Full-Time Faculty

John M. Adler

Professor

AB, Harvard University | JD, University of New Mexico

Expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court
Courses: Bioethics, Constitutional Law, Negotiation, Supreme Court Seminar, Torts

Tel: (415) 422-5924
shbaker@usfca.edu

Shalanda H. Baker

Associate Professor

JD, Northeastern University | LLM, University of Wisconsin

Expertise: Corporate Social Responsibility, Energy and Infrastructure Projects, Indigenous Rights, International Development, International Economic Law
Courses: Corporations, International Development, International Economic Law

Tel: (415) 422-6304
brandj@usfca.edu

Jeffrey S. Brand

Dean, Professor, and Chairman of the Center for Law and Global Justice

AB, UC Berkeley | JD, UC Berkeley

Expertise: Affirmative Action and Diversity, Human Rights, Legal Education
Courses: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Remedies

Tel: (415) 422-2801
brownh@usfca.edu

Henry Brown

Assistant Professor

BA, Auburn University | JD, University of San Francisco

Expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Trial Advocacy
Courses: Evidence Advocacy, Expert Evidence in IP Litigation, Forensic Evidence

Tel: (415) 422-6223
davisj@usfca.edu

Joshua Paul Davis

Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, Director of the Center for Law and Ethics, and Professor

AB, Brown University | JD, New York University | LLM, Georgetown University

Expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust, Business - Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Class Actions
Courses: Civil Procedure, Consitutional Theory, Judicial Review, Legal Ethics, Legal Scholarship Seminar

Tel: (415) 422-2296
delavega@usfca.edu

Connie de la Vega

Professor and Academic Director of International Programs

BA, Scripps College | JD, UC Berkeley

Expertise: International Human Rights Law, Sentencing Practices, Discrimination - Race, Application of International Law in the U.S., International Law
Courses: American Legal Systems, International Human Rights Clinic, International Human Rights Law

Tel: (415) 422-6146
denvirj@usfca.edu

John Denvir

Research Professor of Law and the Humanities

BA, Holy Cross College | LLB, New York University | LLM, Harvard University

Expertise: Popular Culture and Law
Courses: Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law

Tel: (415) 422-5253
rrdibadj@usfca.edu

Reza Dibadj

Professor

JD, Harvard University | MBA, Harvard Business School | SB, Harvard College

Expertise: Administrative Law, Antitrust, Business Law, International Law and Arbitration, Regulation
Courses: Administrative Law, Antitrust, Corporations, International Business Transactions, Securities Regulation

Tel: (415) 422-6324
donovand@usfca.edu

Dolores A. Donovan

Professor and Director of International Programming

BA, Stanford University | JD, Stanford University

Expertise: Asian Legal Systems, Comparative Law, Human Rights, International Development Law
Courses: Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, International Development Law

Tel: (415) 422-5102
pafitzsimmons@usfca.edu

Patricia Fitzsimmons

Assistant Professor and Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic

BS, Marquette University | MA, Northern Illinois University | JD, New College of California

Expertise: Children and the Law, Child Advocacy Law
Courses: Child Advocacy Clinic

Tel: (415) 422-6229
franklyn@usfca.edu

David J. Franklyn

Professor, Director of the LLM program in IP and Technology Law, and Director of the McCarthy Institute for IP and Technology Law

BA, Evangel College | JD, University of Michigan

Expertise: Copyright Law, Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Trademark Law
Courses: Copyright, Intellectual Property, International Intellectual Property, Trademark Law

Tel: (415) 422-6467
freiwald@usfca.edu

Susan Freiwald

Professor

BA, Harvard University | JD, Harvard University

Expertise: Cyberlaw, Information Privacy Law, Internet Law, Privacy Law
Courses: Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Information Privacy Law

Tel: (415) 422-6158
garveyj@usfca.edu

Jack I. Garvey

Professor

BA, Harvard University | JD, Harvard University

Expertise: Business - International, International Law, International Trade and Arbitration
Courses: Contracts, International Business Dispute Resolution, Public International Law

Tel: (415) 422-4467
nageevargis@usfca.edu

Nira Geevargis

Assistant Professor and Director of Externship Programs

BA, UC Berkeley | JD, UC Los Angeles

Courses: Civil Externships, Judicial Externships

Tel: (415) 422-6583
tgreen4@usfca.edu

Tristin Green

Professor

BS, UC Los Angeles | MSJ, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University | JD, UC Berkeley

Expertise: Employment Discrimination, Equality - Race, Sex, Disability
Courses: Civil Procedure, Disability Law, Employment Discrimination, Gender and the Law, Property, Wills and Trusts

Tel: (415) 422-4475
bhing@usfca.edu

Bill Ong Hing

Professor

AB, UC Berkeley | JD, University of San Francisco

Expertise: Asian Americans and the Law, Immigration Policy, Public Interest Lawyering, Race Relations
Courses: Evidence, Immigration Law, Negotiation, Rebellious Lawyering

Tel: (415) 422-6478
honigsbergp@usfca.edu

Peter Jan Honigsberg

Professor

BA, City University of New York | JD, New York University

Expertise: International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism and National Security
Courses: Administrative Law, International Criminal Law, Legal Drafting, Legal Issues in Terrorism

Tel: (415) 422-4472
dhusseyfreeland@usfca.edu

Deborah M. Hussey Freeland

Associate Professor

BA, Vassar College | PhD, Stanford University | JD, Stanford University

Expertise: Law and Science, Legal Profession, Interdisciplinary Identity and Ethics
Courses: Civil Procedure, Evidence, Science and the Law

Tel: (415) 422-5870
iglesias@usfca.edu

Tim Iglesias

Professor

BA, Loyola-Marymount University | BA/MA, Oxford University | JD, Stanford University

Expertise: Housing Law/Affordable Housing, Discrimination - Housing, Land Use Law, Humanizing Legal Education
Courses: Property, Land Use Law, Housing Discrimination, Comparative Land Use and Planning, Contemplative Lawyering

Tel: (415) 422-5053
kaswan@usfca.edu

Alice Kaswan

Professor

BS, UC Berkeley | JD, Harvard University

Expertise: Administrative Law, Climate Change Policy, Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Regulation
Courses: Administrative Law, Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Property

Tel: (415) 422-4109
djlathrope@usfca.edu

Daniel Lathrope

E.L. Wiegand Distinguished Professor in Tax

BSBA, University of Denver | JD, Northwestern University | LLM, New York University

Expertise: Taxation
Courses: Partnership Tax, State and Local Taxation, Federal Income Tax, International Taxation

Tel: (415) 422-6513
rleo@usfca.edu

Richard A. Leo

Professor

AB, UC Berkeley | MA, University of Chicago | PhD, UC Berkeley | JD, UC Berkeley

Expertise: Criminal Procedure, False Confessions, Police Interrogation, Police Investigations, Wrongful Convictions
Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wrongful Convictions Seminar

Tel: (415) 422-5055
rvmagee@usfca.edu

Rhonda Magee

Professor and Interim Co-Director of the USF Center for Teaching Excellence

BA, University of Virginia | MA, University of Virginia | JD, University of Virginia

Expertise: Contemplative Pedagogy, Race Law, Identity-Sensitive Pedagogy, Critical Race Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Immigration
Courses: Contemplative Lawyering, Immigration Law, Insurance Law, Race Law and Policy, Torts

Tel: (415) 422-5170
mmanian@usfca.edu

Maya Manian

Professor

BA, University of Michigan | JD, Harvard University

Expertise: Reproductive Healthcare - Abortion, Contraception, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Discrimination - Gender
Courses: Constitutional Law, Family Law, Gender and the Law

Tel: (415) 422-4473
markham@usfca.edu

Jesse W. Markham Jr.

Marshall P. Madison Professor of Law

BA, Harvard University | MA, University of Massachusetts | JD, Vanderbilt University

Expertise: Antitrust, Business - Antitrust, Business - Corporations, Business - Securities
Courses: Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Corporations

Tel: (415) 422-6517
mccarthyt@usfca.edu

J. Thomas McCarthy

Senior Professor and Founding Director of the McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law

BS, University of Detroit | JD, University of Michigan

Expertise: Intellectual Property

Tel: (415) 422-6202
meadowss@usfca.edu

Sharon A. Meadows

Professor and Director of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Law Clinic

BA, Cornell University | MA, Cornell University | JD, University of Michigan

Expertise: Access to Justice, Clinical Education, Criminal Procedure, Indigent Defense, Juvenile Law
Courses: Criminal Law and Juvenile Justice Clinic, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Trial Practice

Tel: (415) 422-6304
micon@usfca.edu

Ronald H. Micon

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor

BA, UC Los Angeles | JD, UC Los Angeles

Expertise: Commercial Law, Contracts, Secured Transactions
Courses: Commercial Transactions, Contracts, Secured Transactions

Tel: (415) 422-2702
elmoscowitz@usfca.edu

Ellyn Moscowitz

Assistant Professor and Director of Advocacy Skills

BS, San Francisco State University | JD, Golden Gate University

Expertise: Trial Advocacy
Courses: Litigation Skills, Appellate Advocacy

Tel: (415) 422-6634
mountss@usfca.edu

Suzanne E. Mounts

Professor

BA, UC Berkeley | JD, UC Berkeley

Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing Law and Policy
Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure

Tel: (415) 422-6832
nazario@usfca.edu

Thomas A. Nazario

Assistant Professor of Community Legal Education

BA, City University of New York | MA, City University of New York | JD, University of San Francisco

Expertise: Children and the Law
Courses: Children's Rights, Education Law, Family Law

Tel: (415) 422-4474
jnice@usfca.edu

Julie A. Nice

Herbst Foundation Professor of Law

BS, Northwestern University | JD, Northwestern University

Expertise: Comparative Social Economic Rights, Constitutional Law - Individual Rights , Equality and Liberty, Poverty Law and Welfare, Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Courses: Advanced Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Poverty Law, Sexuality Law

Tel: (415) 422-5365
ontiveros@usfca.edu

Maria Linda Ontiveros

Professor

AB, UC Berkeley | MILR, Cornell University | JD, Harvard University | JSD, Stanford University

Expertise: Discrimination - Race, Employment Law, Immigration, Labor and Employment Law, Latino Issues
Courses: Employment Discrimination, Labor Law, Torts

Tel: (415) 422-5198
bmprice@usfca.edu

Bruce M. Price

Professor

BA, Haverford College | PhD, New York University | JD, George Washington University

Expertise: Contracts, Bankruptcy, Jurisprudence, Law and Society, Commercial Transactions
Courses: Contracts, Bankruptcy, Contracts, Jurisprudence, Law and Society, Commercial Transactions, Secured Transactions

Tel: (415) 422-6413
rosenbergj@usfca.edu

Joshua D. Rosenberg

Professor

BA, Case Western Reserve University | Ed. D, University of San Francisco | JD, New York University | LLM, New York University

Expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Humanizing Legal Education, Mediation, Negotiation, Taxation
Courses: Corporate Taxation, Federal Taxation, Interpersonal Dynamics for Attorneys, Negotiation Skills

Tel: (415) 422-2906
sakair@usfca.edu

Richard T. Sakai

Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Academic Support Program

BA, UC Los Angeles | JD, UC Hastings

Expertise: Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis, Bar Examinations, Academic Support
Courses: Legal Analysis, Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis

Tel: (415) 422-6745
shatzs@usfca.edu

Steven F. Shatz

Philip and Muriel Barnett Professor of Trial Advocacy and Director of the Keta Taylor Colby Death Penalty Project

AB, UC Berkeley | JD, Harvard University

Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Death Penalty Law
Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Death Penalty Law, Federal Courts

Tel: (415) 422-6218
talbotr@usfca.edu

Robert E. Talbot

Professor and Director of the Employment, Mediation, Investor Justice, and Internet/Intellectual Property Clinics

BA, Columbia University | JD, Columbia University

Expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Evidence, Internet Law
Courses: Evidence, Evidence Advocacy

Tel: (415) 422-5869
matravis@usfca.edu

Michelle Travis

Professor

BA, Cornell University | JD, Stanford University

Expertise: Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Work/Family Law
Courses: Employment Law, Remedies, Torts, Work/ Family Law Seminar, Advanced Employment Law Seminar

Tel: (415) 422-6789
mrvargas@usfca.edu

Manuel Vargas

Professor of Philosophy and Law

AB, UC Davis | PhD, Stanford University

Expertise: Philosophy of Law, Latin American Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Agency
Courses: Responsibility in Morality and Criminal Law

Tel: (415) 422-2251
rewheeler@usfca.edu

Ronald E. Wheeler

Director of the Dorraine Zief Law Library and Associate Professor

BBA, University of Michigan - Dearborn | JD, University of Michigan | MLIS, Wayne State University

Expertise: Legal Research, Legal Research Instruction, Law Library Management
Courses: Advanced Legal Research, Queer Legal Scholarship

Tel: (415) 422-2985
wilsonc@usfca.edu

Carol Wilson

Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Academic Support Program

BA, University of Oregon | MA, School for International Training | JD, University of San Francisco

Courses: Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis