WELCOME NEW AND VISITING FACULTY  2007-08

 New Faculty

	Neil H. Buchanan, Associate Professor of Law B.A., Vassar College; MA, PhD, Harvard University; J.D. University of Michigan  Neil H. Buchanan joined the GW Law faculty in 2007. Prior to coming to GW, he taught at Rutgers-Newark School of Law and was a visiting professor at NYU School of Law. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. After law school, he clerked for Judge Robert H. Henry on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.  Read full biographical sketch.
	Lawrence A. Cunningham, Professor of Law B.A. University of Delaware; J.D. Yeshiva University  Professor Cunningham is an authority on law and accounting, particularly in corporate governance and securities regulation. His articles have appeared in Business Lawyer, and the Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review.   Read full biographical sketch.
	Phyllis Goldfarb, Jacob Burns Foundation Professor of Clinical Law and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs B.A., Brandeis University; Ed.M Harvard University; J.D., Yale University; LL.M., Georgetown University Phyllis Goldfarb joins GW Law from Boston College Law School, where among other courses she taught in and administered a criminal justice clinic. Goldfarb taught at Northern Illinois University College of Law where she designed and taught in the school’s first clinical program, and at the University of Paris X, in Nanterre, France.     Read full biographical sketch.
	Tanya K. Hernandez. Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law B.A., Brown University; J.D., Yale University Professor Hernandez joined the GW Law faculty in 2007, after a decade of teaching at Rutgers University Law–Newark, and St. John’s University School of Law. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, and Brooklyn Law School. She teaches courses on property, trusts and estates, critical race theory, and race and the law.  Read full biographical sketch.
	Sarah Lawsky, Associate Professor of Law B.A., University of Chicago; J.D., Yale University; LL.M., New York University Professor Lawsky joined the GW Law faculty in 2007. She teaches and writes in the area of taxation. Before entering academia, she worked at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP, where she provided advice on federal, state, and local tax issues to corporations, partnerships, and other business entities, as well as tax-exempt organizations, and high-net-worth individuals. She earned a B.A. in philosophy with an allied field of math from the University of Chicago, a J.D. from Yale University, and an LL.M. in tax law from New York University.  Read full biographical sketch.
	LeRoy C. (Lee) Paddock, Associate Dean for Environmental Law Studies B.A., University of Michigan; J.D., University of Iowa Prior to coming to GW Law, Dean Paddock was director of environmental legal studies at Pace University Law School from 2002 to 2007. After graduating from the University of Iowa Law School with high honors, he served as a law clerk to Judge Donald Lay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. From 1978 until 1999, Dean Paddock was an assistant attorney general with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.....   Read full biographical sketch.

Fall Semester and Academic Year Visiting Faculty

	David (Jake) Barnes, Visiting Professor of Law B.A., Dartmouth College, M.A., Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute; J.D., University of Pennsylvania David 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 law faculties at Syracuse University.   Read full biographical sketch.
	John Bessler, Visiting Associate Professor of Law B.A., University of Minnesota; J.D., Indiana University; M.F.A., Hamline University Professor Bessler joins GW Law from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he has taught a death penalty course as an adjunct professor of law since 1998. He previously clerked for U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Mason of the District of Minnesota, and practiced law for many years in the area of civil litigation as a partner at the Minneapolis law firm of Kelly & Berens, P.A. A leading authority on the death penalty, Professor Bessler is the author of four books, including three on the subject of capital punishment.  Read full biographical sketch.
	Kimberly N. Brown, Visiting Professor of Law B.A., Cornell University; J.D., University of Michigan Kimberly Brown is an associate professor of law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Previously, she served as an associate independent counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel (Whitewater investigation), and as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Civil Division of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where she handled a variety of cases of national significance in federal court.   Read full biographical sketch.
	Jessica Clark, Visiting Associate Professor B.A., Lawrence University; M.S.Sc., Syracuse University; J.D., The George Washington University Professor Clark joins the Law School as a visiting associate professor after spending three years at the Office of the General Counsel, Department of the Navy, as a law clerk and later as assistant counsel. She practiced federal procurement law and federal employment law.    Read full biographical sketch.
	Danielle Conway-Jones, Visiting E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law B.S., New York University; J.D., Howard University; LL.M., The George Washington University Professor Conway-Jones teaches in the areas of intellectual property, government contracts, and Internet law and policy at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, where she is director of the Hawai’i Procurement Institute. Named Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2003, and awarded the University of Hawai’i Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching in 2004, Professor Conway-Jones completed a 2006–07 Fulbright Senior Scholar post in Australia before arriving at GW.   Read full biographical sketch.
	Alexa Freeman, Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Law B.A., The George Washington University; J.D., American University; LL.M., Yale University Professor Freeman joins the GW Law faculty of as director the Outside Placement Program. Prior to assuming this position, she was a senior policy fellow at the Federal Legislation Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, where she helped launch Workplace Flexibility 2010, an initiative to support development of a comprehensive national policy to identify viable flexibility options for employers and employees. Previously, Professor Freeman was a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project ...  Read full biographical sketch.
	Lee Harris, Visiting Associate Professor of Law B.A., Morehouse College; J.D., Yale University Professor Harris’s recent publications have appeared in Columbia Human Rights Law Review, University of Maryland Journal of Race, Class & Gender, Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, and University of Memphis Law Review, among other legal journals.   Read full biographical sketch.
	Elizabeth L. Young, Visiting Associate Professor of Law B.A., Hendrix College; J.D., The George Washington University Professor Young joins the Law School faculty to direct the Immigration Clinic for the 2007–2008 academic year. While a student at GW Law, she was executive guide editor of the George Washington International Law Review, and attended the GW–Oxford Summer Program in International Human Rights Law. She also spent a year working in the Law School’s Immigration Clinic, and was the 2004 recipient of the Richard C. Lewis, Jr., Memorial Award for Clinical Excellence.   Read full biographical sketch.

 Spring Semester Visiting Faculty

	Vincent Johnson, Visiting Professor of Law B.A., St. Vincent College; J.D., University of Notre Dame, LL.M., Yale University Vincent R. Johnson is professor of law at St. Mary’s University School of Law where he served as associate dean for administration and associate dean for academic and student affairs. He teaches and writes in the areas of torts, professional responsibility, legal malpractice, and remedies. Johnson clerked for the New York Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also served as a fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court where he assisted Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist with his non-case related duties. Johnson is the co-author of Legal Malpractice Law: Problems and Prevention, and co-editor of A Concise Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, both scheduled for publication by Thomson West in fall 2007. A recent article about regulating lobbyists was  published in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. A Fulbright Scholar at Renmin University in China and the University of Bucharest, Johnson served in 2006–2007 as an Open Society Institute International Scholar in Ukraine. He also has served as pro bono legal specialist on legal and judicial ethics in the ABA Rule of Law Programs in Mongolia and Moldova. He has lectured at more than 20 law schools in Russia and China, and for 12 years directed a summer program on international and comparative law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Johnson received the Administration of Justice Award from the U.S. Supreme Court Fellow Alumni Association, the Order of Art and Culture from the mayor and city council of Innsbruck, Austria, and an honorary doctorate from St. Vincent College. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
	Garrett Power, Visiting Professor of Law B.A., LL.B., Duke University; LL.M., University of Illinois Garrett Power is professor emeritus at the University Maryland School of Law. Throughout his career, Professor Power has maintained an active research interest in the public regulation of water and land resources. During his early work, while concentrating on environmental law, he prepared the first comprehensive legal study of the Chesapeake Bay and the first draft of the Maryland wetland law. This effort culminated in his co-authorship of the book, Chesapeake Waters, in 1983. Professor Power’s more recent scholarship has considered both constitutional law and legal history. He has prepared both teaching materials and articles considering the constitutional limitations on land use controls, environmental regulations and governmental exactions. His historical work has resulted in a series of monographs considering the origins of the land system in Maryland and development of the city of  Baltimore. As president of Westminster Preservation Trust, Professor Power directs the stewardship of the historic Western Burying Ground (the site of Edgar Allan Poe’s grave) and the operation of the restored 19th Century Westminster Hall. He works closely with the Maryland State Archivist in the effort to make legal records (dockets, transcripts, depositions, etc.) accessible for historical study in a digital environment. He also serves on the executive council of the Adventure Sports Institute.