Faculty Expertise

Faculty

Dedman School of Law Faculty Experts

Faculty & Title	Areas of Expertise
Hillel J. Bavli Associate Professor of Law and Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow	Evidence Torts Procedure Law and Statistics Law and Economics
Thomas B. Bennett Associate Professor of Law	Complex Litigation Civil Litigation
Misty Birdsong '02 Co-Director of Legal Research, Writing, and Advocacy, Director of Academic Success, and Clinical Professor of Law	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Chante Brantley Director of the VanSickle Family Law Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law	Family Law
Martin Camp Professor of Practice and Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs	Business Property Law Real Estate Law Legal Ethics
Dale Carpenter Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law	Constitutional Law First Amendment Law LGBT Rights and the Law
Lance E. Caughfield Director of Advocacy Programs and Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Advocacy	Civil Procedure Constitutional Law Appellate Practice and Advocacy
Carliss Chatman Associate Professor of Law	Business Commercial Law Ethics and Compliance
Anthony J. Colangelo Professor of Law	Conflict of Laws Civil Procedure Public International Law Private International Law U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Nathan Cortez Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation and Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor of Law in Leadership and Latino Studies	Administrative Law Food and Drug Law Health Law International Health Legislation and Regulation
Gregory S. Crespi Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professorship in Commercial and Insurance Law and Professor of Law	Contract Law Disability Rights Corporate Law Law and Economics Legal Education
Beverly C. Dureus Clinical Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research	Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Monika U. Ehrman Professor of Law	Energy Law Environmental Law Just Energy Transition on Tribal Lands Mining Law Natural Resources Oil and Gas Property Law
Timothy Gallina Director of Legal Technology Instruction and Clinical Professor of Legal Research	Legal Research
Joanna L. Grossman Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, and Professor of Law	Sex Discrimination Family Law
Christopher H. Hanna Alan D. Feld Endowed Professor of Law and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor	International Tax Law Corporate Tax Law Tax Accounting
Grant M. Hayden Richard R. Lee Jr. Endowed Professor of Law	Corporate Governance Voting Rights Labor Law
Patricia S. Heard Clinical Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research	Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Christine Hurt Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in Corporate, Partnership, Business and Securities Law and Professor of Law	Business Associations Corporate Tax Law Microfinance Securities Regulation Torts
Greg Ivy Associate Dean for Library and Technology and Senior Lecturer	Information Technology in Legal Education Legal Research
Jeffrey Kahn University Distinguished Professor, Justice John and Lena Hickman Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law	U.S. Constitutional Law Russian Law National Security Law International Human Rights Law European Convention on Human Rights Administrative Law
Thomas Kimbrough Clinical Professor of Legal Research and Associate Director for Collection Development
Thomas S. Leatherbury Director of the First Amendment Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law	Appellate Practice and Advocacy Class Actions First Amendment Law
Anna A. Mance Assistant Professor of Law	Civil Procedure Climate Law Environmental Law International Law and Development Public Governance and Accountability
George A. Martinez Professor of Law	Immigration Law Law and Philosophy
Thomas Wm. Mayo Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law	Bioethics Health Law Non-profit Organizations
Orly Mazur Associate Professor of Law	Federal Income Tax Law International Tax Law Corporate Tax Law Tax Policy
Sari Mazzurco Assistant Professor of Law	Intellectual Property Law and Technology
Pamela R. Metzger Executive Director of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center and Professor of Law	Criminal Law Family Law
Seema Mohapatra MD Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law and Professor of Law	Bioethics Torts Family Law Health Care Health Law
Natalie Nanasi Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and Associate Professor of Law	Clinical Legal Education Humanitarian Immigration Law Domestic Violence Law Gender and the Law Second Amendment
Jason P. Nance Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law	Education Policy and Law Empirical Legal Studies Legal Profession
Anna Offit Associate Professor of Law	Criminal Law Legal Ethics Evidence Juries Discrimination Trial Strategy Empirical Legal Research
Cara Foos Pierce Director of the Master of Legal Studies Program and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law	Criminal Law Federal Litigation Civil Rights Trial Advocacy
Carla L. Reyes Associate Professor of Law	Commercial Law Corporate Law Law and Technology as it relates to Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence
C. Paul Rogers III Marilyn Jeanne Johnson Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law and Former Dean	Antitrust Law Contract Law
Julia (Julie) Patterson Forrester Rogers Provost Faculty Research Fellow and Professor of Law	Real Estate Law Property Law
Eric Ruben Associate Professor of Law	Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Legal Ethics Second Amendment Weapons Law
Meghan J. Ryan Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation, James Cleo Thompson, Sr. Trustee Professor of Law, Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow, and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor	Law and Science Torts Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Actual Innocence Death Penalty Implicit Bias
Christina M. Sautter Professor of Law	Corporate Governance Mergers and Acquisitions Transactional Law
Shani Shisha Assistant Professor of Law	Copyright Intellectual Property
Mary Spector Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, Director of the Civil/Consumer Clinic and Professor of Law	Consumer Credit Consumer Debt Collection Credit Reporting Deceptive Trade Practices Tenants Rights Access to Justice Clinical Teaching
Jennifer Rangel Stagen Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research	Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Marc I. Steinberg Rupert and Lillian Radford Chair in Law and Professor of Law	Business Enterprise Law Securities Law Legal Ethics
Heather L. Stobaugh Co-Director of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research, and Clinical Professor of Law	Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Diane M. Sumoski Director of the W. W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic, Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Institute for Children's Rights and Clinical Professor of Law	Child Welfare Law Investigations Trial Advocacy Civil Litigation
Joshua C. Tate Professor of Law	Legal History Trusts and Estates Property Law
David O. Taylor Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation and Professor of Law	Patent Law Patent Litigation Federal Civil Procedure Appellate Practice and Advocacy Contract Law
Elizabeth Lee Thompson Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research	Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Andrea Tosato Professor of Law	Commercial Law Technology
Jenia Iontcheva Turner Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professor in Criminal Law and Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow	Criminal Procedure Comparative Criminal Procedure International Criminal Law International Law
Cassie Walker Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Director of Advocacy Programs and Assistant Director for Scholarly Initiatives	Legal Research
Kandace D. Walter Director and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Small Business and Trademark Clinic	Intellectual Property
Jessica Dixon Weaver Associate Dean for Research, Vinson & Elkins Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law	Child Welfare Law Children's Rights Family Law Legal Ethics Feminist Legal Issues
Donna Wolff Clinical Professor of Legal Research and Associate Director of Underwood Library
Leo Yu Associate Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing, and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy Civil Rights Asian American Jurisprudence