New and Visiting Faculty 2008-09

Sara Bronin joins the tenure-track faculty after two years at the Law School as the Gallivan Research Professor of Law. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Texas, earning both a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in UT's undergraduate interdisciplinary honors program; she earned a master's degree in Economic and Social History as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University; and she received her law degree from Yale. Her teaching and scholarship focus on property, land use, and historic preservation law, and her most recently completed article, "The Quiet Revolution Revived: Sustainable Design, Land Use Regulation, and the States," is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. Professor Bronin is vice chair of the Hartford Historic Properties and Preservation Commission and serves on the board of the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association.

Professor Davidoff comes to Connecticut from Wayne State University Law School. His research focuses on corporate governance, hedge funds, mergers & acquisitions, and securities regulation. Recent publications include "Black Market Capital" in the Columbia Business Law Review and "Regulating Listings in a Global Market" in the North Carolina Law Review. Professor Davidoff writes The Deal Professor column on mergers and acquisitions for The New York Times "DealBook" web site. Prior to entering academia, Professor Davidoff practiced law with Shearman & Sterling in its New York and London offices and with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. He holds a law degree from Columbia, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; a master's degree in finance from the London Business School; and a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, cum laude with distinction. Professor Davidoff will be visiting at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University during the 2008-09 academic year. He will teach courses in business and finance, including business organizations and securities regulation, when he joins us in the fall of 2009.

The Law School welcomes Professor Dellenbaugh as an assistant clinical professor of law in the Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic. Professor Dellenbaugh is a practicing patent attorney and licensing executive with over thirty years' experience. Most recently, he was Executive Director of External Relations at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, where he was responsible for the company's pharmaceutical patents and early-stage licensing. Professor Dellenbaugh received an A.B. in chemistry from Princeton University, an M.A. in teaching from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

Professor Pandya joins the tenure-track faculty after two years at the Law School as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. Social Science); Columbia University (M.A. Sociology); and Yale Law School. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Jon O. Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; handled appellate and civil rights matters for the Office of the New York State Attorney General; and served as an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. Professor Pandya's teaching interests include torts, employment law, and insurance law, and his scholarship focuses on topics at the intersection of those fields.

Professor Bechky is continuing as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law for a second year. He holds his law degree from Columbia and his undergraduate degree from Stanford. Following law school, he served as an Honors Attorney with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and then practiced with Shearman & Sterling, where he specialized in international disputes, international economic law, and the regulation of international business transactions. Professor Bechky has taught at the University of Virginia School of Law and the George Mason University School of Law, and his scholarship has been published in the International Financial Law Review and International Trade Law and Regulation. Professor Bechky will be teaching Civil Procedure I in the fall and Civil Procedure II and International Business Transactions in the spring.

Justin Long joins us as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law for the coming year. He holds his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He was law clerk to the Honorable Albert M. Rosenblatt of the New York Court of Appeals and to the Honorable Myron H. Bright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. For two years he was Assistant Solicitor General in the Office of the New York State Attorney General. Professor Long published "Intermittent State Constitutionalism" in the Pepperdine Law Review, and he will be teaching Education Law and State Constitutional Law.

Professor Mahboubi comes to us as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law from Yale Law School, where he served as a fellow at the China Law Center and as a Tutor-in-Law, advising LL.M. candidates and organizing Yale's Global Conversations Series. Professor Mahboubi graduated from Princeton University and Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After law school, he was clerk to the Honorable Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; and a fellow at Columbia Law School, where his research focused on the relationship between administrative law and democracy. He will teach Administrative Law and Comparative Law.

Margaret Martin joins the Law School's Asylum and Human Rights Clinic as the William R. Davis Clinical Teaching Fellow. She received her B.A. from Boston University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After law school, she served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Bureau of the Office of the New York State Attorney General and as Rule of Law Liaison for the American Bar Association/Central European & Eurasian Law Initiative, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Jill Anderson, Assistant Professor at Western New England College School of Law since 2005, will be a Visiting Professor of Law for the '08-'09 academic year. She is a graduate of Columbia University Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar, and her law practice found her at Western Massachusetts Legal Services, where she was a Skadden Fellow/Staff Attorney. She did graduate work in linguistics at Stanford University and the University of Copenhagen, and her "Just Semantics: The Lost Readings of the ADA" is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal. Professor Anderson will be teaching Contracts in the fall semester and Law & Interpretation as well as Principles of Insurance in the spring.

Professor Mario Barnes is Associate Professor of Law at University of Miami School of Law, where he has taught since 2004. Prior to joining the Miami faculty, he was a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Law. Professor Barnes received his B.A. in psychology and his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and National Security Law, and his work has been published in the UC Davis Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the University of Miami Law Review, the African-American Law and Policy Report, and the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy. Professor Barnes will be visiting during the spring semester, teaching Constitutional Law and a seminar on National Security Law.

Professor Abraham Bell is a Professor of Law at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, where he has been teaching since 2002. He received both his B.A. and his J.D. from the University of Chicago, and his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Professor Bell's published work ranges from law and economics to intellectual property and has appeared in many journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. He will be visiting in the fall semester and teaching two courses, Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law and Introduction to Copyright.

Professor Jeremy Blumenthal is Associate Professor at the Syracuse University College of Law, where he has taught since 2005. He received his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University, as well as a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has taught at Cornell Law School, Seton Hall Law School, and Harvard University. His areas of specialization include law and psychology and law and social science. His work has been published in a number of law journals including the Law and Psychology Review, the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Law and Human Behavior, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He will be teaching Law & Psychology and Advanced Topics in Property during the fall semester.

Professor David Mednicoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal Studies and Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been a Visiting Professor/Fulbright Scholar in the International Affairs Program at Qatar University and has also taught at Emory University and the University of Georgia Law School. His areas of specialization include Human Rights Law, Middle Eastern Politics and Law, Refugee Law, Islamic Law, and Democracy Theory. He received his A.B. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School; his J.D, A.M., and Ph.D. from Harvard; and a Diplôme in French Language and Civilization from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. Professor Mednicoff has published in, among other journals, the Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities, the ISLA Journal of International & Comparative Law, the International Journal of Human Rights, the Journal of North African Studies, and the Middle East Review. He will be teaching International Human Rights in the fall.

Professor Noah Novogrodsky will be a visiting professor and will co-run the Human Rights Clinic in the spring with Professor Mark W. Janis. Currently an O'Neill Center Senior Scholar at Georgetown University Law School, Professor Novogrodsky is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with highest honors from Swarthmore College; he holds a law degree from Yale and his M.Phil. in International Relations from Queens' College at Cambridge University, where he won the Daniel Vincent Prize for the best thesis on the Middle East. After law school, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; as a Robert L. Bernstein Fellow in International Human Rights in Asmara, Eritrea, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Cape Town, South Africa; as a litigation associate in San Francisco; and as the founding director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Toronto. Professor Novogrodsky has published in a variety of international law journals including the European Journal of International Law, the Santa Clara Journal of International Law, and the San Diego International Law Journal, and he currently is at work on an article titled "The Duty of Treatment: Human Rights and the AIDS Pandemic."

Professor Marcia Canavan will be teaching in the Lawyering Process program. She received her B.A. in psychology as well as her Masters of Public Health from UCLA, and she earned her law degree from the University of Colorado. She has taught at Quinnipiac University School of Law, the University of Rhode Island, the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, and, most recently, as Professor of Legal Writing at Roger Williams University School of Law. In 2006, she published "Holistic Education in a Law School Clinic" in the Quinnipiac Law Review.

Peter Vickery joins the faculty as an Assistant Clinical Professor in our Lawyering Process program. He comes to Connecticut from Amherst, Massachusetts where he combined solo practice with numerous other occupations, including serving on the Governor's Council for two years between 2005-07. Professor Vickery holds both a B.A. and M.A. from Jesus College at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. His first law degree is from the University of the West of England in Bristol, England, and he also received his J.D. from Boston University in 1998. Professor Vickery has served as a member of the adjunct faculty at Fisher College in Boston, at Western New England College School of Law, at UMass Amherst and at Westfield State College. He has also worked as a law clerk to George F. Cromley, P.C. in Boston; as a contract attorney at Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes Lerach in New York; as an associate at Burres Fidnick Booth & Kaufman, LLP in Amherst; as a member of the Planning Board of Amherst, MA; and as executive director of Massachusetts Voters for Fair Elections. His article on the "Genesis of the Black Law Firm in Massachusetts" appeared in Massachusetts Legal History, and he has an article forthcoming in the New England Journal of History on "Race, Liberty and the Electoral System in Massachusetts."