Nichelle “Nikki” Perry (J.D., M.L.S.) is the Director of the North Carolina Central University School of Law Library. She formerly held positions as the Electronic Services Librarian at the University of North Carolina School Of Law Library and as the Reference Instructional Librarian for North Carolina Central University School of Law Library.
Professor Peoples’ research and scholarship is focused on comparative law and on the impact of technology on legal research, the judiciary, and the law. He has published articles, books, and book chapters on these topics. He is co-founding editor of the Legal Information and Technology eJournal on SSRN. He teaches advanced legal research classes and is a frequent lecturer in law school classes. Professor Peoples is active in professional organizations including the American Association of Law Libraries and Association of American Law Schools. He is vice president of the Mid-America Law Library Consortium.
He served as the Director of International Programs for the School of Law from 2007-2010. In that position he developed the innovative Certificate in American Law Program. Prior to his appointment as Law Library Director in 2010 he served as Associate Director, Associate Director for Faculty and Research Services, and Head of Reference Services. Before joining the faculty Professor Peoples practiced law in Oklahoma City. He is admitted to practice in the State of Oklahoma, Western District of Oklahoma, and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ron Brown has been teaching full-time at Nova Southeastern University's Shepard Broad College of Law in Fort Lauderdale, Florida since 1976. His main areas of academic interest are real estate, which includes contracts and negotiable instruments, and statutory interpretation. To learn more about him, visit his faculty page on the NSU College of Law's website.
Professor Moriarty teaches primarily in the area of criminal law. Before coming to the Albany Law School in 1971 he was an Assistant District Attorney in Albany County, New York for a year and was a law clerk in New York's intermediate appellate court (Appellate Division, 3rd Department, Albany, NY) specializing in criminal appeals. Over the years he has taught a number of criminal law courses including Comparative Criminal Law, Sentencing and Punishment, Juvenile Justice, and White Collar Crimes.
Professor Moriarty received a B.S.F.S. (Bachelor of Science, Foreign Service) in 1964 from the Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and a J.D. in 1967 from Georgetown's Law Center.
Andrea Charlow is a professor at Drake University Law School teaching courses in Family Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. She has an A.B. from Vassar College, a J.D. from Albany Law School, and an LLM from Columbia University Law School, where she was a Chamberlain Fellow. She practiced law with the firm of Hancock, Ryan, Shove, & Hust in Syracuse, New York where she was a trial lawyer concentrating in family law and medical malpractice and products liability cases. She is former Chair of the Iowa Governor's Advisory Committee on Child Support Enforcement. She has served as Associate Dean at Drake Law School, Director of the Middleton Children's Rights Center and is in charge of the law school web site. She has been interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" has published articles in the Yale Review of Law Social Policy and the Family Law Quarterly and does workshops and lectures on Family Law and Negotiations.
Melissa Weresh joined the Drake University Law School faculty in 1997. She is a Professor of Law and the Director of Legal Writing. She has lectured and written extensively on the ethical and professional considerations associated with legal writing and communication.
Weresh received the 2009 Warren E. Burger Prize from the American Inns of Court, a writing competition designed to encourage outstanding scholarship that “promotes the ideals of excellence, civility, ethics and professionalism within the legal profession.” She is a current Board member and the President-Elect of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), a non-profit organization with over 2,100 members including representatives from 38 different countries. LWI is dedicated to improving legal writing by providing a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. Weresh is also active in the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD), in various sections of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). Weresh also recently completed her service as the Chair of Professionalism section of the Iowa State Bar Association.
Weresh is the author of numerous books and articles on legal research, legal writing, and ethics and professional responsibility. As a lawyer her practice focused on environmental compliance and litigation.
Robin Kundis Craig has been appointed to a National Research Council Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act. She is the author of numerous articles on environmental law, most of which focus on water, the oceans, and the Clean Water Act. Thomason/West published her textbook on environmental law, Environmental Law in Context, in Spring 2005. Professor Craig is also the author of The Clean Water Act and the Constitution, published by the Environmental Law Institute in late 2004.
Debra Cohen earned her A.B from Brown University and graduated with distinction from Emory University School of Law. She is currently teaching at the University of the District of Washington David A. Clarke School of Law. Professor Cohen began teaching at Emory University and was a tenured associate professor at West Virginia University College of Law. She has also visited at the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law and Roger Williams University School of Law. Professor Cohen teaches in the areas of business organizations, civil procedure, consumer protection, contracts, legal drafting and payment systems. Before entering teaching, she was a general practice associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, where she focused on mergers and acquisitions, and associate counsel for a children's publisher.
David Siegel is a Professor of Law at New England Law|Boston and Co-Director of the school's Center for Law and Social Responsibility, where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Criminal Advocacy and Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Process, as well as Comparative Criminal Procedure. Before teaching, he was a public defender in Nashville, Tennessee for six years, where his practice focused on homicide, juvenile defense, and criminal defense issues related to mental health.
He has written over a dozen articles for law journals and medical journals on issues ranging from police interviews of hospital patients and electronic recording of custodial interrogations to ethical obligations of trial counsel and prosecutors in postconviction litigation, competence assessment by mental health professionals and involuntary medication to establish competence to stand trial. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago, and was a law clerk to the Hon. E. Grady Jolly, Jr., on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Jackson, Mississippi.
Professor Douglas R. Williams’s area of expertise is in environmental law. While his initial scholarship focused on the general problem of placing monetary values on natural resources, his subsequent research has focused more on particular environmental programs, such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
Williams joined SLU LAW in 1991. He has written about the relationship between state and federal regulators and voluntary versus regulatory approaches to environmental protection. Professor Williams has several manuscripts in progress and co-authored the book, Wetlands Law and Policy: Understanding Section 404.
After graduating from Duke Law School, Professor Williams clerked for the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He later became an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., at a time when the federal government began asserting claims for damages to natural resources.
While in private practice, his firm represented the Exxon Shipping Company in connection with the Valdez oil spill in Alaskan waters in 1989. Williams has served as a consulting counsel to the Sierra Club and other environmental groups. In a recent case, he helped the Sierra Club convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that the Environmental Protection Agency’s implementation of the Clean Air Act in St. Louis was improper and unlawful.
While in practice, Williams also represented a client pro bono in post-conviction death penalty proceedings. He has also written in the area of ethics and constitutional law and maintains an interest in constitutional law, particularly congressional powers.