Aviva Anne Orenstein, Professor of Law
Indiana University of Maurer School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic:  TBA
Professor Orenstein writes and teaches in the area of evidence. Her current scholarship examines special evidence rules that allow prosecutors to introduce evidence of a defendant's prior sexual offenses in rape and child molestation cases. Orenstein teaches Civil Procedure and Family Law and has in the recent past taught Legal Profession, and Children and the Law. In 2000-2001, she directed the Child Advocacy Clinic, supervising law students who serve as guardian ad litem for children in contested-custody cases. She has served as a court-appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children and currently does pro bono work in the local family court. In 2004-05, she was a fellow at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, where she now participates in a seminar on "The Ethics and Politics of Childhood."
Orenstein founded and supervises an Outreach for Legal Literacy, a program through which law students teach constitutional law and civics to local fifth-graders. She has written and produced a number of plays on legal and ethical questions used for the professional development of law students and the local bar.

Scott Brewer, Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic:  "Skepticism and the Law of Evidence"
Scott Brewer is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has been a full time faculty member since 1991.  He has also held positions teaching philosophy at Dartmouth College (as a lecturer) and as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of San Diego School of Law.  He holds a law degree and a master’s degree in philosophy from Yale and a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard.   He was a law clerk for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court.  His teaching and research focus on philosophical analyses of legal arguments, legal doctrines, and legal institutions. Among his works in progress are: "Studies in the Logic of Contract Law," "Perplexity and Fulfillment," "Fighting Chance," and "Appearance, Reality, and Evidence."

Christopher Yoo, Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Christopher Yoo has emerged as one of the nation’s leading authorities on law and technology. His research focuses on how economic theories of imperfect competition are transforming the regulation of the Internet and other forms of electronic communications. He has been a leading voice in the “network neutrality” debate that has dominated Internet policy over the past several years. He is also pursuing research on copyright theory as well as the history of presidential power. He is the author (with Daniel F. Spulber) of Networks in Telecommunications: Economics and Law (Cambridge, 2009) and (with Steven G. Calabresi) of The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush (Yale, 2008). Yoo testifies frequently before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission.

Richard M. Esenberg, Visiting Professor of Law
Marquette University Law School
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
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Richard M. Esenberg comes to Marquette University Law School as an accomplished practitioner. For the past ten years, Professor Esenberg served as Vice President and General Counsel of Rite Hite Holding Corporation in Milwaukee. From 1981 to 1997, he was an associate and then partner at Foley & Lardner. Professor Esenberg has overseen international acquisitions and business expansions throughout Europe, Latin America, and Canada. He also has served as lead trial counsel in major intellectual property and advertising litigation and as trial counsel in numerous public-law cases. Professor Esenberg holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a B.A., summa cum laude, in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He recently published You Cannot Lose If You Choose Not to Play: Toward a More Modest Establishment Clause, 12 Roger Williams Law Review 1 (2006) and his recent paper, "Of Speeches and Sermons: Worship in Limited Purpose Public Forums" is forthcoming in the Mississippi Law Journal. Professor Esenberg is an frequent columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and publishes a blog, “Shark and Shepherd”. Professor Esenberg's research interests are in law and religion, the regulation and nature of public discourse and state courts and the Wisconsin constitution.

Katherine M. Porter, Associate Professor
University of Iowa College of Law- Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Professor Katherine Porter joined the College of Law faculty in 2005. During the current academic year (09-10), she is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Law.Porter is an expert on bankruptcy and consumer credit law who conducts empirical research on families in financial distress. She is a principal investigator in the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project and a fellow of the Bankruptcy Data Project at Harvard. Her empirical project, the Mortgage Study, shed early light on the practices of mortgage servicers and the challenges that homeowners face in trying to save their homes from foreclosure. Her current research examines the consequences and outcomes of severe financial distress. With funding from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Porter has begun a new study to gather data on people who drop out of the bankruptcy process without discharging their debts. She is also writing a book on the ways in which financial hardship affects people’s marriages, children, employment, and financial decision-making.Porter’s recent articles include "Saving up for Bankruptcy" (Georgetown Law Journal 2009), "Misbehavior and Mistake in Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims" (Texas Law Review 2008), and "Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail?" (American Bankruptcy Law Journal 2009, awarded Editors' Prize). In 2009, she was selected to direct the University of Iowa's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Summer Seminar. She is the editor and a chapter author of a book resulting from that interdisciplinary seminar, tentatively titled Broke: How Debt Undermines the Middle Class. Before entering academia, Porter clerked for Judge Richard Sheppard Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She then worked as an associate at Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Oregon, where she practiced with the firm’s bankruptcy and creditors’ rights group.

Hillary Greene, Associate Professor
University of Connecticut School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Hillary Greene is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law School's Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic. Professor Greene is a graduate of the Yale Law School and of Yale College where she earned her bachelors degree in Economics and Political Science (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and with distinction in her major). Her most recent publications include:  Antitrust Censorship of Economic Protest, Duke L. J. (forthcoming 2010) and Non-Per Se Treatment of Buyer Price-Fixing in Intellectual Property Settings, Duke L. & Tech. Rev. (forthcoming 2009). Additional publications include Guideline Institutionalization: The Role of Merger Guidelines in Antitrust Discourse in the William and Mary Law Review (2006), and Articulating Trade-Offs: The Political Economy of State Action in the Utah Law Review (2006). She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. Prior to law teaching, Greene served as Project Director for Intellectual Property in the Federal Trade Commission's Office of the General Counsel and as a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. She is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District in New York. Professor Greene currently serves on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute. Professor Greene's research and teaching interests focus upon intellectual property (with a particular emphasis on patent law), antitrust/competition policy and First Amendment Law.

Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Professor Cohen's primary research interests are in bioethics and health law. He is currently working on projects relating to reproductive technology and medical tourism, but his past work has included projects on end of life decision-making, FDA regulation, research ethics, and commodification. Prior to joining the faculty, Prof. Cohen served as a clerk to Chief Judge Michael Boudin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He also served as an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate staff, where he acted as lead counsel in over 12 Circuit Court cases and represented the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, in conjunction with the Solicitor General's office. Immediately before joining the faculty he was a fellow at Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, where he remains a faculty affiliate.

Rebecca Bratspies, Professor of Law
CUNY School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Rebecca Bratspies, Professor, joined the faculty of CUNY Law in 2004. Her teaching and scholarly research focus on environmental and public international law, with a particular emphasis on how legal systems govern the global commons and how law can further sustainable development. She has published widely on the topics of environmental liability, regulatory uncertainty, regulation of international fisheries, and regulation of genetically modified food crops. Among her more notable publications in the fields of environmental and international law are Progress in International Law (with Russell A. Miller-Martinus Nijhoff 2008); Transboundary Harm In International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration (with Russell A. Miller - Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Rethinking Decision-making in International Law: A Process-Oriented Inquiry into Sustainable Development, 32 Yale Journal of International Law 363 (2007). Professor Bratspies is a member-scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. In 2009, she was appointed to a three year term on the ABA Standing Committee on Environmental Law. She participates in the Intlawgrrls, BioLaw, Agricultural Law, and Intlawgrrls blogs. Before entering academia, Professor Bratspies served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable C. Arlen Beam of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 1994, she was selected to be a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar. Professor Bratspies spent a year seconded to the Republic of China (Taiwan) Environmental Protection Administration. Upon her return to the United States, she was a litigation associate with Dechert, Price and Rhoads where she worked with civil rights groups to bring two victorious class action suits challenging Pennsylvania's implementation of welfare reform. She also advised numerous clients on issues of environmental compliance. Professor Bratspies earned her B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania

Michelle Adams, Professor of Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Before Cardozo, Professor Adams was a professor of law at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she taught for 12 years. In 2003-2005, she was named dean’s scholar at Seton Hall. After receiving her J.D., she clerked for Magistrate Judge James C. Francis, IV of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then served as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit in New York. In 1993, Professor Adams was named the Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at Harvard Law School. Her research focuses on affirmative action, race and sex discrimination and housing law. Her articles have appeared in the California Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, and other scholarly journals.

Andrew I. Gavil, Professor of Law
Howard University School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Professor Andy Gavil has been a member of the faculty of the Howard University School of Law since 1989 and has taught courses on antitrust law, civil procedure, complex litigation, federal courts, civil rights litigation, federal regulation, and consumer law. Prior to joining the faculty he practiced law with firms in Chicago and Denver. At the Law School he received the 2004 Warren Rosmarin Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service and in 2006 a Special Appreciation Award for his work as Faculty Advisor to the Howard Law Journal. He has also been recognized by the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association for his contributions to the work of the Section and currently serves as a Senior Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal.Professor Gavil has written, lectured, and commented extensively in the U.S. and abroad on various aspects of antitrust law, jurisdiction, and procedure. Particular areas of interest include the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in formulating antitrust rules, antitrust litigation, exclusionary conduct by dominant firms, indirect purchaser rights, expert economic testimony and economic evidence, and comparative and international perspectives on competition policy. With William E. Kovacic and Jonathan B. Baker, he is the author of ANTITRUST LAW IN PERSPECTIVE: CASES CONCEPTS AND PROBLEMS IN COMPETITION POLICY (2d ed. 2008). He is also currently at work with co-author Professor Harry First on MICROSOFT AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF COMPETITION POLICY: A STUDY IN ANTITRUST INSTITUTIONS, which will be published by MIT Press.

Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor
Hofstra University School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Professor Villazor comes to Hofstra Law from Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dedman School of Law where she taught property, immigration law and an advanced citizenship seminar. While at SMU, she organized a colloquium on law and citizenship, which she will continue at Hofstra Law beginning fall 2010. Previously, Professor Villazor served as a human rights fellow at Columbia Law School where she focused on the domestic application of international human rights.While at American University, she served as Editor of the American University Law Review. After graduating from law school, she clerked for The Honorable Stephen H. Glickman on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She then received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to work for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest from 2001 to 2004. She received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2006.Professor Villazor's scholarship focuses on property law, immigration law, race, and citizenship. Her recent articles include, "Blood Quantum Land Laws: The Race versus Political Identity Dilemma," in the California Law Review (2008), "Rediscovering Oyama v. California: The Intersection of Property, Race and Citizenship,” in the Washington University Law Review (forthcoming 2010), "Reading Between the (Blood) Lines: Political, Not Racial, Membership," in the Southern California Law Review (forthcoming 2010), and "What is a Sanctuary?," in the Southern Methodist University Law Review (2008).

Keith N. Hylton, The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: TBA
Widely recognized in the areas of law and economics, Keith Hylton has published numerous articles in American law journals and peer-reviewed law and economics journals. His textbook, Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. Professor Hylton joined the BU Law faculty in 1995 after teaching for six years and receiving tenure at Northwestern University School of Law. At BU Law, he teaches courses in antitrust, torts and labor law. In addition to teaching, he serves as co-editor of Competition Policy International and editor of the Social Science Research Network's Torts, Products Liability and Insurance Law Abstracts. He is also a former chair of the Section on Torts and Compensation Systems of the American Association of Law Schools, a former chair of the Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation of the American Association of Law Schools, a former director of the American Law and Economics Association, a former secretary of the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section, a former member of the editorial board of the Journal of Legal Education and a current member of the American Law Institute. Hylton received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard University; his J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.