SUMMER LEGAL STUDY PROGRAM IN RIO DE JANEIRO FACULTY

Deirdre Bowen

Legal Writing Professor, Seattle University School of Law

 

Before joining the faculty at Seattle University School of Law in 2007, Dr. Bowen taught in the Sociology and Criminal Justice departments at Seattle University, where she was honored with the 2007 Criminal Justice Faculty Appreciation Award.  She taught courses in Research Methods, Statistics, Law, Society and Justice, Family and Society, and Deviance and Social Control. In addition, Dr. Bowen has been an adjunct faculty member of the law school, teaching Family Law and Consumer Law since 2001.  Professor Bowen earned her doctorate in Sociology studying alternative plea bargaining systems, where she was the recipient of the Norman S.  Hayner award. While in law school, Professor Bowen was a member of the Moot Court Board and received the Adolph Homberger award for excellence in Civil Procedure. Prior to earning her doctorate, Professor Bowen headed the consumer mediation and fraud department of the national headquarters of Call For Action, an international nonprofit consumer group. She was instrumental in working with the FBI and US Attorney Generals Office to identify and dismantle the largest telemarketing fraud circuit in the Western United States in 1994. She has successfully litigated and negotiated many consumer “unfair” business practices and telemarketing fraud cases. In addition, Dr. Bowen litigated a number of complex high profile RICO and family law cases while an associate at the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge in Washington, D.C. Dr. Bowen continues to conduct sociological research in the areas of law and justice, as well as acting as a consultant in various consumer and family law cases nationally. Currently, she is writing about an empirical analysis of the colorblind ideal in a post affirmative action world. In addition, she is conducting research on how families operate outside the law. She has presented her work at a number of conferences nationwide.

 

Sylvia Caley

Director of the Health Law Partnership and Assistant Clinical Professor, Georgia State University College of Law

 

Professor Sylvia Caley is the director of the Health Law Partnership (HeLP), a community collaboration among Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, and Georgia State University’s College of Law.  Professor Caley is an Assistant Clinical Professor teaching and supervising law students and other professional graduate students enrolled in the HeLP Legal Services Clinic.  She also teaches a two-semester course entitled Health Legislation and Advocacy.  Students enrolled in this course sequence work with community partners to address health policy issues affecting low-income communities.  For the past 17 years, Ms. Caley has been a member of the Ethics Committee at Grady Health System in Atlanta.  She joined the Bioethics Committee at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in 2005.  Professor Caley’s work-related interests have centered on the intersection of health and poverty.  Of particular interest to her is the devastating effect that serious illness has on families, and how solving legal problems can help to improve the health and social well-being of low-income children.  She speaks regularly on the need for holistic interdisciplinary problem solving among professionals to address the challenges facing poor children.  She is a Registered Nurse and she earned her MBA and JD degrees from Georgia State University.

 

Kathleen Neal Cleaver

Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Emory University School of Law, and Senior Lecturer, Department of African-American Studies, Yale University

 

Professor Cleaver has spent most of her life participating in the human rights struggle. She dropped out of college in1966 to work full time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), then from 1967 to 1971 she was the Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party. After sharing years of exile with her former husband Eldridge Cleaver, they returned to the United States in late 1975. Devoting years to challenging racist injustice, Cleaver has worked to free imprisoned freedom fighters, including Geronimo (Pratt) ji Jaga and Mumia Abu-Jamal. In 1984, she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in History from Yale, and then received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989. After several years as an associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, Cleaver joined the faculty of Emory University Law School in 1992.   Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and she has contributed scholarly essays to the books Critical Race Feminism, Critical White Studies, The Promise of Multiculturalism, and The Black Panther Party Reconsidered. Along with George Katsificas, humanities professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, she co-edited Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party (Routledge, 2001). She was the editor of the recently published collection of Eldridge Cleaver’s work entitled Target Zero: A Life in Writing (Palgrave 2006).  Professor Cleaver also holds an appointment at Yale University in the African American Studies Department. She and Georgia State University College of Law professor Natsu Saito serve as co-director of the Human Rights Research Fund, part of a network of anti-racist organizations engaged in documenting violations of the human rights of U.S. citizens who challenge the racist and military policies within the United States.

Colin Crawford

Program Director, Summer Legal & Policy Study in Rio de Janeiro, and Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth, Georgia State University College of Law.

 

Colin Crawford teaches environmental law, administrative law, property law and torts courses.  He has degrees in modern history from Columbia (B.A.) and Cambridge University (B.A., First Class Honors), and received a Cambridge University research Studentship to support his research towards a doctoral degree in Modern history.  He interrupted that study to attend Harvard Law School, from which he received a J.D.  As a lawyer, he concentrated on environmental and land use law, first at the Wall Street firm of White & Case and later at an environmental law firm with a strong public interest commitment.  He left practice to research and write a book of narrative non-fiction on environmental justice struggles in rural Mississippi, Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek.  This led him into research and teaching.  As a teacher and scholar, his work concentrates on environmental issues. And particularly on environmental health and justice and land use justice questions.  In the Spring 2006 semester, he taught comparative environmental law and researched Caribbean biodiversity on a Fulbright grant in the Dominican Republic.  He also teaches an annual course on Comparative Environmental Health Law in the Law and Health graduate studies program at the National School of Public Health (“ENSP” in its Portuguese acronym), Rio de Janeiro.  He is a Collaborating Professor at ENSP and co-directs its Environmental Health Law & Policy Group.  Professor Crawford lectures widely on environmental law in Latin America; in 2008, he gave lectures in Colombia and Brazil to university audiences, federal judges and public prosecutors.  He is also on the Board of Latina and Latino Critical Theory, Inc., which is devoted to “outsider”, anti-subordination jurisprudence.

 

Cláudia Martins Dutra

Consultant on Urban Planning and Legislation, Fundação Getúlio Vargas—Rio de Janeiro

 

Cláudia Dutra teaches courses on urban law, sustainable development, legal aspects of territorial management, Master Plans and land use legislation.  She has a Law degree from the Mackenzie University, in São Paulo, and pos-graduate diplomas from the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), in Juridical Aspects of Territorial Management and the University of Paris II, in Urban and Rural Real State Law. She also completed courses on urban law and urban economy at the University of Paris – Créteil.  From 1974 to 1986, she worked in the public sector, at the metropolitan and federal levels, on the formulation and implementation of urban policies. She participated at a high level in the elaboration of some of Brazil’s most important urban and environmental legislation, such as its Statute of the City, a landmark in Brazilian Urban Law.  Professor Dutra also worked as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program in projects with the Brazilian Secretariat of Urban Policy and the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment.  She attended, as a Brazilian delegate, the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements – Habitat II, in Istanbul, and the Urban 21 Conference, in Berlin. She was in charge of the Technical Secretariat for the MINURVI, gathering Ministers of Housing and Urban Affairs from the Latin American and Caribbean Countries and in that capacity participated in meetings on land use management in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Argentina and Chile.   As a private consultant, she developed projects dealing with environment, urban planning and management, water resources, forestry, historical heritage and tourism.  As a consultant at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas-Rio de Janeiro (Getúlio Vargas Foundation), Professor Dutra coordinates projects dealing with municipal and urban affairs, including Master Plans and corresponding urban and administrative legislation.

 

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Associate Director for Brazilian Studies, and Academic Director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS), University of California-San Diego

 

Denise Ferreira da Silva teaches courses on Social Theory, Race & Law, Latin American Studies, and Globalization: Gender & Human Rights. She has degrees in Social Sciences (B.A. Political Science major) and Sociology (M.A.) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She has received the Ford Foundation/Brazilian National Social Sciences Association (ANPOCS) Research Grant (1989) to support her M.A. thesis, a Ford Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (1992-1995) funded her PhD in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (1996-1997) supported her tenure as a visiting scholar at Yale University’s Department of African American Studies. Between 1986 and 1992, she worked as a junior researcher in the Program Race Relations and Afro-Brazilian Studies of the Universidade Cândido Mendes’s Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos (Center for Afro-Asian Studies) in Rio de Janeiro. Her tasks included serving as the Centro’s liaison with the various Black Brazilian Movement Organizations around the country. As a teacher and researcher, her work concentrates on the theorizing of racial subjugation, with a particular attention to how racial and cultural difference participate in people of color’s and Global South states’ unequal positioning in national and global juridico-political landscape. She has been invited to present at academic meetings and lecture across the globe, including the United States, Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Australia, Britain, France, Turkey, and Finland.

 

Angela P. Harris

Professor of Law, University of California - Berkeley (Berkeley Law)

 

At Berkeley Law, Professor Harris teaches Criminal Law, Environmental Justice, and a wide range of seminars on jurisprudence and subordination. Her research interest is in the relationship between law and subordination in the United States, and her writing concerns the interrelationships of race, gender, class, and sexuality both as sites of oppression and sites of resistance. Her articles in critical race theory and feminist theory have been widely anthologized, and she also is the co-author of several casebooks, including Criminal Law (with Cynthia Lee), Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (with Richard Delgado, Juan Perea, Stephanie Wildman, and Jean Stefancic), and Economic Justice (with Emma Coleman Jordan). Her recent article “From Stonewall to the Suburbs? Toward a Political Economy of Sexuality” received the 2007 Dukeminier Award from the Williams Institute at UCLA for the best article that year on issues of sexual orientation.  Professor Harris is active in Latina/o Critical Legal Theory, popularly known as “LatCrit,” a national organization of progressive law faculty of color, and has received several awards for her teaching, mentoring, and public service, including the 2003 Rutter Award for teaching excellence awarded by Berkeley Law, the 2003 Matthew O. Tobriner Public Service Award from the San Francisco Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center, and the 2008 Clyde Ferguson Award by the Minority Section of the American Association of Law Schools for her commitment to mentoring junior scholars of color.

Joan MacLeod Heminway

Associate Professor of Law, The University of Tennessee College of Law, and Research Fellow, The University of Tennessee Corporate Governance Center

 

Professor Heminway regularly teaches Business Associations, Corporate Finance, Representing Enterprises (a transaction simulation course), and Securities Regulation in The University of Tennessee College of Law’s James L. Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law.  She also periodically teaches a course on Animals & the Law.  She received the University Chancellor’s Award for teaching Excellence in 2006, the College’s Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence for 2005, and the College’s Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award for 2004.  Professor Heminway’s stock merger module for the Representing Enterprises course was recognized by UT’s Innovative Technology Center in its September 2002 Best Practices@UT Showcase.  She was a Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School for the Fall 2005 semester, and at Vanderbilt University Law School in the Spring 2007 semester.  Before starting her teaching career in 2000, Professor Heminway spent 15 years practicing law in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions and securities regulation matters.  Her interests in this area extend to feminist and gendered perspectives on corporate and securities law.  Recent papers authored by Professor Heminway have appeared in the American University Law Review, University of Cincinnati Law Review, Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law, Hastings Women's Law Journal, Journal of Business & Technology Law, Maryland Law Review, Texas Journal of Women and the Law, Wake Forest Law Review, and William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law.

 

Becky L. Jacobs

Associate Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law

Becky Jacobs has a B.S. from the Florida Institute of Technology, summa cum laude, and she was the top graduate in her J.D. class at the University of Georgia, graduating summa cum laude.  She brought more than a decade of national and international experience in the corporate world when she joined UT. Prof. Jacobs came to UT from Duke Energy
International's Sao Paulo, Brazil office, where she worked as an Assistant General Counsel. Early in her career, she clerked for the Honorable Pasco M. Bowman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8^th Circuit. She then practiced with the law firms of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and Shook, Hardy & Bacon, spending time in the London offices of both firms, and she also worked as an in house lawyer for CNG Transmission and Conoco. Prof. Jacobs has extensive experience with international transactions and also has practiced in the areas of environmental, energy, and administrative/regulatory law. Professor Jacobs also teaches in South Africa as part of a volunteer commercial lawyer training program, and she is a volunteer for international legal assistance projects.  Her courses include International Business Transactions, International Intellectual Property, ADR, Natural Resources, Environmental Law, Mediation Clinic, Environmental Practicum, and Representing Enterprises.  

 

Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer

Professor of Law and Ben F. Johnson Jr., Chair in Law, Georgia State University. Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Florida

 

Professor Juergensmeyer received his A.B. (summa cum laude), Duke University, Certificat des Etudes Politiques, University of Bordeaux, J.D. (with honors and Coif), Duke University School of Law. Professor Juergensmeyer will soon celebrate his 45th year of teaching law. He practiced law for two years with Squire, Sanders and Dempsey immediately after graduating from Duke Law School but left the practice to join the law faculty of Indiana University (Bloomington). He left there for additional law study in Europe and law teaching in Ethiopia. On his return to the U. S. he taught at Tulane University and then had a 30 year stint at the University of Florida before joining the Georgia State University faculty as its first endowed chair-holder. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His teaching and research specialties are land use planning law, property law and comparative land use and environmental law and his books and articles on those topics are nearing 100 in number. They include a co-authored treatise/hornbook on Land Use planning and Development Law that is widely used by law and planning practitioners and frequently cited by courts including the Supreme Court. He has taught and lectured throughout Europe, North and South America, and Africa and has held the title of visiting professor at such foreign universities as the Universities of Frankfurt, Aarhus, Warsaw, Strasbourg, Limoges and British Columbia. His visiting appointments in the U.S. include Duke, Louisiana State University and Hastings College of Law.

 

Alceu Mauricio Jr.

Judge, Federal District Court of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Academic Adviser at the Federal Judicial School of the 2^nd Region (EMARF); Researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Law School (PUC-Rio)

 

Judge Mauricio has an LL.B. from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA – Brazil) and holds a Masters degree of Public Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ – Brazil). He was a Fulbright scholar, H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, at American University Washington College of Law in 2005-06, with a specialization in Human Rights and Judicial Administration.  Currently, Judge Mauricio is a doctoral candidate in Constitutional Law at PUC-Rio, where he is a co-leader of a research group on Law and Risk. Judge Mauricio has worked as a Federal Judge since 2001 and has also taught Public and Tax Law in Graduate Programs at PUC-Rio and Cândido Mendes University. He coordinates lectures and working groups at the Federal Judicial School of the 2^nd Region (EMARF) and has published (in Portuguese) in the fields of Tax, Administrative and Constitutional Law.

 

Rômulo Sampaio

Professor & Researcher at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Faculdade de Direito, Rio de Janeiro (FGV Law Rio).

 

Professor Sampaio has an LL.B. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná Law School (PUC-PR), in southern Brazil, and holds a Master of Law in Economic and Social Law from PUC-PR and a LL.M in Environmental Law from Pace University School of Law. He is currently an S.J.D. Candidate at Pace University School of Law. Professor Sampaio also taught climate change law and comparative environmental law at PUC-São Paulo and PUC- Rio de Janeiro Law Schools in the graduate division. As a guest lecturer, Professor Sampaio spoke at the international environmental law course in the 2008 Summer Legal Study Program in Rio de Janeiro. In the subject of comparative environmental law, Professor Sampaio co-teaches a course as an adjunct professor every spring semester at Pace Law School offered as a regular two credit course for U.S. graduate students. He is a Member of the prestigious Specialist Group on Energy and Climate Change of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Professor Sampaio has published in the fields of environmental law, energy and climate change law, both in the U.S. and in Brazil. Professor Sampaio is often invited to speak in different conferences and seminars in Brazil and abroad in the areas of climate change, comparative, international and Brazilian environmental laws.

 

Penny J. White

E.E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, The University of Tennessee College of Law.

 

Professor White earned her J.D. from the University of Tennessee where she served as Editor in Chief of the Tennessee Law Review and was named to Order of the Coif.  She received her LLM. from Georgetown University Law Center where she was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow. Professor White began her legal career in private practice with an emphasis on criminal law and civil rights handling cases ranging from pro bono work for the Animal Rescue and Welfare League to the case of Houston v. Lack which she successfully argued as a solo practitioner in the United States Supreme Court.  She subsequently served as a judge in all courts of record in Tennessee.  She was elected the first woman Circuit Court Judge in the First Judicial District and subsequently appointed to the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, the second woman to serve on that court.  She was also the second woman and the youngest person to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court.  In addition to teaching at UT and directing the Center, Professor White has demonstrated a particular interest in judicial education.  She has been a member of the faculty at the National Judicial College for more than fifteen years, serving as the Chair of the Faculty Council in 2005.   White has also presented dozens of judicial educational programs in more than thirty states, speaking on issues including judicial independence, judicial ethics, evidence, capital punishment, and the media’s impact on justice.  She presently serves as a Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Task Force on the Independence of the Judiciary and as a member of the American Judicature Society Center for Judicial Independence Advisory Committee.  She also writes frequently on topics related to judicial ethics and judicial independence.