University of Denver Sturm College of Law

2009 - 2010 New & Visiting

Faculty

DU LAW NEW & VISITING FACULTY

I am pleased to introduce our newest faculty members and visiting faculty at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. As you will see, they are highly accomplished as scholars, teachers and practitioners. We are thrilled that they have joined us.

Interim Dean Martin J. Katz

New Chair Appointment: Eli Wald

New Faculty: Rebecca Aviel, Raja Raghunath, Christopher Jung

Visiting Faculty: Kristina Campbell, Michael Chang, Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Christine Klein, Ryan Vacca, Dan Abraham, Rosemary Dillon, Veronica Rossman, Jeremy Weintraub

Clinical Fellows: Brittany Glidden, Kevin Lynch

2009 - 2010 ACADEMIC YEAR

Associate Professor Eli WaldThe Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law

Eli Wald is a leading legal ethics and legal profession scholar. His work has examined topics such as conflict of interests and attorney disqualification, increased lawyer mobility, attorney-client communications, lawyers’ fiduciary duties to clients and the regulation of the corporate bar. Professor Wald’s ongoing research into the causes and manifestations of prejudice at large law firms, as well as means of overcoming discrimination, has gained national attention. Recent work has been pub-

lished by the Stanford, University of Colorado and Fordham law reviews and by peer reviewed journals such as Legal Ethics and the Journal of Legal Education.

Professor Wald joined the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2002. He graduated from the Tel-Aviv University School of Law in Israel in 1997, where he was a law review editor and a visiting fellow at the Max Plunk Institutes in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany. Prof. Wald went on to earn masters and doctorate degrees at Harvard Law School, where he was a John Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, a fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions, and a Clark Byse Fellow. Prior to joining DU Law, he was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. Prof. Wald, in addition to being a CLE instructor, legal ethics expert commentator for LexisNexis, and expert witness, is also a member of the Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on the Colorado Rules of Profes-sional Conduct and a member of the Colorado Bar Association’s Ethics Committee. He is the 2009-2010 Hughes-Ruud Research Professor at the Sturm College of Law, a year-long appointment dedicated to law and society research.

The Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law was established in 1971 with a gift from Mrs. Elda Delaney, honoring her son, Charles Delaney, JD’35, who was killed during World War II. Thompson G. Marsh held the Delaney Jr. Chair from 1971 until his retirement in 1987 when he was succeeded by William M. Beaney. David (Jake) W. Barnes, currently the Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, held the chair between 1993 and 2001 and was followed by Julie Nice, who was the Delaney Jr. Professor from 2002 to 2009, until she joined the University of San Francisco Law School as the Herbst Foundation Professor of Law.

NEW CHAIR APPOINTMENT

Kristina Campbell, Visiting LecturerBA, Saint Mary’s CollegeJD, University of Notre Dame Law School

Kristina was most recently a Staff Attorney with the Mexican Amer-ican Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in Los Ange-les, Calif., where she engaged in impact litigation. Her teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of immigration,

employment, and constitutional law, with an emphasis on the rights of noncitizens.

Assistant Professor Rebecca AvielBA, Yale CollegeJD, Harvard Law School

Rebecca teaches and writes in the fields of legal ethics and family law, focusing on the needs, rights, and interests of children. Her most recent piece argues that social workers should be immune from suit for their decisions to initiate child protection proceed-

ings, and she is currently seeking to articulate a theory of adult obligation toward juvenile offenders.

Assistant Professor Raja RaghunathBA, Duke UniversityJD, University of Michigan Law School

Raja was the Civil Rights Clinical Fellow of the Student Law Office from 2007 to 2009. He had previously practiced as both a com-mercial litigator and a labor and employment lawyer represent-ing unions and individual workers. He has written in the areas of

labor law and constitutional law.

Christopher Jung, LecturerBA, State University of New York, PotsdamJD, Albany Law School of Union UniversityLLM, The George Washington University

Chris is the new Assistant Director of the Legal Internship Pro-gram. He comes to the University of Denver after twenty years of service as a Navy JAG.

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New Faculty

Visiting Faculty

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Michael Chang, Visiting LecturerBA, Vassar CollegeMA, New School for Social ResearchPhD, University of California, BerkeleyJD, University of California, Los Angeles

Michael was most recently a civil rights attorney at the U.S. Depart-ment of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and an Assistant Inspec-

tor General at the Office of the Executive Inspector General of the State of Illinois.

Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Visiting LecturerAB, Harvard & Radcliffe CollegesJD, Harvard Law School

Jamila joins the University of Denver from New Orleans, where she worked as a public defender while maintaining a private legal practice dedicated to the needs of small and minority busi-nesses. Her scholarship centers on the collateral consequences

of incarceration, with particular emphasis on the socio-economic barriers faced by those with ex-offender status.

Christine Klein, Visiting ProfessorBA, Middlebury CollegeJD, University of ColoradoLLM, Columbia University School of Law

Christine has taught Environmental Law, Land Use Law, Natural Resources Law, Property, Water Law and Wetlands Law. During her early years of legal practice, she worked as legal counsel for

Colorado’s instream flow program. She has continued to write on the topic of water law and stream protection, and her work has been cited in support of the legality of instream flows by the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Montana. This is the second time that she has been a visiting professor at DU Law.

Veronica Rossman, Visiting LecturerBA, Columbia UniversityJD, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Veronica comes to law teaching after a decade working in private practice and for state and federal courts. At UC Hastings College of the Law, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. After graduation, she served as an Assistant Federal Pub-

lic Defender in Denver, and, most recently, was a staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, focusing on civil rights and constitutional law.

Visiting Faculty

Dan Abraham, Visiting Lawyering Process ProfessorBA, University of FloridaJD, New York Law School

Dan was a Senior Court Attorney for the New York Supreme Court, where he advised judges on complex commercial actions filed in the Commercial Division. Dan was also an adjunct profes-sor of Legal Writing and Written and Oral Advocacy at New York University School of Law.

Rosemary Dillon, Visiting Lawyering Process ProfessorBA, Providence CollegeMSJ, Northwestern University, Medill School of JournalismJD, University of New Mexico School of Law

Rosemary joins DU’s Lawyering Process Program as a visitor, on leave from Texas Tech University School of Law, where she is an as-sociate legal practice professor. Rosemary also has taught as a visi-tor at her alma mater, the University of New Mexico School of Law.

Jeremy Weintraub, Visiting Lawyering Process ProfessorBA, Yale UniversityJD, New York University

Prior to teaching, Jeremy practiced commercial litigation, alterna-tive dispute resolution, and criminal defense in New York. Most recently, he was counsel at Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman, LLP. In addition, Jeremy served as a mediator for New York’s Supreme Court and as an arbitrator for New York’s Civil Court.

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Ryan Vacca, Visiting LecturerBA, Amherst CollegeJD, University of Missouri School of LawLLM, New York University School of Law

Ryan specializes in intellectual property (patents, trademarks, and copyrights). He focuses on the intersection of these areas, emerg-ing technologies, and efficiencies. Ryan previously taught at the

University of Oregon School of Law and practiced law in St. Louis, where he repre-sented entertainers and businesses in protecting their intellectual property rights.

Visiting Lawyering Process Faculty

2009 - 2010 ACADEMIC YEAR

Brittany Glidden, LecturerBA, Stanford UniversityJD, New York University School of Law

Brittany previously worked at the Prison Law Office, a non-profit that represented California prisoners in individual and class ac- tion cases regarding the conditions of confinement in state facili-ties. In addition, she was an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University Law School, teaching Legal Research and Writing.

Kevin Lynch, LecturerBA, Rice UniversityJD, New York University School of Law

Kevin joins the Environmental Law Clinic after working in the Climate & Air program for the Environmental Defense Fund’s re-gional office in Boulder, Colorado. Kevin has worked on a variety of clean air, climate, and energy issues at the state and federal

level, including both litigation and regulatory practice.

Clinical Fellows

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