Students will be taught by distinguished faculty from Seton Hall Law School, guest lecturers from the Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe and attorneys from private firms.

David W. "Jake" Barnes, Professor
David Jake Barnes is the Seton Hall University Distinguished Research Professor of Law. Professor Barnes began teaching at Seton Hall in 1999 after being the Charles W. Delaney Professor of Law at the University of Denver and teaching with the economics and law faculties at Syracuse University. Professor Barnes's educational background includes undergraduate study at Dartmouth College and Wellesley College, M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania L aw School. His casebooks and treatises include The Law of Intellectual Property; Basic Tort Law: Cases, Problems, Statutes, and Materials; Cases and Materials on Law and Economics; Statistical Evidence in Litigation: Methodology, Procedure, and Practice; and Statistics as Proof: Fundamentals of Quantitative Evidence. He has written dozens of articles in various areas of law including torts, intellectual property, contracts, antitrust, environmental law, evidence, remedies, and the use of statistical and scientific methods in court.

John M. Conley, Professor
John Conley is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Conley's received his undergraduate degree in Classics from Harvard University and his J.D. and Ph.D. in Anthropology degrees from Duke University, where he was editor-in-chief of the Duke Law Journal. He teaches civil procedure, intellectual property, scientific evidence, biotechnology, professional responsibility, and a variety of law and social science courses. He also teaches anthropology courses regularly at Duke University. Since 1991 he has been a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia's Graduate Program for Judges, in which he teaches a course on scientific evidence. He has written several books and numerous articles on such topics as the anthropological and linguistic study of the American legal system (with William O'Barr), the culture of business and finance, scientific evidence, and the law of intellectual property as applied to emerging technologies. Most recently, he has co-authored (with Jane Moriarty) a casebook entitled Expert and Scientific Evidence (Aspen, 2007).

Shubha Ghosh, Professor
Shubha Ghosh is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Associate Director for Initiatives for studies in Technological Entrepreneurship (INSITE), and interdisciplinary institute at Wisconsin. He teaches and writes in the area of intellectual property with a special focus on intellectual property and competition policy. He is the co-author of Intellectual Property: Private Rights, the Public Interest, and the Regulation of Creative Activities (Thomson-West 2007) and the author of numerous articles. He holds a B.A. from Amherst College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and his J.D. from Stanford.

Carl H. Coleman, Professor
Carl Coleman is Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, where he teaches a variety of courses on health law and policy. Before coming to Seton Hall, he was Executive Director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, and interdisciplinary commission charged with developing public policy on issues raised by medical advances. From 2006-2007, Professor Coleman served as Bioethics and Law Advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was the principal drafter of the WHO report, Ethical Considerations in Preparing for a Public Health Response to Pandemic Influenza and contributed to a WHO project on strengthening research ethics committees in Western and Central Africa. He is the lead author of The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects (Lexis 2005) (with Menikoff, Golder &Dubler), as well as numerous articles on legal and health policy journals. Professor Coleman recevied his J.D.,. magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He holds and A.M. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a B.S.F.S., cum laude, from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. In 2007, he was awarded the Andrea Catania Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching.

John V. Jacobi, Professor
John Jacobi received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the State University College of New York at Buffalo and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He teaches Health Law, Health Finance, Disability Law, Public Health Law, Mental Health Law, and Torts. Professor Jacobi spent five years working for the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate as Special Assistant tot he Commissioner, where he worked on health, civil rights, and disability issues through litigation and advocacy in legislatures and regulatory agencies. He then became a Gibbons Fellow at the law firm of Gibbons, Del Do, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, where he pursued health, prisoners' rights, and disability issues. Professor Jacobi writes and speaks on issues including disability rights, health access and finance, public health, and mental health. His recent and current scholarly projects include examining the obligations of government to provide services to people with serious mental illness, the clash of disability rights and public health interests, and the prospects and social effects of "consumer-driven" health insurance models on health costs and rights of access for the poor and people with disabilities. He serves on the governor's Task Force on Mental Health, the Board of Advisors of the New Jersey Office of Child Advocacy, the New Jersey Olmstead Advisory Council on disability rights, and on other government and non-profit boards and committees. He is Associate Director of the Seton Hall Health Law & Policy Program, and the Seton Hall Institute of Law & Mental Health.