Wayne State University Law School

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Full Time Faculty

Sarah Abramowicz
Assistant Professor of Law
Room 3249
(313) 577-3348
sabramowicz@wayne.edu

Sarah Abramowicz joined the faculty in Fall 2007 as an assistant professor of law. Her scholarship focuses on the history of child custody law and of legal adoption in eighteenth- ...
Robert M. Ackerman
Dean and Professor of Law
Room 3315
(313) 577-3933
ackerman@wayne.edu

Robert M. Ackerman was named the 10th dean of Wayne State University Law School, effective May 13, 2008. Ackermancame to Wayne Law from Penn State University's Dickinson School of ...
Aimée Mangan Bacik
Legal Writing Instructor
Room 3338
(313) 577-1773
abacik@wayne.edu

Aimée Mangan Bacik serves as a legal writing instructor. Professor Bacik was the faculty services librarian at the University of Michigan Law Library from 2001 to 2006. As part of ...
Laura Beth Bartell
Professor of Law
Room 3207
(313) 577-3540
l.bartell@wayne.edu

Professor Bartell joined the faculty in 1996 after 17 years of private practice in New York. After graduating from Harvard Law School, where she was an officer on the Harvard Law R...
Linda McKissack Beale
Associate Professor of Law
Room 3379
(313) 577-3941
lbeale@wayne.edu

Professor Linda M. Beale received a B.S. degree in chemistry magna cum laude from Duke University, an MA and PhD in linguistics from Cornell, where she was a Herbert Lehman Fellow,...
Erica Beecher-Monas
Professor of Law
Room 3339
(313) 577-3214
e.beecher@wayne.edu

Professor Erica Beecher-Monas taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law from1996 until 2005. Her areas of expertise include corporations and evidence. She h...
Jocelyn F. Benson
Assistant Professor of Law
Room 3223
(313) 577-3971
jbenson@wayne.edu

Professor Jocelyn Benson is currently an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School. She also serves as the founder of the Richard Austin Center on Elect...
Kingsley R. Browne
Professor of Law
Room 3229
(313) 577-0476
Kingsley.Browne@wayne.edu

Prior to joining Wayne State's faculty in 1989, Professor Browne was a partner in the San Francisco-based law firm of Morrison & Foerster, where he specialized in labor and emp...
William Burnham
Professor of Law
Room 3401
(313) 577-3928 Home: (734) 663-1240
w.burnham@wayne.edu

Professor Burnham teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Civil Rights Litigation and Trial Advocacy. He has written several articles in these areas and has argued two federal civ...
Anne Marie Burr
Director, Legal Research and Writing
Room 3335
(313) 577-8033
amburr@wayne.edu

Professor Burr serves as the Director of Legal Research and Writing. Most recently, she was employed with the Ave Maria School of Law as an Assistant Professor of Research, Writing...
Stephen Calkins
Professor of Law
Room 3201
(313) 577-3945
calkins@wayne.edu

During 1995-97, Professor Calkins served as General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission, a position to which he was nominated by FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky. At Wayne, Profes&...
Susan E. Cancelosi
Assistant Professor of Law
Room 3255
(313) 577-3952
scancelosi@wayne.edu

Professor Cancelosi teaches elder law and employee benefits, as well as trusts and decedents’ estates. Her research focuses on elder law and retiree benefits, with particular atten...
Kathryn Day
Legal Writing Instructor
Room 3372
(313) 577-4048
kmday@wayne.edu

Kathryn M. Day serves as a legal writing instructor. Most recently, Day served as assistant professor of Legal Research and Writing at Ave Maria School of Law. She has also held po...
Anthony M. Dillof
Associate Professor of Law
Room 3253
(313) 577-9450
dillof@wayne.edu

Professor Dillof currently teaches Torts, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure. In the past, he has taught Civil Rights and Jurisprudence. These classes complement his scholarly in...
John F. Dolan
Distinguished Professor of Law
Room 3217
(313) 577-4856
j.dolan@wayne.edu

As a student, Professor Dolan was a core board editor of the University of Illinois Law Review and a member of his school’s national moot court team. While he was a 3L, he ma...
Paul R. Dubinsky
Associate Professor of Law
Room 3107
(313) 577-3929
ay0476@wayne.edu

Among the themes explored in Professor Dubinsky’s recent work is the extent to which domestic legal systems increasingly are under strain as they are pressed to adjudicate a ra...
Janet E. Findlater
Associate Professor of Law
Room 3237
(313) 577-3962
j.findlater@wayne.edu

Elected to the Order of the Coif following her graduation from law school, Professor Findlater clerked for Michigan Supreme Court Justice Charles Levin. She joined the Wayne State ...
Gregory H. Fox
Professor of Law
Room 3377
(313) 577-0110
gfox@wayne.edu

Greg Fox specializes in international law. He joined Wayne State Law School in 2002 and is now a Professor of Law. Prior to joining the Wayne faculty, Professor Fox was an Assistan...
Lance A. Gable
Assistant Professor of Law
Room 3269
(313) 577-9774
lancegable@wayne.edu

Lance A. Gable, J.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne Law where he teaches Public Health Law, Bioethics and the Law, Torts, and other Health Law courses.Profe...
Noah D. Hall
Assistant Professor of Law
Room 3231
(313) 577-9771
nhall@wayne.edu

Professor Hall’s teaching and expertise is in environmental and water law, and his research focuses on issues of environmental governance, federalism, and transboundary pollution a...
Peter J. Hammer
Professor of Law
Room 3225
(313) 577-0830
phammer@wayne.edu

A Professor at Wayne State University Law School since 2003, Professor Hammer specializes in Health Law & Policy, examining the industry from an institutional economic perspect...
Peter J. Henning
Professor of Law
Room 3219
(313) 577-3906
peter.henning@wayne.edu

Professor Henning joined the Faculty in 1994 as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Professor of Law in 2002. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Ce...
Sharon Keller
Visiting Professor
Room 3401
(313) 577-3928
eg5345@wayne.edu

Visiting Professor Sharon Keller will teach courses in Consumer Law, Corporations, Agency and Partnership, and Non-profit Entities. She most recently served as a visiting professor...
Christopher Lund
Assistant Professor
Room 3263
(313) 577-4046
lund@wayne.edu

Assistant Professor Christopher Lund will teach courses in Contracts, Torts and Evidence, and Law and Religion. He most recently served as an assistant professor of law at the Miss...
William J. Mateikis
Visiting Professor of Law
Room 3261
(313) 577-0508
mateikis@wayne.edu

Professor Mateikis is a visiting professor with scholarly interests in dispute resolution, international trade law, and the effect of globalization on labor and employment law and ...
Clara S. McCarthy
Legal Writing Instructor
Room 3267
(313) 577-3947
tikimccarthy@wayne.edu
Michael J. McIntyre
Professor of Law
Room 3235
(313) 577-3944
mcintyre@wayne.edu

Professor McIntyre has taught various tax courses at Wayne State University since 1975. He has written widely on a variety of tax topics, including the taxation of the family, the ...
John E. Mogk
Professor of Law
Room 3399
(313) 577-3955
j.mogk@wayne.edu

Following law school, where he served on the law review and was elected a member of the Order of the Coif, Professor Mogk practiced with Shearman & Sterling in New York. ...
Adele M. Morrison
Associate Professor
Room 3101
(313) 577-1147
ef5389@wayne.edu

Associate Professor Adele Morrison teaches courses in Criminal Law, Family Law and Child, Family and State. She most recently served as visiting professor of law and acting directo...
David R. Moss
Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Room 3384
(313) 577-3970
david.moss@wayne.edu

David Moss is Director of Clinical Education and Assistant Professor (Clinical) at the Law School. David received his B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College in 1982, and his J.D....
Amy Neville
Legal Writing Instructor
Room 3385
(313) 577-8036
ag8346@wayne.edu

Amy Neville has been an instructor of Legal Writing at Wayne State University Law School since 1999. She currently serves as the primary author of the Defender Trial Book and co-au...
Aaron Perzanowski
Assistant Professor
Room 3373
(313) 577-6553
ef7381@wayne.edu

Assistant Professor Aaron Perzanowski will teach courses in the area of Intellectual Property Law. He most recently served as the Microsoft research fellow at the Center for Law &a...
Julia Ya Qin
Associate Professor of Law
Room 3211
(313) 577-3940
ya.qin@wayne.edu

Professor Qin teaches international business transactions, international finance, international trade law and Chinese law. She received her LL.B. from Peking University, and LL.M. ...
Dana A. Roach Thompson
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Room 3259
(313) 577-3961
droach@wayne.edu

Professor Dana A. Thompson joined the Wayne State University Law School faculty as an Assistant Professor (Clinical) in August 2006. She teaches the Small Business Enterprises and ...
Brad R. Roth
Associate Professor
Room 3371 (Law), 2055 FAB (Political Science)
(313) 577-6335
brad.roth@wayne.edu

Professor Roth holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science. He specializes in international law, comparative public law, and political and legal theory. His ...
John A. Rothchild
Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Law
Room 3313
(313) 577-3973
jrothchild@wayne.edu

Dean Rothchild has been a member of the Wayne Law faculty since 2001. He is a co-author of “Internet Commerce,” a law school casebook published by Foundation Press, which has been ...
Alan S. Schenk
Professor of Law
Room 3361
(313) 577-3946
schenk@wayne.edu

Professor Schenk has devoted his academic career to tax law; in particular, he is regarded as an expert on value added taxation (VAT). He is a member of the Michigan and Illinois b...
Robert A. Sedler
Distinguished Professor of Law
Room 3213
(313) 577-3968
rsedler@wayne.edu

Professor Sedler has been at Wayne State University Law School since 1977. Prior to coming to Wayne Law, he was professor of law at the University of Kentucky. He has also held per...
Rachel Settlage
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
(313) 577-1897
ef9281@wayne.edu

Assistant Professor (Clinical) Rachel Settlage teaches internship courses and is directing the new Wayne Law Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic. She most recently served as a clinic...
Ralph Slovenko
Professor of Law
Room 3363
(313) 577-3963
ad4847@wayne,edu

Professor Slovenko was editor in chief of the Tulane Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif while in law school. His wide background has included serving as law clerk to ...
Kristin C. Theut
Legal Writing Instructor
Room 3369
(313) 577-8035
k.theut-newa@wayne.edu

Kristin C. Theut is a lecturer at Wayne State University Law School and a member of its legal writing program. Prior to joining Wayne State's faculty in 1999, Kristin Theut practic...
Jonathan T. Weinberg
Professor of Law
Room 3105
(313) 577-3942
weinberg@wayne.edu

Professor Weinberg has been a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg; avisiting scholar at the University of T...
Vincent A. Wellman
Associate Professor of Law
Room 3247
(313) 577-3969
wellman@millercanfield.com

Prior to law school, Professor Wellman spent two years at the University of Michigan pursuing graduate studies in philosophy. At Yale, he was a director of the Yale Legislati...
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Katherine E. White
Professor of Law
Room 3205
(313) 577-1054
k.e.white@wayne.edu

Professor White received a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1988, a J.D. degree from the University of Washington in 1991, ...
Steven L. Winter
Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law
Room 3329
(313) 577-1053
swinter@wayne.edu

Steven L. Winter joined the Wayne State University Law School in 2002 as the Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law. Before coming to Wayne State, he was a member of the f...