Feb. 27, 2008 – Brooklyn Law School is proud to announce the hiring of seven new faculty members who will begin teaching during the 2008-09 academic year. They are a mix of young scholars and accomplished teachers, and several are joining the Law School after years in practice. They will be teaching in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, intellectual property, contracts, commercial law, tax, civil procedure, and criminal law.

William D. Araiza will be joining BLS in January from Loyola Law School Los Angeles, where he has taught since 1995, currently serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty, and is the Rev. Richard A. Vachon, S.J. Fellow and Professor of Law. His teaching and scholarly interests are in administrative and constitutional law.

After graduating from Yale Law School, Araiza clerked for the Honorable William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then for the Honorable David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. He practiced as an associate with two large law firms in Los Angeles, and he served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of California Los Angeles Law School and as a visiting professor at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

Araiza has written many articles and has contributed to several texts on administrative and international law, and he is the co-editor of a casebook on constitutional law. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a masters degree from Georgetown University.

Jonathan Askin comes to BLS as an experienced attorney in the communications industry. In private practice, he provides legal and policy counsel and strategic advice for companies that build and develop networks and Internet applications. Prior to that, he served as general counsel to Pulver.com Enterprises, an Internet communications company. He was also a senior attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, where he served in the Common Carrier Bureau’s Policy & Program Planning Division, and a deputy public advocate with the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, where he represented taxpayers on telecommunications and cable issues before courts and administrative bodies.

Askin graduated with honors from Rutgers Law School, where he was Notes and Comments Editor for the Law Review, and from Harvard University cum laude with an economics degree. After law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court and practiced as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardell.

Miriam Hechler Baer is currently an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law, where she teaches legal research and writing, advocacy, negotiation, mediation, and counseling. Prior to teaching, she was Assistant General Counsel for Compliance with Verizon, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, an associate with Cravath Swaine & Moore, and a law clerk to the Honorable Jane Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Baer’s legal scholarship focuses on private and public efforts to restrain undesirable behavior in corporate settings. Her paper “Insuring Corporate Crime” was among five papers showcased for commentary from corporate law scholars at the Conglomerate Junior Scholars Workshop in 2007 and will be published in the Indiana Law Journal. She has also published articles in the Columbia Business Law Review and the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.

Baer is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. At Harvard she was the Articles and Managing Editor of the Human Rights Journal and graduated magna cum laude.

Derek E. Bambauer joins BLS from Wayne State University Law School, where he specializes in intellectual property (copyright, patent, and trademark) law and internet law. A former principal systems engineer with Lotus Development Corp. (now part of IBM), Bambauer joined Wayne State after spending two years as a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. At Berkman, he was a member of the OpenNet Initiative and helped research, test, and document how countries such as China, Iran, and Vietnam censor the Internet. His article on derivative works in copyright will appear later this year in the University of Alabama Law Review. He has published articles in University of Colorado Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and others. He has also published technical articles on topics such as data recovery and fault tolerance, and on software environment upgrades.

Bambauer gives presentations on issues such as e-mail spam and Internet filtering in both technical and policy settings. He presented at the World Summit on the Information Society Cybersecurity Meeting on Countering Spam in July 2005, and before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in April 2005.

Bambauer graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude with degrees in history and science and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Robin J. Effron currently serves as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She has been teaching legal research and writing since 2006 and is currently teaching a seminar on Comparative Perspectives on Contract Law.

Among her recent publications are articles published in the Southern California Law Review, NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, and NYU Law Review. Fluent in German, she spent the 2005-06 academic year in Germany as a fellow in the D.A.A.D. Program for International Lawyers and worked with attorneys in the legal department of a large investment bank to research questions of German and U.S. law. Following graduation from New York University School of Law, where she was Articles Editor at the NYU Law Review, Effron served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She holds a B.A in philosopy from Columbia University, Barnard College.

Rebecca M. Kysar has been practicing since 2005 as a tax associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where she is responsible for all tax aspects of complex domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, bank financings, joint ventures, and restructurings. She has guest lectured on corporate tax at New York University School of Law, and she developed and taught several in-house tax CLE course on international taxation, taxable corporate acquisitons, and tax-exempt organizations.

Kysar’s recent publications have appeared in Tax Notes and the Georgia Law Review. Prior to practice, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard Cardamone of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Kysar holds a B.A. in religious studies from Indiana University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, she was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Coker Teaching Fellow.

Winnie F. Taylor will join Brooklyn Law School, after completing the past year as a Visiting Professor. A member of Cornell Law School’s faculty since 1990, she also served as the Associate Provost for Cornell University, where she was responsible for creating and shaping university policy as it relates to faculty development and enhancement, diversity issues, academic programs, regulatory compliance, and recruiting. Professor Taylor is a national authority in consumer law, contracts, and credit and employment discrimination. Since 1978 she has served as a consultant for Fair Lending and Workplace Equity, focusing on equal credit opportunity and equal employment opportunity laws.

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 began teaching in 1979 at the University of Florida, where she taught until she joined Cornell’s faculty. She has been a visiting professor at the University of California's Hastings School of Law, the University of Utah, and Brigham Young University.