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FACULTY
EXCELLENCE
Newest faculty bring impressive accomplishments to law college
Since 1999, MSU-DCL has attracted a new dean and 18 of the nation’s most qualified academics to teach and conduct scholarship. These new faculty members have joined the ranks of the college’s already impressive roster of law professors, bringing the full-time faculty list to 37 members.
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Terence L. Blackburn
Dean and Professor of Law
BA with high honors, 1970, Duquesne University
JD, 1973, Columbia University School of Law
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Prior to his appointment as dean of MSU-DCL, Dean Blackburn served as the acting and founding dean of the Seton Hall University School of Diplomacy and International Relations and was a professor of law at Seton Hall’s School of Law.
Dean Blackburn has been a Fulbright Professor at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, an adjunct professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, and an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. He has taught courses in business associations, corporate finance, business planning, securities regulation, international business transactions, and business transactions in the European Union.
Prior to his academic career, Dean Blackburn was a principal, vice president and general counsel for an investment firm in the U.S. and was an associate at two New York law firms. Dean Blackburn also clerked for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is admitted to the bar in New Jersey, Ohio and New York.
He has written numerous publications and presented papers on U.S. and Chinese securities law, corporate laws in Europe, and the banning of nuclear testing. While at Columbia, Dean Blackburn was an editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. Dean Blackburn teaches in the areas of corporate and international trade law.
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Daniel D. Barnhizer
Assistant Professor of Law
BA summa cum laude, 1991, Miami University
JD cum laude, 1995, Harvard Law School
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Professor Barnhizer graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he served as managing editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. After graduation, he was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Richard L. Nygaard at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for the Honorable Robert B. Krupansky at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, sitting by designation on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Professor Barnhizer has practiced as a litigator with the law firms of Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Before joining the MSU-DCL faculty, he was an adjunct professor of law at American University-Washington College of Law, where he taught legal reasoning, research and writing. At MSU-DCL he teaches contracts, land use and planning, and business enterprises.
Forthcoming Publications:
The CISG as an Alternative System of Default Rules Governing the Sale of Goods, Contracts: Cases and Doctrine, Third Edition (Randy E. Barnett) (forthcoming 2003) (essay).
Givings Recapture: Funding Public Acquisition of Private Property Interests on the Coasts.
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Debra Lyn Bassett
Associate Professor of Law
BA, 1977, University of Vermont
MS, 1982, San Diego State University
JD, 1987, University of California, Davis, School of Law
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Following graduation from the University of California, Davis, Professor Bassett clerked for Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced law with Morrison & Foerster, the third-largest law firm in the nation. She then clerked for the California Court of Appeals, Third Appellate District. She is admitted to both the California and District of Columbia bars. Her teaching experience includes serving as a lecturer in law at her alma mater, where she was the recipient of the 2002 UC Davis William and Sally Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2002 UC Davis Outstanding Service Award. Professor Bassett was a visiting professor at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento as well. She teaches civil procedure, complex civil litigation, and professional responsibility.
Forthcoming Publications:
Problems in Legal Ethics, Sixth Edition, West Group (with Schwartz et al.).
California Legal Ethics, Fourth Edition, West Group (with Wydick et al.).
Ruralism, 88 Iowa Law Review (forthcoming 2003).
Recent Publications:
Judicial Disqualification in the Federal Appellate Courts, 87 Iowa Law Review 1213-1256 (2002).
Pre-Certification Communication Ethics in Class Actions, 36 Georgia Law Review 353-410 (2002) (lead article).
“I Lost at Trial—In the Court of Appeals!” The Expanding Power of the Federal Appellate Courts to Reexamine Facts, 38 Houston Law Review 1129-1194 (2001) (lead article).
Three’s a Crowd: A Proposal to Abolish Joint Representation, 32 Rutgers Law Journal 387-458 (2001) (lead article).
In the Wake of Schooner Peggy: Deconstructing Legislative Retroactivity Analysis, 69 University of Cincinnati Law Review 453-533 (2001).
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Craig R. Callen
Professor of Law
BA, 1971, University of Iowa
JD, 1974, Harvard Law School
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Prior to his appointment at MSU-DCL, Professor Callen held the J. Will Young Professorship at Mississippi College School of Law, where he had taught since 1983, with visiting professorships at the University of Colorado, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. His main research interest is evidence, and he served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools, Evidence Section, as well as on the ABA Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure and Evidence, Criminal Justice Section. Professor Callen earlier served as an assistant professor at Oklahoma City University School of Law (1980-83) and as a writing instructor and visiting assistant professor at the University of Miami School of Law (1978-80). Before he started teaching, Professor Callen practiced law with firms in Chicago and Milwaukee. He teaches civil procedure and evidence and is organizing a conference of evidence scholars on “Visions of Rationality in Evidence Law,” to take place in early 2003 at MSU-DCL.
Work in Progress:
The New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence, to be published by Aspen Law & Business (volume on judicial role in enforcement of evidence rules).
Forthcoming Publications:
Teaching Bloody Instructions: Civil Presumptions and the Lessons of Isomorphism, Quinnipiac Law Review (forthcoming 2003) (with Ronald J. Allen).
The Juridical Management of Uncertainty, International Journal of Evidence & Proof (forthcoming 2003) (with Ronald J. Allen).
Recent Publications:
Informational Indigestion and Rationality, 41 Jurimetrics Journal 513 (2001) (book review).
Othello Could Not Optimize: On Economic Analysis of Hearsay in Less Adversary Systems, 22 Cardozo Law Review 1791 (2001), republished in Dynamics of Judicial Proof: Computation, Logic and Common Sense 437 (Peter Tillers & Marilyn MacCrimmon eds.) (2002).
Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d) and Multiple Hearsay (Instructional computer program for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) (co-author) (1999).
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Julian Abele Cook III
Associate Professor of Law
BA, 1983, Duke University
MPA, 1985, Columbia University
JD, 1988, University of Virginia Law School
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Professor Cook began his professional career as a law clerk for the Honorable Philip M. Pro, U.S. District Court judge for the District of Nevada. He followed that assignment with stints as an assistant U. S. attorney in the District of Nevada and in the District of Columbia. In 1997, he joined the faculty at Texas Southern University, accepting a position as an assistant professor in the Thurgood Marshall School of Law with teaching responsibility for courses in criminal law and criminal procedure. He also held visiting positions at American University and Widener University. Professor Cook’s publications have focused on federal guilty pleas under Rule 11 and the Independent Counsel Statute. He teaches criminal law and criminal procedure.
Recent Publications:
Federal Guilty Pleas Under Rule 11; The Unfulfilled Promise of the Post-Boykin Era, 77 Notre Dame Law Review 597 (2002).
The Independent Counsel Statute: A Premature Demise, 1999 BYU Law Review 1367 (1999).
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Catherine T. Dwyer
Professor in Residence
BA, 1973, Barnard College, Columbia University
MBA, 1976, Columbia University
JD, 1976, Boston University School of Law
LLM, 2000, Pallas Consortium, consisting of various European universities
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Professor Dwyer holds a joint appointment at MSU-DCL and MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business. Early in her career, she joined Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander of New York City in the litigation and corporate departments. She went on to become corporate counsel at Automatic Data Processing in New Jersey and New York and at Genigraphics Corporation in Connecticut. Professor Dwyer was also a business professional in the field of mergers and acquisitions as vice president of development at Automatic Data Processing and as a principal at New Venture Consulting. She joined BISYS Group in New Jersey as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, handling litigation, commercial transactions, strategic planning, corporate governance, acquisitions, and securities administration.
Professor Dwyer assisted in developing an undergraduate school of management at Odessa State University in Ukraine. She was a visiting faculty member at Odessa State University Institute of International Economics and at the Foreign Affairs College and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. Most recently she was adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law and director of planning and special projects at the university’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. At MSU-DCL, Professor Dwyer teaches Securities Regulation, European Business Law, and Business Enterprises.
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Michele L. Halloran
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Tax Clinic
BA with honors, 1973, LeMoyne College
JD with honors, 1979, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
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Before coming to MSU-DCL, Professor Halloran was a partner at the law firm of Howard & Howard for nine years. She has served as an administrative law judge for the Michigan Tax Tribunal; a law clerk to the Honorable Mary S. Coleman, former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court; a pre-hearing attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals; and a law clerk for the State Board of Tax Appeals. As director of the MSU-DCL Tax Clinic, she is responsible for the general operations and management of the clinic, which serves low-income clients and taxpayers for whom English is a second language and provides MSU-DCL students with experience practicing tax law.
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Armando Irizarry
Visiting Professor of Law
BS cum laude, 1981, University of Puerto Rico
MS, 1984, University of Pennsylvania
JD, 1994, University of Michigan Law School
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Professor Irizarry, a visiting professor of law for the 2002-03 academic year, teaches copyright law, patent litigation and contracts. In 2001-02, he served as a visiting assistant professor at Florida State University College of Law, where he taught civil procedure, intellectual property, and cyber law. Following graduation from the University of Michigan Law School in 1994, Professor Irizarry practiced patent law as an associate attorney at Fish & Neave, one of New York’s leading intellectual property firms. While in law school, Professor Irizarry was an editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law. He also taught writing and advocacy. Professor Irizarry has a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, where he taught computer and engineering courses from 1981 to 1986, and an MS in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Irizarry was an executive in a major computer company from 1987 to 1991.
Recent Publication:
Harmonizing Prosecution History Estoppel and the Doctrine of Equivalents in Patent Infringement Actions, 4 Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (2002).
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Stacy A. Hickox
Visiting Professor of Law and Instructor of Research, Writing and Advocacy
BS, 1985, Cornell University
JD, 1988, University of Pennsylvania Law School
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In law school, Professor Hickox was the winner of the Fordham Human Rights Award and the Jones Humanity & Law Award. She served as an issue editor for the Comparative Labor Law Journal and as president of the Equal Justice Foundation. She has extensive public service experience, having served on the Executive Board of the National Lawyers’ Guild Food Stamp Clinic in Philadelphia, as a Weinberg Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, and as a legal consultant to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the United Mine Workers of America Health & Retirement Funds. Immediately prior to joining the MSU-DCL teaching staff, Professor Hickox worked on labor and civil liberties issues for the law firm of Hankins & Flanigan in Okemos, Michigan. She is admitted to practice in Michigan, Tennessee, Washington D.C., and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Her articles on labor law have appeared in the Comparative Labor Law Journal and the DePaul Law Review, and she has authored a book on the Americans with Disabilities Act. In addition to teaching RWA courses, Professor Hickox teaches employment law, disability law, property, and a civil rights seminar.
Forthcoming Publication:
Reduction of Damages for Employment Discrimination: Are Courts Ignoring Our Juries, Mercer Law Review (forthcoming 2002/2003).
Recent Publications:
The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Legal Analysis, George Mason University (2002).
Absenteeism under the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 50 DePaul Law Review (2000).
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Melanie B. Jacobs
Assistant Professor of Law
AB, 1991, Columbia University
JD, 1994, Boston University School of Law
LLM, 2002, Temple University
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Professor Jacobs came to MSU-DCL from Temple University School of Law, where she served as a Freedman Fellow and a lecturer in law. Her prior teaching experience includes two years as a clinical instructor for Harvard Law School’s Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center and an adjunct instructor at the Boston University School of Law. While in the Boston area, Professor Jacobs also engaged in private practice with the firm of Witmer, Karp, Warner & Thuotte and served as counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue Child Support Enforcement Division. During law school, she interned with the United States Attorney’s Office in Newark, New Jersey, and with the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General. Additionally, she was a co-founder and vice president of the student-run Battered Women’s Advocacy Project, an editor of the American Journal of Law and Medicine, and a student public defender through the school’s clinical programs. She is admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Professor Jacobs teaches family law; decedents, estates and trusts; and property.
Recent Publications:
Micah Has One Mommy and One Legal Stranger: Adjudicating Maternity for Nonbiological Lesbian Coparents, 50 Buffalo Law Review (2002).
Book Review of Timothy C. Shiell’s Campus Hate Speech on Trial, 8 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal (1999).
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Brian C. Kalt
Assistant Professor of Law
AB with highest distinction, 1994, University of Michigan
JD, 1997, Yale Law School
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Before coming to MSU-DCL, Professor Kalt worked at the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley and Austin in one of the top appellate law practices in the country. He earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he was an editor on the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Professor Kalt has published works on structural constitutional law, the 2000 Florida recount, judicial treatment of medical ethics, and the Office of the Solicitor General as well as a book on northern Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. His Texas Review of Law and Politics article, listed below, garnered considerable national media attention. Professor Kalt teaches constitutional law, torts, and administrative law.
Forthcoming Publication:
Count Every Vote? Some Thoughts on Al Gore in Florida and Optimal Recount Strategy, The Florida Presidential Recount Controversy and Election Reform in the United States, Cambridge University Press (Bernard Grofman and Henry Brady eds.) (forthcoming 2002) (book chapter).
Recent Publications:
Sixties Sandstorm: The Fight Over Establishment of a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan State University Press (2001).
The Constitutional Case for the Impeachability of Former Federal Officials: An Analysis of the Law, History, and Practice of Late Impeachment, 6 Texas Review of Law and Politics 13-135 (2001).
“American Perspective,” in MSU-DCL Tri-Panel on the Election Process: A Discussion of the 2000 Elections in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 10 Michigan State University-DCL Journal of International Law 109, 122-32, 137-40 (2001).
Death, Ethics, and the State, 23 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 487-550 (2000).
The People’s Forest and Levy’s Trees: Popular Sovereignty and the Origins of the Bill of Rights, 17 Constitutional Commentary 119-35 (2000) (book review).
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Nicholas Mercuro
Professor in Residence
BA, 1967, Pennsylvania State University
MBA, 1970, Seton Hall University
PhD, 1977, Michigan State University
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With a bachelor’s degree in economics, a master’s degree in business administration and a doctorate in resource development, Professor Mercuro brings a wealth of education and experience to his position at MSU-DCL. He has served on the economics and finance faculty at the University of New Orleans, where he also served as the associate dean of the Division of International Education.
He has extensive international experience as well. In 1987, the Chancellor of Austria named him to the Kreisky Commission on Employment Issues in Europe. He was a visiting professor at the Institute of Economic Theory at the University of Vienna, and he taught and engaged in research at the Free University of Berlin as a Fulbright scholar. Most recently, Professor Mercuro served as guest professor at Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l’Economie at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France.
In 1997, Professor Mercuro accepted a university-wide professorship at Michigan State University. He has taught throughout the university in addition to designing and coordinating the MSU Law & Economics Program in London. Professor Mercuro is a prolific and world-renowned author, having published five books, many journal articles, book chapters and book reviews in the field of law and economics. Professor Mercuro founded and edits an interdisciplinary annual journal, The International Review of Comparative Public Policy, and a book series, The Economics of Legal Relationships. He teaches the law and economics seminar at MSU-DCL.
Forthcoming Publications:
Economics and the Law: From Posner to Post-Modernism, Second Edition, Princeton University Press (forthcoming 2003) (with Steven G. Medema).
Towards a Comparative Institutional Approach to Law and Economics, (with Steven G. Medema).
Recent Publications:
Relevant Output Categories for a Comparative Institutional Approach to Law and Economics, in Economics Broadly Considered: Essays in Honor of Warren J. Samuels 217-257, JAI Press (Steven G. Medema ed.) (2001).
Performance Indicators for Natural Resource and Environmental Policy: Contributions from American Institutional Law and Economics, 11 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 139-172 (2000) (with Michael D. Kaplowitz).
The Common Law, Efficiency, and American Institutional Law and Economics, in Le droit dans l’action économique 59-75, Paris, France: CNRS Editions (Thierry Kirat and Evelyne Serverin eds.) (2000).
Interdisciplinary Paradigms for Environmental Policy: Interrelations Among Ecology, Law, and Economics, in Property Rights, Economics, and the Environment 281-315, JAI Press (Michael Kaplowitz ed.) (2000).
Institutional Law and Economics, in The Encyclopedia of Law & Economics 418-455, Edward Elgar Publishers (Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit de Geest eds.) (2000) (with Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels).
Fundamental Interrelationships Between Government and Property, Policy Studies Organization, JAI Press (Nicholas Mercuro and Warren J. Samuels eds.) (1999); A Retrospective Interpretive Essay on the Diverse Approaches to the Fundamental Interrelationships Between Government and Property, a chapter in the above-listed book (with Warren J. Samuels).
Robert Lee Hale—Legal Economist, in The Elgar Companion to Law & Economics 325-338, Edgar Elgar Publishers (Jürgen G. Backhaus ed.) (1999) (with Stephen G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels).
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MaryAnn Pierce
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Clinical Programs
BA, 1984, Western Michigan University
JD with honors, 1988, Cooley Law School
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Before joining the MSU-DCL faculty, Professor Pierce was the director and practicing attorney of the Cooley Clinic at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, where she was a professor of law as well. She has served as a research attorney, editor, grant writer, and grant manager for the Michigan Supreme Court and the Michigan Judicial Institute, where she drafted manuals on scientific evidence and civil and criminal offenses. She was a business law instructor at Lansing Community College and the tax and legal compliance director for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. Professor Pierce is the editor of the National Law School Deans’ List, and her published works deal with financial accounting, nonprofit organization grants, and charitable deductions. As director of MSU-DCL’s clinical programs, she is responsible for the general operations and management of the clinics as well as teaching and supervising student residents, maintaining client files, developing community education programs, authoring and editing publications, and writing grants.
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Sharon A. Pocock
Professor of Legal Writing and Advocacy
BA with high distinction, 1975, University of Michigan
MA, 1977, and PhD, 1984, University of Chicago
JD with honors, 1987, University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Prior to her arrival at MSU-DCL, Professor Pocock taught legal research and writing for two years at Tulane Law School and most recently for five years at Quinnipiac University School of Law, where she was an assistant professor of legal skills. She also taught legal writing at George Mason University School of Law while practicing corporate law at a Washington, D.C., firm. Following graduation from law school, Professor Pocock clerked for Judge J.L. Edmondson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. In law school, she was articles editor on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Before beginning her legal career, Professor Pocock received her doctorate in French language and literature and taught these subjects at the university level. Professor Pocock directs, and teaches in, MSU-DCL’s Research, Writing and Advocacy Program.
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Frank S. Ravitch
Associate Professor of Law
BA, 1987, Tulane University
JD, 1991, Dickinson School of Law
LLM with distinction, 1994, Georgetown University Law Center
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Professor Ravitch’s career has included experiences in private practice and on Capitol Hill as well as teaching positions in New York and Florida. In 2001, he was named a Fulbright scholar and served on the law faculty at Doshisha University (Japan), where he taught courses relating to U.S. constitutional law and law and religion. Complementing his professional service is his commitment to community service. Professor Ravitch has made dozens of public presentations explaining the law before school groups, community groups, and service clubs and has served as an expert commentator for print and broadcast media. He teaches a constitutional law and religion seminar in addition to Legal Profession.
Forthcoming Publications:
Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? A Nonfoundationalist Analysis of Richard A. Posner’s The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory, in Tulsa Law Review (forthcoming 2002).
School Prayer and Discrimination, in The Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom, Berkshire/Routledge (Catharine Cookson, Derek Davis and Satvinder Juss eds.) (forthcoming 2003).
Employment Discrimination Law, Prentice Hall (forthcoming 2002) (with Janice MacDonald and Pamela Sumners).
Law and Religion, A Reader: Concepts, Cases, and Theory, West Publishing (forthcoming 2003/2004).
Recent Publications:
School Prayer and Discrimination: The Civil Rights of Religious Minorities and Dissenters, Northeastern University Press (1999) (paperback edition 2001).
A Crack in the Wall: Pluralism, Prayer and Pain in the Public Schools, in Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology, NYU Press (Stephen Feldman ed.) (2000).
Struggling with Text and Context: A Hermeneutic Approach to Interpreting and Realizing Law School Missions, 74 St. John’s Law Review 731 (2000).
The Americans with “Certain” Disabilities Act: Title I of the ADA and the Supreme Court’s Result Oriented Jurisprudence, 77 Denver University Law Review 119 (2000) (with Marsha B. Freeman).
Chandler v. Siegelman, Brief Amicus Curiae of the Interfaith Alliance and the Horace Mann League in Support of Petition for Writ of Certiorari (U.S. Supreme Court Brief filed January 2000).
Privatization and Public Employee Pension Rights: Treading in Unexplored Territory, 19 Review of Public Pers. Administration 41 (1999) (with W. Lawther).
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Kevin Wall Saunders
Professor of Law
AB, 1968, Franklin and Marshall College
MS, 1970, University of Miami
MA, 1976, and PhD, 1978, University of Miami
JD with high honors, 1984, University of Michigan
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After a distinguished career as a mathematics educator, Professor Saunders turned his attention to the law. He graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School in 1984, then clerked for the Honorable Kenneth Starr at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He followed with assistant professorships at the University of Arkansas and the University of Oklahoma. During his 16-year tenure at Oklahoma, he rose through the ranks to become a full professor and to serve on the faculties of the graduate school, the College of Liberal Studies, and Film and Video Studies. He was the recipient of four awards at that institution, including the 2001 Regents’ Award for Superior Accomplishment in Research and Creative Activity. He also served as visiting James Madison chair and interim director of the Constitutional Law Center at Drake University. Professor Saunders is the author of one book—Violence as Obscenity: Limiting the Media’s First Amendment Protection—and is finishing his second. He has authored dozens of book chapters, law review articles, and commentaries in legal and popular periodicals. He teaches a variety of courses and seminars on topics in constitutional law.
Forthcoming Publications:
Saving Our Children from the First Amendment, (forthcoming 2003/2004).
Billy Budd and Mandatory Sentencing, in Screening Justice: Lawyers and Legal Issues on the Silver Screen (Rennard Strickland, Teree Foster, and Denis Greene eds.) (forthcoming 2003).
Recent Publications:
Political Theory and Politics Also Matter: A Response to Professor Chemerinsky’s ‘Constitutional Theory Matters’, in 54 Oklahoma Law Review (2001).
Television Violence Causes Societal Violence, in Mass Media: Opposing Viewpoints 17 (Byron L. Stay ed.) (1999).
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Elliot A. Spoon
Professor in Residence
BA with high honors, 1973, University of Michigan
JD with honors, 1975, University of Michigan
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Elliot A. Spoon graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he was on the staff of the Journal of Law Reform. He joined Butzel, Keidan, Simon, Myers & Graham and later chaired the firm’s corporate department. Prior to his current appointment at MSU-DCL, Professor Spoon taught at the law college on an adjunct basis. He also chaired the Business Transactions Practice Group and was a member of the executive committee at Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss. He has lectured widely on various mortgage banking and corporate topics. Professor Spoon teaches contracts, corporate finance, mortgage banking, accounting for lawyers, and securities.
Recent Publication:
Federal Private Mortgage Insurance Legislation: Protection in a Regulator-Free Environment, in 27 Michigan Real Property Review (2000).
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Glen Staszewski
Assistant Professor of Law
BA, 1993, University of Wisconsin
JD, 1996, Vanderbilt University
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Professor Staszewski was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice prior to joining the MSU-DCL faculty in 2001. He was elected to the Order of the Coif upon graduation from law school, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review. After graduation, Professor Staszewski clerked for the Honorable Fortunato P. Benavides of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was appointed as an associate member of the State Bar of Michigan’s Committee on Civil Procedure and Courts. Professor Staszewski’s primary scholarly interests are legislative and rulemaking processes and the interaction between courts and lawmaking institutions. He teaches administrative law, civil procedure, and legislation.
Forthcoming Publication:
Rejecting the Myth of Popular Sovereignty and Applying an Agency Model to Direct Democracy, Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2003).
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Charles J. Ten Brink
Director of Library and Technology Services and Professor of Law
BS with honors, 1976, Michigan State University
JD with honors, 1979, University of Michigan
AMLS with honors, 1985, University of Michigan
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Prior to accepting his position at MSU-DCL, Professor Ten Brink was the associate law librarian of the University of Chicago, D’Angelo Law Library and a lecturer in law at Chicago School of Law. During his 16 years with the University of Chicago, he served as reference librarian, head of reference services and head of public services before being named associate law librarian. He has made presentations to the American Association of Law Libraries on the use of technology in law schools, and he serves on the American Bar Association Committee on Law Libraries. Professor Ten Brink practiced law before returning to the University of Michigan to earn a master’s degree in library science. He is admitted to the bar in Florida, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. He teaches advanced legal research.
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Faculty Members Go International
Faculty members have participated in a variety of scholarly pursuits around the world. Here is a glimpse of the people and places represented.
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