Barbara Glesner Fines has been on the faculty of UMKC Law School since 1986 and currently serves as the associate dean for faculty development. Glesner Fines’ research interests focus on professional responsibility issues and family law, as well as aspects of legal education.

Professor Glesner Fines received her masters of law degree from Yale University in 1986 and her J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1983. She holds a bachelors of philosophy degree from Thomas Jefferson College of Grand Valley State University (1980), and was selected as that school’s distinguished alumna in 1998. Prior to joining the faculty at UMKC, Professor Glesner Fines taught at the law schools of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Cincinnati.

She teaches the courses Professional Responsibility, Family Law, Ethical Issues in the Representation of Families and the Seminar in Family Violence.

Professor Bradford teaches primarily securities regulation and business associations courses. He is the co-author of an introductory book on accounting, Basic Accounting Principles for Lawyers and numerous articles on securities regulation and regulatory exemptions. He also has a strong interest in legal humor and has authored several humorous law review articles, some of them intentionally humorous.
Professor Bradford is a member of the CALI Editorial Board, and was a CALI Business Organizations fellow. Professor Bradford received his B.S. degree (summa cum laude) from Utah State in 1978, and a M.P.P. and J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University in 1982. Prior to teaching at Nebraska, he worked for the law firm of Jenkens & Gilchrist in Dallas.

Professor Georgakopoulos produces scholarship in the intersection of business and uncertainty. He is the author of The Logic of Securities Law (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press); Principles and Methods of Law and Economics (Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005), a coauthor of the multi-volume Blumberg on Corporate Groups, and numerous articles that have received broad citation, including by the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut before moving to Indianapolis. Hailing from a Greek legal family, he began his legal education in his home country, graduating first in his law school class, and completed it by studying law and finance at Harvard where he subsequently held a postdoctoral appointment. His doctoral dissertation focused on insider trading, disclosure obligations, and securities fraud. One of the resulting articles was cited by the S.E.C. to the U.S. Supreme Court.

He is active in the American Law Institute, the American Law & Economics Association, and the European Association of Law & Economics. He is also a founding member of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association and has served as an adviser to the Capital Markets Commission of Greece.

Professor Freyermuth is the John D. Lawson Professor of Law and a Curators' Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984, and a J.D. with highest honors from the Duke University School of Law in 1987. After clerking with the Honorable John D. Butzner, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, VA, Prof. Freyermuth worked from 1988-1991 as an associate with the Raleigh, NC office of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. He has taught as a visitor at Duke, the University of North Carolina, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Denver. He arrived at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1992 and teaches Property, Secured Transactions, Real Estate Transactions and Finance, and Real Estate Leasing.

Professor Freyermuth serves as the Executive Director of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Real Property Acts. He currently serrves as the Reporter for the Model Commercial Real Estate Receiverships Act, and previously served as the Reporter for both the Uniform Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act and the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act. In 2009, he was elected as a Fellow in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He has also served as a Property Fellow for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and has authored ten CALI lessons in Property law, which are accessible through CALI's website. He serves as the Group Co-Chair of the Legal Education and Uniform Laws Group for the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section, and in that role serves as a program coordinator and recurring moderator of the Professors Corner series (a monthly webinar program on topics of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of real estate and trusts/estates).

Professor Ho teaches and writes in the area of intellectual property as well as civil procedure. She is the author of Questions & Answers: Patent Law, which provides multiple choice and short-answer questions on patent law to help students reinforce their understanding. She has also written a number of articles about domestic and international issues involving patents.

Professor Ho received her B.A from Boston University in 1990 and a J.D. (with honors) from Duke Law School in 1993. Prior to teaching at Loyola, she worked at Fish & Neave, a boutique IP firm. Her practice included patent litigation and prosecution. She is also a registered member of the patent bar.

Professor Garland received a B.S.B.A. in Accounting in 1961 from Northwestern University; a J.D., cum laude, 1964, from Northwestern University; an LL.M., in Trial Advocacy, 1965, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an E. Barrett Prettyman Legal Intern Fellow. He is a member of the California, Illinois, and District of Columbia Bars.

Professor Garland practiced trial law for ten years primarily as a defense attorney before he entered legal education as an assistant professor and assistant dean of admissions for Northwestern University School of Law. He came to Southwestern in 1975 to help design and implement the S.C.A.L.E. program, where he currently teaches Evidence and Criminal Procedure.

I want to welcome Scott Lee to the CALI Staff. Scott started last week as our Community Marketing Specialist. Scott has a ton of experience with various tech companies but is new to the legal education/legal tech space. He will be CALI’s main contact to the CALI Representatives at each law school and will coordinate our activities at AALS, AALL and CALICon.