Faculty Expertise

Dedman School of Law Faculty Experts

Faculty & Title	Areas of Expertise
Roy Ryden Anderson Vinson & Elkins Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Professor of Law	Contract Law Commercial Law
Hillel J. Bavli Assistant Professor of Law	Torts Evidence Procedure Law and Statistics Law and Economics
Misty Birdsong '02 Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. Larry and Jane Harlan Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Law	Constitutional Law
Chante Brantley Director of the VanSickle Family Law Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor	Family Law
Dale Carpenter Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law and Professor of Law	Constitutional Law First Amendment Sexual Orientation and the Law
Michaela C. Cashen Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Anthony J. Colangelo Professor of Law	Conflict of Laws Civil Procedure Public International Law Private International Law U.S. Foreign Relations Law
James W. Coleman Associate Professor of Law	Energy Law
Jennifer M. Collins Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law	Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Family Law Gender
Nathan Cortez Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor of Law in Leadership and Latino Studies	Administrative Law Food and Drug Law Health Law International Health Legislation and Regulation
Gregory S. Crespi Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professorship in Commercial and Insurance Law and Professor of Law	Contract Law Disability Rights Corporate Law Law and Economics Legal Education
Ruth A. Cross Director of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy Program and Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy Civil Litigation Dispute Resolution
William V. Dorsaneo, III Chief Justice John and Lena Hickman Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law	Appellate Practice and Advocacy Civil Procedure Texas Procedure Torts
Beverly C. Dureus Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Jeffrey M. Gaba M.D. Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law	Administrative Law Environmental Law Property
Joanna L. Grossman Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law and Professor of Law	Sex Discrimination Family Law
Christopher H. Hanna Alan D. Feld Endowed Professor of Law and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor	International Tax Law Corporate Tax Law Tax Accounting
Grant M. Hayden Professor of Law	Corporate Governance Voting Rights Labor Law
Patricia S. Heard Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
JoAnn Hubbard Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Lolita Buckner Inniss Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law	Critical Race Theory Gender and the Law Critical Discourse Analysis Real Property Law
Greg Ivy Associate Dean for Library and Technology and Senior Lecturer	Information Technology in Legal Education Legal Research
Chris Jenks Director of the Criminal Clinic and Associate Professor of Law	Autonomous Weapons Military Law National Security Law Evidence Criminal Law International Law Human Rights
Jeffrey Kahn Professor of Law	U.S. Constitutional Law Russian Law National Security Law International Human Rights Law European Convention on Human Rights Administrative Law
John S. Lowe George W. Hutchison Chair in Energy Law and Professor of Law	Energy Law Oil and Gas
George A. Martinez Professor of Law	Immigration Law Law and Philosophy
Thomas Wm. Mayo Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law	Bioethics Election Law Health Law Non-profit Organizations
Orly Mazur Associate Professor of Law	Federal Income Tax Law International Tax Law Corporate Tax Law Tax Policy
Pamela R. Metzger Director of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center and Professor of Law	Criminal Law Family Law
Natalie Nanasi Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and Assistant Professor of Law	Clinical Legal Education Humanitarian Immigration Law Domestic Violence Law
Joseph J. Norton James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor in Financial Institutions Law	Business International Economic Law
Anna C. Offit Assistant Professor of Law	Criminal Law Evidence Legal Ethics
W. Keith Robinson Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation and Associate Professor of Law	Patent Law Intellectual Property Law and Technology
Julie Forrester Rogers Professor of Law	Real Estate Law Property
C. Paul Rogers III Marilyn Jeanne Johnson Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law and Former Dean	Antitrust Law Contract Law
Eric Ruben Assistant Professor of Law	Criminal Law Professional Responsibility
Meghan J. Ryan Associate Dean for Research, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law	Law and Science Torts Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Actual Innocence Death Penalty
Mary Spector Associate Dean for Clinics, Director of the Civil/Consumer Clinic and Professor of Law	Consumer Credit Consumer Debt Collection Credit Reporting Deceptive Trade Practices Tenants Rights Access to Justice Clinical Teaching
Marc I. Steinberg Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Law	Business Enterprise Law Securities Law Legal Ethics
Heather L. Stobaugh Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research
Diane M. Sumoski Director of the W. W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic, Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Institute for Children's Rights, and Clinical Professor	Child Welfare Law Investigations Trial Advocacy Civil Litigation
Joshua C. Tate Professor of Law	Legal History Trusts and Estates Property
David O. Taylor Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation and Associate Professor of Law	Patent Law Patent Litigation Federal Civil Procedure Appellate Practice and Advocacy Contract Law
Elizabeth G. Thornburg Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Richard R. Lee Endowed Professor of Law	Civil Procedure Alternative Dispute Resolution Law and Culture
Jenia Iontcheva Turner Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professor in Criminal Law	Criminal Procedure Comparative Criminal Procedure International Criminal Law International Law
Jonni Walls Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Employment Litigation Supervisor training and counseling with respect to Human Resource issues
Jessica Dixon Weaver Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow, and Associate Professor of Law	Child Welfare Law Children's Rights Family Law Legal Ethics Feminist Legal Issues