Resident Faculty Quick Guide

Joshua Fischman

Law and economics, quantitative methods/statistics in the law

Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
His research interests include law and economics, empirical methods, judicial decision-making and criminal sentencing

Kim Forde-Mazrui

Race and law, constitutional law, employment discrimination

Clerked for Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Served for seven years as inaugural director of the UVA Center for the Study of Race and Law
Scholarship focuses on equal protection, especially involving race and sexual orientation (Faculty Q&A)

Joe Fore

Legal research and writing

Was an associate with BakerHostetler, practicing commercial litigation in Washington, D.C., and Orlando
Litigation at trial and appellate levels, including cases involving real estate, contract disputes, election law and class action.

Thomas Frampton

Criminal law, civil rights, race

Clerked for Judge Diane Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Judge Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York
Worked as a trial attorney and special litigation attorney for the Orleans Public Defenders
Recent scholarship has focused on legal history, race and criminal juries

Amanda Frost

Immigration and refugee law, judging, legal ethics, legal history

Litigated dozens of cases before U.S. federal courts of appeals, U.S. Supreme Court and immigration courts
Author of the 2021 book “You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers”
Fellowship from 2019-21 at the Collegium de Lyon in France researching immigration and citizenship laws and policies
Clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

George S. Geis

Business law, contract theory, mergers and acquisitions

Research focuses on problems related to contract theory, business alliances, shareholder litigation and other issues involving the intersection of law and business
Spent five years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co., where he served clients on corporate strategy, mergers and marketing; also worked with a New York and a Los Angeles law firmCo-author of a book on business partnership and alliance strategies
Taught courses as a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and the University of Trento in Italy

Michael D. Gilbert

Legislation, election law, law and economics, and direct democracy

Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Scholarship applies economic analysis to election law and constitutional design
Clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The first law professor to receive the UVA Student Council Distinguished Teaching Award

Jennifer L. Givens

Post-conviction relief, innocence, death-penalty cases

Worked as an assistant federal defender in the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Served as senior staff attorney with the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center, where she represented death-sentenced inmates in state and federal post-conviction proceedings
Secured clemency for a severely mentally ill client and won a life sentence for an intellectually disabled client, both of whom were sentenced to death in Virginia

Alison Gocke

Energy law, environmental law, administrative law

An expert on environmental regulation and its history, Gocke holds an M.S. in the environment and natural resources in addition to a J.D. from Stanford
Co-directed the Environmental Protection Clinic at Yale Law School
Served as a legal fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Risa Goluboff

Civil rights, constitutional history and constitutional law

Goluboff, the 12th dean at UVA Law, is the first woman to lead the school
Goluboff, who has a Ph.D. in history from Princeton, also is a history professor at UVA
Won the 2010 Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award and the 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize for her first book, "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights" (Story)
Received a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Constitutional Studies and a 2012 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to support her work on the demise of vagrancy laws as part of the social transformations of the 1960s. (Story)

G. Mitu Gulati

Sovereign debt

Focuses on sovereign debt restructuring and contracts, and explores how to help countries in financial distress
Co-hosts the podcast “Clauses and Controversies,” is a contributor to the blog Creditslips.org, and serves as regional editor for the journal Capital Markets Law Journal
His work on contracts frequently addresses their often-unexpected nature, and he has questioned the assumption that parties fully understand the provisions and outcomes of deals
Has also written on “odious debts” — whether debts made by preceding regimes, such as that of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, should always be honored by future governments

Rachel Harmon

Criminal law, criminal procedure, policing and civil rights

Prosecuted federal civil rights crimes for the Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section of the Department of Justice, including hate crimes and official misconduct cases, many of which involved excessive force or sexual abuse by police officers.
Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
M.Sc. in political theory and M.Sc. in political sociology, London School of Economics
Harmon's scholarship focuses on the legal regulation of the police and mechanisms for improving policing. (Scholarship Profile)

John C. Harrison

Administrative law, constitutional law and history

Clerked for Judge Robert Bork on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Served as counselor on international law in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (2008)
Worked with the Department of Justice in numerous capacities, including deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel (1990-93)
A text-based interpreter of the Constitution, in 2009 Harrison testified before Congress about the legality and powers of the White House policy advisers referred to as "czars."

Juliet Hatchett

Innocence cases, criminal investigation

Now associate director of the Innocence Project at UVA Law, Hatchett also participated in the clinic while a student at UVA Law
Previously worked at Brune Law and Baker McKenzie, focusing on white-collar criminal defense issues

Andrew Hayashi

Tax law and policy, behavioral economics

Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Berkeley; M.Sc. in economics and philosophy from the London School of Economics
Hayashi's research on "tax salience" — meaning how visible a tax is — showed a correlation between higher salience and a higher number of appeals of property tax assessments
Serves as a McDonald Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

Deborah Hellman

Affirmative action and equal protection, constitutional law and theory

Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers in 1999
Author of the book "When Is Discrimination Wrong?"
Hellman's work primarily focuses on discrimination and equality. In addition, she writes about the constitutionality of campaign finance laws and the obligations of professional roles, especially in the context of clinical medical research. (Scholarship Profile | Faculty Q&A)

A. E. Dick Howard

Constitutional law and history, Supreme Court

Was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, and is now one of the nation's foremost experts on the court (Supreme Court Roundup)
Executive director of the commission that wrote Virginia’s current constitution and directed the successful referendum campaign for its ratification
Has been consulted by constitutional draftsmen around the world
In 2013, the University of Virginia recognized Howard with its Thomas Jefferson Award — the highest honor given to faculty members at the University.

Cathy Hwang

Corporations, mergers and acquisitions, and deals

Research focuses on business law, including corporate contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance
Articles have twice been named among the top 10 corporate and securities articles of the year
Practiced in M&A at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York

Rich Hynes

Bankruptcy and consumer finance law

Ph.D. in economics, University of Pennsylvania
Practiced law with Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Los Angeles
Hynes focuses on parallel systems outside of bankruptcy that handle debtor-creditor relations, including the use of state courts to collect debts. (Scholarship Profile)

Cale Jaffe

Environmental and regulatory law, energy policy, climate change policy

Directs the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic and the Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE)
Served as an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, Charlottesville office director
Part of the SELC team that won a unanimous victory in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy
Clerked for Judge Norman K. Moon of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia and Judge Roger L. Gregory of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

John C. Jeffries Jr.

Criminal and constitutional law; civil rights

Former Dean of the Law School (2001-08)
Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and later wrote a biography of him
Created the Program in Law & Business and facilitated the Law School’s transition to financial self-sufficiency (receiving no funding from the state)

Alex M. Johnson Jr.

Contracts, property and real estate; critical race theory

Former Dean the University of Minnesota Law School
Lectures and writes on the LSAT and academic standards, and has argued both in favor of the continued use of affirmative action in law school admittance as well as the continued use of the LSAT as an objective measure for considering students (Faculty Q&A)
Served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Law School Admissions Council and the LSAC's Test, Development and Research, and Minority Affairs Standing Committees

Jason S. Johnston

Law and economics, environmental liability

Ph.D. in economics, University of Michigan
Clerked for Gilbert S. Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Has served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association, on the National Science Foundation’s Law and Social Science grant review panel, and on the Board of the Searle Civil Justice Institute
Former director of the Program on Law, Environment and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Johnston currently working on a book that critically analyzes the foundations of global warming law and policy.

Leslie Kendrick

First Amendment, constitutional law and torts

Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where she received her master's and doctorate in English literature
Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Scholarly research has focused on free speech (Faculty Q&A), including the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretations (C-SPAN Supreme Court Term Preview)
Received the Law School’s Carl McFarland Prize for outstanding research (Story)

Annie Kim

Public service, state and local government law, litigation

Practiced for 12 years as a litigator and in-house counsel, representing Virginia school districts and local governments
Her 2012 victory in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of the school board in Republic Franklin Ins. Co. v. Albemarle County School Board secured a landmark ruling in the circuit protecting the rights of local governments against insurance companies seeking to avoid coverage under a wrongful act policy
Practiced extensively in state and federal courts across Virginia, conducting two jury trials and numerous bench trials, arguing motions before trial courts throughout the Commonwealth, serving as counsel of record on appeals to the Virginia Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit, and filing amicus curiae briefs on behalf of public bodies