writing II (legal research and persuasive writing).
Before shifting his career towards law librarianship in 2018, Galanos practiced law in Central Illinois for ten years with a focus on civil litigation, primarily representing medical professionals in state and federal court.
He is admitted to practice in Illinois and Missouri.
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- Research Fellow - Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law
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- Director of Information Technology and Librarian for Research Technology
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- Director, Multimedia Technology
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- Professor of the Year, 2013, Washington University School of Law
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- Career Center Coordinator
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- Director Public Services Lecturer in Law
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- Audio Visual Tech Assistant
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- Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
- Director, Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic Professor of Practice
Elizabeth Hubertz is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic and a Professor of Practice. Member of the Illinois and Missouri Bars, she is an accomplished litigator, teaching and supervising law and undergraduate students as they handle environmental cases. She also teaches Pretrial Practice and Settlement and Environmental Law in the law school and Introduction to Environmental Law in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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- Assistant
- Executive Assistant to Dean Stefanie a. Lindquist
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- Associate Dean, Student Life
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- Assistant Professor of Practice
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- Senior Associate Director of Alumni Engagement and Stewardship
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- Assistant Dean for Placement Lecturer in Law
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- Engineering and Science Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Senior Associate Dean of Finance
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- George Alexander Madill Professor of Contracts & Commercial Law Emeritus
Professor Greenfield has been teaching and writing on commercial and consumer law since 1969. His law reform activities include serving as Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Debt-Management Services Act, member of the drafting committee to revise UCC Article 3, Advisor on the ALI's Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts project, and Observer on the drafting committees to revise UCC Article 2 and Article 9, and Observer on the ULC committee to draft the Uniform Consumer Leases Act.
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- Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law
Gregory P. Magarian is the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He teaches and writes about U.S. constitutional law, with emphasis on the freedom of expression. His first book, Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment, was published in 2017 by Oxford University Press. His work also examines church and state, firearms regulation, and regulations of the political process. He has published widely in leading law journals, made numerous scholarly presentations, and taught and lectured at universities around the world. Professor Magarian served as a judicial clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Louis Oberdorfer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He practiced law at Jenner and Block in Washington, D.C. and taught at Villanova University before joining the Washington University faculty in 2008.
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- Chairman
- Professor of Law
Professor Norwood's research focuses on blackthink, colorism, implicit bias, and the intersection of race, class, and public education in America. She lectures around the world on colorism, various social justice/civil rights issues, implicit (and explicit) bias issues and was part of the national team of experts consulted to advise Starbucks on its national implicit bias training agenda.
She has taught law courses overseas at Universiteit Utrecht in The Netherlands, Fudan University in Shanghai, China, at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, and she guest lectured at National Chiao Tung University School of Law, National Cheng Kung University, and NKFST Law, in Taiwan. As part of the law school's Africa Public Interest Law & Conflict Resolution Initiative, Norwood has supervised public interest externships for law students working in Ghana and Kenya and is now looking at expanding externships to Nigeria.
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- Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law Director, Criminal Justice Clinic
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- Special Project Consultant
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- Research Fellow, 2018 - 19 & 2001 - 02, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
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- Fellow, University of South Carolina, 1992. Editor - in - Chief, Temple Law Review, Vol. 61, 1988
James A. Morris Carolina Fellow, University of South Carolina, 1992. Editor-in-Chief, Temple Law Review, Vol. 61, 1988.
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- International and Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Assistant Dean and Director, Graduate and International Programs, Lecturer in Law
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- Assistant Dean
- Director of Facilities
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- Fellow, University of South Carolina, 1994
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- Resource Description and Technical Services Librarian
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- Director of International Programs & Lecturer in Law, International Programs
Juan Del Valle is a Latin American attorney with practice of more than 10 years. As an attorney, he worked with the government of Colombia, created a law firm for foreign investors, a law firm for low-income domestic clients, and conducted negotiations and private mediations for parties from more than 15 countries. Juan worked at law firms including Baker & Mckenzie and has occupied important roles in multinational companies, including acting as Experienced Senior Counsel, head of immigration and US Contracts at Deloitte and Touche and as Ericsson's Legal head for Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.
As a professor, Juan has taught at universities in Brazil, Colombia, and the United States, and in programs for Australian and Asian students. At Washington University in St Louis School of Law, Juan has taught during several years courses including Negotiation, International Dispute Resolution, Contract Management and Negotiation, Law & Psychology, Latin American Legal and Judicial Systems, Mediation & Arbitration Law, and Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution, having been awarded the 2019 Adjunct Professor of the Year Award.
Professor Del Valle earned a Law Degree at Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), an LLM in US Law at Washington University in St. Louis, is Certified in Negotiation Skills by Harvard University and the University of Windsor, and is currently candidate for a Doctorate Degree in Education (EdD) in Leadership and Organizational Psychology.
He is currently the Director of International Programs and Lecturer in Law at WashULaw. He is also the lead professor of the Contract Management Certificate Program offered by the Professional Institute of Washington University School of Law.
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- Academic & Financial Analyst
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- Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law
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- Vice Dean for Institutional Success
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- Interlibrary Loan Assistant, Access Services
Kathleen Clark works in the areas of legal ethics, government ethics, the law of whistleblowing, and national security law. Her academic writing has been cited in hundreds of articles and books and has been excerpted in legal ethics textbooks. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, National Law Journal, Government Executive and The Hill, and her analysis has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Time, Newsweek, National Review and Mother Jones.
She is licensed to practice law in Washington, DC, where she serves on the Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee of the D.C. Bar. When she served as an ethics lawyer for the District of Columbia government, she wrote an Ethics Manual for the District's 32,000 employees. Clark served as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and clerked for Federal District Judge Harold H. Greene. She is a board member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and is an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute's Principles of Government Ethics.
Clark was named the John S. Lehman Research Professor and Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow at Washington University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Cornell University, Utrecht University and the University of Economics and Law in Vietnam. She has led anti-corruption and ethics workshops in Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovenia, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Kosovo, Nigeria, Poland, Russia & Venezuela, and has conducted in-person and web-based ethics training for federal, state and local government agencies. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Physics & Philosophy from Yale College, studied Russian in the Soviet Union and Spanish in Guatemala and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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- Professor of Practice and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic
- Professor of Practice and Director, Immigration Law Clinic
Katie Herbert Meyer is a Professor of Practice and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic. In addition to teaching students in the clinic, she teaches Immigration Law & Policy and U.S. Refugee & Asylum Law. She also mentors students interested in immigration law and/or public interest work. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Meyer practiced immigration law for 15 years in St. Louis, primarily in the non-profit sector. In that capacity, she supervised upper-level Washington University law students participating in clinics and externships. She also previously taught Immigration Law and Policy at Washington University as an Adjunct Professor.
Professor Meyer's areas of expertise include refugee and asylum law, family-based immigration, naturalization law, and removal (deportation) defense. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA), and serves on its national Asylum and Refugee Committee, which drafts amicus briefs, submits public comments, and educates attorneys on asylum and refugee law, and acts as a liaison to U.S. asylum and refugee agencies. Professor Meyer regularly presents legal education trainings on immigration and refugee law and policy.
Professor Meyer earned her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in philosophy from Saint Louis University and her J.D. from Washington University School of Law, where she received awards for her dedication to public service and public interest law.
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- Clinical Education Program Operations Manager
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- Professor of Law
- Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Edward T. Foote II, Professor of Law
Kevin Emerson Collins is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Washington University's Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program. He writes regularly on patent protection for software and biotechnology innovation. Before beginning his legal career, he was a licensed architect and an adjunct professor of architecture, and he is the author of a forthcoming book on the intellectual property of architecture. He clerked for Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Raymond Clevenger III on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
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- Senior HR & Payroll Professional
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- Faculty Administrative Assistant
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- Assistant Director of Academic Support, Lecturer in Law
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- Supervising Attorney & Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
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- Director of Accounting Operations
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- Fellow, University of South Carolina, 1995
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- Assistant Director of Career Center
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- Coordinator of Legal English Programs
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- Assistant Dean, Admissions, Lecturer in Law
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- Director of Marketing, Communications & Events
Professor Melissa A. Waters is an expert in international law, foreign relations law, international human rights law, and international conflicts of law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of international and domestic law, and in particular on the incorporation of treaties and other forms of international law into domestic legal regimes. She has written extensively on the role of transnational judicial dialogue in shaping international legal norms, and on the debate in Congress and in the media over the use of foreign and international law in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Her work has been cited by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and has been published in numerous top law journals and academic presses. Professor Waters serves on the law school's Faculty Advisory Board for the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute and is Washington University's Ambassador to Utrecht University in the Netherlands in conjunction with the McDonnell International Scholars Academy. She was also a visiting faculty fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Waters clerked for the Hon. Morris S. Arnold, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She also practiced law for the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly, where she was a member of President Clinton's legal defense team. She served in the U.S. State Department as Senior Advisor to Harold Hongju Koh, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor. Additionally, she was a consultant to the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute, specializing in the design, development, and implementation of rule of law and human rights capacity building projects. In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Waters specializes in developing and conducting human rights and rule of law training programs for legal professionals in transitional democracies, most recently partnering with the State Department, the Department of Justice, and ABA/CEELI to train judges and government officials from Iraq and Central Asia. Her work with Iraqi legal professionals has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered. She is a proud native of Elm Springs, Arkansas.
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- Senior Application / Database Developer
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- George Alexander Madill Professor of Contracts & Commercial Law Emeritus
Professor Greenfield has been teaching and writing on commercial and consumer law since 1969. His law reform activities include serving as Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Debt-Management Services Act, member of the drafting committee to revise UCC Article 3, Advisor on the ALI's Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts project, and Observer on the drafting committees to revise UCC Article 2 and Article 9, and Observer on the ULC committee to draft the Uniform Consumer Leases Act.
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- Career Center Coordinator and Librarian for Dedicated Faculty Research and Special Projects
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- Professor of Political Science ( by Courtesy )
Lindquist was dean and Arch Professor at the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs and held multiple faculty leadership positions at the University of Texas School of Law, including the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Law. Before her tenure at the University of Texas, Lindquist taught law and political science at Vanderbilt University. She has also served as a visiting faculty member at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
Known for her expertise in judicial behavior and constitutional law, Lindquist has authored numerous influential publications and is a prominent voice in the legal community. She has co-authored three books and has authored dozens of published articles and book chapters. Her book, "Measuring Judicial Activism," is the first publication to quantitatively define the oft-used term.
In addition to her scholarship, Dean Lindquist's teaching is highly regarded; she was awarded the Robert Birkby Award for Excellence in Teaching Political Science during her tenure at Vanderbilt University, and while at the University of Georgia, she was named professor of the year and earned its university-wide teaching award.
While at Temple University, Lindquist served as its editor-in-chief of Temple University Law Review. After graduating Magna Cum Laude, she clerked for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica at the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia and later practiced law at Latham and Watkins in Washington, D.C. She also served as a research associate at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C. assisting committees of the Federal Judicial Conference in addressing questions of judicial administration.
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- Administrative Assistant to the Vice Deans
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- Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law Director, Criminal Justice Clinic
- Professor
Professor Peter A. Joy is well known for his work in legal ethics, clinical legal education, criminal justice, and trial practice. As director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, he supervises student-lawyers who provide direct legal representation to clients and work with experienced public defenders on criminal matters. Professor Joy has written extensively and presented nationally and internationally on legal ethics, lawyer and judicial professionalism, clinical legal education, and access to justice issues. He served as Vice Dean from 2010 to 2012, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs 2018-2020, and was the inaugural director of the law school's Trial & Advocacy Program from 2002 to 2006. Professor Joy is a recipient of the Association of American Law Schools' (AALS) Pincus Award for outstanding contribution to clinical legal education. He is currently on the Board of Editors for the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, and he is a columnist for the American Bar Association (ABA) quarterly publication Criminal Justice. He is a former member of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Accreditation Committee and Standards Review Committee; a former chair of the AALS Professional Responsibility Section; former chair of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education; former board member of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT); former president of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA); and former member of the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review from 2005-2011. Before becoming a law professor, he was of counsel at Meckler & Meckler in Cleveland, Ohio, and he started his legal career as National Co-Director for the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (LSCRRC) in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been recognized by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell as an AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer for more than 40 years.
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- Director and Associate Dean of the Law Library
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- Research and Instruction Librarian & Lecturer in Law
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- International and Graduate Program Coordinator
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- Assistant
- Faculty Support Supervisor
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- Adjunct Instructor, Legal English Programs
Russell K. Osgood has an extensive background in university administration, as WashULaw dean from 2022 to June 2024, president of Grinnell College from July 1998 to July 2010, where he also was a professor of history and political science, and as dean of Cornell Law School from 1988 to 1998.
A 1969 graduate of Yale College and a 1974 graduate of Yale Law School, Osgood also served in the U.S. Navy and worked as a lawyer specializing in employee benefits. He is the author of multiple articles, and his books include Cases and Materials on Employee Benefits (with Peter Wiedenbeck), The Law in Massachusetts: The Supreme Judicial Court 1692-1992, and The Law of Pensions and Profit-Sharing: Qualified Retirement Plans and Other Deferred Compensation Arrangements.
Osgood is an expert on American legal history, employee benefits and pension law, and income taxation.
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- Lecturer in Law Co - Director of the WashU Law AI Collaborative Associate Director, Policy for the Cordell Institute
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- Assistant Dean of Academic Services & Registrar
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Education Director of Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Director of Tax LL.M. Professor of Practice
Professor Narkiewicz serves as the Associate Dean of Clinical Education and directs the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. She also directs the Tax LL.M. program. She teaches the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic seminar and State and Local Taxation. She is a 1997 graduate of Washington University School of Law with an undergraduate degree in accounting. Before joining WashULaw, Professor Narkiewicz was a tax attorney for six years with Husch Blackwell and The Stolar Partnership.
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- Director of Legal Practice, Associate Professor of Practice
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- Adjunct Instructor, Legal English Programs
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- Office Assistant
- Receptionist
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- Manager of Circulation and Public Services
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- Recruiting & Operations Manager
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- Director of Distance Education
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- Circulation and Public Services Assistant
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- Executive Director of Advancement
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- Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development & Professor of Law
Trevor Gardner is Vice Dean of Research and Faculty Development & Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law. His primary research focus is the relationship between federalism and municipal police administration.
Following George Floyd's murder in 2020, Professor Gardner pivoted to publish a series of papers exploring conceptions of racial equity in the field of criminal law. Article titles in this vein include "By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law," "The Conflict Among African American Penal Interests: Rethinking Racial Equity in Criminal Procedure," "Police Diversity Theory," and "On the Racial Disparities in Criminal Law." Professor Gardner's scholarship has appeared in The Columbia Law Review, The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and Criminal Law and Philosophy. He is presently developing a book-length manuscript that centers federalism and political economy in the historical development of criminal law and administration in the U.S.
Gardner graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003 after serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal. He went on to work as a staff attorney in the Trial Division of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, where he litigated juvenile and adult cases from presentment through disposition. After leaving criminal practice, Gardner obtained his Ph.D. in sociology at UC Berkeley with an emphasis in social theory. He then joined New York University School of Law as a Faculty Fellow and later the University of Washington (Seattle) as an Associate Professor of Law. Professor Gardner has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
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- Lecturer in Law Director, Technical Services / Librarian
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- Distinguished Professor of Law
Ronald M. Levin specializes in administrative law and has published widely in that field. He has testified before Congress on regulatory reform issues and participates actively in the work of the American Bar Association and the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Professor Levin's coauthored books on administrative law include a casebook and a student text. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on administrative law topics, including judicial review, rulemaking, and legislative reform of the regulatory process. He also has written about the law of lobbying and legislative ethics. Professor Levin has been active in the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice for more than three decades and served as its Chair in 2000-01. He currently represents the Section in the ABA House of Delegates. He is a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States and has chaired its Judicial Review Committee. Before joining the law faculty, Professor Levin clerked for the Hon. John C. Godbold, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and practiced for three years in Washington, D.C., with the firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. He was the Associate Dean of the School of Law from 1990-1993.
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- Adjunct Instructor, Legal English Programs