Celebrating 2024 Faculty Promotions
Each year, the University of Richmond School of Law recognizes the exemplary efforts of faculty members with promotion and tenure-track advances. Congratulations to the following faculty who were promoted this year.
Professor Rebecca Crootof, legal scholar in the fields of technology law, international law, and torts was promoted to professor of law and was granted tenure. She joined the Richmond Law faculty in 2019.
Recent professional highlights:
- Humans in the Loop, 76 Vand. L. Rev. 429 (with W. Nicholson Price et al.) (2023).
- Implementing War Torts, 63 Virginia J. Int’l L. 320 (2023).
- War Torts, 97 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1063 (2022).
Professor Luke Norris, legal expert in the fields of civil procedure, labor law, and employment law, was promoted to professor of law and was granted tenure. He joined the Richmond Law faculty in 2018.
Recent professional highlights:
- Federal Rules of Private Enforcement, 108 Cornell L. Rev. 1639 (with David Noll) (2023).
- The Oligarchic Courthouse: Jurisdiction, Corporate Power, and Democratic Decline, 122 Michigan L. Rev. 1 (with Helen Hershkoff) (2023).
- The Promise and Perils of Private Enforcement, 108 Virginia L. Rev. 1483 (2022).
Professor Marissa Jackson Sow, legal expert in the areas of contracts, constitutional law, international law, human rights, law and philosophy, and rhetoric, was promoted to associate professor of law. She joined the Richmond Law faculty in 2022.
Recent professional highlights:
- Whiteness as Contract in the Racial Superstate, 14 U. C. Irvine L. Rev. (2024).
- Protect and Serve, 110 Calif. L. Rev. 743 (2022).
- Whiteness as Contract, 78 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1803 (2022).
Professor Danielle Stokes, legal scholar in the areas of property, environmental law, and environmental justice, with a focus on sustainability and equity in land use planning, was promoted to associate professor of law. She joined the Richmond Law faculty in 2021.
Recent professional highlights:
- From Redlining to Greenlining, 71 UCLA L. Rev. ___ (2024).
- Book chapter: Climate Conscious Land Use Planning, in A Research Agenda for U.S. Land Use and Planning Law (Edward Elgar Publishing ) (2023).
- Renewable Energy Federalism, 106 Minnesota L. Rev. 1757 (2022).