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Assistant Professor of Law
(313) 577-3986
Room 3249
Professor Sarah Abramowicz joined the faculty in Fall 2007 as an assistant professor of law. Her scholarship focuses on the history of child custody law and of legal adoption, and...

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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3540
Room 3207
Professor Bartell joined the faculty in 1996 after 17 years of private practice in New York. After graduating from Harvard Law School, where she was an officer on the Harvard...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3941
Room 3379
Professor Linda M. Beale received a B.S. degree in chemistry magna cum laude from Duke University, an M.A .and Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell, where she was a Herbert Lehman...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3214
Room 3339
Professor Erica Beecher-Monas taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law from 1996 until 2005. Her areas of expertise include corporations and evidence. She has been...
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Interim Dean
(313) 577-3933
Room 3223
Jocelyn Benson was named interim dean of the Law School in December 2012.Dean Benson has been a key member of the Law faculty since 2005, and is the associate director...
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Professor of Law
An elected member of the American Law Institute, Brower has taught and written about human rights, international business transactions, international commercial arbitration, the law of armed conflict and public international...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-0476
Room 3229
Prior to joining Wayne State's faculty in 1989, Professor Browne was a partner in the San Francisco-based law firm of Morrison & Foerster, where he specialized in labor and employment...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3928 Home: (734) 663-1240
Room 3401
 Professor Burnham’s international specialties are Comparative Law and Russian Law. Comparative Law is part of his regular teaching load at Wayne State and he has taught the Russian Law course...
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Director of Legal Research and Writing
(313) 577-8033
Room 3335
Professor Anne M. Burr serves as the academic director of Legal Research and Writing at Wayne Law and was recently a visiting assistant professor at Peking University’s School of Transnational...

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Professor of Law
(313) 577-2257
Room 3201
Professor Calkins is currently on leave from the Law School, serving as a Member of the Competition Authority of Ireland and Director of its Mergers Division.  For 2008-2011 Calkins served...
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Associate Professor of Law
(313) 577-3952
Room 3255
Professor Cancelosi teaches elder law and employee benefits, as well as trusts and decedents’ estates.  Her research focuses on elder law and retiree benefits, with particular attention to the interaction...
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Assistant Professor of Law
(313) 577-1201
Carlson most recently served as a staff attorney at the Indian Law Resource Center in Helena, Mont., with a practice focusing on international and national...

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Legal Writing Instructor
(313) 577-4048
Room 3372
Professor Day serves as a legal writing instructor. She also has held positions such as president of Lawquest Inc., vice president of LRU Inc., and clerkships at the Illinois Appellate...
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Associate Professor of Law
(313) 577-9450
Room 3253
Professor Dillof currently teaches Torts, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure. In the past, he has taught Civil Rights and Jurisprudence. These classes complement his scholarly interest in exploring the forms...
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Distinguished Professor of Law
(313) 577-4856
Room 3217
As a student, Professor Dolan was a core board editor of the University of Illinois Law Review and a member of his school’s national moot court team. While he was...
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Associate Professor of Law
(313) 577-3929
Room 3107
Among the themes explored in Professor Dubinsky’s recent work is the extent to which domestic legal systems increasingly are under strain as they are pressed to adjudicate a range of...

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Associate Professor of Law
(313) 577-3962
Room 3237
Elected to the Order of the Coif following her graduation from law school, Professor Findlater clerked for Michigan Supreme Court Justice Charles Levin. She joined the Wayne State faculty in...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-0110
Room 3377
Greg Fox specializes in international law. He joined Wayne State Law School in 2002 and is now a Professor of Law. Prior to joining the Wayne faculty, Professor Fox was...

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Associate Professor of Law
(313) 577-9774
Room 3269
Lance Gable, J.D., M.P.H., teaches Public Health Law, Bioethics and the Law, Torts, and other health law subjects at the Wayne State University Law School. Professor Gable is also...
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Legal Writing Instructor
(313) 577-1773
Room 3338
Aimée Mangan Godfrey serves as a legal writing instructor. Professor Godfrey was the faculty services librarian at the University of Michigan Law Library from 2001 to 2006. As part of...

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Associate Professor of Law
(313) 577-9771
Room 3231
Professor Hall’s teaching and expertise is in environmental and water law, and his research focuses on issues of environmental governance, federalism, and transboundary pollution and resource management. Before joining the Wayne...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-0830
Room 3225
A Professor at Wayne State University Law School since 2003, Professor Hammer specializes in Health Law & Policy, examining the industry from an institutional economic perspective.  He is a recipient...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3906
Room 3219
Professor Henning joined the Faculty in 1994 as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Professor of Law in 2002. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center...
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Assistant Professor of Law
(313) 577-3961
Room 3259
Assistant Professor Brandon Hofmeister teaches Energy Law, Civil Procedure and The Regulatory State. He most recently served as special counsel for energy and climate policy in the office of Governor...

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Distinguished Jurist in Residence
(313) 577-3971
Justice Marilyn Kelly, who served for 16 years on the state’s top court, joined the faculty of Wayne State University Law School in 2013 as its first “distinguished jurist in...

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Assistant Professor of Law
(313) 355-4575
Room 3401
Assistant Professor Justin R. Long studies state constitutionalism, public education law, urban law, and federalism. He is the associate director for education law and policy of the...
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Associate Professor
(313) 577-4046
Room 3263
Christopher C. Lund is an associate professor of law at Wayne State University Law School, where he teaches a variety of courses, including Constitutional Law, Religious Liberty in...

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Legal Writing Instructor
(313) 577-3947
Room 3267
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3944
Room 3235
Professor McIntyre has taught various tax courses at Wayne State University since 1975. He has written widely on a variety of tax topics, including the taxation of the family, the...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3955
Room 3399
Following graduation with distinction from The University of Michigan Law School in 1964, where he served on the law review and was elected a member of the Order of the...
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Associate Professor
(313) 577-1147
Room 3101
Associate Professor Adele Morrison teaches courses in Criminal Law, Family Law and Child, Family and State. She most recently served as visiting professor of law and acting director of the...
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Director of Clinical Education and Assistant (Clinical) Professor
(313) 577-3970
Room 3384
David Moss is Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Professor (Clinical) at the Law School.  David received his B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College in 1982, and his J.D. from...

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Legal Writing Instructor
(313) 577-8036
Room 3385
Amy Neville has been an instructor of Legal Writing at Wayne State University Law School since 1999.  She currently serves as the primary author of the Defender Trial Book and...

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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3940
Room 3211
Professor Qin teaches international business transactions, international finance, international trade law and Chinese law. She received her LL.B. from Peking University, and LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School....

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Professor of Law
Room 3371 (Law), 2055 FAB (Political Science)
Professor Roth holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science. He specializes in international law, comparative public law, and political and legal theory. His courses include International Law,...
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Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Law
(313) 577-3973
Room 3313
Dean Rothchild has been a member of the Wayne Law faculty since 2001. He is a co-author of “Internet Commerce,” a law school casebook published by Foundation Press, which has...

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Distinguished Professor of Law
(313) 577-3946
Room 3361
Professor Schenk has devoted his academic career to tax law; in particular, he is regarded as an expert on value added taxation (VAT). He is a member of the Michigan...
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Distinguished Professor of Law
(313) 577-3968
Room 3213
Professor Sedler has been at Wayne State University Law School since 1977. Prior to coming to Wayne Law, he was professor of law at the University of Kentucky. He has...
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Assistant Professor
(313) 577-1897
Assistant Professor Rachel Settlage directs the Wayne Law Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic, and teaches Immigration and Nationality Law.  She most recently served as a clinical fellow with the University...

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Legal Writing Instructor
(313) 577-8035
Room 3369
Kristin C. Theut is a lecturer at Wayne State University Law School and a member of its legal writing program. Prior to joining Wayne State's faculty in 1999, Kristin Theut...

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Professor of Law
(313) 577-3942
Room 3105
Professor Weinberg has been a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg; a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Journalism...
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Associate Professor of Law
(313) 577-3969
Room 3247
Prior to law school, Professor Wellman spent two years at the University of Michigan pursuing graduate studies in philosophy. At Yale, he was a director of the Yale...
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Professor of Law
(313) 577-1054
Room 3205
Professor White received a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1988, a J.D. degree from the University of Washington in 1991, and a LL.M....
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Assistant (Clinical) Professor
(313) 577-8859
Eric C. Williams directs the Program for Entrepreneurial and Businss Law. He previously worked in New York in private practice, as a legal consultant at Labaton Sucharow LLP, as a...
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Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law
(313) 577-1053
Room 3329
Steven L. Winter joined the Wayne State University Law School in 2002 as the Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law. Before coming to Wayne State, he was a member...

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Assistant Professor of Law
(313) 577-0508
Room 3261
Eric A. Zacks is an assistant professor of law at Wayne State University Law School. His recent scholarship focuses on the relevance of behavioral sciences to contract formation, breach, and...