Co-Founders/Editors
David Fagundes was appointed to the Southwestern faculty in Fall 2007. Originally from the Pomona Valley, he has enjoyed returning to Southern California and being in Los Angeles – and at Southwestern in particular – where the profession and legal education are “on the cutting edge of developments in intellectual property and entertainment law.” His current work focuses on the relationship between law governing tangible and intangible property. In two recent articles, Fagundes has argued that the rules and rhetoric of physical property can provide a template for thinking about intellectual property that is helpful, rather than inimical, to the public domain. He recently presented a forthcoming paper that is part of this project, “Property Rhetoric and the Public Domain,” at the tenth annual Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.
Jason M. Solomon joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2005 as an assistant professor. His writing focuses on the theory and practice of civil justice, and his research interests also include regulatory theory and policy, the law of the workplace, and legal education. Since entering the legal academy, Solomon’s scholarship has been published in the Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Texas law reviews.
Prior to joining the Georgia Law faculty, he was chief of staff and counselor to the president of Harvard University. He previously served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. Before entering the law, he worked in the White House and the U.S. Treasury Department.
Advisory Board
William Henderson joined the Indiana Law faculty in 2003 following a visiting appointment at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a judicial clerkship for Judge Richard Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He teaches various business law courses, including Corporations, Business Planning, and a class on law firms as business organization. Henderson is a research associate with the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) and director of the Law Firms Working Group, a joint initiative of the Indiana Law and the American Bar Foundation. He is also a regular contributor to the Empirical Legal Studies Blog.
Nancy Rapoport is the Gordon & Silver, Ltd. Professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture. Among her published works is ENRON: CORPORATE FIASCOS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS (Foundation Press 2004) (co-edited with Professor Bala G. Dharan of Rice University). Rapoport runs a blog located at nancyrapoport.blogspot.com. Rapoport is a former dean of The University of Nebraska Law School and The University of Houston Law Center.
Dan Rodriguez was appointed to the University of Texas-Austin faculty as the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law in July 2007. He came to Texas from the University of San Diego School of Law where he was the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law. He served as Dean of that law school from 1998 until 2005 and, before that, was a tenured professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law). Professor Rodriguez is a nationally prominent scholar in administrative law, local government law, statutory interpretation, and state constitutional law. He is a leader in the application of political economy and “positive political theory” to the study of public law and he has authored or co-authored a series of influential articles in this vein. In addition to his appointment at UT, Professor Rodriguez is a fellow in law & public policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
Michael H. Schwartz is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Development at Washburn University School of Law. He is also the co‑director of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, the immediate past chair of the Balance in Legal Education Section of the AALS, and the secretary of the Academic Support Section of the AALS.
Professor Schwartz is the author or co-author of multiple books and learning topics, including Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus to the Final Exam (2009) (applying learning theory, teaching theory and instructional design principles to law school teaching); Expert Learning for Law Students (2d ed. 2008) (the first law school text to articulate a vision of self‑regulated learning skills; adopted at more than a dozen law schools); Pass the Bar! (adopted at more than a dozen law schools); Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook (2009) (a contracts text that implements the recommendations of Educating Lawyers (2007) , Best Practices for Legal Education (2007) and instructional design principles); What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2011); and Techniques for Teaching Law II (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2010). He is also the designer of a series of casebooks (approximately 25 under contract so far) and other books based on the model reflected in his contracts text. He was a contributing author to Best Practices for Legal Education (2007).
Susan P Sturm is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Columbia Law School, where her principal areas of teaching and research include institutional change, structural inequality in employment and higher education, employment discrimination, public law remedies, conflict resolution, and civil procedure. She is a founding co-director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change and a founding member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Diversity at Columbia University. She has developed a website with Lani Guinier, racetalks.org, on building multiracial learning communities. In 2007, she received the Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia.
Research Assistant
Martina Palatto
University of Georgia School of Law
Technical Directors
Jerad Davis, Karim Jetha
University of Georgia School of Law