Ann Althouse Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.F.A., University of Michigan School of Architecture and Design J.D., New York University School of Law Professor Althouse is visiting for the 2007 – 2008 academic year and this fall will be teaching Constitutional Law I and Federal Courts and the Federal System . In the spring, she will teach Constitutional Law II. She joins us from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she is the Robert W. and Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor. Before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1984, she clerked for the Honorable Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York and practiced law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell. A prolific scholar, Professor Althouse has published widely in the areas of constitutional law, federalism, and the jurisdiction of courts. She is frequently sought by the media for her opinions on legal issues in the news, has been a guest columnist for The New York Times, and is the author of the popular blog, www.althouse.blogspot.com. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 904 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 0665 Email: ann.althouse@brooklaw.edu Carl Bjerre Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A. University of California at Berkeley J.D., Cornell Law School Professor Bjerre will be visiting in the Spring 2008 semester. He will teach Commercial Law and Commercial Law Seminar: Transactions in Stocks and Bonds. He specializes in commercial law, and in particular in secured transactions, sales of receivables, and transactions in investment securities. After clerking with a federal district judge in New York City, he practiced law for six years with the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton, also in New York, where his practice centered on corporate and finance transactions. Bjerre is an appointed member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, which is responsible for formulating most of the nation’s commercial law, and is a past Chair of the Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law of the Association of American Law Schools. He is responsible for current work on the Uniform Commercial Code Article 8 volumes of a prominent multi-volume treatise, and is also a member of the United States delegation to UNIDROIT that is negotiating a multinational Convention on Substantive Rules Regarding Intermediated Securities. Bjerre’s other academic interests include Contracts and the intersection of law with the philosophy of language. Bjerre devotes much of his spare time to music. He once won a prize on a Manhattan street corner for identifying the voice of opera singer Beniamino Gigli, and he plays tenor sax with a jam-rock band. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 929 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 0612 Email: carl.bjerre@brooklaw.edu Neil P. Cohen Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., Yale University J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law LL.M., Harvard University School of Law Diploma in Criminology, Cambridge University Professor Cohen is visiting in the Fall 2007 semester and will be teaching Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure II. He was a Visiting Professor at BLS in the Fall 2003 and 2005 semesters. He recently retired from the faculty of 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.. His areas of expertise are criminal law and procedure, and evidence. A prolific author, he has written eleven books and his articles have appeared in numerous law reviews. His most recent books include: The Law of Probation and Parole (West Group 1999); Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process (Lexis, 2nd ed. 2000) (co-author); and Tennessee Law of Evidence (Lexis, 4th ed. 2000) (co-author), and Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Lawyering Strategies (Lexis 2005) (co-author). Professor Cohen has also drafted the gender-neutral version of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate, Civil, Criminal, and Juvenile Procedure, the revised Rules of Criminal Procedure, and 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. His background also includes work as a special prosecutor with the Knox County District Attorney General’s Office and as a law clerk to Judge William Miller of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He has a long history of public service work and has received numerous honors from the bench, bar and academia. Professor Cohen is a member of the American Law Institute. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 806 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 0620 Email: neil.p.cohen@brooklaw.edu Andrea Coles-Bjerre Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Education: B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University J.D., Brooklyn Law School Professor Coles-Bjerre will be visiting in the Spring 2008 semester. She will teach Business Reorganizations and Civil Procedure II. She joins us from the University of Oregon School of Law, where she teaches and writes in the fields of creditors rights, bankruptcy law and civil procedure. Previously, she practiced law at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, where she was lead associate in a variety of complex Chapter 11 and other insolvency matters. After law school, she clerked for Judge Jerome Feller in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York. John Darley Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., Swarthmore College M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Professor Darley is visiting for the Summer 2008 semester. He will 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. Amy Gajda Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Education: B.A., The University of Michigan J.D., Wayne State University Professor Gajda will be visiting in the Spring 2008 Semester. She will teach Mass Media and the First Amendment and The Law of Higher Education. She joins us from the University of Illinois, where she is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Law. Her primary research interests relate to freedom of expression and the First Amendment. She specializes in the intersection of law and journalism, particularly privacy, ethics, and the legal regulation of newsgathering. Her first book, The Legalization of Academia, exploring academic freedom and the rule of law within universities, is under contract with Harvard University Press. Professor Gajda is also the legal commentator for National Public Radio stations in Illinois. Her weekly commentaries, Legal Issues in the News with Amy Gajda, have won seven Associated Press awards and are published as a regular column in The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana's regional newspaper. An opinion piece on campaign finance practices she wrote for The New York Times became the basis for a 60 Minutes investigative report. She also anchors Illinois Law, a television interview program that focuses on timely legal issues and airs on WCIA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Champaign-Urbana, and on the Illinois Channel statewide. Before attending law school, Professor Gajda worked for many years as a television journalist, anchoring and producing newscasts and reporting for television stations affiliated with every major network. She continued to anchor on a part-time basis in Detroit while a law student at Wayne State University, before finishing her studies at Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining the Illinois faculty, she practiced law with Miles & Stockbridge in Washington, D.C. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 806 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 0620 Email: amy.gajda@brooklaw.edu David D. Meyer Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., University of Michigan J.D., University of Michigan Law School Professor Meyer is visiting for the Spring 2008 semester. He will teach Family Law and Parent, Child & State Law . He is the Mildred Van Forhis Jones Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he has taught since 1996. A leading scholar at the intersection of constitutional law and family law, Professor Meyer's articles have appeared in the University of Chicago Legal Forum, Minnesota Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and other journals. Professor Meyer served as U.S. national reporter on family law at the past two congresses of the International Academy of Comparative Law, in Utrecht (2006) and Brisbane (2002).In 2006, Professor Meyer delivered the Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture at Hofstra University School of Law (“The Constitutional Rights of Non-Custodial Parents”), and the inaugural Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law at the University of Florida (“Palmore Comes of Age: The Place of Race in the Placement of Children”). He was a visiting professor at George Washington University Law School in 2002. After law school, he clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Byron R. White on the United States Supreme Court. Prior to teaching, he served as a Legal Advisor to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague and practiced law in Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 804 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 7551 Email: david.meyer@brooklaw.edu Thane S. Pittman Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., Kent State University M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa Professor Pittman is visiting for the Summer 2008 semester. He will 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 th 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). Anthony P. Polito Visiting Professsor of Law Education: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology J.D., Harvard University Law School LL.M., New York University Law School Professor Polito is visiting for the 2007-2008 academic year and this fall will be teaching Federal Income Taxation and Taxation of International Transactions. In the spring, he will teach Corporate Finance. He joins us from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, where he is a Professor of Law since 2002, and has been a member of the faculty since 1998. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Boston College Law School and the University of Lund in Sweden. An expert on corporate tax law, he has published several books on the topic, as well as numerous articles in law and tax journals. Prior to teaching, Professor Polito practiced tax law at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, at Richards & O’Neil, and at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City. After law school, he clerked for Judge Jack B. Jacobs in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 702 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 7545 Email: anthony.polito@brooklaw.edu Amos Shapira Visiting Professor of Law Education: LL.M., Hebrew University M.C.L., Columbia University J.S.D., Yale University Professor Shapira is visiting in the Fall 2007 semester from Tel Aviv University in Israel. A perennial visitor to the Law School, he will be teaching Bioethics and Public Policy and co-teaching Comparative Constitutional Law with Adjunct Professor Judge David Trager. He has held the Lubowski Chair in Law & Biomedical Ethics at Tel Aviv University since 1985, and serves as the editor of the Tel Aviv University Studies in Law. He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, as well as the former Co-Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights and the former Director of the Cegla Institute of Comparative and Private International Law. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions in the United States and abroad, including Yale University, Tulane University, Columbia University, Hong Kong University, Graz University, and The Hague Academy of International Law. He has written numerous articles in Hebrew, English and other languages, and is the author of The Interest Approach to Choice of Law and editor of Introduction to the Law of Israel. Professor Shapira is a member of several organizations concerned with international law, ethics and science, and health care issues, and is the recipient of many distinguished honors and awards. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 804 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 7551 Email: amos.shapira@brooklaw.edu Winnie F. Taylor Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., Grambling State University J.D., State University of New York School of Law at Buffalo LL.M., University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Taylor is visiting for the 2007-2008 academic year. This fall she will be teaching Commercial Transactions: Sales, International Sales & Leasing. In the spring, she will teach Contracts. She is a national legal authority in consumer law, contracts, and credit and employment discrimination. Following two years of private practice after graduation from SUNY Buffalo School of Law, she received an LL.M. degree from University of Wisconsin School of Law. She turned to teaching in 1979 at University of Florida, and was visiting professor at University of California's Hastings School of Law, University of Utah, and Brigham Young University, and joined the Cornell Law School faculty in1990. She has served Cornell University as Associate Provost, and since 1978 has consulted on Equal Credit Opportunity and Equal Employment Opportunity Laws. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 914 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 0644 Email: winnie.taylor@brooklaw.edu