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.

Professor Welkowitz joined the Whittier faculty in 1983. Prior to that time, he practiced law as a litigation associate with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York. At Whittier, he has taught numerous courses, to first-years and upper-level students alike. His primary teaching emphases have been Civil Procedure and intellectual property, particularly Trademark law. He has also created more than a dozen lessons for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) in Civil Procedure, Trademarks, and Copyright. He was a CALI Fellow in Trademarks in 2003 and a CALI Fellow in Copyright in 2004. From 2006-2009, he served as the Director of the Whittier Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law. His scholarship has ranged from topics in Civil Procedure to various intellectual property issues, both domestic and international. He is the author of a treatise on Trademark Dilution law and a co-author of a casebook on Rights of Publicity. His articles have been cited by courts, treatise writers in both Civil Procedure and Trademarks, and numerous articles.

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.

Her recent publications include ETHICAL ISSUES IN FAMILY REPRESENTATION (Carolina Academic Press 2010); PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH (Context and Skills Series)(Carolina Academic Press 2012); Fifty Years of Family Law Practice - The Evolving Role of The Family Law Attorney, 24 J. AMER. ACAD. MATRIM. L. 601 (2011); Lessons Learned About Classroom Teaching from Authoring Computer-assisted Instruction Lessons, 38 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 1094 (2012).

Professor Glesner has held leadership positions in many organizations devoted to legal education, including the AALS Section on Teaching Methods (Chair 2012-13); the AALS section on Professional Responsibility (Chair Elect 2015-16); the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (Board of Directors, 1998‐2005; President 2002‐2005; Editorial Board 1998- current); and the Institute for Law School Teaching and Learning (Advisory Board 2003-date, Acting President 2006‐2008).

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.