International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Hulett Askew

Hulett H. (Bucky) Askew became the Consultant on Legal Education of the American Bar Association on September 1, 2006. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Office of Bar Admissions of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1990 to 2006. He also concurrently served as executive Director of Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism from 1990 to 1996. From 1983 to 1990, he was the Director of the Civil Division of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he worked for the Legal Services Corporation in Washington, D.C., from 1976 to 1983. Askew is a former member of the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and served for six years on the Section’s Accreditation Committee. He also has been a member of the Association’s standing committees on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, Professionalism and Professional Discipline. Askew received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964 and his J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1967; he was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1967.

Larry Catá Backer

Larry Catá Backer, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University. Professor Backer is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a founding director of the Consortium for Peace and Ethics, a policy NGO. His research focuses on globalization and governance issues, focusing on public and private organizations. He has published a casebook, "Comparative Corporate Law," an edited collection of essays, "Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization," and a number of articles on transnational corporate governance and public law. He is completing a book, “Corporate Governance, Financial Markets And Development” and a casebook, “Transnational Law and Legal Issues.” Additionally, shorter essays on various aspects of legal education appear on his essay site, “Law at the End of the Day.” Professor Backer is currently visiting at the Tulane Law School and has taught local and American students in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

R. Lisle Baker

Professor Lisle Baker has been teaching at Suffolk University Law School in Boston since 1973. He has taught land use and property, as well a seminar in mediation. His seminar in law practice management has an emphasis on helping students determine a preferred future path in the law, which he will describe at this conference on Saturday afternoon and an excerpt from its syllabus is part of these conference materials. Before joining the Suffolk School faculty, Prof. Baker practiced with the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow and argued public issues on the Peabody Award winning public television show, The Advocates. He has also served as an elected member of the Newton, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen for almost twenty-five years, and currently is serving his third term as president of the Board. He wrote the winning essay in 1988 for an American Bar Association competition on why teaching law practice management contributes to legal excellence, a version of which was published in the Journal of Legal Education and is part of the conference materials. He has also written on such subjects as the ethical obligations of attorneys in local land use proceedings, the use of special assessments as a tool for smart growth, taxing speculative land gains, and using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as an aid to mediation, including a comparison of a sample of lawyers, judges and mediators. He is a cum laude graduate of Williams College (1964) and Harvard Law School (1968).

John T. Berry

John T. Berry is Legal Division Director for the Florida Bar where he supervises lawyer regulation and the Professionalism Center of the Professionalism Commission of the Florida Supreme Court and Florida Bar. He is the immediate past chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism. In the 2001 he was awarded the American Bar Association's Michael Franck Award for achievement in lawyer ethics, professionalism and conduct. He is the former Executive Director, State Bar of Michigan and the former Director, Center of Professionalism, University of Florida College of Law.

Mary Lu Bilek

Mary Lu Bilek, Associate Dean for Special Projects and Professor, graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced for five years before joining the faculty in 1985. She served as Interim Dean of the CUNY School of Law School during the 2005-06 academic year. Her broad experience in the classroom—teaching seven different required courses and lawyering seminars—and her role as Academic Dean for three different deans developed her expertise in curriculum development. Her commitment to CUNY Law’s values led to her participation in efforts promoting student-centered instruction across the range of skills and values necessary for graduating excellent lawyers, promoting the social justice mission of the school, and insisting on access to legal education necessary to create a diverse profession. She implemented an innovative Pipeline to Justice Program at CUNY Law, and she coordinates the School’s bar passage support program.

Diego Blázquez-Martín

Diego Blázquez Martin (Ph.D.), 35 years old, is professor of Jurisprudence at Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). Member of the Human Rights Institute "Bartolomé de las Casas", coordinates its Clinical Unit at Carlos III University. He is member of the Estudio Jurídico, the Carlos III University Law Firm. He has also been member of the Saint Louis University faculty at Madrid Campus. His field of interest is Equality and non-discrimination Law. He has published books and articles about this subject, with special interest in cultural diversity rights, immigration, disable person’s rights and aids related topics. From the scholarly point of view, their publications are focused on human rights history and moral grounds.

Frank Bloch

Frank S. Bloch is Professor of Law and Director of the Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee. He holds a B.A. (1966) and a Ph.D. (Politics 1978) from Brandeis University and a J.D. (1969) from Columbia University Law School. He began his legal career as a legal aid attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance. From 1974-79 he was a clinical fellow and instructor at the University of Chicago Law School; he joined the Vanderbilt Law School faculty in 1979. Professor Bloch is an internationally prominent expert in social security, disability, and other benefits programs, as well as legal aid and clinical legal education. He is the author or editor of six books and has published over 30 articles and book chapters. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and serves on the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Justice Education. He has been a Fulbright Professor at Delhi University, a research fellow at the International Social Security Association, and a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States, the Social Security Advisory Board, and the US Agency for International Development.

Matthew Bodie

Professor Bodie joined the Saint Louis University School of Law faculty in 2007 after a year-long visit. He teaches and writes on corporate, contract, employment and labor law subjects. He teaches Contracts, Corporate Governance, Employment Relations, and Labor Law.

Martin Bohmer

Mr. Böhmer is the Dean of the Law School at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, as well as Professor of Law at the University of Buenos Aires. He serves as Director of Justice Area at CIPPEC. Among his honors, Mr. Böhmer was chosen as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum 2002, Davos, Switzerland, and by the Ashoka Foundation as a Innovators for the Public Fellow. He has also served as a Fulbright fellow, as a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Law School, and as an Advisor for the Consejo para la Consolidación de la Democracia (Council for the Consolidation of Democracy) an advisory body for Constitutional and Judicial Reform to Argentine President Raul Alfonsín. Mr. Böhmer is also one of the founders of the Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (Association for Civil Rights). He is the former Dean of the Universidad de Palermo Law School, and the first Director of its Public Interest Law Clinic. Mr. Böhmer received his law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and his Master of Laws and is a JSD candidate at Yale Law School.

Sande L. Buhai

Professor Sande Buhai is Clinical Professor and Director of the Public Interest Law Department at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, where she teaches lawyering skills, professional responsibility, and administrative law and administers the law school’s diverse public interest programs. She has served on the California State Bar Association Committee on Professional Responsibility and Competence and the Los Angeles County Bar Association Committee on Professional Responsibility and is past Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Pro Bono and Public Service Opportunities. Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola, she served as Executive Director of the Disability Rights Legal Center and as Deputy Attorney General for the State of California. She is a graduate of UCLA and Loyola Law School.

Hiram Chodosh

Before assuming the deanship of the S.J. Quinney College of Law July 1, 2006, Dean Chodosh was associate dean for academic affairs and Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dean Chodosh joined the Case faculty in 1993 after three years in private practice in New York City with the international firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. At Case, he also directed the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center from 1998 to 2003. A leading expert in comparative and global justice reform with hands-on experience in more than 20 countries, he has served as a consultant on judicial reform for the International Monetary Fund, a senior reporter on several U.S. State Department reform studies, and an adviser to the World Bank's Justice Reform Group. A Fulbright Senior Scholar in India in 2003, Dean Chodosh is the author of Global Justice Reform: A Comparative Methodology, published in 2005 by New York University Press, and more than 25 articles, essays, and book chapters.

Clark Cunningham

Clark Cunningham holds the W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics at the Georgia State University College of Law. He is the director of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism (NIFTEP), a consortium of ethics centers at five universities, and the Effective Lawyer-Client Communication Project, an international collaboration of law teachers, lawyers and social scientists. He currently serves as the Convenor of the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE), a ten-year old organization of over 400 law teachers, lawyers, and leaders of non-governmental organizations from more than 50 countries. In 2006 he was admitted to membership in The Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet in recognition of his work which is leading to fundamental changes in the ways client relationship skills are taught in Great Britain. He is a leading American scholar on the legal system of India and has consulted around the world on reform in legal education. Before joining GSU he was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School (1987-89) and the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (1989-2002).

Gary Davis

Gary Davis is Professor of Law at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He recently stepped down as Dean of the Law School, having served two terms and following a successful external review and re-accreditation process. On behalf of the Council of Australian Law Deans, he is spending 2008 as Director of the Discipline Based Initiative in Law, funded by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. He was educated at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto (LLB 1977) and the University of Michigan (LLM 1980). He has spent over a quarter of a century as a legal academic in Australia, including as a foundation appointment when a new law school was established at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia in 1990. His recent publications and scholarship are in the fields of remedies, conflict of laws, and teaching and assessment methodologies and practices. He maintains a special interest in how to deal with large class sizes, especially via students learning and being assessed in groups, and in 2001 was a co-recipient of a Flinders Teaching and Learning Innovations Grant related to that theme. Relevant legal education publications include the co-authored “Law School Lemonade: Or Can You Turn External Pressures into Educational Advantages?” (2005) 14 Griffith Law Review 108.

Maksymilian Del Mar

Maksymilian (Maks) Del Mar is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on the implications of concepts of law, legal work and legal order on policy-making in the public sphere, including the design of legal education systems. He is the former Founding Leader of the Queensland Law Society Professional Ethics Education and Regulation Project, and Founding President of the Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association. He is a Co-Investigator of the US-UK Beyond Text in Legal Education Project (with Zenon Bankowski), based at the School of Law in Edinburgh. He is also a researcher, based at the University of Lausanne, on the Swiss National Science Foundation project on the Philosophy of Norms and Normativity.

Daniel Filler

Daniel M. Filler is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Drexel University College of Law, in Philadelphia. He has also chaired Drexel’s Appointments Committee for each of the school’s first two years. Prior to joining the inaugural faculty of Drexel Law in 2006, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Alabama. At Alabama he taught clinical and non-clinical courses and established both a Special Education Clinic and a Death Penalty Defense Clinic. He received his A.B. from Brown University and J.D. from New York University School of Law. After law school, he clerked for Judge J. Dickson Phillips on the Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, and practiced in New York with Debevoise & Plimpton. He then served as a public defender at both the Defender Association of Philadelphia and the Bronx Defenders. He has written in the areas of punishment, race, and the social production of law and chaired the ABA’s Alabama Death Penalty Assessment team. He blogs at The Faculty Lounge - www.thefacultylounge.org.

Marsha B. Freeman

Professor Freeman has a B.A. from the City University of New York at Queens College, an M.S.L.S. from Long Island University and a J.D. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, where she later started her law school teaching career. Professor Freeman was a member of the Family Law Education Reform Committee which published recommendations for changes in law school family law curriculums. She was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court Steering Committee for Children and Families in 2004, and is a former Board member of the Florida chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliatory Courts. Professor Freeman writes mainly in the areas of children's advocacy and family law and teaches Family Law, Property, and Administrative Law. Professor Freeman is committed to changing how students learn about family law and created and teaches a multidisciplinary upper level family law course focusing on collaborative divorce methods.

John Burwell Garvey

Professor Garvey directs the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program. The only program of its kind in the nation, it is a comprehensive practice-based teaching and bar licensing program, designed to make law students client-ready. Garvey combines nearly 30 years of trial practice and vast experience as a mediator and arbitrator with extensive teaching experience. He started teaching Evidence at Pierce Law in 1985, and now also teaches Pretrial Advocacy, Negotiations, and the Webster Scholar Capstone Course, which focuses on becoming client-ready. During his years of practice, Professor Garvey has received numerous honors, including the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union "Bill of Rights Award". He has been selected for Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and is A/V rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Martin Geer

Professor Geer earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan, magna cum laude, his J.D. degree in 1977 from Wayne State University, where he served as Associate Editor of the Wayne Law Review, and an L.L.M. from Columbia University with a focus on international human rights. Professor Geer directs the UNLV-Boyd School of Law externship program, teaches Civil Rights Litigation and Criminal Procedure, coaches the Jessup International Moot Court Team and is developing a innocence project. He came to the Boyd School of Law from Syracuse University College of Law, where he was visiting associate professor of law and director of the Public Interest Law Firm Clinic. Earlier, he was the director of clinical education at the University of Baltimore School of Law and a clinical law professor at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. he has many years of practice experience in the areas of criminal law and civil rights litigation, particulary prison conditions. He has published numerous law review articles in the areas of civil rights and international human rights.

Jeff Giddings

Professor Jeff Giddings is the Convenor of the Griffith Law School Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution. As Deputy Dean (Learning & Teaching) for 2005-2007, he has taken a lead role in the implementation of the major curriculum review conducted by the Griffith Law School in 2004. In 1999, Jeff received the Australian National Teaching Award in Law and Legal Studies as well as the inaugural Griffith Award for Excellence as an Individual Teacher. In 2001, Jeff and clinic colleague Barbara Hook received the Griffith Award for Excellence in Team Teaching. He is involved in research projects on legal aid, self-help legal services, the sustainability of clinical legal education programs and managing conflict in business franchises.

Randy Gordon

Randy Gordon is a partner in the Antitrust Group at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, where he also serves as the Firm’s Professional Development Partner. He is a past Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, an Adjunct Professor of Law and Lecturer in English at Southern Methodist University, a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Hiett Prize, the largest humanities-specific prize in the U.S. His professional activities include service as Chair of the State Bar of Texas Antitrust & Business Litigation Section, a member of the Professionalism Committee of the Legal Education Section of the ABA, a member and former board member of the Professional Development Consortium, and an elected member of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet. Randy is also an Advisory Board Member of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. A frequent lecturer and writer, he is the Senior Host of “The Writer’s Studio,” a series of interviews with contemporary authors broadcast throughout the country by KERA/National Public Radio.

Arkady Gutnikov

Arkady Gutnikov graduated from the Industrial College of the Leningrad City Administration specializing in Law in 1992 and from the Saint Petersburg Institute of Law specializing in Jurisprudence in 1999. He has worked as a law teacher, director of international programs, lecturer and first pro-rector of the Prince Oldenburgsky Institute of Law. Since 1997 he has been a trainer, instructor and expert on clinic legal education, Human Rights education, civic and law-related education programs, as well as on programs for enhancing the qualifications of students, teachers, higher education institute lecturers and practicing lawyers. He is currently the Vice President of the Institute Board and Director of the Centre for Clinical Legal Education of the Saint Petersburg Prince Oldenburgsky Institute of Law (Russia). He is also Program Manager of the Clinic Legal Education Foundation as well as an expert and trainer of the Living Law centre for legal and civic education. He is a member of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE).

J. Gordon Hylton

Gordon Hylton is a Professor of Law at Marquette University where he also teaches in the Department of History. During the 2007-08 academic year, he is Visiting Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Virginia Law School and holds a PhD in the History of American Civilization from Harvard. He has taught courses on the history of the legal profession at Marquette, Washington University, and the University of Virginia. He is also the author of a forthcoming book on the history of the legal profession in Virginia from Reconstruction to the Great Depression.

E. Christopher Johnson, Jr.

E. Christopher Johnson, Jr. was appointed General Motors North America Vice President and General Counsel in October 2001. In this position, he is responsible for managing the delivery of all legal services that impact the GM North America Region and its hundreds of attorneys, support staff and outside law firms. Johnson also serves on the GM North America Strategy Board, the internal GM leadership organization that sets strategy, policy and manages GM’s North American operations. Additionally, Johnson is the Chair of GM’s African Ancestry Affinity Group. Prior to his current appointment, Johnson was assistant general counsel for global policy and planning. From 1994 to March 2001, he served as corporate law and transactions practice area manager.

Richard Johnstone

Richard Johnstone is a Professor in the Griffith Law School, where he is the Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Research. Until April 2004 he was the foundation Director of the National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, based in the Regulatory Institutions Network in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Previously Richard taught at the law schools of the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland and Monash University. Richard's academic interests are in occupational health and safety regulation, socio-legal research, labour law and legal education. He has authored, co-authored or edited thirteen books, in occupational health and safety regulation, legal education, labour law and legal theory. In legal education, Richard was a co-founder of the ALTA Law Teaching Workshop in 1988. In 1993 and 1994 he was Director of Teaching in the Melbourne Law School. He was a co-author of the groundbreaking The Quiet (R)evolatuin: Improving Teaching and Learning in Law (Law Book, 1994). He was Associate Dean (Curriculum, Learning and Teaching) in the Griffith Law School in 2004, and chaired the review of the Griffith Law School’s undergraduate curriculum in that year. In 2006 Richard chaired a committee which reviewed the Bachelor of Law and Legal Practice Program in the Flinders Law School.

Peter A. Joy

Professor Joy is the Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, was the inaugural Director of the Trial and Advocacy Program from 2002-06, and he also teaches Trial Practice & Procedure, the Legal Profession, and Comparative Legal Ethics Seminar. He serves on the Board of Editors for the Clinical Law Review, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the Clinic and Skills Training Committee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Professional Responsibility, and he consults with law professors starting clinical legal education programs in Japan. He received the 2001 AALS Pincus Award for contributions to clinical legal education. Professor Joy was a contributor to Best Practices for Legal Education, and he writes about legal education, legal ethics, lawyer and judicial professionalism, access to justice, and criminal justice issues. He is a contributing editor and co-authors an ethics column for the ABA publication Criminal Justice.

Sally Kift

Sally Kift is a Professor of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia (QUT). Over 2006-2007, she has been seconded to the QUT Chancellery as the institution’s Director, First Year Experience Project. From 2001-2006, she served as Assistant Dean, Teaching & Learning in the QUT Faculty of Law. Sally was a recipient of a National Teaching Award in 2003, winning the Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT) in Economics, Business, Law and Related Studies. Amongst other things, that award acknowledged her work in first year curriculum design, support for sessional teaching staff, enhancing the student experience and the development of graduate attributes in core curriculum. In 2006, Sally was awarded one of three inaugural national Carrick Institute Senior Fellowships for a project entitled, Articulating a transition pedagogy to scaffold and to enhance the first year learning experience in Australian higher education. In 2007, a Project Team that she led was awarded a further Carrick Institute National Teaching Award for the QUT Law Faculty’s Assessment and Feedback practices.

Andrew King-Ries

Andrew King-Ries is an assistant professor at the University Of Montana School Of Law. He teaches Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, Juvenile Justice, White Collar Crime, and Law and Literature. In a former life, he was a speechwriter for the Secretary of Education, Lauro Cavazos; a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit; and, for eight years, was a prosecutor, specializing in domestic violence cases, for the King County Prosecutor's Office in Seattle, Washington.. Professor King-Ries graduated from Brown University in 1988 with a degree in History. He received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was Order of the Coif and an editor on the Washington University Law Quarterly. He is married, has a five-year-old son, and a thirteen-year-old dog.

Catherine F. Klein

Catherine F. Klein is Professor of Law at Catholic University of America and Director of Columbus Community Legal Services, the umbrella organization for the law school’s live-client clinical program. She is also Director of the Families and the Law, one of the first law school clinical programs in the United States designed to address the issue of domestic violence through individual representation, community outreach and education and legislative advocacy. Professor Klein has published numerous articles and organized many workshops and trainings on the legal responses to domestic violence. Professor Klein is a current member of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE) Steering Committee, serving as one of two representatives from North America. She has participated in the GAJE conferences in Trivandrum, India, Durban, South Africa, Krakow, Poland and Cordoba, Argentina. She was Co-Chair of the GAJE North American Regional Conference in New York City in May 2006. Professor Klein received her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law and a B.A. from Northwestern University, with a degree in philosophy. She was elected to the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa.

Gene Koo

Gene Koo is a CALI Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Berkman and CALI (the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) have partnered to launch eLangdell, which offers law professors a way to share and remix legal education materials. Mr. Koo is overseeing the eLangdell effort as well as other innovations in legal instruction tools. He researches the potential of the Internet to transform legal education and is author of "New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of New Technology" (2007). Mr. Koo founded the online campus of the Center for Legal Aid Education (est. 2004). He graduated from Harvard Law School cum laude in 2002.

Kay Lauchland

Kay Lauchland is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and has worked as a commercial litigation lawyer. She has a Master of Education as well as an LLM. She has substantial experience as a law lecturer in LLB, JD and LLM programs as well as in professional legal practice courses and professional workshops. She has taught in Hong Kong, Scotland and China as well as in Australia. Kay is particularly interested in legal education and in professional training and was the instigator of the Bond Method – the integrated, incremental legal skills training program at Bond University. She was invited as a consultant to Hong Kong to assist City University of Hong Kong to develop a skills program for undergraduates and incorporate skills elements into LLM courses. She has for many years been involved in the International Client Counselling Competition. She was also an organiser and instructor in the ALTA Law Teaching Workshop.

Stephen Levett

Deputy Director of the College of Law,BA (Hons) Dunelm Politics, Solicitor, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Steering Committee Member Global Alliance fo Justice.

Trained as a solicitor with the Government Legal Service working for Ministry of Agriculture before joining the Treasury Solicitor. Specialised in civil litigation with a particular emphasis on prison service work.

Joined the College of Law in 1997 specialising in teaching Litigation and Public and Administrative Law. In 1999 co-founded the College's first student staffed Legal Advice Clinic. In 2000 initiated the Colleges own Streetlaw programme working with prisons in London.

Moved to the College's York branch in 2002 to manage the College's first ever publically funded pro bono project using students to delivering legal literacy education in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

Became the York Branch's Deputy Director (Staffing) in 2002 with responsibility for recruitment, training and development of all the branch's academic staff. Continues to teach litigation, public law and welfare and immigration law.

Patrick E. Longan

Professor Longan holds William Augustus Bootle Chair in Ethics and Professionalism at Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law and is the Director of the Mercer Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and came to Mercer in 2000, after practicing law for seven years in Dallas and teaching at Stetson University College of Law for nine years. Professor Longan teaches legal ethics and professionalism at Mercer and serves as a member of the Georgia Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. Professor Longan was the recipient of the 2005 National Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Professionalism, which was presented by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism, the Conference of Chief Justices, and the Burge Endowment for Legal Ethics.

Paul Maharg

Paul Maharg is a Professor of Law in the Glasgow Graduate School (GGSL), University of Strathclyde. He is Co-Director of Legal Practice Courses, and Director of the innovative Learning Technologies Development Unit at the GGSL. He is the author of Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century (2007, Ashgate Publishing, 346pp, www.transforming.org.uk), and has published widely in the fields of legal education and professional learning design. His specialisms include interdisciplinary educational design, and the use of ICT at all levels of legal education. He consults with law firms and other legal service employers. He blogs at http://zeugma.typepad.com.

Peggy Maisel

MARGARET (PEGGY) MAISEL is Associate Professor of Law and founding Director of the Clinical Program at Florida International University College of Law, a five year old public law school in Miami. She received a Masters Degree in Clinical Law Teaching from Antioch School of Law in 1978 and has been at the forefront of the development of Clinical Legal Education in the U.S. and internationally. Before coming to FIU, Professor Maisel was Fulbright and then Associate Professor of Law at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa (UND). While at UND, she helped to restructure the Law Clinic to support the changes in South African society and also led the transformation of the first year curriculum from broad survey courses into ones that emphasized human rights issues and legal and problem-solving skills. These course materials were published in two textbooks: Foundations of South African Law Critical Issues for Law Students, Butterworths 2002, and Introduction to Law and Legal Skills, Butterworths 2001. She is a member of the Society of American Law Teachers Board of Governors and has been a member of the International Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Justice Education and other national and international boards.

Kenneth R. Margolis

Kenneth R. Margolis is Professor of Law, Director of the CaseArc Integrated Lawyering Skills Program and Co-Director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been on the clinical faculty at CWRU since 1984 teaching in a variety of civil and criminal clinics, and creating and supervising externship courses. He currently teaches in the law school’s Community Development Clinic, Focused Problem Solving in the CaseArc program, and supervises various externships. He has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the CaseArc program, the law school’s innovative skills curriculum. He is a member of the Ohio and California bars. He was formerly Director of Continuing Legal Education, and participated in the law school's Project on the Delivery of Legal Services. He has been a NITA Program Director and is a member of the Advisory Group to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He has published articles and materials and delivered presentations on the ethics of marketing, client satisfaction, the creation of value in legal services and the CaseArc program.

James Maxeiner

James R. Maxeiner is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and Associate Director of its Center for International and Comparative Law. Besides two American law degrees from Cornell and Georgetown, he holds a Ph. D. in law from the University of Munich done while Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at the Max Planck Institute in Munich. Formerly he was Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., senior associate with two leading Manhattan law firms and attorney with the United States Department of Justice.

Brett McDonnell

Professor Brett McDonnell teaches and writes in the areas of business associations, corporate finance, law and economics, securities regulations, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, and legislation. Professor McDonnell received his B.A. in economics and political science, magna cum laude, in 1985 from Williams College where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Herschel Smith Fellowship for two years of study at Cambridge University, and received several prizes for his academic work. He received his M.Phil. in Economics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1995. Professor McDonnell received his J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, in 1997. At Boalt Hall he was a member of the Order of the Coif, the California Law Review, and the Berkeley Women's Law Journal, and was the recipient of the John M. Olin scholarship, and a Moot Court best brief award.

David McQuoid-Mason

Professor David J McQuoid-Mason, B Comm (Natal) LLB (Natal) LLM (London) PhD (Natal), is a Professor of Law at the Centre for Socio-Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; a Director of the South African Street Law programme; and President of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association. He was Dean of the Law School at the former University of Natal, for 13 years. He has facilitated at numerous NGO training workshops on Street Law, Human Rights and Democracy in a variety of countries, including South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Albania, Croatia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, China, Cambodia, Malaysia, the United States and Russia. He has also advised on the setting up and improving of legal aid schemes in Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Malawi and Nigeria, and the establishment of paralegal advice offices in Sierra Leone, Mongolia, Moldova and Cambodia.

James E. Moliterno

Professor James E. Moliterno is the Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School and is Director, Legal Skills Program. He has been a dedicated member of the Law School faculty since 1988, receiving the John Marshall Prize in 2001. In addition to designing and directing the Legal Skills Program, he has taught Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Lawyers in Practice Settings, an advanced ethics course. Under his guidance, the Legal Skills Program received the inaugural ABA Gambrell Professionalism Award in 1991. Professor Moliterno is a frequent speaker on ethics issues bar, bench, and academic functions. He has served in a leadership capacity with the Association of American Law Schools Section on Professional Responsibility. His public service work includes pro bono consulting and serving as an expert witness in death penalty cases that involve lawyer misconduct issues. He is the author of numerous, frequently cited books and articles on legal ethics, the legal profession, and legal education. During recent years, he has been increasingly involved in legal education reform around the globe, designing new law courses and training professors in Japan, China, Thailand, Serbia, Georgia, and Armenia.

Francis J. Mootz III

Professor Jay Mootz draws from his practice experience as a commercial litigator and his graduate work in philosophy to sustain varied scholarly projects. He has written in traditional doctrinal areas such as insurance, contract and sales law, and he also has undertaken an ambitious agenda of interdisciplinary scholarship exploring relationships between law and contemporary European philosophy. Professor Mootz is a regular presenter at academic symposia focusing on issues of legal theory. He has given talks in Europe and Africa, and during October 2007 he will be giving a series of lectures in South America. He is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the interdisciplinary journal, Law, Culture and the Humanities, and is an active member of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, the Law and Society Association, and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities.

George Mukundi

George Mukundi Wachira is the inaugural General Secretary of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE). He became involved in GAJE as a law student in 1999 at the University of Nairobi in Kenya where he co-founded a student’s run legal aid clinic. He remains involved in legal education reform initiatives with the legal aid clinic and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa where he is completing a doctorate in law. He is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a research fellow with the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law.

Edward O'Brien

Edward O’Brien is executive director at Street Law. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He co-founded the Street Law program at Georgetown in 1972 and was awarded a Robert F. Kennedy fellowship, which provided him his first paid Street Law employment and helped launch the organization. Ed has since brought Street Law’s message of law, democracy, and human rights education to more than 30 countries throughout the world. He is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and co-founded Human Rights USA and the Black South African Law Program at the Georgetown University Law Center. Ed has written articles for numerous professional journals and is a recognized expert in the areas of law related education, youth aspects of criminal justice system, constitutional law, human rights, and democracy. He has authored and co-authored several books, including Street Law: A Course in Practical Law (now in its seventh edition), Street Law (South African edition), Human Rights for All, Democracy for All, and Practical Law for Correctional Personnel.

Ed has had special relationship with South Africa, where Street Law’s first international program began, and in 2003 the University of Natal in Durban awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

Jerome M. Organ

A native of Wisconsin, Jerry Organ graduated magna cum laude from Miami University and attended Vanderbilt University School of Law as a Patrick Wilson Scholar. At Vanderbilt, Organ served as an editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif. After clerking for Justice William G. Callow of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Organ entered private practice with Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee. Organ practiced law for five years, predominantly in the environmental law area, before joining the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, where he taught for ten years, participating in the unique first-year program for integrating dispute resolution. He left Missouri in 2001 to become one of the founding faculty members of the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Organ is co-author of a casebook called Property and Lawyering in which he and his coauthors integrate instruction on the skills and values of the profession with the doctrinal law of property. He became Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of St. Thomas in 2005.

Mandava Rama Krishna Prasad

M.R.K. Prasad is a senior lecturer in V.M.Salgaocar college of Law, Miramar, Panji, Goa India. He is the first recipient of Vanderbilt – Fulbright fellowship in clinical legal education from India. He is also very active in the clinical education movement in India, most notably through establishing 40 community law clinics in state of Goa. He is an active member of Global Alliance for Justice Education. He was instrumental in establishing Forum of South Asian Clinical Law Teachers. Presently he is the Secretary of the Forum. He is also actively involved in training 200 law teachers all over India in clinical legal education in association with Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy and Training. He is also a member of National Coordination Committee to conduct National rounds of Louis M. Brown International Client Counseling and Interviewing competition. Over the course of his career, he had acted as Chairman of Moot Court Society and Free Legal Aid Society of V.M.Salgaocar College of Law. His work on clinical legal education in India was published in Clinical Law Review Vol.13 No.1 2006(Prof. Frank Bloch is the co author of the article). His paper on Clinical Legal Education in India: A model Blue Print for Offering Quality Clinical Education, Scientific Supervision, and Assessment is currently under consideration of Griffith Law Review, Australia.

Edward Rubin

Ed Rubin joined Vanderbilt Law School as dean and the first John Wade–Kent Syverud Professor of Law in July 2005. A distinguished and erudite scholar whose research has addressed a broad range of topics, Dean Rubin is the author of numerous books, articles and chapters, including two volumes published in 2005, Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State (Princeton University Press) and Federalism: A Theoretical Inquiry, co-authored with long-time collaborator Malcolm Feeley.

Dean Rubin previously served as the Theodore K. Warner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he taught administrative law, commercial law and seminars on topics ranging from administrative policy to law and technology, human rights and punishment theory.

He joined the law faculty at Pennsylvania in 1998 from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, where he had taught since 1982 and served as an associate dean for three years.

He was active in university governance at both Pennsylvania and Berkeley. He served as secretary of the University of Pennsylvania Senate and was a member of the University Council. At Berkeley, he chaired the university-wide Privilege and Tenure Committee. He has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools' sections on socioeconomics and scholarship and on its curriculum and research, professional development and nominations committees.

After earning his law degree from Yale University in 1979, Dean Rubin clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was an associate with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison in New York, where he practiced entertainment law. Early in his career, he served as a curriculum planner with the New York City Board of Education.

Dean Rubin has been a consultant to the Asia Foundation Project on the Administrative Licensing Law for the People's Republic of China, the Russian Privatization Center and to the United Nations Development Programme.

Edward Santow

Ed Santow, BA LLB (Hons) (Sydney) LLM (Hons) (Cambridge), is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of New South Wales (Australia), as well as being the Director of the Charter of Human Rights Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Ed also serves as a Legal Adviser to the Legislation Review Committee of the NSW Parliament, which is responsible for assessing whether Bills of Parliament infringe unduly on human rights. Ed is on the board of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service, and he also represents Australasia on the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Justice Education. Ed has previously worked at the Australian Law Reform Commission and as a solicitor at a Sydney law firm. He was Associate to Justice Heydon of the High Court of Australia.

Suellyn Scarnecchia

Suellyn Scarnecchia became the first woman to serve as dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2003. She teaches Children's Law, Legal Dialogues and Access to Justice. On campus, she serves as a board member for the UNM Science and Technology Corporation. She chairs all Judicial Nominating Commissions in New Mexico. Dean Scarnecchia serves on the New Mexico Supreme Court Task Forces on Professionalism and Access to Justice. She is chair of the ABA New Deans Workshop and a member of the AALS Resource Corps and the LSAC Minority Affairs Committee. Prior to UNM, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School where she was Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and taught in the Child Advocacy Law Clinic. Dean Scarnecchia received her bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and her J.D. from the University of Michigan.

Michael Hunter Schwartz

Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz is a nationally-known expert in law school teaching and learning. Professor Schwartz is the author of EXPERT LEARNING FOR LAW STUDENTS (2005) and a co-author of PASS THE BAR! (2006), each of which has been adopted as a text at more than a dozen law schools. Professor Schwartz has authored two influential law review articles addressing teaching and learning, Teaching Law Students to be Self-Regulated Learners, 2003 MICH. STATE DET. C.L. L. REV. 447 (2003) and Teaching Law by Design: How Learning Theory and Instructional Design Can Inform and Reform Law Teaching, 38 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 347 (2001), and he has authored several shorter essays on law teaching topics. Professor Schwartz recently signed a contract with Harvard University Press to author WHAT THE BEST LAW TEACHERS DO (forthcoming 2011), a follow-up to Ken Bain’s enormously successful WHAT THE BEST COLLEGE TEACHERS DO (2004). Professor Schwartz also is under contract with Carolina Academic Press to author both a contracts text and a remedies text and to serve as series editor for an innovative series of law school texts he designed to implement many of the ideas in BEST PRACTICES FOR LEGAL EDUCATION and the Carnegie Foundation’s EDUCATING LAWYERS: PREPARATION FOR THE PROFESSION OF LAW (2007) and to apply instructional design and learning theory principles to the design of law school instruction.

Steven D. Schwinn

Steven D. Schwinn joined the faculty at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago in 2007, where he teaches and writes on Constitutional Law and legal writing. He was previously on faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he taught Constitutional Law, Poverty Law, legal writing, and a clinic on trade and poverty--the first law school clinic at the U.S. Court of International Trade. His teaching seeks to combine legal doctrine and theory with actual legal work, especially in the first year. He has thus taught first-year clinics in constitutional law, post-conviction remedies, and administrative law. Prior to entering academia, he was assistant general counsel at the Peace Corps.

Richard Henry Seamon

Richard H. Seamon is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Administration and Students at the University of Idaho College of Law. He has previously written on legal education subjects, as well as on substantive law subjects. Before becoming a law professor, Professor Seamon practiced law in Washington, D.C., as an associate in the law firm of Covington and Burling and as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States.

Jim O. Stuckey II

Mr. Stuckey's practice focuses on all areas of labor and employment law. He has successfully defended clients against charges of employment discrimination, harassment and wrongful discharge. Mr. Stuckey previously served as chief legal counsel to South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges. In that role he provided legal advice to Governor Hodges and his executive staff and served as one of the governor's key advisers. In addition, Mr. Stuckey was a law clerk to the Honorable James R. Spencer in the Eastern District of Virginia in 1994.

In January of 2006, the Columbia Business Journal named Mr. Stuckey one of its top 20 rising business leaders under 40.

William Sullivan

William M. Sullivan is co-director of the Carnegie Foundation’s Preparation for the Professions Program. He is formulating a research design for the comparative aspects of the studies, drawing out common themes and identifying distinct practices in professional education. The author of Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America (2005) and a coauthor of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (1996), Sullivan examined the link between formal training and practical reflection in effective education. Prior to coming to Carnegie, Sullivan was a philosophy professor at La Salle University. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at Fordham University.

Christian Turner

Christian Turner is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia School of Law. He is currently teaching property and land use law, with research interests in property and the regulation of information. Previously, he served as a visiting assistant professor at Fordham Law School, an associate at the Wiggin and Dana law firm in Connecticut, and a clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. When he was President of the Stanford Law Review, Turner coded and implemented a law review intranet system that, among other things, permitted authors to submit articles via the web. The system was adopted by a number of other law reviews. Recently, he has developed an online system for collaboration in the production of textbooks, teaching aides, and other textual compilations.

Melvin F. Wright

Melvin F. Wright, Jr. received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina in 1967 and his law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1973. Mel was a private practice attorney for twenty-six years until he became the Executive Director of the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism in November 1999. As a newly formed Commission, Mel had the challenging task of establishing the office from only a Supreme Court Order and a set of bylaws. He has worked tirelessly for the cause of professionalism, both as Executive Director of the Commission and as a private practice attorney. In addition to his many years in private practice, he has served as President of the Forsyth County Bar Association and the 21st Judicial District, Chairman of the Ethics & Grievances Committee of the Forsyth County Bar Association, officer of Executive Committee of the Forsyth County Bar Association, officer of the Forsyth County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and Chairman of the National Consortium on Professionalism Initiatives. Mel currently serves on the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism, the North Carolina Bar Association Professionalism Committee, the Wake County Bar Association Professionalism Committee, and on the Board of the Center for Law & Humanities. He is a member of the Wake County, North Carolina and American Bar Associations, the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility, and the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers. Lastly, Mel is an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, teaching Professional Responsibility.