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Arcila, Fabio ,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., University of Michigan
J.D., University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
Teaches:
Administrative Law,
Criminal Procedure I
Professor Arcila joins Brooklyn Law School for the Spring 2012 semester from Touro Law Center, where he is Associate Professor of Law and was voted "Professor of the Year" by the students for 2006-2007. His scholarship focuses on Fourth Amendment search and seizure law, with a general emphasis upon civil searches and a concentration on originalism. His articles have been published in the William & Mary Law Review, Boston College Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Administrative Law Review. He spent the 2008-09 academic year as a Visiting Associate Professor at Fordham Law School. After law school, Arcila worked for three years as a staff attorney for Legal Services of Southeastern Michigan, Inc. He then clerked for Honorable Julian Abele Cook, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and Honorable Julio M. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His background also includes working as a litigation associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. At Berkely, Arcila was an associate editor of the La Raza Law Journal and a member of the California Law Review.
Arcila is a member of the Executive Board of the AALS Section on Minority Groups and the planning committees for the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference and the annual Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. He is also active in the Hispanic National Bar Association.
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Bagchi, Aditi ,
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
A.B., Harvard University
M.Sc., Oxford University
J.D., Yale Law School
Teaches:
Contracts
Professor Bagchi joins the Brooklyn Law School faculty for the Spring 2012 semester. She is visiting from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she teaches courses in contracts, labor law, and distributive justice. Her research focuses on the effects of socio-economic inequality on the information and interpretation of agreements, particularly in employment contracts; the role of intention in contracts; and the comparative political economy of labor and corporate law. She is a prolific writer, with four forthcoming articles concerning employee contracts to be published in the law reviews of Columbia University, the University of Pittsburg, Florida State University, and Marquette. Prior to teaching, Bagchi was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York for several years, and she clerked for the Honorable Julio Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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Cohen, Neil P.,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law
LL.M., Harvard University School of Law
Diploma in Criminology, Cambridge University
Teaches:
Criminal Law,
Criminal Procedure I,
Criminal Procedure II,
Evidence
Professor Cohen, who has taught at the Law School several times in the past, is visiting again for the fall 2011 semester. He retired in 2006 from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he was the UTK Distinguished Service Professor of law, the W.P. Toms Professor of Law, and the University Ombudsperson. He is a well-known expert in the areas of evidence and criminal law and procedure, having written 11 books and numerous law review articles. His most recent books include Mastering Criminal Law (Carolina Academic Press 2008) (co-author); Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Lawyering Strategies (Lexis 2d. ed. 2010) (co-author); and Tennessee Law of Evidence (Lexis 6th ed. 2011) (co-author). Professor Cohen also drafted the gender-neutral version of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate, Civil, Criminal, and Juvenile Procedure, the revised Rules of Criminal Procedure, and he assisted in drafting the Tennessee Rules of Evidence and the Tennessee Penal Code. He served as the reporter of the Tennessee Bar Association's Jury Reform Commission and as a member of the American Bar Association's Jury Project. Before teaching at the University of Tennessee, he worked as a special prosecutor with the Knox County District Attorney General's Office and as a law clerk to Hon. William Miller of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is also a member of the American Law Institute.
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Darley, John ,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Swarthmore College
M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Teaches:
Intensive Negotiation Workshop
Professor Darley is visiting for the Spring 2012 semester to teach Intensive Negotiation Workshop. He is the Warren Professor of Psychology at Princeton University and a Professor of Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs. Darley, a pioneer of social psychology, is known for his work on altruism, bystander intervention, deviation and conformity, attribution, moral judgment, and psychology and law. His work was recently discussed in Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004). He has taken part in two recent programs sponsored by the Brooklyn Law School Center for the Study of Law Language and Cognition, the symposium "Responsibility and Blame: Psychological and Legal Perspectives", and a panel discussion, "Three Perspectives on Criminal Justice", and participated in colloquia at the Boalt School of Law and the Center for Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Darley has written and co-authored two dozen studies on psychology and the law, many of which have been published in prestigious law journals, including the Northwestern University Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the North Carolina Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Law and Society Review, and the Journal of Psychiatry Law.
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Fielder, Lauren ,
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
B.A., University of Texas, San Antonio
J.D., University of Tulsa College of Law
LL.M., University of Texas School of Law
Teaches:
African Law
Professor Redman joins Brooklyn Law School to teach African Law for the 2012 Intensive Winter Session. She is visiting from the University of Luzern in Luzern, Switzerland, where she is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Assistant Director of the Transnational Legal Studies Program. She is also an Adjunct Professor at John Marshall Law School and has previously taught international law as a Lecturer at Baylor University. In addition to her teaching experience, Professor Redman is a partner at Fielder and Fielder, based in Texas and Switzerland. Her work in international human rights law and advocacy has extended beyond the U.S. and Europe, to Uganda, Haiti, Equatorial Guinea, China, and India. She is also a prolific writer, with two forthcoming books and three forthcoming book chapters discussing law and policy, human rights, and women’s rights in Africa.
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Fischer, David A.,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., University of Missouri
J.D., University of Missouri School of Law
Teaches:
Advanced Tort Law Seminar,
Torts
Professor Fischer joins the Brooklyn Law School faculty for the Fall 2011 semester. He is visiting from the University of Missouri School of Law, where he is the James Lewis Parks and Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus of Law. He teaches courses relating to torts, products liability, evidence, and courts-martial. He is also the co-author of Products Liability: Cases and Materials, a nationally used casebook, as well as the author of several articles covering the meaning of defect, comparative fault, market share liability, proportional liability, and causation. His expertise in military trials began in 1968 when he served for four years as a member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the United States Army, which handles general court-martial cases on the trial and appellate levels.
Fischer has also been a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Oklahoma, and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge and at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He is a member of the American Law Institute and has served as Chair of the Tort Liability Study Committee of the Torts and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the ABA; Vice-Chair of the Products, General Liability & Consumer Law Committee of TIPS; and Chair of the Academic Advisory Subcommittee of the Products, General Liability & Consumer Law Committee of TIPS.
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Landsman, Stephan ,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Kenyon College
J.D., Harvard University
Teaches:
Torts,
When Justice Fails Seminar
Professor Landsman is visiting for the Fall 2011 Semester from DePaul College of Law, where he is the Robert A. Clifford Chair in Tort Law and Social Policy. He is a nationally renowned expert on the civil jury system, and through his ongoing study of the American jury, has become a leader in applying social science methods to legal problems. He is a sought-after speaker at professional conferences and symposia, and among his recent publications are empirical and historical pieces regarding the jury, as well as an examination of legal responses to human rights abuses. Professor Landsman is also the author of Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (University of Pennsylvania Press 2005). He has successfully argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and is a member of the leadership of the American Bar Association Litigation Section.
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Manta, Irina D.,
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Yale Law School
Teaches:
International Intellectual Property,
Property,
Trademark and Unfair Competition
Professor Manta joins the Brooklyn Law School faculty for the 2011-2012 academic year. She is visiting from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and property law. Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Arizona Law Review, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, and St. Louis University Law Journal. Prior to teaching at Case Western, she served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. While at Yale Law School, she was a Tributes Editor of the Yale Law Journal as well as an Articles Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and an editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. She clerked for Judge Morris S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit following law school and also taught at the University of Arkansas William H. Bowen School of Law during that time.
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Marcus, Stanley ,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Queens College, City University of New York
J.D., Harvard University Law School
Teaches:
Religion and the Constitution,
Trial Advocacy
Professor Stanley Marcus is visiting Brooklyn Law School for the fall 2011 semester. He is a U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the Eleventh Circuit in Florida. Judge Marcus is a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction and has been the committee's chairman since 1992. Prior to his appointment to the Eleventh Circuit, he was a U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, in Miami. Previously, he was chief of the Detroit Strike Force, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and he also served as the deputy chief of the Detroit Strike Force. Earlier in his career he was an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and was an associate with the New York law firm of Botein, Hays, Sklar and Herzberg. Following law school, he clerked for U.S. District Judge John Ries Bartels of the Eastern District of New York.
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Pittman, Thane ,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Kent State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
Teaches:
Intensive Negotiation Workshop
Professor Pittman is visiting for the Spring 2012 semester to teach Intensive Negotiation Workshop. He has been Chair and Professor of Psychology in the Psychology department at Colby College in Waterville, Maine since 2004. Previously, he was on the faculty of Gettysburg College for 32 years. His research interests include the psychology of justice and morality. He has been a Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Psychologist at Princeton University, the University of Essex, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author and co-author of numerous articles and books, Professor Pittman has completed several scholarly studies with Professor John M. Darley on the psychology of justice and morality, including "The Psychology of Compensatory and Retributive Justice," in the Personality and Social Psychology Review (2003). Pittman's other recent works include the co-authored, "When bonuses backfire: The role of accumulated costs in procrastination" (2006, Manuscript under review); "Inaction inertia in the stock market," Journal of Applied Social Psychology (2004); and, "The dark side of opportunity: Regret, disappointment, and the cost of prospects," The Psychology of Economic Decisions (2004).
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Shapira, Amos ,
Visiting Professor of Law
LL.B., LL.M., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.C.L., Columbia University
J.S.D., Yale University
Teaches:
Bioethics and Public Policy,
Comparative Constitutional Law
Professor Shapira joins Brooklyn Law School for the Spring 2012 semester from Tel Aviv University, where he was formerly Dean of the Faculty, Co-Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, and Director of the Cegla Institute of Comparative and Private International Law. He currently serves as editor of TAU Studies in Law, and is the Lubowski Chair of Law and Biomedical Ethics. He also is a member of the Presidium of the Israel Press Council, Vice President of the German-Israeli Jurists Association, Vice President of the Scientific Committee of the International Bioethics Society in Spain, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli Opera and the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. In addition, he serves in various capacities in numerous bodies, including the American Law Institute, the Israel Democracy Institute, the Genetic Human Experimentation National Review Board, the National Bioethics Council, and the Bioethics Committee of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Professor Shapira is the recipient of several prizes, including the Fritz Naphtali Prize, Pinhas Rosen Prize and Giztelter Prize, and the Zeltner Prize. His scholarship is primarily in the area of private international law, law and biomedical ethics, and constitutional law. He is the author of The Interest Approach to Choice of Law and editor of Introduction to the Law of Israel.
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Trinch, Shonna ,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Pennsylvania State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Teaches:
Spanish for Lawyers
Professor Trinch is visiting Brooklyn Law School from the Department of Anthropology at John Jay College, where she teaches linguistic anthropology as an Associate Professor. Her scholarship focuses on sociolinguistics, the ethnography of speaking, and the correlation between domestic violence and sexual assault and narrative and testimony. She has written extensively on these topics, publishing articles in the International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law and Language and Society, as well as a book in 2003 entitled Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant Versions of Violence. Professor Trinch has also taught at Florida State University and the University of Pittsburg. In addition to her academic endeavors, Professor Trinch is a member of several anthropological and language associations. She is fluent in English and Spanish, and proficient in Portuguese.
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Walsh, Robert ,
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Providence College
J.D., Harvard Law School
Teaches:
Evidence
Professor Walsh joins the Brooklyn Law School faculty for the Spring 2012 semester. He is visiting from Wake Forest University School of Law, where he is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law. He was Wake Forest’s Dean for 18 years, and his distinguished career has been marked by prominent leadership roles. At the American Bar Association, he was chairperson of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the Accreditation Committee, and the Standards Review Committee, and co-founded the ABA’s Seminar for New Law Deans. He has also been president of the American Inns of Court Foundation Board of Trustees; board member of the National Association of Law Placement Board of Trustees; board member of the ABA Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative Advisory Council; vice president of the North Carolina Bar Association and a member of its Board of Governors; board member of the Federal Judicial Center Foundation Board; and Honorary Academic Bencher of the Honorable Society of Inner Temple of London, the Inner Temple’s second American Bencher and first non-British academic Bencher.
In 2010, the ABA presented the national Robert J. Kutak Award to Dean Walsh for meeting "the highest standard of professional responsibility and demonstrating substantial achievement towards increased understanding between legal education and the active practice of law." Prior to becoming dean, he was a litigation partner with a law firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, a law professor at Villanova University, and an associate with a law firm in Los Angeles.
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Zieck, Marjoleine ,
Visiting Professor of Law
LL.M., University of Amsterdam
Ph.D., University of Amsterdam
Teaches:
Forced Migration: the Law of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Internally Displaced People
Professor Marjoleine Zieck is visiting Brooklyn Law School for the spring 2012 semester. She is a Professor of International Refugee Law, Vice Dean of Education, and Director of the Graduate School of Law at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She is also a regular visitor at the Pakistan College of Law in Lahore, Pakistan, where she holds the title of Extraordinary Professor of Public International Law. In addition to teaching, Professor Zieck is a prolific author, including three books about the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and numerous law review and journal articles. Her most recent articles were published in the International Journal of Refugee Law and the International Journal of Legal Information. She received a degree in law as well as a Ph.D. in International Refugee Law from the University of Amsterdam.