
Faculty

Dean, University of Richmond School of Law
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Civil Procedure
- Conflict of Laws
- Land Use
- Legal Education

Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 107
Specialties:
- Property
- Land Use Planning
- Real Estate Transactions
- Housing Law

Blackstone Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 116
Specialties:
- English Legal History
- Virginia Legal History
- Virginia Procedure and Practice

Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Constitutional Law
- First Amendment
- Legal History

Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Director, Carrico Center for Pro Bono & Public Service
Director, Bridge to Practice Fellowship Program
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 107A
Specialties:
- Pro Bono Legal Services
- Public Service Work
- Contemporary Public Policy Issues

Austin E. Owen Research Scholar & Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Voting Rights
- Employment Discrimination
- White Collar Crime
- Criminal Law
- Constitutional Law

Tyler Haynes Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Specialties:
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Justice
- Political Morality of Public Law
- Rule of Law in the Algorithmic State

Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 126
Specialties:
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
- Sentencing

Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 144
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing

Dennis I. Belcher Professor of Law
Director, Intellectual Property Institute
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 303
Specialties:
- Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
- Computer Law

Director of Professional Identity Formation
Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 122
Specialties:
- Professional Identity Formation
- Leadership
- Public Service
- Intimate Partner Violence

Associate Professor of Law
Specialties:
- TechLaw
- Public International Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- Torts

Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Director, Intellectual Property and Transactional Law Clinic
Specialties:
- Intellectual Property
- Transactional Law
- Government Contracts
- Animal Law

Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Evidence
- Confrontation Clause
- Trial Advocacy and Plea Bargaining

Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 123
Specialties:
- Energy Law
- Administrative Law
- Law of Clean & Renewable Energy
- Environmental Law

George E. Allen Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Bankruptcy
- Contracts

Nancy Litchfield Hicks Professor of Law
Director, Richmond Law & Business Forum
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 134
Specialties:
- Corporate Law
- Corporate Governance
- Securities Regulation and Litigation

Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 129
Specialties:
- Commercial Law
- Contracts

Sesquicentennial Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Intellectual Property
- Copyrights and Trademarks
- Law and Technology
- Contracts

Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Public International Law
- International Arbitration
- International Dispute Resolution
- International Economic Law
- International Investment Law
- Human Rights
- Sovereignty

Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Family Law
- Children and the Law
- Civil Procedure
- Legal Regulation of Reproduction/Abortion/Reproductive Technologies

Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Tax Law
- State and Local Taxation

Research & Student Services Librarian
Specialties:
- Legal Research
- Student Outreach
- Law Librarianship

Assistant Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Contracts & Commercial Law
- Human Rights
- International Law
- Race & the Law
- Constitutional Law
- Law and Philosophy

Director of Public and Instructional Services
Specialties:
- Law Librarianship
- Legal Research
- Professional Responsibility

Director of Legal Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Assistant Professor of Legal Practice
Contact:
S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Constitutional Law
- Death Penalty
- Criminal Procedure
- Evidence

E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 125
Specialties:
- Constitutional Law
- Religious Liberty
- Freedom of Speech
- Supreme Court
- Legal History
- Reconstruction

Director of Bibliographic Services
Specialties:
- Legal Research

Assistant Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Business Associations
- Corporate Governance
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Securities Regulation
- Consumer Finance
- Financial Institutions

Catalog/Systems Librarian
Specialties:
- Cataloging Library Resources
- Integrated Library Systems

Director, Children's Defense Clinic
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Juvenile Delinquency and Child Development
- Clinical Legal Education
- Elder Law
- Criminal Law

Senior Research Scholar
Specialties:
- Tax Law and Policy
- Gender and the Law
- Information Design and the Law
- Mindfulness

Associate Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Civil Procedure
- Labor Law
- Employment Law
- Constitutional Law

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

Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 302
Specialties:
- Civil Procedure
- Federal Courts
- Civil Rights Litigation

Director, Academic Skills Program
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 112
Specialties:
- Academic Skills and Success
- Virginia Bar Exam
- Agency and Partnership

Professor of Law
Director, Robert R. Merhige Jr. Center for Environmental Studies
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 130
Specialties:
- Environmental Law and International Environmental Law
- Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste Regulation
- Climate Change
- Transboundary Pollution

Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 145
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
- Restorative Justice

Associate Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Tax Policy
- Tax Law
- Law & Economics

Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 131
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
- Law & Literature
- Mindfulness

Director of Externships
Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 124
Contact:
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
Specialties:
- Law Librarianship
- Technology in Legal Practice
- Copyright Law
- Intellectual Property

Professor of Law
Jennifer & Samuel Tarry Research Scholar
Faculty Director, LLM Program
Specialties:
- International Business Law
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- International Law

Assistant Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Property
- Environmental Law
- Land Use and Zoning

Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 109
Specialties:
- Race and the Law
- Constitutional Law
- Human Rights Law

Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 119
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
- Health Law

Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Trusts and Estates
- Family Law
- Charitable Giving
- Legal History
- Property
- Law & Literature

Director, Institute for Actual Innocence
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Wrongful Convictions
- Actual Innocence Commissions
- Post-Conviction Remedies

Williams Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 202
Specialties:
- Federal Courts and Judicial Selection
- Constitutional Law
- Torts
- Product Liability

Visiting Assistant Professor, Academic Success Program
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 120
Specialties:
- Appellate Advocacy
- Legal Writing

Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Professor of Law, Legal Practice
Specialties:
- Legal Analysis & Writing
- Mindfulness
- Rhetoric

Professor of Law
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 115
Specialties:
- Civil Procedure
- Conflict of Laws

Assistant Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Constitutional Law
- Family Law
- Civil Rights
- American Legal History
- Race and the Law
- Education Law and Policy

Professor of Law
Specialties:
- Workplace Diversity
- Education Law & Policy
- Criminal Procedure
- Legal Ethics
