Faculty, Summer 2008
Students will be taught by distinguished faculty from Seton Hall Law School, and guest lecturers from both the University of Ireland, the Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe, and from private firms.

David Jake Barnes is the Seton Hall University Distinguished Research Professor 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 the law faculties at Syracuse University. Professor Barnes’ educational background includes undergraduate study at Dartmouth College and Wellesley College, an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law 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. E-mail barnesda@shu.edu

Dean Kathleen Boozang, who is currently serving as the Associate Dean for Academic Advancement, came to academic administration after co-founding Seton Hall Law School’s nationally ranked Health Law & Policy Program and Health Law, Science and Technology Graduate Programs. Kathleen Boozang studied theology and business administration at Boston College, after which she received her J.D. from Washington University School of Law where she was Managing Editor of the Law Quarterly and was inducted into Order of the Coif. In 2004, Washington University School of Law named Dean Boozang its Young Alum of the Year. In 1990, she received her LL.M. from Yale Law School. Dean Boozang practiced for several years, primarily representing a multi-state Catholic healthcare system. In recent years, Dean Boozang has served on several hospital ethics committees and chaired the Bioethics Committee for The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She is currently on the ABCNY Nonprofit Organizations Committee. Dean Boozang served as President of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics in 2003, was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Health Law and is a member of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.  Dean Boozang writes and speaks extensively on nonprofit corporate issues, alternative medicine, medical futility, end-of-life care and sectarian providers.
 

John M. Conley is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his undergraduate degree in classics from Harvard and his J.D. and Ph.D. (anthropology) degrees from Duke, 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).
E-mail: jmconley@email.unc.edu

Jim Gibson teaches intellectual property and computer law at the University of Richmond School of Law and is founder of the school's Intellectual Property Institute. During the 2007-2008 academic year he is visiting at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the creation and regulation of intellectual property rights, and his scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Notre Dame Law Review, and elsewhere. Before entering academia, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, served on the staff of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and was a litigator at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia and his undergraduate degree from Yale University.

Brent Saunders is senior vice president and president, Consumer Health Care for Schering-Plough Corporation. The Consumer Health Care segment develops, manufactures and markets OTC brands such as CLARITIN, AFRIN and CORICIDIN, and foot care and sun care products which are sold primarily in North America. He also oversees the new HomeAgain Proactive Pet Recovery Network.  Saunders joined Schering-Plough as senior vice president, Global Compliance and Business Practices, in November 2003. He is responsible for leading the U.S. and Canadian Consumer Health Care division and will work collaboratively with the Global Pharmaceutical Business unit. He also is continuing in his leadership role for the new HomeAgain business.  Saunders came to Schering-Plough from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led the firm’s compliance business advisory services group. Previously, he served as chief compliance officer for Coventry Health Care, a nationwide managed care organization, and for Thomas Jefferson University and Health System, a major academic medical center in Philadelphia. Saunders also has extensive experience negotiating and implementing corporate integrity agreements with state and federal agencies. He is past-president and co-founder of the Health Care Compliance Association, which named him 1997 Compliance Officer of the Year.

Saunders is a noted speaker on compliance and risk management issues in the health care industry and also taught health law at Widener School of Law as an adjunct faculty member. Saunders earned a J.D. degree from the Temple University School of Law and an M.B.A. degree from the Temple University School of Business and Management. He graduated with a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh. Schering-Plough Corporation, a global science-based health care company with leading prescription, consumer and animal health products. Through internal research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies to meet important medical needs. Schering-Plough’s vision is to earn the trust of the physicians, patients and customers served by its more than 33,500 people around the world. This company is based in Kenilworth, N.J., and its Web site is www.schering-plough.com.