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Vikram Amar is a professor of law at the University of California, Davis as well as a visiting professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Hastings. Professor Amar writes, teaches and consults in the public law fields, especially constitutional law, civil procedure, and remedies. Professor Amar reckons that he has taught more students Constitutional Law than any other law professor in the country over the last fifteen years. He is a co-author of Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 12th ed. 2005), and is a co-author on a number of volumes of the Wright & Miller Federal Practice and Procedure Treatise (West Publishing Co.). Professor Amar authors a bi-weekly column on constitutional matters for findlaw.com (the most frequently visited website devoted to legal issues). He is a frequent commentator on national and local TV and radio, and has written dozens of op-ed pieces for newspapers and magazines.
Rachel Barkow is a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Professor Barkow teaches courses in criminal law and administrative law, as well as a public law colloquium. She has written extensively on criminal law topics, with a particular emphasis on how to apply the lessons and theory of administrative law to the administration of criminal justice. Professor Barkow has been invited to present her work in various settings. In the summer of 2004, Barkow testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing on the future of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. She has also presented her work on sentencing to the National Association of Sentencing Commissions Conference, the Federal Judicial Center's National Sentencing Policy Institute, and the Judicial Conference of the Courts of Appeals for the First and Seventh Circuits. In addition, Barkow has presented papers at numerous law schools. She was awarded the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A. 1993), Barkow attended Harvard Law School (J.D. 1996), where she won the Sears Prize, which is awarded annually to two students with the top overall grade averages in the first-year class. Barkow served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman on the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Barkow was an associate at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans in Washington, D.C., from 1998-2002. She took a leave from the firm in 2001 to serve as the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Vicki Been, the Elihu Root Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, is the Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Professor Been teaches courses in land use regulation, property, and state and local government, as well as seminars on The Takings Clause, green building, governing New York City, and environmental justice. She also co-teaches an interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Law, Economics and Politics of Urban Affairs. Professor Been served as an Associate Professor at Rutgers University School of Law in Newark between 1988 and 1990, then joined the faculty at New York University School of Law. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia Law School. Professor Been has written extensively on the Fifth Amendment's Just Compensation Clause, environmental justice, impact fees, inclusionary zoning, community benefits agreements, housing affordability, "smart" growth and other land use topics, and is a co-author of one of the nation’s leading land use textbooks, Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials (with Robert C. Ellickson) (Aspen Law & Business 2005). Professor Been was awarded the NYU Law Alumni Teaching Award in 1998.
Arthur Best has taught torts since 1976 and is co-author of a widely-used torts casebook. He has been a “Professor of the Year” at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and has organized and taught bar review lectures for that school’s students. Evaluating both his torts casebook and a volume in the Examples and Explanations series, students have praised his ability to explain complex concepts with simple language. In Best’s opinion, when you really understand something you can usually discuss it in everyday language. Best’s background includes service in the General Counsel’s office of the Federal Communications Commission, as a litigator for the Federal Trade Commission, as a Deputy Commissioner in the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, and as a project director for Ralph Nader’s Center for the Study of Responsive Law.
Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, Catherine Carpenter teaches and writes in the field of property and criminal law. Her audio CD, Future Interests, produced by Thompson West as part of its Law Legend Series, is in its third edition. Professor Carpenter has lectured on the subject of property for BARBRI and LECC. A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Professor Carpenter also serves on the editorial board of CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction), the ABA Accreditation Committee, and is a past chair of the ABA Curriculum Committee. Professor Carpenter graduated from UCLA and Southwestern Law School and is a member of the California bar.
Neil H. Cogan is Vice President for Legal Education, Dean and Professor of Law at Whittier Law School. Professor Cogan received his B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania and later clerked for the Honorable J. Sydney Hoffman at the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. Before joining Whittier, Professor Cogan was an associate dean and professor at Southern Methodist University, dean and professor at Quinnipiac College, and a visiting scholar at Hebrew University, Yale University, and the Department of Justice. Professor Cogan teaches civil procedure, constitutional law, federal courts, law and philosophy, and legal history. He is the author of several books including The Complete Bill of Rights (Oxford, 1997); Contexts of the Constitution (Foundation Press, 1999); and The Complete Reconstruction Amendments and Statutes (6 vol., Yale University Press, forthcoming). He is an experienced constitutional law and civil rights litigator.
Steve Emanuel’s life’s work has been to help law students become lawyers. While Steve was a first-year law student at Harvard Law School in 1974, he sat in his dorm room writing and publishing the first Emanuel Law Outline, in Civil Procedure. He gradually wrote and published additional titles in the Emanuel series, while making a brief detour to practice law in New York City for two years in the mid 1970s. Today, the Emanuel series is the best-selling line of law school study aids, with more than 65 titles. As part of Emanuel Publishing Corp. (“EPC”), of which Steve was president and owner, Steve acquired and/or started the CrunchTime, Law in a Flash, Siegel’s and Strategies & Tactics series, and has written or co-written most of the titles in these series. Nearly 2 million copies of study aids authored or co-authored by Steve have been sold. Steve sold EPC to Aspen Publishers in 2001, and continues to do all revisions on about 20 of the titles in the ELO and CrunchTime series. Steve is a member of the New York and Connecticut bars (since 1977 and 2007 respectively), and is awaiting admission to the Pennsylvania bar, which he passed in 2007. He has waited his entire career for the right time to enter the bar review business, and has decided that that time is 2008, in conjunction with Aspen. Steve is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School.
Ward Farnsworth graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1994. He then served as a law clerk to Richard A. Posner, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and to Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. After a stint as legal adviser to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in the Hague, Professor Farnsworth joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Law in 1997. He offers courses on torts, contracts, civil procedure, admiralty, and rhetoric, and has received multiple awards for his teaching. Professor Farnsworth is author of The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law, published in 2007, and Torts: Cases and Questions (with Mark Grady), as well as many scholarly articles. He also has written a forthcoming book on rhetoric and a treatise on chess that is available on the world wide web.
Joel Friedman, the Jack M. Gordon Professor of Procedural Law & Jurisdiction at Tulane Law School, has devoted his entire professional career to teaching law students. He joined the Tulane Law School faculty in 1976, one year after graduating from law school. He is the author of widely adopted casebooks in civil procedure and employment discrimination law, the editor of a series of highly respected study aids, and the author of numerous law review articles published in such journals as the University of Texas, Vanderbilt, Cornell, Tulane, and Washington & Lee Law Reviews. Throughout his career, Professor Friedman also has been extensively involved in continuing legal education, having lectured at many CLE conferences and at education conferences for federal judges sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center. Professor Friedman’s service in that latter capacity was recognized when he received the Center’s prestigious Judge John R. Brown Judicial Scholarship & Education Award. He also is a recipient of The Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award at Tulane Law School and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 1990. In addition to being a permanent member of the Tulane law faculty, Professor Friedman has been a visiting professor at the law school at The University of Texas, The University of San Diego, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Tel Aviv, and Chuo University of Japan. Professor Friedman is a graduate of Cornell University and Yale Law School.
Professor Griffin holds the Larry and Joanne Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center, where she teaches constitutional law, torts and law and religion as well as legal ethics. She is the author most recently of Law and Religion: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 2007), which combines her academic interests in law and religion. Professor Griffin holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Prior to joining the UH faculty, she clerked for the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was an assistant counsel in the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigates professional misconduct by federal prosecutors.
Professor Amos Guiora, SJ Quinney College of Law, The University of Utah teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, international law, global perspectives on counter-terrorism, and religion and terrorism. In addition, Guiora incorporates innovative scenario-based instruction to address national and international security issues and dilemmas. Prof. Guiora is a Research Fellow at the International Institute on Counter-Terrorism, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzeliya, Israel, a Corresponding Member, The Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, University of Utrecht School of Law and has been awarded a Senior Specialist Fulbright Fellowship for The Netherlands in 2008. Professor Guiora has published extensively both in the US and Europe on issues related to national security, limits of interrogation, religion and terrorism and the limits of power. Prof Guiora is the author of "Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism", "Fundamentals of Counterterrorism", "Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation" and "Freedom from Religion". Professor Guiora served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General’s Corps (Lt. Col. Ret.). He held a number of senior command positions, including Commander of the IDF School of Military Law, Judge Advocate for the Navy and Home Front Command, and the Legal Advisor to the Gaza Strip.
Gerald Korngold will join the faculty of New York Law School as Professor of Law in July. Currently, he is the McCurdy Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, and from 1997 to 2006 he served as Dean of that law school. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Korngold teaches and publishes in the fields of property and real estate law. He is the author of Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes (Juris Publishing); co-author of Cases and Materials on Property (Aspen Publishers); co-author of Cases and Materials on Real Estate Transactions (Foundation Press); and co-editor of Property Stories (Foundation Press). Professor Korngold has also published numerous articles in law reviews and journals on real property topics. He has been elected Teacher of the Year four times by the students. Professor Korngold is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served as an adviser to the Restatement of the Law of Property (Third)—Servitudes. He is also an elected member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Professor Korngold has lectured nationally and internationally on land and property law issues.
Laurie Levenson proudly boasts on her web page that “she loves the law!” For the last twenty years, Laurie has been teaching criminal law and criminal procedure. She has also kept her hand in the “real world” by serving as an expert media commentator for CBS, CNN and NPR. Laurie has covered practically every major criminal trial in America in the last fifteen years, including the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the Michael Jackson molestation case, and the Enron trial. Before starting to teach, Laurie spent eight years as a federal prosecutor. Now, she is the author of the Roadmap on Criminal Law and the Glannon Guide to Criminal Law. She is also the author of treatises on California Criminal Law, California Criminal Procedure and the Federal Criminal Rules. Laurie teaches regularly at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, but has also taught courses at UCLA School of Law, Pepperdine Law School and Southwestern University School of Law. She is a graduate of Stanford University and UCLA School of Law. She has won the award of Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola Law School and at the Federal Judicial Center.
Nancy B. 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. She is admitted to the bars of the states of California, Ohio, Nebraska, Texas, and Nevada and of the United States Supreme Court. In 2001, she was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, and in 2002, she received a Distinguished Alumna Award from Rice University. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Professor Rapoport has also appeared in the Academy Award®-nominated movie, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Magnolia Pictures 2005) (as herself). In her spare time, she competes, pro-am, in ballroom and Latin dancing with her teacher, Sergei Shapoval.
Jim Salzman is the Samuel Fox Mordecai Professor of Law at Duke Law School. In more than fifty articles and five books, his broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning trade and environment conflicts, the history of drinking water, environmental protection in the service economy, wetlands mitigation banking, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services. A popular classroom teacher, Professor Salzman was voted by students as Professor of the Year in 2007 and has lectured in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. He has served as a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, and Stanford Universities, as well as at Macquarie (Australia), Lund (Sweden), and Tel Aviv (Israel) Universities. Professor Salzman was the first Harvard graduate to earn joint degrees in law and engineering and was named a Sheldon Fellow upon graduation. His publications have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, Penn Law Review, NYU Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and other legal, scientific and popular journals.
David A. Sklansky teaches evidence, criminal law, and criminal procedure at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as faculty chair of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 2005 following a decade at UCLA School of Law, where he won the campuswide Distinguished Teaching Award and was twice voted the law school's professor of the year. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1984, Sklansky clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. He briefly practiced labor law at the Washington, D.C., firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser. From 1987 to 1994, Sklansky served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, where he specialized in white-collar fraud prosecutions. While at UCLA, he served as special counsel to the independent review panel appointed to investigate the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division scandal. Sklansky is the author of Democracy and the Police(Stanford University Press, 2008) and a well-regarded evidence casebook, Evidence: Cases, Commentary, and Problems (Aspen Publishers, 2d ed. 2008).
Amy E. Sloan is an associate professor of law at the University of Baltimore where she teaches Torts, Legal Analysis, and Research and Writing. She is the author of several books including Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies. Professor Sloan began her teaching career at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law. She also taught at The George Washington University Law School, where she directed the Legal Research and Writing Program. Professor Sloan is active in the national research and writing community. She served as president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors in 2002-03 and as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research in 1999. She speaks regularly about legal writing and research at local, regional, and national legal writing conferences.
Mary Basick is Associate Director for Student and Graduate Academic Support at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California. Ms. Basick develops and administers the school’s bar preparation programs, providing both group and individual instruction for the essay, performance and MBE portions of the California Bar Exam. Before joining the faculty at Whittier Law School, she taught in the Legal Writing and Academic Support programs at Western State University College of Law. She has also served as a private tutor for students preparing for the California bar examination.
Bridgette M. de Gyarfas has been a Professor of Legal Analysis and Writing and Assistant Dean of Students at Concord University School of Law since 2002. Professor de Gyarfas is also the owner of Law Coaches, LLC – providing individualized coaching/tutoring for law school students all over the country, and has been teaching academic skills courses as a member of Southwestern's adjunct faculty since the summer of 2008. Professor de Gyarfas has practiced law as a sole practitioner specializing in general commercial litigation and bankruptcy law, and as an associate with the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP. She previously served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Kathleen P. March, the Hon. Alan M. Ahart, and the Hon. Vincent P. Zurzolo of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.
Professor de Gyarfas earned her J.D. degree in 1994 from Southwestern, where she was Managing Editor of Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Honors Program. She is a member of the California State and District of Columbia Bars.
Richard Faulkner is the current Director of Academic Achievement at Chapman University Law School, where he teaches a legal analysis workshop geared toward preparing students for the California Bar Exam. He has taught Legal Research & Writing as well as Legal & Equitable Remedies, and has served as a family law attorney for the firms Davert & Loe and Smith, Smith & Blonska. Faulkner has previously served as an LSAT instructor for Kaplan Test Preparation, as well as a tutor at Chapman University Law School.
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Melissa is Vice President of LawTutors, LLC and Of Counsel of Shah Law, LLC where she practices contract law, consumer protection and intellectual property law. Melissa earned her Juris Doctor from New England School of Law in May of 2006, where she was on the New England Journal of International and Comparative Law. She was also Co-Chair of Barrister’s Ball, Secretary of the Student Bar Association, Co-Chair of the Women’s Law Caucus and Vice President of the Entertainment and Sports Law Society. Melissa also tutored contracts, constitutional law and legal research while a student at New England School of Law. As Vice President, Melissa assists in the management of LawTutors as well as being the predominant tutor for students in all bar review subjects. For more information about LawTutors, please go to www.lawtutors.net.
Catherine Glaze is an experienced tutor in Property, Criminal Law & Procedure, and Contracts. She is currently the Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Stanford, a position she has held since 2000. She brings a wealth of experience as both a former law school instructor and practicing attorney. Previously, Glaze served as an associate with the firms of Day, Berry & Howard and Cooley Godward, was in private practice for another three years, and then served as a lecturer, clinical professor, and associate dean for student services at Golden Gate University School of Law.
David has been preparing students for standardized tests for the past eight years. During that time, he has helped students succeed in subjects ranging from calculus to contracts. He spent six years working for Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions, where he was a master teacher specializing in LSAT instruction and the training of new teachers.
David graduated with honors from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2007, where he was an associate editor of the Cardozo Law Review and a member of the trial team.
Paula Manning is Associate Dean for Student and Graduate Academic Support at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California. Ms. Manning directs the school’s academic support programs, including an extensive Bar Preparation Program. Before joining the faculty at Whittier Law School, she held faculty and administrative positions at Western State University College of Law; where she taught substantive and bar preparation courses, and served as Assistant Director of both the Legal Writing and Academic Support programs. For the past seven years, she has developed curricula and provided instruction in various bar preparation courses. She has lectured locally and nationally on preparing students for the bar examination.
Sheri received her degree from Suffolk Law School, and is currently licensed in both Massachusetts and New York. While at Suffolk, Sheri focused on intellectual property law and graduated with a concentration in intellectual property. She was also a chair of the Intellectual Property Law Student Association. Sheri is currently a Director at The Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Of Counsel at Shah Law, LLC and an Attorney Instructor for LawTutors, LLC.
Fedora J. Nick is the managing director of Executive Bar Review. Execbar is a full-service bar review program that works with bar exam candidates on an exclusive, one-on-one basis with focus on specific proven methods for the achievement of passing bar exam scores. Ms. Nick has long been recognized as a leading expert in the bar preparation field and is the author of the NBR Performance Review and co-author of the NBR Hypothetical Enhancer Method. Previously, she worked in litigation and trademark and copyright law. Ms. Nick received her JD from The American University Washington College of Law in 1995, where she served as the editor of American Jurist Magazine. She clerked for the Federal Communications Commission and worked in NBC’s Law & Government relations division. She is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit, Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California. In June of 2000 she was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Tania is the President and Founder of LawTutors, LLC and a Founder of the Law Firm Shah Law, LLC where she specializes in business law. Tania earned her Juris Doctor from Boston University Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Journal of Science & Technology Law and a Finalist in the Honors Albers Moot Court Final competition. She was a Semifinalist in the National Moot Court Competition and Albers Moot Court Director and Judge. Tania is also the co-author of the new essay series What Not To Write. For more information about LawTutors, please go to www.lawtutors.net.
Professor Wonsowicz is the Director of the Academic Success Program at UCLA School of Law and teaches Evidence and Constitutional Law. Previously, Professor Wonsowicz taught at the Boyd School of Law at UNLV and at Vermont Law School. He has won the Student Bar Association’s Professor of the Year Award at both of those schools. In addition to teaching Evidence and Constitutional Law, Professor Wonsowicz has also taught Environmental Law, Environmental Advocacy, Environmental Crimes, Products Liability, and Trial Advocacy.
