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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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