Faculty

Fall 2011

Margaret Drew (Fall and Spring) is Professor of Clinical Law and the Director of the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, J.D. from Northeastern University, and LL.M. from Boston University. She began practicing law in 1980 in Massachusetts, where she represented victims of violence in the District, Family, and Appellate Courts of Massachusetts. For the 2001-2002 academic year, she was a teacher and supervising attorney with the Domestic Violence Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. From 2002-2005, she was an adjunct professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law while continuing her representation of domestic violence clients, primarily in the Appellate Courts. Professor Drew will direct the Domestic Violence Clinic for 2011-12.

Bill Geimer, Professor Emeritus of Law at Washington and Lee University. He earned his J.D., with honors, in 1969 from the University of North Carolina. While in law school, Professor Geimer served on the editorial board of the North Carolina Law Review. Upon graduation he worked as an assistant public defender in North Carolina (1970-72), then practiced privately (1972-78) in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In 1980 he joined the faculty of Washington and Lee University where he taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Ethical Problems. Professor Geimer also was the director of Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse. Currently, he practices law in British Columbia. Professor Geimer will teach Poverty Law in Fall 2011.

Susan Kuo is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. She earned her A.B., cum laude, in Comparative Area Studies and Sociology from Duke and J.D. from Vanderbilt. Her current research focuses on social justice issues in disaster law and policy, and she has particular expertise concerning riots and mob violence. She has written about criminal law and procedure, privacy, and legal education. Professor Kuo teaches or has taught a variety of courses, including Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Courts, Conflict of Laws, Civil Procedure, Law and Social Justice, and Race and the Law. In 2008 and 2010, she was voted Outstanding Faculty Member by the student body. Prior to entering into teaching, she was a Special Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office in Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Kuo also completed two federal judicial clerkships, one with Judge Eugene E. Siler, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the other with Judge Robert H. Hall of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. At Alabama she is teaching Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure: Pretrial.

Ben Means is a member of the law faculty at the University of South Carolina. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College and J.D. from the University of Michigan. After law school he clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Pooler with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He worked with the law firms Davis Polk & Wardwell and Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke as a litigation associate before joining the law faculty at the the University of South Carolina. Professor Means will teach Agency and Partnership in fall 2011.

Paul Robinson is a member of the law faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, LL.M. from Harvard University, and Diploma in Legal Studies from Cambridge University. His areas of expertise include global human rights, criminal code reform, criminal law theory, and criminal sentencing. He researches in the areas of criminal law, criminal justice, sentencing, and punishment. Professor Robinson teaches criminal law, a criminal law theory seminar, a punishment theory seminar, and criminal law codification, He will teach a mini-course in Special Problems Criminal Law: Doing Justice or Fighting Crime in fall 2011.

Spring 2012

Aharon Barak is the former president of the Supreme Court of Israel. He will return to Alabama Law this spring to teach a course on Proportionality, which is the same course he teaches at Yale Law School. President Barak was named dean of Hebrew University’s Faculty of Law in 1974, served as Israel’s attorney general from 1975 to 1978, was appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel in 1978 and served as its president from 1995 to 2006. He delivered the Law School’s fall 2007 Albritton Lecture.

Elisheva Barak will return to Alabama Law this spring to teach a mini-course on Comparative Labor Law. Professor Barak is the former vice president of Israel’s National Labor Court. Judge Barak clerked for the president of the Supreme Court of Israel, Justice Joel Sussman, and served as a legal assistant to the Court’s three subsequent presidents from 1976 to 1978. In 1987, she was appointed registrar of the Regional Labor Court in Jerusalem, and in 1990, became a judge both there and in the Beersheba Regional Labor Court. She was appointed as judge in the National Labor Court in 1995 and named vice president of the Court in 2000.

Joanne Brant is a member of the law faculty at Ohio Northern University. She earned her A.B. from Cornell University and J.D. from Case Western Reserve. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Brant practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio with the firms of Thompson, Hine & Flory and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey where she specialized in labor and employment litigation. From 1986 to 1987 she clerked for Chief Justice Pierce Lively of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Professor Brant has served on the Attorney General’s Ethics and Professional Responsibility Advisory Council, ABA site inspection team, and as the Chair of the AALS Section on Law and Religion. She will teach a seminar on Church-State Litigation in Spring 2012.

Vaughan Carter currently works in the Ministry of Education, Training and Employment of the Cayman Islands Government, where he is now responsible for further and higher education and human capital development. He received a LL.B. with honours from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England and earned a LL.M. in Human Rights and Civil Liberties from the University of Leicester, also in England. Following the completion of his postgraduate legal studies, Professor Carter initially taught in the United Kingdom, in the School of European and International Studies at the University of Derby, where he designed and taught on courses involving international human rights law and the embodiment of these principles in domestic constitutions. In 1997, Professor Carter accepted a position at the Cayman Islands Law School, where he went onto serve as Senior Lecturer and in the capacity of Acting Director of Legal Studies. During this time he was also acknowledged as a recognized teacher in the Faculty of Law of the University of Liverpool in England. Many of Professor Carter’s publications and presentations have pursued human rights themes in a Caymanian or broader Caribbean context and some of his published work can be found in Public Law, the Law Quarterly Review, the International Journal of Law and Evidence and the Caribbean Law Review. Professor Carter was a founding member of the Cayman Islands Human Rights Committee and subsequently appointed as its Deputy Chairman. The work of this Committee was instrumental in the successful inclusion of fundamental rights for the first time in a new Cayman Islands Constitution. More recently, Professor Carter has provided human rights training for the Commonwealth Foundation’s human rights capacity building project in the British Overseas Territories. In the higher education arena, Professor Carter has represented the Cayman Islands Government on the University Council of the University of the West Indies and is now a member of the Board of Governors of the University College of the Cayman Islands. Presently, he also sits on the Campus Council and the Finance and General Purposes Committee for the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados and is a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Business and Law at Kingston University, England. Professor Carter has previously delivered lectures for Case Western Reserve University, the University of Illinois and DePaul University and will teach an Introduction to International Human Rights Law course at the University of Alabama in spring 2012.

Hanoch Dagan received an LL.B., summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University and LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. He is widely published in both English and Hebrew. Professor Dagan is a Senior Fellow at IDI, where he heads the project on Human Rights and Judaism together with Professors Yedidia Stern and Shahar Lifshitz. He is also a full professor in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University, where he served as Dean from 2006 to 2011, and was the founding director of the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies (2007–2011). Professor Dagan teaches and writes in the areas of property law, unjust enrichment, jurisprudence and the theory of private law. He will teach a mini-course at Alabama on property theory in Spring 2012.

Mona Hymel is the Arthur W. Andrews Professor of Law at The University of Arizona. She received her B.B.A., with Highest Honors, and J.D., with Honors, from the University of Texas. Professor Hymel was a member of the Texas International Law Journal. After law school she worked with the law firm King & Spalding in Washington, D.C. In 1995 she joined the law faculty at The University of Arizona where she teaches Federal Income tax, LLC, LLP and Partnership Taxation, Trusts and Estates, Tax Policy, Accounting and Finance for Lawyers, and Professional Responsibility. Professor Hymel will teach Decedents’ Estates and Legal Profession at Alabama in Spring 2012.