More than a third of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law faculty, an exceptionally large component, have scholarly interests in the law's relationship to scientific and technical fields. Many of these 25 Faculty Fellows bring scientific training and experience that preceded their legal careers. This strong faculty presence has been critical to both the Center's founding and growth at ASU.
Gary E. Marchant Regents' Professor of Law Professor of Law Faculty Director and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law and Ethics Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability, ASU
Gary Marchant’s research interests include the use of genetic information in environmental regulation, risk and the precautionary principle, legal aspects of personalized medicine, and regulation of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, neuroscience and biotechnology. He teaches courses in Environmental Law, Law, Science & Technology, Genetics and the Law, Biotechnology: Science, Law and Policy, and Nanotechnology Law & Policy. He was named a Regents' Professor in 2011 and also is a professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences.
Prior to joining the College faculty in 1999, Professor Marchant was a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis, where his practice focused on environmental and administrative law. During law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and was awarded the Fay Diploma (awarded to top graduating student at Harvard Law School).
Professor Marchant frequently lectures about the intersection of law and science at national and international conferences. He has authored more than 60 articles and book chapters on various issues relating to emerging technologies. Among other activities, he has served on two National Research Council committees, has been the principal investigator on several major grants, and has organized numerous academic conferences on law and science issues.
Douglas J. Sylvester Dean, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Douglas Sylvester was named Dean in March 2012. He previously was Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, and was responsible for building an environment that fosters faculty scholarship, organizing speaker series, mentoring junior faculty, and seeking innovative ways to increase the faculty's visibility.
Interim Dean Sylvester has published, taught and lectured on issues of intellectual property law and commercialization, international law, emerging technologies and privacy. In 2006, he taught Nanotechnology and the Law, the first time such a course was offered in the country by full-time law faculty.
In 2007, Interim Dean Sylvester was appointed Special Consultant to a National Academy of Sciences panel charged with reforming the U.S. Census. He was the founding Faculty Director of the innovative Technology Ventures Clinic, which introduces students to transactional legal practice in high-technology sectors. In recent years, Interim Dean Sylvester also has been an expert witness in cases involving licensing, intellectual property and technology, and has advised numerous entrepreneurs in building their businesses.
Joshua W. Abbott Executive Director Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Prior to joining the College of Law, Josh Abbott worked as an attorney at Wiley Rein in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in international telecom regulation and antitrust litigation. Abbott advised international and domestic companies and trade associations on legal, regulatory, and policy matters relating to communications and information technologies, including satellite, wireless, and broadband Internet, and on privacy and competition issues. He also litigated nationwide class action antitrust cases for clients in the airline, steel, and pharmaceutical industries.
As a student at BYU Law School, Abbott interned in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and served as Executive Editor of the BYU Law Review. After graduating magna cum laude, he clerked for Associate Chief Justice Michael J. Wilkins on the Utah Supreme Court.
Kenneth W. Abbott Professor of Law Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation Center for Law and Global Affairs Advisory Board Professor of Global Studies, School of Politics & Global Studies
A leading scholar in international law, Kenneth Abbott’s teaching and research focus on the interdisciplinary study of international law and international relations, including public and private institutions, environmental issues, development policy, global health, and international trade and economic law. He also has a faculty appointment in the ASU School of Global Studies, where he co-directs the global environmental governance program.
Before joining the faculty in 2006, Professor Abbott taught for more than 25 years at Northwestern University School of Law, where he held the Elizabeth Froehling Horner Chair in Law and Commerce. He also served as director of the Northwestern University Center for International and Comparative Studies. Professor Abbott participates actively in conferences and research projects in both international law and international relations and has spoken and taught in many countries. He has served as Chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. Professor Abbott also practiced law at Harris Beach LLP in Rochester, N.Y., served in the VISTA Lawyer’s Program, and was a research fellow at Harvard Law School.
Professor Abbott is a member of the editorial boards of International Theory, the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of International Law and International Relations.
Dan Bodansky Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics, and Sustainability Affiliate Faculty Member, Center for Law and Global Affairs Affiliate Faculty Member, Center for Law, Science & Innovation Affiliate Faculty Member, Global Institute of Sustainability, School of Sustainability, ASU
Daniel M. Bodansky is a preeminent authority on global climate change whose teaching and research focus on international environmental law and public international law. He teaches courses in international law and sustainability and is a key player in the College of Law’s new Program on Law and Sustainability.
Prior to his arrival at the College of Law in 2010, Professor Bodansky was the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. He has served as the climate change coordinator and attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of State, in addition to consulting for the United Nations in the areas of climate change and tobacco control. Since 2001, Professor Bodansky has been a consultant and senior advisor on the “Beyond Kyoto” and “Pocantico Dialogue” projects at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He serves on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, is the U.S.-nominated arbitrator under the Antarctic Environmental Protocol, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Society of International Law. Awards include an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council of Foreign Relations, a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, and a Jean Monnet Fellowship from the European University Institute.
Professor Bodansky’s scholarship includes three books and dozens of articles and book chapters on international law, international environmental law and climate change policy.
Adam Chodorow Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Adam Chodorow’s research and teaching interests lie in tax, administrative and regulatory law. He teaches a variety of tax courses, as well as Law and the Regulatory State. His research focuses on religious taxation and a variety of contemporary tax issues, such as the taxability of virtual income.
Professor Chodorow is Chair of the Teaching Tax Committee of the ABA’s Tax Section and on the Council of the Tax Section of the State Bar of Arizona. He also is Faculty Editor of Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, published by the College together with the ABA’s Section of Science & Technology Law. He also is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Tannenwald Writing Competition.
Before joining the faculty in 2004, Professor Chodorow clerked for Judge Joseph H. Gale of the U.S. Tax Court. At New York University, he won the David H. Moses Memorial Prize for having the highest cumulative academic average and the Harry J. Rudick Memorial Award for distinction in the LL.M. Tax Program. Professor Chodorow was an attorney at Pacific Gas & Electric Company in San Francisco, where he worked on energy-related litigation and regulatory matters, and he also practiced commercial litigation for Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg.
Robert Clinton Foundation Professor of Law Faculty Advisor on Tribal Engagement, Indian Legal Program Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Robert N. Clinton received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1971. He joined Arizona State University in 2001 and serves as the Foundation Professor of Law and as an affiliated faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program.
Professor Clinton has visited as a scholar or teacher at the law schools of the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, Cornell University, University of San Diego and the Faculty of Law of Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Additionally, he has taught in the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indian and Native Alaskan Students sponsored by the American Law Center, Inc.
He also serves as Chief Justice of the Winnebago Supreme Court and as an Associate Justice of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court of Appeals, the Colorado River Indian Tribes Court of Appeals, the Hualapai Tribal Court of Appeals, and the Hopi Court of Appeals. He also has served as a temporary judge or arbitrator for other tribes and as an expert witness or consultant in Indian law and cyberlaw cases.
Professor Clinton teaches and writes about federal Indian law, tribal law, Native American history, constitutional law, federal courts, cyberspace law, copyrights, and civil procedure. His publications include numerous articles on federal Indian law and policy, constitutional law, and federal jurisdiction. He is the co-author of casebooks on Indian law and federal courts, The Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1982 ed.), multiple editions of American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System, Colonial and American Indian Treaties (a collection on CD-ROM ), and over 25 major articles on federal Indian law, American constitutional law and history, and federal courts, most of which are available online from the Publications link on this website.
Linda J. Demaine Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation Affiliated Professor of Psychology and Director
Linda Demaine's research interests include the empirical analysis of law, legal procedure, and legal decision making, the application of legal and psychological perspectives to social issues, ethical, legal, and social issues deriving from advances in technology, and information campaigns and persuasion. Professor Demaine teaches a Torts course and seminars in Law and Psychology and Cults and Alternative Religions. In 2005, she founded the Law and Psychology J.D./Ph.D. program, a joint venture of the College and ASU’s Department of Psychology that focuses on the analysis and improvement of law and public policy.
Before joining the College faculty in 2004, Professor Demaine was a behavioral scientist and policy analyst at RAND, where she led and participated in diverse projects, including an analysis of biotechnology patents and the strategic use of deception and other psychological principles in defense of critical computer networks. She has held an American Psychological Association Congressional Fellowship, through which she worked with the Senate Judiciary Committee on FBI and Department of Justice oversight, judicial nominations and legislation. Professor Demaine also has held an American Psychological Association Science Policy Fellowship, working with the Central Intelligence Agency's Behavioral Sciences Unit on issues involving cross-cultural persuasion.
Ira Mark Ellman Professor of Law Affiliate Professor of Psychology Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Ira Ellman’s current scholarly projects include an empirical investigation into how people make judgments about appropriate legal rules, and he has recently been awarded a large grant from an English foundation to extend that work to the United Kingdom. He is an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Child and Youth Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Professor Ellman was Chief Reporter for the American Law Institute's 10-year study, Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, and is senior author of a leading text on family law. Before joining the College faculty, he served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a legislative aide to Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, and a consultant to the California legislature. He recently returned from a semester as a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has previously visited at Hastings College of Law, Brooklyn Law School, the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, the Earl Warren Institute, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society, at U.C. Berkeley. Professor Ellman has served on many legislative and judicial committees in Arizona concerned with family law and policy, including the Arizona Child Support Guidelines Committee. He has also written on health care law and was a founding member of the Bioethics Committee of Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix.
Joseph M. Feller Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Professor Feller’s writings have appeared in numerous legal and scientific journals, and he is an author of the American Bar Association's NEPA Litigation Guide. He is a leading advocate for reform of livestock grazing on public lands in the western United States, and has represented environmental interests in litigation before administrative boards, federal district courts and courts of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Feller is an avid runner, hiker, photographer and cross-country skier, and he served as a coach for the Brazilian national cross-country ski team in 2008.
Aaron X. Fellmeth Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation Faculty Fellow, Center for Law and Global Affairs
Aaron Fellmeth has studied international law from an interdisciplinary perspective since 1991. His research and teaching focus on international law jurisprudence and the formation of rules of customary international law in contested subjects, such as evolving human rights issues, espionage and covert action, psychological manipulation, new technologies in conventional and asymmetrical armed conflict, and the internationalization of intellectual property rights. Professor Fellmeth also is a leading expert on the law and regulation of international business transactions and intellectual property with a special focus on patent law and technology. He teaches Public International Law, International Business Transactions, Research Methods in International Law, International Trade Law, and Patent Law.
Professor Fellmeth's work has been cited several times by federal courts and in testimony before Congress. He has served as an Executive Advisory Committee member of International Legal Materials and is currently chair of the International Law Association (American Branch) International IP Law Committee. In 2005, he was awarded the Lasswell Prize for Best Policy Sciences Paper.
Before coming to ASU, Professor Fellmeth clerked for the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. International Trade Commission and at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. He then spent seven years at international law firms practicing international business transactions, public international law, and intellectual property law.
Joel Garreau Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values Director, The Prevail Project: Wise Governance for Challenging Futures Affiliate Faculty Member, ASU Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
Joel Garreau, who joined the College in 2010, is a student of culture, values and change. Professor Garreau is the author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human, a look at the hinge in history at which we have arrived. The genetic, robotic, information and nanotechnology revolutions are changing what it means to be human – modifying people’s minds, memories, metabolisms, personalities and progeny – not in some distant science fiction future but right now, on our watch. As director of The Prevail Project, he will build upon a Radical Evolution concept that the Prevail Scenario – the humanistic possibility that we can control and direct this future – might be encouraged. The idea is that if the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) can accelerate the technological future into being, perhaps the same can be done for the responses of our societies.
Professor Garreau is a former long-time reporter and editor at The Washington Post, and he is principal of The Garreau Group, a network of sources committed to understanding who we are, how we got that way, and where we’re headed. Professor Garreau is a fellow at The New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., an affiliate of The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford, a Science Journalism Laureate at Purdue University, and a member of Global Business Network. He has served as a fellow at Cambridge University, the University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University. Professor Garreau is the author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, and The Nine Nations of North America.
Betsy J. Grey Professor of Law Alan A. Matheson Fellow Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Betsy Grey publishes and teaches on issues of tort law, products liability and mass tort litigation, as well as neuroscience and law, and has presented to judicial conferences and other professional groups on these issues. Her recent scholarly work has focused on the study of no-fault compensation systems in the United States, as well as the impact of advancements in neuroscience on tort law. Professor Grey also has taught products liability as part of a common law program to law students in France.
Before joining College faculty, Professor Grey was a commercial litigator at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Shea & Gardner, and a trial attorney for the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice through the Honors Program, where she represented federal agencies and officials in litigation involving constitutional, statutory and regulatory issues. A former articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, Professor Grey clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Grey is a member of the Professional Editorial Board for Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology.
James G. Hodge Jr. Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics Director, Public Health Law Network - Western Region Director, Public Health Law and Policy Program Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation Affiliate Professor, Global Health, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Affiliate Faculty, School of Public Affairs Affiliate Faculty, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Professor Hodge, the recipient of the 2006 Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy from the American Public Health Association, has drafted (with others) several public health law reform initiatives, including the Model State Public Health Information Privacy Act, the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act, and the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act. His diverse, funded projects include work on emergency legal preparedness; the legal framework underlying the use of volunteer health professionals during emergencies; the compilation, study and analysis of state genetics laws and policies as part of a multi-year NIH-funded project; historical and legal bases underlying school vaccination programs; international tobacco policy for the World Health Organization; legal and ethical distinctions between public health practice and research; legal underpinnings of partner notification and expedited partner therapies; and public health law case studies in multiple states. He is a national expert on public health information privacy law and policy, having advised numerous federal, state, and local governments on these issues.
Dr. Hoetker joined the W. P. Carey School in 2011 after ten years at the University of Illinois, where he directed the Center for International Business Education and Research. His interests lie at the intersection of strategy, innovation and globalization. He has a particular interest in the economy and institutions of Japan. He is associate program chair for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society and is a member of the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Organization. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Dennis S. Karjala Jack E. Brown Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Dennis Karjala's work in intellectual property, specifically copyright law, is internationally recognized and complemented by his facility in written and spoken Japanese. Professor Karjala, who joined the College in 1978, teaches courses in property law, copyright, international intellectual property and intellectual property in cyberspace. For the 2008-09 academic term, he is on sabbatical in Bratislava, Slovakia, teaching courses in United States and international intellectual property at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University, and continuing his work in intellectual property law, focusing on copyright, digital technologies, and rights for traditional knowledge.
Professor Karjala was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at the University of Hokkaido, and a Japan Foundation Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He has held visiting professorships at numerous institutions, including the University of Minnesota Law School, Washington University School of Law and UCLA School of Law. He also practiced law at the firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in San Francisco.
In addition to his prowess in Japanese, Professor Karjala speaks German, along with some French and Slovak.
Orde Kittrie Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Orde Félix Kittrie’s teaching and research focus on international law (especially nonproliferation and sanctions) and criminal law.
Professor Kittrie was named 2006-2007 Centennial Professor of the Year at ASU, a university-wide award honoring outstanding teaching inside and outside the classroom. He was also named by Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education as one of the United States’ four most notable Hispanic professors of international law.
Professor Kittrie has testified on nonproliferation issues before both the U.S. Senate and House and recently served as one of 12 members of a special Congressionally-created committee to make recommendations on how to better prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. A Mexican-American, Professor Kittrie is active in the Latino community. Prior to joining the College, he served at the U.S. State Department where, as its lead nuclear affairs attorney, he negotiated five U.S.-Russia nuclear agreements and a U.N. treaty to combat nuclear terrorism. In other assignments, Professor Kittrie directed the Office of International Anti-Crime Programs and was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economics and Business Affairs.
Myles V. Lynk Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation's Program in Public Health Law and Policy Affiliated Faculty in Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, CLAS
Myles Lynk's areas of interest include business and corporate law, civil procedure, legal ethics and professional responsibility, bioethics in health care and law and literature. In 2008-2009 he was a Visiting Honors Faculty Fellow in ASU’s Barrett, The Honors College. In 2010 he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Law’s Alumni Association. From 2004 to 2010 he served as ASU’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative.
Professor Lynk is chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Professional Discipline. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and a member of the U.S. Indian Health Service’s Phoenix Area Institutional Review Board (IRB). He served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and was a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and an Assistant Director on the White House Domestic Policy Staff under President Carter. Professor Lynk served for six years on the Civil Rules Advisory Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, is a past President of the District of Columbia Bar, was a member of the ABA's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and chaired the ABA’s Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law. He co-chaired the State Bar of Arizona’s Task Force on Multi-jurisdictional Practice and was a member of the State Bar’s Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession. Professor Lynk has served as a mediator and an arbitrator and as an expert on legal ethics.
Kris Mayes Professor of Practice Faculty Director, Program on Law and Sustainability
Kris Mayes, a Prescott native, graduated valedictorian from ASU with a degree in political science. She was a reporter for the Phoenix Gazette, and later for The Arizona Republic, before going to graduate school at Columbia University in New York, where she earned a Master of Public Administration. She returned to The Republic, and covered the 2000 presidential campaigns of Sen. John McCain, former Vice President Dan Quayle, publisher Steve Forbes and then-Governor George W. Bush. During this time, Mayes co-authored a book entitled Spin Priests: Campaign Advisors and the 2000 Race for the White House. After the presidential campaign, Mayes attended the College of Law and graduated magna cum laude. While in law school, she was press secretary for Janet Napolitano’s campaign for governor in 2001 and served as her Communications Director in 2002-2003. In October, 2003, Napolitano appointed her to fill an open seat on the Corporation Commission. Mayes was elected to the seat in 2004 and re-elected to a four-year term in 2006, and was prohibited by term limits from running again.
During her time on the Corporation Commission she helped co-author the Arizona Renewable Energy Standard, which requires that by 2025 utilities must generate 15 percent of their overall energy portfolio from renewable sources, like wind solar, biomass, biogas, geothermal and other technologies. The Standard contains the most aggressive distributed generation requirement in the country, requiring utilities by 2011 to acquire 30 percent of their energy from residential or non-utility owned installations, like rooftop solar panels on someone’s home or on a shopping mall. Mayes also helped establish one of the most ambitious energy efficiency standards in the nation, requiring utilities to sell 22 percent less energy by 2010 than they would have under current forecasts.
Eric Menkhus Clinical Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation Director, Innovation Advancement Program
As Director of the Innovation Advancement Program, Eric Menkhus works with students from across ASU – the College of Law, W.P. Carey School of Business, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Barrett, The Honors College – to provide essential services to technology start-up companies and entrepreneurs with ties to Arizona. Professor Menkhus speaks on a wide array of topics to a broad spectrum of audiences, including guest lecturing in engineering and business courses on legal topics such as business-entity formation and intellectual property protection. He also teaches the Legal Studies course in the W.P. Carey Evening MBA Program and has been invited to multiple conferences and panel discussions associated with the Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation, the nation’s preeminent charitable foundation focused on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education.
Jonathan Rose Professor of Law Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Michael Saks Regents' Professor of Law and Psychology Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Michael J. Saks’ research focuses on empirical studies of the legal system, especially decision making; the behavior of the litigation system; and the law’s use of science. Professor Saks is the fourth most-cited law-and-social-science scholar in the U.S., and has authored approximately 200 articles and books. Courses he has taught include criminal law, evidence, law and science, property and torts.
Professor Saks is a member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a joint committee of the American Bar Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He has served as editor of the journals, Law & Human Behavior and Jurimetrics, president of the American Psychology-Law Society and chair of the Section on Law and Social Science of the AALS. For a decade he taught in the University of Virginia Law School's LL.M. program for judges, Duke Law School’s “Judging Science” program and at the National Judicial College, and taught law professors at the Georgetown University Law Center, as well as numerous continuing education programs for attorneys, judges, and scientists.
Ann M. Stanton Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Since joining the College faculty in 1980, Ann Stanton has taught courses in Juvenile Law, Domestic Relations, Elder Law, Law and Gender, Law and Ethics of Lawyering, and Law and Social Science, and seminars in Parent-Child and Law & the Arts. She has written extensively about child custody, children’s and grandparents’ rights, domestic relations and other family-law issues.
Professor Stanton was a Visiting Professor at the University of Santa Clara School of Law, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Prior to entering academia, she practiced civil litigation at the law firm of Severson, Werson, Burke & Melchior in San Francisco. She has served on the Arizona Judicial Council Committee on Child Support and Family Law, Arizona's Task Force on Juvenile Corrections, and the Arizona State Board of Behavioral Health Examiners, and as Chair of the Arizona Commission on Child Support Enforcement. She is a member of the American Psychological Association's Committee on Legal Issues. Professor Stanton’s currently working on a new book titled, Children’s Rights and the Law.
James Weinstein Amelia Lewis Professor of Constitutional Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation Associate Fellow, Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge
James Weinstein's areas of academic interest are Constitutional Law, especially Free Speech, as well as Jurisprudence and Legal History. He is co-editor of Extreme Speech and Democracy (Oxford University Press 2009, paperback edition 2010); the author of Hate Speech, Pornography and the Radical Attack on Free Speech Doctrine (Westview Press 1999); and has written numerous articles in law review symposia on a variety of free speech topics, including: free speech theory, obscenity doctrine, institutional review boards, commercial speech, database protection, campaign finance reform, the relationship between free speech and constitutional rights, hate crimes, and campus speech codes. Professor Weinstein has litigated several significant free speech cases, primarily on behalf of Arizona Civil Liberties Union. Earlier in his career, he wrote several influential articles on the history of personal jurisdiction and its implication for modern doctrine.
Professor Weinstein also has been a principal speaker at numerous national and international conferences on free speech issues.
During law school, he was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Board of Officers. After graduating, he served as a law clerk to James R. Browning, Chief Judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and then practiced civil litigation in Los Angeles for several years before joining the faculty in 1986.
Laurence H. Winer Professor of Law Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Since joining the College faculty in 1983, Laurence Winer has taught courses in Telecommunications and Media Law, Constitutional Law, Ideas of the First Amendment, Law & Ethics of Lawyering, Torts, Analytical Methods for Lawyers, and Defamation & Privacy. His major scholarship focuses on the First Amendment and government regulation of the media and includes published articles, amicus briefs and various government filings.
After graduating from the Yale Law School, Professor Winer spent six years as a litigation associate with the law firm of Csaplar & Bok in Boston. Prior to law school, he taught mathematics at Boston University where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1973. Professor Winer is a former member of the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee of the State Bar of Arizona. He currently is a member of the First Amendment Advisory Council of the Media Institute in Washington, D.C., an independent, non profit research foundation, specializing in issues of communications policy.
Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit: Provocative First Amendment Conflicts, co-authored by Professor Winer and Professor Nina J. Crimm of St. John's University School of Law in New York, was recently published by Oxford University Press. The book examines the provocative mix of religion, politics, and taxes involved in the controversy over houses of worship engaging in electoral politilcal speech.
Roselle Wissler Research Director, Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation
Roselle Wissler conducts empirical research on mediation, arbitration, and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes. Her research and writing address various policy issues relating to ADR and examine the factors that contribute to the use and effectiveness of ADR processes. Her other research interests include alternate compensation systems and decision making concerning liability and damages in civil cases.
Dr. Wissler has served as a research consultant to several state and federal courts, conducting empirical research to assess the effectiveness of mediation and arbitration programs and to address questions regarding program policy and design. She has been on the advisory board of several ADR research projects, and is a reviewer for a number of law and social science journals and for the Law and Social Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation.
Before coming to the College of Law in 2003, Dr. Wissler was Co-Principal Investigator of the Project on Noneconomic Damages Decision Making and Director of Research for the Libel Dispute Resolution Program at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Braden Allenby Senior Research Fellow
Braden R. Allenby is currently Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University, having moved from his previous position as the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T in 2004. He is also a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginias Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University in 1972, his J. D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers in 1992.
Guy A. Cardineau Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Law
Guy Cardineau began his career in the field of Agricultural Biotechnology over 19 years ago as a Scientist at a small start-up company, Sungene Technologies, where he also served a short time as Manager of Market Development. He moved to Agrigenetics in 1989 to head Molecular Biology and then to Mycogen in 1993 as Director of Molecular Biology, eventually with responsibility also for Biochemistry.
In 1996 Professor Cardineau became Director, Technology Development, involved in strategic planning and implementation regarding Intellectual Property and the identification, evaluation and acquisition of technology directed toward future product development. Dow AgroSciences acquired Mycogen in 1998 and Professor Cardineau assumed the positions of Global Leader R&D, Output Agriculture Gene Discovery and Site Leader for the San Diego, Calif., Research Facility. In 2002, he became Global Leader for Science and Technology with responsibilities involved in strategic research planning.
Professor Cardineau left DAS in the fall of 2002 and co-founded proVacs, with Charles Arntzen, Richard Mahoney and Hugh Mason, as part of the Arizona Biodesign Institute at ASU. In 2003, he became a Research Professor at ASU with appointments in the Arizona Biodesign Institute, the Department of Plant Biology and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.