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Faculty
![headshot of Wendy Collins Perdue](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/perdue-thumb-2020.jpg)
Dean, University of Richmond School of Law
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Civil Procedure
- Conflict of Laws
- Land Use
- Legal Education
(804) 289 1779
![headshot of Carol Necole Brown](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/CarolBrown-Thumb.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Property
- Land Use Planning
- Real Estate Transactions
- Housing Law
(804) 484 1626
![headshot of W. Hamilton Bryson](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Bryson.jpg)
Blackstone Professor of Law
Specialties:
- English Legal History
- Virginia Legal History
- Virginia Procedure and Practice
- Equitable Remedies
(804) 289 8196
![headshot of Tara L. Casey](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Casey.jpg)
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Director, Carrico Center for Pro Bono & Public Service
Director, Bridge to Practice Fellowship Program
Specialties:
- Pro Bono Legal Services
- Public Service Work
- Contemporary Public Policy Issues
(804) 287 1207
![headshot of Henry Lawrence Chambers Jr.](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Chambers.jpg)
Austin E. Owen Research Scholar & Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Voting Rights
- Employment Discrimination
- White Collar Crime
- Criminal Law
- Constitutional Law
(804) 289 8199
![headshot of Krishnee Coley](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/coley_thumb.jpg)
Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Director of Academic Success Program
Specialties:
- Adult Education
- Academic Success Skills
- Uniform Bar Exam
![headshot of Erin Rebecca Collins](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/collins-erin-thumb.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
- Sentencing
(804) 287 6473
![headshot of Christopher Corts](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/ccorts.jpg)
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
(804) 289 8856
![headshot of Professor Chris A. Cotropia](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Cotropia.jpg)
Dennis I. Belcher Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Empirical Legal Studies
- Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
- Professional Responsibility
- Computer Law
(804) 484 1574
![headshot of Janice Craft](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/craft_thumb2.jpg)
Director of Professional Identity Formation
Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Professional Identity Formation
- Leadership
- Public Service
- Intimate Partner Violence
(804) 662 3176
![headshot of Rebecca Loren Crootof](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/crootof_rebecca_thumb.jpg)
Rebecca Crootof
She/Her
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- TechLaw
- Public International Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- Torts
(804) 662 3048
![headshot of Ashley R. Dobbs](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Dobbs.jpg)
Ashley R. Dobbs
She/Her
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Director, Intellectual Property and Transactional Law Clinic
Specialties:
- Intellectual Property
- Transactional Law
- Government Contracts
- Animal Law
(804) 289 8921
![headshot of John Granville Douglass](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/douglass-2.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Evidence
- Confrontation Clause
- Trial Advocacy and Plea Bargaining
(804) 289 8198
![headshot of Joel B. Eisen](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Eisen-J.jpg)
Joel B. Eisen
He/Him
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Energy Law
- Administrative Law
- Law of Clean & Renewable Energy
- Environmental Law
(804) 287 6511
![headshot of David G. Epstein](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Epstein_d_sm.jpg)
George E. Allen Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Bankruptcy
- Contracts
(804) 289 8922
![headshot of Jessica M. Erickson](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Erickson.jpg)
Nancy Litchfield Hicks Professor of Law
Director, Richmond Law & Business Forum
Specialties:
- Corporate Law
- Corporate Governance
- Securities Regulation and Litigation
(804) 289 8322
![headshot of David Joel Frisch](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Frisch.jpg)
![headshot of James Gibson](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Gibson.jpg)
Sesquicentennial Professor of Law
Co-Director, Intellectual Property Institute
Specialties:
- Intellectual Property
- Copyrights and Trademarks
- Law and Technology
- Contracts
(804) 287 6398
![headshot of Professor Chiara Giorgetti](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/giorgetti.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Public International Law
- International Arbitration
- International Dispute Resolution
- International Economic Law
- International Investment Law
- Human Rights
- Sovereignty
(804) 484 1654
![headshot of Meredith J. Harbach](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Harbach.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Family Law
- Children and the Law
- Civil Procedure
- Legal Regulation of Reproduction/Abortion/Reproductive Technologies
(804) 287 6688
![headshot of Hayes Ragland Holderness](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Holderness-Thumbnail.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Tax Law
- State and Local Taxation
(804) 662 3071
![headshot of Marissa Jackson](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/jacksonsow_thumb.jpg)
Associate Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Contracts & Commercial Law
- Human Rights
- International Law
- Race & the Law
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Constitutional Law
- Law and Philosophy
- Atrocities
(804) 287 6887
![headshot of Joyce Manna Janto](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/janto2_thumb.jpg)
Director of Public and Instructional Services
Specialties:
- Law Librarianship
- Legal Research
- Professional Responsibility
(804) 289 8223
![headshot of Riley Keenan](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/keenan_thumb.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Federal Courts
- Constitutional Law
![headshot of Corinna Barrett Lain](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Lain.jpg)
Corinna Barrett Lain
She/Her
S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Constitutional Law
- Death Penalty
- Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
(804) 289 8738
![headshot of Kurt Tracy Lash](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/lash_kurt_thumb.jpg)
E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Law
Specialties:
- Constitutional Law
- Religious Liberty
- Freedom of Speech
- Supreme Court
- Legal History
- Reconstruction
(804) 289 8046
![headshot of Molly Lentz-Meyer](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/lentz_meyer_molly_thumb.jpg)
Director of Bibliographic Services
Specialties:
- Legal Research
(804) 289 8221
![headshot of Mei Kiu Lo](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/mlo.jpg)
Catalog/Systems Librarian
Specialties:
- Cataloging Library Resources
- Integrated Library Systems
(804) 289 8226
![headshot of Professor Julie Ellen McConnell](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/mcconnell.jpg)
Julie Ellen McConnell
She/Her
Director, Children's Defense Clinic
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Youth Delinquency and Child Development
- Clinical Legal Education
- Elder Law
- Criminal Law
(804) 289 8205
![headshot of Shari Heather Motro](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Motro.jpg)
Senior Research Scholar
Specialties:
- Tax Law and Policy
- Gender and the Law
- Information Design and the Law
- Mindfulness
![headshot of Luke Patrick Norris](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Norris-Thumb.jpg)
Luke Norris
He/Him
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Civil Procedure
- Labor Law
- Employment Law
- Constitutional Law
(804) 287 6450
![headshot of Kristen Rae Jakobsen Osenga](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Osenga-staff-bio-thumb.jpg)
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Austin E. Owen Research Scholar & Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Patent Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Law and Language
- Legislation and Regulation
(804) 289 8112
![headshot of Cassie Powell](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Powell-Thumb.jpg)
Director, Access to Justice Clinic
Assistant Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Contact:
![headshot of John F. Preis](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Preis.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Civil Procedure
- Federal Courts
- Civil Rights Litigation
(804) 289 8682
![headshot of Emmeline Paulette Reeves](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Reeves.jpg)
Director, Bar Preparation Program
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Academic Skills and Success
- Virginia Bar Exam
- Agency and Partnership
(804) 287 6472
![headshot of Noah Matthew Sachs](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Sachs-N.jpg)
Professor of Law
Director, Robert R. Merhige Jr. Center for Environmental Studies
Specialties:
- Environmental Law and International Environmental Law
- Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste Regulation
- Climate Change
- Transboundary Pollution
(804) 289 8555
![headshot of Doron Samuel-Siegel](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/samuelseigel.jpg)
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
- Restorative Justice
(804) 287 6326
![headshot of Daniel Alan Schaffa](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/schaffa-danny-thumb.jpg)
Associate Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Tax Policy
- Tax Law
- Law & Economics
(804) 662 3081
![headshot of Tamar Schwartz](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Schwarz-T.jpg)
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
- Law & Literature
- Mindfulness
(804) 287 6585
![headshot of Alexandra Silva](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/fannon_thumb2.jpg)
Director of Externships
Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Contact: (804) 662 3109
![headshot of Roger V. Skalbeck](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Skalbeck.jpg)
Roger V. Skalbeck
He/Him
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
Co-Director, Intellectual Property Institute
Specialties:
- Law Librarianship
- Technology in Legal Practice
- Copyright Law
- Intellectual Property
(804) 289 8218
![headshot of Andrew Brady Spalding](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Spalding-Hermes-Thumb.jpg)
Professor of Law
Jennifer & Samuel Tarry Research Scholar
Co-Director, University of Cambridge Summer Program
Specialties:
- Corruption | Human Rights | Megasports
- Bribery in International Business
- Corporate Compliance
- Contracts
(804) 289 8203
![headshot of Danielle Stokes](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/stokes_thumb.jpg)
Associate Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Property
- Environmental Law
- Land Use and Zoning
(804) 289 8211
![headshot of Jonathan K. Stubbs](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/stubbs.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Race and the Law
- Constitutional Law
- Human Rights Law
(804) 289 8812
![headshot of Rachel Juhas Suddarth](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/rsuddarth.jpg)
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
- Health Law
(804) 289 8466
![headshot of Allison Anna Tait](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Tait.jpg)
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Trusts and Estates
- Family Law
- Charitable Giving
- Legal History
- Property
- Law & Literature
(804) 287 1814
![headshot of Mary Kelly Tate](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Tate.jpg)
Director, Institute for Actual Innocence
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Wrongful Convictions
- Actual Innocence Commissions
- Post-Conviction Remedies
(804) 289 8921
![headshot of Carl William Tobias](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Tobias.jpg)
Williams Chair in Law
Specialties:
- Federal Courts and Judicial Selection
- Constitutional Law
- Torts
- Product Liability
(804) 287 6440
![headshot of Laura A. Webb](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/lkhatcheressian.jpg)
Laura Webb
She/Her
Associate Dean of Student Success
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
- Mindfulness
- Rhetoric
(804) 289 8801
![headshot of Danielle Wingfield](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/wingfield-smith_thumb2.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Constitutional Law
- Family Law
- Civil Rights
- American Legal History
- Race and the Law
- Education Law and Policy
(804) 662 3135
![headshot of Kevin Michael Woodson](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/Woodson-staff-bio-thumb.jpg)
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Workplace Diversity
- Education Law & Policy
- Criminal Procedure
- Legal Ethics
(804) 662 3053
![headshot of Sylvia Yanes](https://law.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/law/Stamp/yanes_thumb.jpg)