Faculty Profiles
Outstanding intellectual leadership and scholarship from a law school faculty are expected. At 丝瓜APP, students enjoy something more: a dynamic group of teachers with extensive professional and public policy accomplishments.听
Most faculty members have had significant prior experience in legal practice: as public defenders, corporate lawyers, jurists, in government, and as advocates for the public interest. This rich store of real-world experience enables students to better understand the law from the perspective of the practicing attorney.
Full-Time and Instructors
Susan J. Abraham
Professor of Law
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Penelope Andrews
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law; Director, Racial Justice Project
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Alan I. Appel 鈥�76
Professor of Law; Director, International Tax Program
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Pallvi Babbar
Associate Director of Academic Success
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Melynda Barnhart
Assistant Professor of Law
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Tamara C. Belinfanti
Lester Martin Professor of Law
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Lenni B. Benson
Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law; Founder and Senior Advisor, Safe Passage Project
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Andrew Berman
Professor of Law from Practice; Founding Director, Center for Real Estate Studies
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Camille Broussard
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Information Services; Director, The Mendik Library
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Heidi K. Brown
Associate Dean for Upper Level Writing; Professor of Legal Writing
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Kirk D. Burkhalter 鈥�04
Professor of Law; Director, 21st Century Policing Project
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Claudine Caracciolo
Assistant Professor of Law
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Richard Chused
Professor of Law
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Anna G. Cominsky 鈥�05
Professor of Law; Director, Criminal Defense Clinic; Managing Attorney, 丝瓜APP Legal Services, Inc.
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Anthony W. Crowell
Dean and President; Professor of Law
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Gaynor Cunningham
Assistant Professor of Law; Co-Director, Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic
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Shane Dizon
Associate Dean for Academic and Bar Success
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Catharine Du Bois
Assistant Professor of Law
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Victoria Eastus
Visiting Professor of Law
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Shahrokh Falati 鈥�08
Professor of Law from Practice, Intellectual Property Law; Co-Director, Innovation Center for Law and Technology; Director, Patent Law Clinic
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Kris Franklin
Wallace Stevens Professor of Law; Director, Academic Initiatives; Co-Director, Initiative for Excellence in Law Teaching
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Doni Gewirtzman
Professor of Law
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Matt Gewolb
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Institutional Strategy; General Counsel; Faculty Director of Externship Programs
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Anne Goldstein
Professor of Law; Director, Labor and Employment Law Project
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Brandt Goldstein
Visiting Professor of Law
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Lisa F. Grumet
Professor of Law; Director, Diane Abbey Law Institute for Children and Families; Faculty Editor in Chief, Family Law Quarterly
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Jeffrey J. Haas
Professor of Law
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Kim Hawkins
Professor of Law; Stephen J. Ellmann Dean for Clinical and Experiential Learning; Co-Director, Housing Justice Leadership Institute
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Thomas Honan
Assistant Professor of Law
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Anna Belle Hoots
Associate Director of Bar Success
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Susan H. Joffe
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
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Larken Kade
Assistant Professor of Law
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Ramesh Kasarabada
Assistant Professor of Law
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Gerald Korngold
Trustee Professor of Law; Director, Center for Real Estate Studies
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Specialty: Real Estate
Gowri J. Krishna
Professor of Law
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Erik W. Lane 鈥�15
Professor of Law from Practice
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William P. LaPiana
Dean of Faculty; Rita and Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts, and Estates; Director, Estate Planning Studies, Graduate Tax Program
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Molly Guptill听Manning
Associate Professor of Law
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Richard D. Marsico
Professor of Law; Director, Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law; Founder, High School for Law and Social Justice
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Michael T. McCarthy
Professor of Legal Research; Associate Librarian for Reference Services and Informational Resources
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Cherie N. McPherson
Assistant Dean for Academic Success
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Howard S. Meyers
Professor of Law; Dean for Adjunct Faculty Engagement; Director, Center for Business and Financial Law; Director, Ronald H. Filler Institute for Financial Services Law
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Justin Murray
Associate Professor of Law
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Michael Pastor
Professor of Law from Practice; Director, James Tricarico Jr. Institute for the Business of Law and In-House Counsel
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Gabriel Pell
Assistant Professor of Law
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Samantha Pownall 鈥�11
Assistant Professor of Law; Director, Education Law and Policy Institute
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Michael Roffer 鈥�83
Professor of Legal Research; Associate Librarian for Reader Services
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Rebecca Roiphe
Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law
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Ross Sandler
Professor of Law; Director, Center for New York City Law; Editor, CityLaw, CityLand and CityRegs Newsletters
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Andrew Scherer
Professor of Law; Policy Director, Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law
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David Simson
Associate Professor of Law
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Faith Stevelman
Professor of Law (on leave)
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Lynn Boepple Su
Professor of Law; Dean for Advocacy and Co-Curricular Programs
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Specialty: Legal Writing
Ruti G. Teitel
Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law; Co-Director, Center for International Law;
Chair, Global Law and Justice Colloquium; Director, Institute for Global Law, Justice, and Policy; Visiting Professor, Hebrew University School of Law, Mt. Scopus
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Ann F. Thomas
Otto L. Walter Distinguished Professor of Tax Law; Director, Graduate Tax Program
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Claire R. Thomas 鈥�11
Assistant Professor of Law; Director, Asylum Clinic
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Marshall Tracht
Professor of Law
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Elizabeth Valentin
Assistant Professor of Law
Director, Elder Law Clinic
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Department: OCEL
Amy Wallace
Assistant Professor of Law
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Daniel A. Warshawsky
Professor of Law
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Britney Wilson
Associate Professor of Law; Director, Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic
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Ilyse A. Wofse
Assistant Dean for Bar Success
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Michelle Zierler
Professor of Legal Writing; Faculty Publisher, 丝瓜APP Law Review
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In-Memoriam
Stephen J. Ellmann
Martin Professor of Law
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Richard C.E. Beck
Professor of Law, Emeritus; Founding Director, Graduate Tax Program
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Robert Blecker
Professor of Law, Emeritus
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Lloyd Bonfield
Professor of Law, Emeritus
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Frank A. Bress
Professor of Law, Emeritus
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Carol A. Buckler
Professor of Law, Emerita
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David Chang
Theodore Dwight 125th Anniversary Professor of Law, Emeritus
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Ronald H. Filler
Professor of Law, Emeritus
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Mariana Hogan
Professor of Law, Emerita
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Arthur S. Leonard
Robert F. Wagner Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Emeritus; Editor, LGBT Law Notes
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Jethro K. Lieberman
Martin Professor of Law, Emeritus
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William R. Mills
Professor of Legal Research, Emeritus
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Frank W. Munger
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emeritus
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Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus
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David Schoenbrod
Trustee Professor of Law, Emeritus
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Richard K. Sherwin
Wallace Stevens Professor of Law, Emeritus
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Nadine Strossen
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita; Former President, American Civil Liberties Union, 1991鈥�2008
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