Faculty & Administration
Administration
- John G. Douglass, Dean of the Law School and Professor of Law
- Joshua Burstein, Associate Dean for Career Services
- Timothy L. Coggins, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law
- Kristine Henderson, Associate Dean for Student and Administrative Services
- Michelle Rahman, Associate Dean for Admissions
- Roberta Oster Sachs, Associate Dean for External Relations
- W. Clark Williams Jr., Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
Faculty Profiles
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- Margaret Ivey Bacigal, Clinical Professor of
Law and Director of Clinical Programs
Courses Taught: Clinical Practice Seminars; Family Law; Women and the Law - Ronald J. Bacigal, Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Evidence - Kelley H. Bartges, Clinical Professor of Law
and Clinical Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Clinical Practice Seminars; Children and the Law - Paul M. Birch, Computer Services Librarian
Courses Taught: Lawyering Skills-Legal Research - W. Hamilton Bryson, Blackstone Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Legal History; Remedies; Virginia Procedure and Practice - Tara L. Casey, Director, Pro Bono Services Program
- Henry L. Chambers Jr., Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Criminal Law; White Collar Crime; Law & Economics; Sexual Harassment; Evidence - Timothy L. Coggins, Associate Dean for Library
and Information Services and Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Lawyering Skills; Legal Research; Advanced Legal Research - Suzanne B. Corriell, Reference & Research
Services Librarian
Courses Taught: Lawyering Skills-Legal Research - Christopher A. Cotropia, Associate Professor
of Law
Courses Taught: Intellectual Property Fundamentals; Property - John G. Douglass, Dean of the Law School
and Professor of Law; Director
of Second-Year Lawyering Skills Program
Courses Taught: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Evidence - Joel B. Eisen, Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Environmental Law; Urban Environmental Law; International Environmental Law; Environmental Dispute Resolution; Property; Energy Law and Policy - Jessica M. Erickson, Assistant Professor of Law
Corporations; Contracts - David Frisch, Professor
of Law
Courses Taught: Sales; Payment Systems; Secured Transactions; International Sales; Contracts I & II; Lender Liability; Debtors' & Creditors' Rights; Civil Procedure; Remedies; Agency & Partnership - James Gibson, Associate Professor of Law and Director
of the Intellectual Property Institute
Courses Taught: Intellectual Property; Computer Law; John Marshall Scholars Seminar - Mary L. Heen, Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Legislation; Taxation; Corporate Taxation; Federal Income Taxation; Federal Tax Policy; Feminist Legal Theory - Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Corporations; Securities Regulation; Islamic Jurisprudence; Feminist Legal Theory - Ann C. Hodges, Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Labor Law; Employment Discrimination; Employment Law; Labor Arbitration; Public Sector Labor and Employment Law; Feminist Legal Theory - Melanie C. Holloway, Director, Intellectual Property Institute
Courses Taught: Computer Law - Joyce Manna Janto, Deputy Director of the Law Library
Courses Taught: Lawyering Skills-Legal Research; Professional Responsibilities - John Paul Jones, Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Administrative Law; Admiralty Law; Civil Rights Law; Constitutional Law; Comparative Constitutional Law; First Amendment Law; Military Law; Law of War - Corinna Barrett Lain, Associate Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Appellate Advocacy; Children and the Law; Civil Procedure; Criminal Procedure; Domestic Violence Seminar; Evidence - Shari Motro, Assistant Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Federal Income Taxation; Wills & Trusts - Daniel T. Murphy, Professor of Law & Director
of International Studies
Courses Taught: Comparative Law; Corporations; International Law; International Business Transactions; Law of the European Economic Community - Kristen Jakobsen Osenga, Assistant Professor
of Law
Courses Taught: Patent Law; Tradmark and Unfair Competition Law; International Intellectual Property - John R. Pagan, University Professor
Courses Taught: Constitutional Law; Civil Rights; Federal Courts; Torts; Legal History - Emmeline Paulette Reeves, Associate Professor
for Academic Success
Courses Taught: Agency and Partnership - Noah M. Sachs, Assistant Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Environmental Law; International Environmental Law; Torts - A. Benjamin Spencer - Associate Professor of
Law
Courses Taught: Civil Procedure; Administrative Law; Complex Litigation; Advanced Issues in Civil Procedure
- Jonathan K. Stubbs, Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Contracts; Human Rights; International Law; Jurisprudence; Legal Writing; Professional Responsibility - Peter N. Swisher, Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Torts; Family Law; Advanced Family Law; Insurance Law - Carl W. Tobias, Williams Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Torts; Products Liability; Constitutional Law - Adrienne E. Volenik, Director of the Mental Disabilities
Law Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Children and the Law - Sally H. Wambold, Technical Services Librarian
- W. Clark Williams Jr., Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs and Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Civil Procedure; Clinical Teaching; Conflict of Laws; Evidence; Federal Jurisdiction - Gail F. Zwirner, Head of Access Services
Courses Taught: Lawyering Skills-Legal Research
Faculty Emeritii
- W. Wade Berryhill, Professor Emeritus of Law
Courses Taught: Environmental Law; Environmental Law & Policy; Land Use Planning; Ocean and Coastal Law; Real Estate Transactions; Real Property; Secured Creditors. - J. Rodney Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Law
Courses Taught: Wills; Trusts; Future Interests; Fiduciary Administration; Elder Law - Gary C. Leedes, Professor Emeritus of Law
Courses Taught: Administrative Law; Civil Rights; Constitutional Law; Employment Discrimination; Federal Jurisdiction; Jurisprudence - Robert E. Shepherd Jr., Professor Emeritus of Law
Courses Taught: Contracts; Domestic Relations; Education Law; Juvenile Law; Sports Law; Trial and Appellate Advocacy
Adjunct and Extended Faculty
- The Honorable Senior Justice Harry L. Carrico, Visiting Professor of Law and Civic Engagement
- Tamar Schwartz Eisen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Lawyering Skills Program
Courses Taught: Lawyering Skills - Melissa C. Goemann, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Juvenile Law & Policy Clinic
- The Honorable Justice Donald W. Lemons, John Marshall Professor of Judicial Studies
Courses Taught: Virginia Procedure; John Marshall Scholars Program - Gary L. McDowell, Tyler Haynes Interdisciplinary Professor in Leadership Studies and Political Science
- Mary Kelly Tate, Director of the Institute for Actual Innocence and Special Assistant to the Dean on Pro Bono Matters
- Paul M. Thompson, Adjunct Professor of Law and Director of Special Programs
Courses Taught: Labor Law; Employment Law; Labor Law in a Global Economy; Civil Procedure
Visiting Faculty
- Lisa H. Nicholson, Visiting Professor of Law
Corporations; Mergers and Acquisitions - Sean Pager, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Courses Taught: Intellectual Property Fundamentals;Cultural Protection and Intellectual Property Seminar; Copyright and International Intellectual Property Law
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