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.

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is seeking nominations of qualified and enthusiastic individuals to fill vacant positions on its Board of Directors. If you know of someone who would like to contribute to the research and development, strategic planning and governance of CALI, then consider nominating them for the CALI Board of Directors.

Please clear it with the person first to make sure they WANT to be nominated. Self-nominations are acceptable.  It helps our process if the nominee provides some background on their interest in CALI’s mission and activities.