Gregory Alexander Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign J.D., Northwestern University School of Law Courses: Legal Research II Gregory Alexander, a nationally renowned expert in property and trusts and estates, is visiting Brooklyn Law School from Cornell Law School, where he is the A. Robert Noll Professor of Law. An active member of the academic community, Professor Alexander has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Law, in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany. A prolific and recognized writer, he is the winner of the American Publishers Association's 1997 Best Book of the Year in Law award for his work, Commodity and Propriety. His most recent book is The Global Debate Over Constitutional Property: Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence (The University of Chicago Press 2006). Following law school, he clerked for Judge George Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. After he completed further study as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Alexander taught at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he remained until joining Cornell in 1985. 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 Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure II, Evidence, Professor Cohen is visiting for the fall 2009 semester. He was a visitor at Brooklyn Law School this past year, and has taught at the School several times in the past. 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 11 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 3rd ed. 2008) (co-author); Tennessee Law of Evidence (Lexis 4th ed. 2000) (co-author); Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Lawyering Strategies (Lexis 2005) (co-author); and Mastering Criminal Law (Carolina Academic Press 2008) (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 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. His background also includes work 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. Professor Cohen has a long history of public service work and has received numerous honors from the bench, bar and academia. Melissa Jacoby Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania J.D., University of Pennsylvania Courses: Contracts Professor Melissa Jacoby is visiting Brooklyn Law School for the 2009-2010 academic year. She is the George R. Ward Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches contracts, secured transactions, bankruptcy, and corporate reorganization, and is a faculty fellow of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies. She was a co-principal investigator of the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project, and a fellow of the Bankruptcy Data Project at Harvard University. Professor Jacoby is a member of the American Law Institute and the National Bankruptcy Conference and now serves as a member of the Conference’s executive committee. She is a recent past chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services, and a former consultant to an advisory committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Prior to joining UNC, she taught at Temple University. She also worked in Washington, D.C. as a senior staff attorney for the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. After law school, she clerked for Judge Robert E. Ginsberg of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois and Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Adam J. Kolber Visiting Associate Professor of Law Education: A.B., Princeton University J.D., Stanford University Courses: Criminal Law, Law and the Brain Seminar Professor Adam Kolber is returning to Brooklyn Law School as a visitor for the fall 2009 semester; he taught last fall. He joins BLS from the University of San Diego where he is an Associate Professor of Law, and this past academic year, he was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Professor Kolber writes and teaches in the areas of neuroethics, bioethics and criminal law and is the founder and editor of the Neuroethics & Law Blog. Before joining the faculty of San Diego, he clerked for Hon. Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. Prior to law school, he was a business ethics consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Among his recent publications, Professor Kolber has written "The Subjective Experience of Punishment," in the Columbia Law Review (2009); "Therapeutic Forgetting: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Memory Dampening" in Vanderbilt Law Review (2006); "A Limited Defense of Clinical Placebo Deception" in Yale Law & Policy Review (2007); and "Pain Detection and the Privacy of Subjective Experience" in American Journal of Law & Medicine (2007). Susan Scafidi Visiting Professor of Law Education: A.B., Duke University J.D., Yale Law School A.B.D., University of Chicago Courses: Property, Trusts and Estates, Fashion Law Seminar Professor Susan Scafidi is visiting Brooklyn Law School for the fall 2009 semester. She has been a visiting professor at Fordham Law School for the last several years, and is the first U.S. law professor to offer a course in fashion law. The author of Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, her areas of expertise include property, intellectual property, cultural property, international law, trusts & estates, and legal history. She has testified in Congress regarding the proposed extension of legal protection to fashion designs through the Design Piracy Prohibition Act, and she keeps a blog on law, fashion and intellectual property, Counterfeit Chic. Prior to teaching at Fordham, she was most recently a tenured member of both the law and history faculties at Southern Methodist University and taught at a number of other law schools, including Yale and Georgetown. After law school and graduate school, she clerked for Judge Morris S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Amos Shapira Visiting Professor of Law Education: LL.M., Hebrew University M.C.L., Columbia University J.S.D., Yale University Courses: Bioethics and Public Policy, Comparative Constitutional Law Amos Shapira, a long-time visitor at Brooklyn Law School, is visiting for the spring 2010 semester. His scholarship is primarily in the area of private international law, law and biomedical ethics, and constitutional law. He is currently a professor of law at the Buchamann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. Professor Shapira has held the Lubowski Chair of Law and Biomedical Ethics and co-directed the Tel Aviv University Minerva Center for Human Rights, and he is the former dean of the Faculty of Law and director of the Cegla Institute for Comparative and Private International law. He is a member of the Presidium of the Israel Press Council and is the vice president of the German-Israeli Jurists Association and the vice president of the Scientific Committee of the International Bioethics Society in Spain; and he sits the board of directors of the Israeli Opera and the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. He is also a member of the Tel Aviv University Biomedical Research in Humans Review Board and Animal Experimentation Review Board, as well as the Human Experimentation National Review Board. He serves in various capacities for numerous other bodies, including the American Law Institute; the Israel Democracy Institute; the National Bioethics Council; and the Bioethics Committee of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has been a visiting professor at a dozen law schools abroad, among them Yale, Columbia and the University of London, and is the recipient of several prizes, including the Fritz Naphtali Prize, Pinhas Rosen Prize and Giztelter Prize, and the Zeltner Prize. Professor Shapira also serves on the International Board of Editors for the American Journal of Law & Medicine and is an international fellow at the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences at the Hastings Center and a deputy president of the Israel Press Council. He is the author of numerous publications 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 and TAU Studies in Law. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 804 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: (718) 780-7551 Email: amos.shapira@brooklaw.edu Mark Weidemaier Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., Carleton College J.D., University of Minnesota Courses: Contracts Mark Weidemaier is visiting Brooklyn Law School in the Spring 2010 semester from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses in commercial arbitration, contracts, and complex civil litigation. His research focuses on how litigants, lawyers, and other private actors create (and fill gaps in) disputing systems. His current projects explore the impact of standardization on the dispute resolution provisions in sovereign bonds and the process by which arbitrators generate and apply legal norms. Following law school, Professor Weidemaier clerked for Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then practiced law in the complex commercial litigation group at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia and worked at the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.