Visiting Professors: 2005–2006

Juliet Brodie

Juliet Brodie, a visiting associate professor of law, will coteach the Community Law Clinic in the autumn and spring semesters. Brodie is a clinical associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her research and teaching interests include civil litigation, community lawyering, poverty law, public interest law, and skills training. Brodie earned her JD from Harvard Law School. She worked as a litigation associate at Hill & Barlow in Boston before moving to Madison, Wisconsin, where she became assistant attorney general at the Wisconsin Department of Justice. In 1998 Brodie moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to launch a community-based poverty law clinic. She returned to Madison in 2000 when she joined the law faculty at the University of Wisconsin. At the university, Brodie teaches Poverty Law and directs the Neighborhood Law Project, a law clinic for low-Income people in Madison.

Christopher L. Kutz. Photo: Jim Block

Christopher L. Kutz will serve as The Richard and Frances Mallery Visiting Professor of Law; he will teach Criminal Law and Theories of Rights in the autumn semester. Kutz is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has been a faculty member since 1998. Kutz's research and teaching interests include criminal law and moral, legal, and political philosophy. Kutz received his JD from Yale Law School in 1997, having received a PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Prior to joining the Boalt Hall faculty, he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Kutz serves as a manuscript referee for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Macmillan Press, and for the journals Ethics, Legal Theory, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

David J. Luban. Photo: Rhoda Baer

David J. Luban will serve as The Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights. He will coteach Legal Ethics and will teach Just and Unjust Wars during the autumn semester and International Criminal Law in the spring term. Luban is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University Law Center, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1997. He earned his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University. Luban's research and teaching interests include legal ethics, the social responsibility of lawyers, law and philosophy, and jurisprudence. His recent publications include The Ethics of Lawyers (ed.), Legal Modernism, and Legal Ethics, co-authored with Deborah L. Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law. Luban has been a Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Danforth Fellow, and a Keck Foundation Distin-guished Senior Fellow in Legal Ethics and Professional Culture at Yale Law School.

Nathaniel Persily '98

Nathaniel Persily '98, a visiting professor of law, will teach Election Law in the spring semester. Persily is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, with a secondary appointment in the political science department. He earned an MA from Yale University, and an MA and PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. Following graduation, he clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He was an associate counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law from 1999 to 2001, before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching interests include law and politics, voting rights, election law, constitutional law, and administrative law. Persily is a member of the editorial board of the Election Law Journal and The Forum, and the recipient of the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Joan Petersilia

Joan Petersilia will serve as a visiting professor of law; she will teach California's Prison Reform in the autumn semester and Crime and Punishment in California: Advocacy and Reform in the spring term. Petersilia is a professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California at Irvine School of Social Ecology. She received her MA in sociology from Ohio State University, and her PhD in criminology, law, and society from the University of California at Irvine. Before joining UC Irvine, Petersilia was a corporate fellow and director of the Criminal Justice Program at the RAND Corporation. Her research and teaching interests include policing, sentencing, career criminals, juvenile justice, corrections, and racial discrimination. Petersilia's books include When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry (2003), Reforming Probation and Parole in the 21st Century (2002), and Crime: Public Policies for Crime Control, edited with James Q. Wilson (2002).

Jane S. Schacter

Jane S. Schacter will serve as The Edwin A. Heafey, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law. She will teach Statutory Interpretation and Sexual Orientation and the Law in the autumn semester, and Constitutional Law in the spring term. Schacter is the James E. & Ruth B. Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1991. She earned her JD in 1984 from Harvard Law School. Following graduation, she clerked for Judge Raymond J. Pettine of the U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island; was a litigation associate at Hill & Barlow in Boston; and served as assistant attorney general in Massachusetts. Schacter's research and teaching interests include constitutional law, legislation, sexual orientation and the law, and civil procedure. In 1998 she was awarded the University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Alan O. Sykes. Photo: Michelle Litvin

Alan O. Sykes will serve as The Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law; he will teach Torts during the autumn semester and International Trade Law in the spring term. Sykes, who has been a member of the University of Chicago Law School faculty since 1986, was named the Frank & Bernice Greenberg Professor of Law in 1990 and Faculty Director for Curriculum in 2001. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 1982. Sykes was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in Economics from 1976 to 1979 at Yale, and received his PhD in economics from the university in 1987. Before joining the Chicago law school faculty, Sykes was an associate with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter. Sykes's research and teaching interests include international trade, torts, contracts, insurance, antitrust, and economic analysis of law. He serves as an editor of the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of International Economic Law.

Timothy Wu. Photo: Ian Bradshaw

Timothy Wu, a visiting associate professor of law, will teach International Law Theory and Intellectual Property: Copyright in the autumn semester. Wu is a professor of law at Columbia Law School. He received his JD from Harvard Law School in 1998. Wu clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice Stephen Breyer (BA '59) of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty at Columbia Law School, Wu worked in the telecommunications industry in international and domestic marketing. His research and teaching interests include international law, intellectual property, international trade, copyright, the Internet, and telecommunications law. Wu has been a fellow at the University of Toronto Law School and has taught at the United Nations Development Program in Katmandu, Nepal, and at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.