Faculty
Leading Scholars in Every Area of Legal Study
Dedicated to Teaching The Penn Law faculty is recognized for its outstanding scholarship, excellent teaching, and accessibility to students. They are actively engaged in written scholarship and participate in legal symposia and conferences worldwide. Print and broadcast media constantly seek their counsel, expertise, and insight on the issues of the day. Our full-time faculty is dedicated to teaching, a fact that is underscored in our practice of having only tenured and tenure-track professors teach first-year students (these professors are indicated by an asterisk in the faculty listing that follows). In the Penn Law environment, the relationship between teacher and student deepens both inside and outside the classroom where students get to know faculty members beyond the more formal academic setting. Faculty are approachable and establish a tone of collegiality that continues throughout each student’s education. Students also have the opportunity to engage faculty members about their research at regularly scheduled brown bag lunches. The presenting faculty members post their papers in advance and welcome students’ comments and critiques at their talks. Students learn not only about substantive topics but also about the process of scholarly research. The courses we offer are enriched by our adjunct faculty, drawn from top government officials, members of the judiciary, practicing attorneys, and business leaders – all luminaries in their respective fields. Our prime location in Philadelphia, an easy commute from New York City and Washington, D.C., brings adjuncts from throughout the Northeast Corridor to supplement our core curriculum and to participate in a variety of special lectures and symposia. The vitality of our entire faculty, coupled with its accessibility and dedication to students, has created a distinctive intellectual climate at Penn Law. Asra Syed L’10 Austin, TX BA 2004 University of Texas; MA 2005
“It’s a Penn Law tradition for faculty to join first year students for coffee or lunch. This spring, a group of classmates and I met with our criminal law professor, Professor Paul Robinson, at an eatery with which all Penn Law students are familiar, the New Deck Tavern. Professor Robinson is a well-respected and renowned scholar of criminal law, and has taught the subject for years, so I think we all were a bit surprised to spend the lunch hour answering his very sincerely posed questions about our opinions of his class. Was the course load manageable? Did the daily class assignments improve our understanding of statutory analysis? How could he facilitate better class discussion? He welcomed our frank responses, and even took notes on a paper napkin! Professor Robinson made obvious that day a deep commitment to teaching shared among Penn Law’s brilliant faculty.”
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Faculty Connection Penn Law is distinctive for the social and intellectual environment in which faculty and students work together. Our faculty have a deep commitment to their teaching and an understanding that connecting with students creates a dynamic pedagogical setting. This belief, combined with our small size and the accessible layout of the Law School buildings around a Courtyard, permits faculty and students to interact meaningfully among themselves and with each other. Student contact with faculty does not stop at the classroom door. Teachers and students continue their exploration of the topics after class and in office-hour discussions. Students and faculty also work together on research projects, articles, and scholarship. Penn Law boasts many fine traditions of engagement: students in the first year class combine in small groups to treat their 1L faculty members to lunch, 1L students are invited to a small breakfast with the dean and a prominent alum, 1L sections meet together for a meal with their faculty members, and students and faculty raise money together for students working in public interest jobs via the Equal Justice Foundation Auction. And, in this year’s annual Celebrity Law Chef Cook-Off, Professor Anne Kringel and 2006 Champion Professor Eric Feldman took on Professor Jacques deLisle and 2007 Champion Professor David Lipson (a previous visiting faculty member) in preparing a three course meal with the secret ingredient, coconut. Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff served as the MC. In the Faculty Workshop Series, members of the faculty present their academic work to students over lunch, welcoming their critiques of new and emerging scholarship. Recent workshop presentations included the following: Professor Stephen Morse “Neurodeterminism and the Death of Folk Psychology: Two Challenges to Responsibility from Neuroscience” Professor Stephen Burbank “The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 in Historical Perspective: A Preliminary View of the Statute’s Legal Significance” Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff “Expressive Association and the Ideal of the University in the Solomon Amendment Litigation” Gideon Parchomovsky “The Hidden Cost of Tort Law” Professor Amy Wax “Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure” This collaboration between faculty and students enriches and defines the intellectual community at Penn Law.
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“In my first semester at Penn, I had lunch with each of my professors, my Legal Writing faculty advisor took our class to happy hour at New Deck, and a professor invited our whole section to a picnic at his house.”
—Charles Collins-Chase, L’08. Hometown: Sykesville, MD B.S. 2004 University of Delaware; M.Phil. 2005 University of Cambridge. Current Position: Associate, Finnegan Henderson, Washington, D.C.
Faculty
Penn Law Faculty Members * These professors will teach 1L students in 2008-09 or have taught 1Ls during the past three years. *Matthew Adler Leon Meltzer Professor of Law BA 1984 Yale; MLitt (modern history) 1987 Oxford; JD 1991 Yale. Expertise: administrative law and constitutional law. David S. Abrams Assistant Professor of Law Secondary appointment: Business and Public Policy, Wharton AB 1998 Harvard; MS (physics) 2001 Stanford; PhD (economics) 2006 M.I.T. Expertise: criminal law, law and economics, virtual economies. *Anita L. Allen Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy Secondary appointments: Department of Philosophy, Africana Studies Department, Senior Fellow, Bioethics; Women’s Studies Department BA 1974 New College; MA 1976 and PhD (philosophy) 1978 University of Michigan; JD 1984 Harvard. Expertise: U.S. privacy law, everyday and professional ethics, jurisprudence, and torts. *Regina Austin William A. Schnader Professor of Law Director, Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law BA 1970 University of Rochester; JD 1973 University of Pennsylvania. Expertise: torts, insurance, race relations, minority feminism, law and cultural studies, and law-related documentary film studies. *Aditi Bagchi Assistant Professor of Law AB 1999 Harvard; MSc (economic and social history) 2000 Oxford; JD 2003 Yale. Expertise: contracts, labor law, comparative law.
C. Edwin Baker Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law Secondary appointment: Annenberg School for Communication BA 1969 Stanford; JD 1972 Yale. Expertise: constitutional law, communications law, and free speech. *Tom Baker Professor of Law BA 1982 Harvard; JD 1986 Harvard. Expertise: torts; insurance law and policy; medical malpractice law and policy; sociolegal research. Stephanos Bibas Professor of Law BA 1989 Columbia; BA 1991 Oxford; JD 1994 Yale; MA (jurisprudence) 1998 Oxford. Expertise: law and criminal justice, law and social sciences, legal process and dispute resolution. *Stephen B. Burbank David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice AB 1968 Harvard; JD 1973 Harvard. Expertise: civil procedure, complex litigation, and judicial administration. *William Burke-White Assistant Professor of Law AB 1998 Harvard; MPhil 1999 (international relations) Cambridge; JD 2002 Harvard; PhD (international relations) 2006 Cambridge. Expertise: international law and human rights. Howard F. Chang Earle Hepburn Professor of Law AB 1982 Harvard; MPA (economics & public policy) 1985 Princeton; JD 1987 Harvard; SM 1988 M.I.T.; PhD (economics) 1992 M.I.T. Expertise: immigration, international trade, environmental policy, law and economics, and intellectual property. Rebecca Clayton Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer BA 1994 Yale; JD 1997 Harvard. Expertise: corporate and financial law, corporate governance, and emerging businesses.
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“At Penn Law, professors do more than teach; they mentor. Penn's combination of a small class size with a wealth of brilliant and truly invested professors provides an academic and supportive environment for starting a career in law.”
—Vlad Vainberg, L’10. Hometown: Robbinsville, NJ B.A. Yale University 2006.
*Cary Coglianese Associate Dean and Edward B. Shils Professor of Law Secondary appointments: Department of Political Science; Fels Institute of Government; Fellow, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, Wharton AB 1985 The College of Idaho; JD and MPP (public policy) 1991 University of Michigan; PhD (political science) 1994 University of Michigan. Expertise: administrative law, regulatory policy, environmental law. Ronald J. Daniels Provost and Professor of Law BA 1982 University of Toronto; JD 1986 University of Toronto; LLM 1988 Yale. Expertise: corporate and securities law, law and development, regulation and government reform. *Jacques deLisle Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law Secondary appointment: Center for East Asian Studies AB 1982 Princeton; JD 1990 Harvard. Expertise: Chinese law, comparative law, international law, and torts. William B. Ewald Professor of Law and Philosophy Secondary appointment: Department of Philosophy BA 1976 Harvard; AM (mathematics) 1976 Harvard; D.Phil. (philosophy & mathematics) 1978 Oxford; JD 1981 Harvard. Expertise: comparative law, philosophy of law, legal history, and international law. *Eric A. Feldman Professor of Law Secondary appointments: Center for East Asian Studies; Center for Public Health Initiatives: Senior Fellow, Bioethics BA 1982 Vassar; JD 1989 University of California, Berkeley; PhD (jurisprudence & social policy) 1994 University of California, Berkeley. Expertise: Japanese law, public health law, law and society, comparative law, torts. *Claire Oakes Finkelstein Professor of Law and Philosophy Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy Secondary appointment: Department of Philosophy BA 1986 Harvard; Maîtrise 1987 University of Paris, Sorbonne; JD 1993 Yale; PhD (philosophy) 1996 University of Pittsburgh. Expertise: criminal law, legal philosophy, moral and political philosophy.
Jill Fisch Professor of Law Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics BA 1982 Cornell; JD 1985 Yale. Expertise: corporate law, securities regulation and litigation, federal courts. Michael A. Fitts Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law Secondary appointment: School of Arts & Sciences; faculty associate, Penn Institute for Urban Research AB 1975 Harvard; JD 1979 Yale. Expertise: administrative law, legislative process, election law, and separation of powers. Douglas N. Frenkel Practice Professor of Law BS 1968 University of Pennsylvania; JD 1972 University of Pennsylvania. Expertise: alternative dispute resolution, professional responsibility, and clinical education. Paul George Director of the Biddle Law Library and Adjunct Professor AB 1974 University of Illinois; JD 1977 Duke; MS (library science) 1985 University of Illinois. Expertise: legal research. Frank I. Goodman Professor of Law AB 1954 Harvard; BA 1956 Oxford; LLB 1959 Harvard. Expertise: constitutional law, federal courts, and jurisprudence. *Sarah Barringer Gordon Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History Secondary appointment: Department of History BA 1982 Vassar; JD 1986 Yale; MAR (arts & religion) 1987 Yale; PhD (history) 1995 Princeton. Expertise: religion and the law, legal history, and property. Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. Trustee Professor of Law BA 1953 Swarthmore; LLB 1954 Columbia. Expertise: legal ethics, professional responsibility, civil procedure, and federal jurisdiction.
*Jason Scott Johnston Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law Director, Program on Law, the Environment and the Economy Secondary Appointment: Institute for Environmental Studies AB 1978 Dartmouth; JD 1981 University of Michigan; PhD (economics) 1984 University of Michigan. Expertise: law and economics, contracts, natural resource law, and environmental law. *Leo Katz Frank Carano Professor of Law BA 1979 University of Chicago; MA (economics) 1982 University of Chicago; JD 1982 University of Chicago. Expertise: criminal law, corporations, and jurisprudence. *Jonathan Klick Professor of Law BS 1997 Villanova University; MA 1999 University of Maryland; PhD (economics) 2001 George Mason; JD 2003 George Mason. Expertise: empirical legal studies, public health, empirical finance, insurance, class actions, law and economics. Michael Knoll Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law and Professor of Real Estate Secondary appointment: Department of Real Estate, Wharton AB 1977 University of Chicago; AM 1980 University of Chicago; PhD (economics) 1983 University of Chicago; JD 1984 University of Chicago. Expertise: taxation and corporate finance. Praveen Kosuri Practice Professor of Law AB 1991 Duke; JD 1994 Washington University; MBA 2001 University of Chicago. Expertise: economic development and entrepreneurship. *Seth F. Kreimer Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor of Law BA 1974 Yale; JD 1977 Yale. Expertise: constitutional law, civil rights, and constitutional litigation. *Anne E. Kringel Senior Lecturer and Legal Writing Director BA 1986 Yale; JD 1991 Yale. Expertise: legal research and writing. Friedrich K. Kübler Professor of Law Dr.iur 1961 University of Tubingen; Habil. 1966 University of Tubingen. Expertise: comparative law, corporate law, regulation of transnational financial markets, European Union law, and mass media law. Alan M. Lerner Practice Professor of Law Co-director, Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, and Research BS 1962 University of Pennsylvania; JD 1965 University of Pennsylvania. Expertise: litigation, child dependency law and practice, employment law, civil rights, and professional responsibility.
*Howard Lesnick Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Secondary appointment: School of Arts & Sciences AB 1952 New York University; AM (history) 1953 Columbia; LLB 1958 Columbia. Expertise: law and inequality; religion, law, and lawyering; and professional responsibility. *Kristin Madison Professor of Law Secondary appointment: Senior Fellow, Leonard David Institute of Health Economics BA 1992 University of California, Berkeley; JD 2000 Yale; PhD (economics) 2001 Stanford. Expertise: health care law Serena Mayeri Assistant Professor of Law BA 1997 Harvard; JD 2001 Yale; PhD (history) 2006 Yale. Expertise: legal history, anti-discrimination law, family law. Charles W. Mooney, Jr. Associate Dean and Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law BA 1969 University of Oklahoma; JD 1972 Harvard. Expertise: commercial law, debtor/creditor law, and bankruptcy. *Stephen J. Morse Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law; Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry Secondary appointments: Department of Psychiatry; Department of Criminology; faculty associate, Penn Institute for Urban Research AB 1966 Tufts; EdM 1970 Harvard; JD 1970 Harvard; PhD (psychology & social relations) 1973 Harvard. Expertise: criminal law and mental health law. Sarah Paoletti Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer BA 1992 Yale; JD 1998 American University. Expertise: international human rights, immigrant rights, asylum law, labor and employment law. *Gideon Parchomovsky Professor of Law LLB 1993 Hebrew University of Jerusalem; LLM 1995 University of California, Berkeley; JSD 1998 Yale. Expertise: intellectual property, property law, and information law. *Stephen Perry John J. O’Brien Professor of Law; Secondary appointment: Department of Philosophy BA 1975 University of Toronto; B. Phil. 1978 University of Oxford; LLB 1981 University of Toronto; D. Phil. 1988 University of Oxford. Expertise: Torts and Legal Philosophy. *Wendell Pritchett Professor of Law Secondary appointments: School of Design; Department of History; faculty associate, Penn Institute for Urban Research BA 1986 Brown; JD 1991 Yale; PhD (history) 1997 University of Pennsylvania Expertise: legal history, property, and urban development. *Paul Robinson Colin S. Diver Professor of Law Secondary appointment: Department of Criminology BS 1970 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; JD 1973 University of California, Los Angeles; LLM 1974 Harvard; Diploma in Legal Studies 1976 Cambridge University. Expertise: criminal law, criminal law theory, sentencing, and criminal code reform.
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Edward B. Rock Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics Secondary appointment: Business and Public Policy, Wharton BS 1977 Yale; BA 1980 University of Oxford; JD 1983 University of Pennsylvania. Expertise: antitrust, corporations, and securities regulation. *Kermit Roosevelt Professor of Law AB 1993 Harvard; JD 1997 Yale. Expertise: constitutional law, conflict of laws, and federal jurisdiction. *David Rudovsky Senior Fellow BA 1964 Queens College; LLB 1967 New York University. Expertise: criminal procedure, evidence, public interest, and civil rights law. *Theodore Ruger Professor of Law AB 1990 Williams College; JD 1995 Harvard. Expertise: constitutional law, health law, legislation, food and drug law. Louis S. Rulli Practice Professor of Law and Clinical Director BA 1971 Rutgers; JD 1974 Rutgers. Expertise: public interest, civil rights, legislation, and clinical education. Chris W. Sanchirico Professor of Law, Business & Public Policy Secondary appointment: Business and Public Policy Department, Wharton AB 1984 Princeton; JD 1994 Yale; PhD (economics) 1994 Yale. Expertise: evidentiary procedure, tax policy, and law and economics. Reed Shuldiner Alvin Snowiss Professor of Law BSE 1977 Princeton; JD 1983 Harvard; PhD (economics) 1985 M.I.T. Expertise: tax policy and income taxation. *Jessica Simon Lecturer in Law and Assistant Director, Legal Writing Program BA 1995 University of Pennsylvania; JD 1999 George Washington. Expertise: legal research and writing, employment discrimination, and employment law. David A. Skeel, Jr. S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law BA 1983 North Carolina; JD 1987 University of Virginia. Expertise: corporate law and bankruptcy. *Catherine T. Struve Professor of Law AB 1992 Harvard; JD 1995 Harvard. Expertise: civil procedure and federal courts. Yolanda Vazquez Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer BA 1988 Wisconsin; JD 1994 Chicago-Kent Expertise: immigration law, criminal law Michael L. Wachter William B. Johnson Professor of Law and Economics; Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics Secondary appointment: Department of Economics BS 1964 Cornell; MA 1967 Harvard; PhD (economics) 1970 Harvard. Expertise: corporations, corporate finance, and labor law and economics. *R. Polk Wagner Professor of Law BS 1993 College of Charleston; BSE 1993 University of Michigan; JD 1998 Stanford. Expertise: intellectual property, electronic commerce and constitutional law.
*Amy Wax Robert Mundheim Professor of Law Secondary appointment: faculty associate, Penn Institute for Urban Research BS 1975 Yale; MD 1981 Harvard; JD 1987 Columbia. Expertise: civil procedure, social welfare law, and law and economics of work and family. *Tobias Barrington Wolff Professor of Law AB 1992 Yale; JD 1997 Yale. Expertise: civil procedure and complex litigation; conflict of laws; constitutional law; sexuality and the law. Christopher S. Yoo Professor of Law Secondary appointment: Annenberg School for Communication AB 1986 Harvard; MBA 1991 UCLA; JD 1995 Northwestern. Expertise: telecommunications and media law, intellectual property, presidential power. University Faculty Members Samuel Freeman Steven F. Goldstone Term Professor of Philosophy and Law (Arts & Sciences) AB 1973 University of North Carolina; JD 1977 University of North Carolina; PhD (philosophy) 1985 Harvard. Georgette Chapman Phillips David B. Ford Professor of Real Estate; Professor of Legal Studies and Law; Vice Dean & Director of Wharton Undergraduate Division AB 1981 Bryn Mawr; JD 1985 Harvard. James F. Ross Professor of Philosophy and Law (Arts & Sciences) AB 1953 Catholic University; A.M. 1954 Catholic University; PhD (philosophy) 1958 Brown; JD 1974 University of Pennsylvania. William C. Tyson Associate Professor of Legal Studies, Management (Wharton) and Law AB 1967 Princeton; JD 1970 Harvard. Visiting Faculty Richard Ross Visiting Professor of Law and History (from University of Illinois) BA 1984 Yale; PhD (history) 1998; JD 1989 Yale. Christopher Serkin Visiting Associate Professor of Law (from Brooklyn Law School) BA 1993 Yale; JD 1999 Michigan. Ilya Somin Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (from George Mason) BA 1995 Amherst; MA (political science) 1997 Harvard; JD 2001 Yale. Suzanne Last Stone Visiting Professor of Law (from Yeshiva) BA 1974 Princeton; JD 1978 Columbia. National Constitution Center Each year a distinguished panel selects two constitutional law scholars as Visiting Scholars who engage in activities that enrich both Penn Law and the NCC. Theodore M. Shaw and Martha S. Jones have been selected as the National Constitution Center’s 2008 Visiting Scholars and will, as part of their appointment, periodically take part in the Center’s new Legacy of 1808 program series, a year long dialogue with various scholars and experts on the history of the slave trade and its contemporary relevance.