• Antitrust - Joseph Bauer
• Banking law - Vincent Rougeau
• Bioethics - O.C. Snead
• Canon Law - Reverend John J. Coughlin, O.F.M.
• Church and State - Reverend John J. Coughlin, O.F.M.
• Church / State relations - Richard Garnett
• Complex civil litigation - Jay Tidmarsh
• Constitutional law - Anthony Bellia
• Constitutional law - Patricia Bellia
• Constitutional law - Nicole Garnett
• Constitutional law - Rick Garnett
• Constitutional law - William Kelley
• Constitutional law - Charles Rice
• Contracts - Anthony Bellia
• Contracts - Margaret Brinig
• Criminal law - Jimmy Gurulé
• Death Penalty - Rick Garnett
• Dispute Resolution - Margaret Brinig
• Education reform - Nicole Garnett
• Education policy - Gerard Bradley
• Education policy - Rick Garnett
• EEO law - Barbara Fick
• Electronic privacy - Patricia Bellia
• Environmental law - John Nagle
• Environmental law - Alejandro Camacho
• Environmental torts - Jay Tidmarsh
• Family law, parental rights, collection of  child-payments - Eric Smithburn
• Family law, economics of the family, family and social policy - Margaret Brinig
• Federal courts and federal litigation - Joseph Bauer
• Federalism - Anthony Bellia
• Federalism and criminal law - Richard Garnett
• Free exercise of religion - Richard Garnett
• Free speech and expressive association - Richard Garnett
• Human rights - Paolo Carozza
• Independent counsel laws - William Kelley
• Intellectual property - Patricia Bellia
• Intellectual property,  including copyright and trademarks - Joseph Bauer
• International criminal law - Jimmy Gurulé
• International labor law & labor relations - Barbara Fick
• International law - Paolo Carozza
• International law - Mary Ellen O'Connell
• International trade - Paolo Carozza
• Internet policy - Patricia Bellia
• Law and economics - Margaret Brinig
• Law and religion - Gerard Bradley
• Law and religion - Reverend John J. Coughlin, O.F.M.
• Labor law - Barbara Fick
• Land Use Planning & Regulation - Alejandro Camacho
• Legislation - John Nagle
• Legal Ethics - Reverend John J. Coughlin, O.F.M.
• Professional Responsibility - Reverend John J. Coughlin, O.F.M.
• Property law (including zoning, takings, etc.) - Nicole Garnett
• Real estate law/development - Vincent Rougeau
• Regulatory reform - Nicole Garnett
• Religion in the public square - Richard Garnett
• Right-to-life issues - Charles Rice
• School choice - Richard Garnett
• Sports law - Ed Edmonds
• Tax policy - Alan Gunn
• Tort reform - Nicole Garnett
• Urban and economic development - Nicole Garnett

JOSEPH P. BAUER earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 and his J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1969. A member of the New York bar since 1970, he worked as an associate at the New York City law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler (1969-72), and served as an instructor at the University of Michigan (1972-73). Since 1985, Professor Bauer, with the late E.W. Kintner until his death some years ago, has prepared the annual updates to the seminal work in antitrust law, Kintner and Bauer, Federal Antitrust Law, volumes I_XI. In 1998, he published volume XI of this series, which concentrates on private enforcement of antitrust laws; this is the fourth volume in this series written by Professor Bauer. Professor Bauer has also served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition (1977-78), and has served on the AALS Antitrust Section Executive Committee (member 1984-89, chair 1987-89). He has testified on numerous occasions before Senate and House committees and subcommittees.

• antitrust
• intellectual property, including copyright and trademarks
• federal courts and federal litigation

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ANTHONY J. BELLIA, JR. earned his B.A. summa cum laude from Canisius College in 1991, where he was named the outstanding graduate in economics and political science as well as a Harry S. Truman Scholar. At the Notre Dame Law School, he served as editor_in_chief of the Notre Dame Law Review. He earned his J.D. summa cum laude in 1994, receiving the Dean Joseph O’Meara Award for outstanding academic achievement. After graduation, he clerked for Judge William M. Skretny of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court in the 1997-98 term. From 1998 to 2000, he practiced law as an associate with Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C.

• constitutional law
• contracts
• Federalism

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PATRICIA L. BELLIA earned her A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991, and was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1995, where she served as editor_in_chief of the Yale Law Journal and executive editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, as well as a student director of the Immigration Legal Services Clinic. She is admitted to practice in the state of Massachusetts and in the District of Columbia. After graduation, she clerked for Honorable José Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme Court in the 1996-97 term. From 1997 to 2000, she worked as an attorney-advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.

• constitutional law
• electronic privacy
• Internet policy
• intellectual property

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GERARD V. BRADLEY earned his B.A. from Cornell University in 1976 and his J.D. from the Cornell Law School in 1980. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1981, he practiced law as an assistant district attorney with the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1980 to 1983. He is president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, vice president of the American Public Philosophy Institute, member of the board of advisors of the Cardinal Newman Society, chair of the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group, member of the Ramsey Colloquium on Theological Issues and member of the board of advisors of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists.

• law and religion
• education policy

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MARGARET F. BRINIG earned her B.A. in History in 1970 from Duke University, where she was an Angier B. Duke Scholar. In 1973, she earned her J.D. from Seton Hall University, Cum Laude, where she was the Notes Editor for the Seton Hall Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Theodore I. Botter of the Superior Court of New Jersey (Law and Appellate Divisions). She then taught at George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia for nearly 25 years. During that time, she earned a M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. in Economics (1994) from George Mason and won the University Distinguished Professor award (1993). She also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1980-83) and directed the legal writing program (1991-93). While at Iowa, she served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development.

• family law, economics of the family, family and social policy
• law and economics
• contracts
• dispute resolution

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PAOLO G. CAROZZA earned both his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard in 1985 and 1989, respectively, and pursued graduate studies at Cambridge University (1985-86) and at Harvard Law School as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law (1991-93). A member of the bars of Washington, D.C., and the Federated States of Micronesia, Professor Carozza has clerked for the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia (1989-90) and worked as an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter in its international practice group, where he also did significant pro bono work in human rights (1990-91, 1993-96). Professor Carozza has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Trent, Italy (1998), as a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Internacionales at the University of Chile (1992), and as a lecturer in law at Harvard Law School (1992-93). He served as an elected-term member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1992 to 1997, and is a member of the American Society of International Law and the American Society of Comparative Law.

• international law
• international trade
• human rights

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REVEREND JOHN J. COUGHLIN, O.F.M. earned his B.A. degree from Niagara University in 1977, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1982, a master's degree in theology (Th.M.) from Princeton Seminary in 1984, a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987, and his license and doctorate of canon law, summa cum laude, from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Father Coughlin has given dozens of priests’ retreats, spoken at numerous academic conferences and appeared on national television such as the Charlie Rose Show and the O’Reilly Factor. He has also served on the Boards of several major Catholic educational and health care providers. Father Coughlin was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Order of Friars Minor (Francisans) in 1983.

• Canon Law
• Church and State
• Legal Ethics
• Professional Responsibility
• Law and Religion
  

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ED EDMONDS joined the Notre Dame Law School as director of the Kresge Law Library and professor of law in 2006. During the course of his career, Professor Edmonds has served as director of three law school libraries - William and Mary, Loyola-New Orleans, and most recently the founding of the law library at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota. In addition to directing the library and information technology, Professor Edmonds will also teach and write in the areas of legal research and sports law.

• sports law

BARBARA J. FICK earned her B.A. from Creighton University in 1972 and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. A member of the Wisconsin Bar since 1976, Professor Fick has worked as an associate at the Milwaukee firm of Foley & Lardner (1976-78) and as a field attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Philadelphia (1978-83). While at the NLRB, she also lectured in law at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia (1981-82). Professor Fick’s teaching and scholarship concentrate on various aspects of labor law such as employment discrimination, individual rights in the workplace, internal union affairs, and international and comparative labor law. She also teaches and writes on alternative dispute-resolution-techniques including negotiation and mediation. Since 1994 she has served as editor of International Contributions to Labour Studies. At the University, she is a faculty fellow at both the Institute for International Peace Studies (since 1987) and the Higgins Labor Research Center (since 1994), and is a member of the Advisory Council for the Center for Civil and Human Rights. She served as a visiting professor of law at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) in the Spring 2000 semester.

• EEO law
• labor law
• international labor law & labor relations

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NICOLE GARNETT received her A.B. from Stanford in 1992, where she graduated with honors and distinction in political science and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995, where she earned distinction as an Olin Fellow for Law in Economics and Public Policy. Following graduation, Professor Garnett served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1995-1996) and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court (1998-1999). Professor Garnett also worked for two years (1996-98) as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C.

• Education reform
• Regulatory reform
• Property law (including zoning, takings, etc.)
• Urban and economic development
• Constitutional law in general

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RICHARD W. GARNETT received his B.A. in philosophy summa cum laude from Duke University in 1990, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995. He served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and as editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After graduation, he clerked for Chief Judge Richard S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and then for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. He practiced law for two years at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, specializing in criminal-defense, religious-liberty, and education-reform matters. At Notre Dame, he teaches courses on criminal law, criminal procedure, First Amendment law, and the death penalty. His areas of research interest and expertise include:

• School choice
• Church / State relations
• Religion in the public square
• Free speech and expressive association
• Free exercise of religion
• Federalism and criminal law

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ALAN GUNN earned his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1961 and his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1970, where he served as articles editor of the Cornell Law Review. Admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, he engaged in private practice in Washington, D.C., from 1970 to 1972 before beginning his teaching career. Before joining the Notre Dame faculty, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis from 1972 to 1976, and at the Cornell Law School from 1977 to 1989, where he held the J. duPratt White Chair in Law from 1984 to 1989. He is a member of the American Law & Economics Association.

• tax policy
• tort reform

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JIMMY GURULÉ earned his B.A. from the University of Utah in 1974, and his J.D. from the University of Utah College of Law in 1980. A member of the Utah Bar since 1980, Professor Gurulé has worked in a variety of high-profile public law enforcement positions including as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1980-1982), deputy county attorney in the Salt Lake City Attorney’s Office (1983-1985), assistant U.S. attorney and deputy chief of the Major Narcotics Section of the Los Angeles branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and as Assistant Attorney General with the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs in Washington, D.C. (1990-92). Most recently, with S. Guerra, he published the definitive treatise on The Law of Asset Forfeiture, and with R.J. Goodwin, the casebook on Criminal and Scientific Evidence: Cases, Materials and Problems and the related teacher’s manual.

• criminal law
• international criminal law

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WILLIAM K. KELLEY earned his B.A. from Marquette University in 1984 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1987, where he served as Supreme Court editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1990, Professor Kelley clerked for the Honorable Kenneth W. Starr on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington, D.C. (1987_88), as well as for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (1988_89). His practice with two major law firms concentrated on civil litigation both at the trial and appellate levels. From 1991 to 1994, he served as assistant to the solicitor general at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

• constitutional law
• independent counsel laws

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JOHN COPELAND NAGLE is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Michigan Law School. He taught as an associate professor at the Seton Hall University School of Law (1994_1998). His prior work experience includes two positions in the United States Department of Justice: first as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel, where he advised other executive branch agencies on a variety of constitutional and statutory issues; and later, as a trial attorney conducting environmental litigation. Professor Nagle served as a law clerk to Judge Deanell Reece Tacha of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and he worked as a scientific assistant in the Energy and Environmental Systems Division of Argonne National Laboratory.

• Environmental law

  * Endangered species and biodiversity -- I have written several articles about endangered species issues, and am co_authoring the first law school casebook on the subject.

  * The federal Superfund program -- I have written two law review articles about the federal statute governing the cleanup of hazardous wastes, and I litigated numerous cases involving the law when I was an attorney with the Justice Department.

  * Federal power to regulate the environment -- I have written about whether federal environmental legislation is within the scope of congressional power under the commerce clause

  * Religion and the environment -- I have written an article and a book chapter on the application of Christian teachings to environmental law, and I plan to write a book on the subject in the near future.

  * The environment in China -- I have written about and studied efforts to protect the environment in China

  * Takings -- I have taught and studied the application of the Constitution's takings clause to a variety of environmental issues

• Legislation

  * Statutory interpretation -- I have written numerous articles on how laws should be interpreted, and I worked on similar issues when I served in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department

  * Campaign finance -- I have a forthcoming article in the Harvard Journal on Legislation that proposes an alternative response to the charges of corruption related to campaign contributions and legislative decisions.

  * Lame duck Congresses -- I wrote the first article describing how the framers of the twentieth amendment thought that they were eliminating all lame duck Congresses. My work was relied upon during the debates over the House's power to impeach the President during a lame duck session.

  * Ballot initiatives and other forms of direct democracy -- I have written and taught about numerous issues related to popular lawmaking.

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MARY ELLEN OCONNELL, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law, comes to us from the Moritz College of Law of Ohio State University, where she has been the William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law. She earned her B.A. in History, with highest honors, from Northwestern University. She was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for study in Britain. She received an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and an LL.B., with first class honors, from Cambridge University. She earned her J.D. from Columbia University, where she was book review editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After graduation, she practiced with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. She then taught at Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington; at The Bologna Center of The Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy; the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. She will teach courses in international law.

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CHARLES E. RICE has been a professor of law at Notre Dame since 1969. He earned his A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross in 1953, his J.D. from Boston College in 1956, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. from New York University in 1959 and 1962, respectively. A member of the New York Bar since 1957, he engaged in private practice in New York City (1958-61). He taught law as a lecturer at C.W. Post College (1959-61) and New York University (1959-61) and as a professor at Fordham University (1960-69). His areas of academic interest include constitutional law, jurisprudence, legislation, real property, restitution and torts. He served as co-editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence from 1970 to 1997. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a member of the Education Appeal Board at the U.S. Department of Education (1981-93). In 1996, he was named to the board of trustees of Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. A staunch pro-life advocate, he has co-authored numerous briefs involving right-to-life and right-to-die issues, and has served as co-chair of Free Speech Advocates of Catholics United for Life.

• Constitutional law
• Right-to-life issues

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VINCENT D. ROUGEAU received his A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1985 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1988, where he was articles editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He belongs to the Maryland Bar, the District of Columbia Bar Association, the ABA, the American Society of Comparative Law, and the Chicago Area Scholars of Color. Before entering the teaching profession, he practiced as an associate at Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C. (1988-91). In 1993, Professor Rougeau was honored as the faculty fellow at the Collegium Summer Institute on Faith and Intellectual Life at Fairfield University (Connecticut). In 1999, he was selected as a faculty member for the Institute. His teaching and research interests focus on banking, real estate law and contracts.

• real estate law/development
• banking law

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J. ERIC SMITHBURN earned his B.A., M.A. and J.D. degrees from Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1966, 1970 and 1973, respectively. A member of the Indiana Bar since 1974, he engaged in private practice in Plymouth, Indiana (1974-76), served as judge in Marshall County, Indiana (1976-78), and taught as an adjunct assistant professor at Indiana University (Bloomington) (1974). Professor Smithburn’s areas of academic interest include evidence, family law and juvenile law. He is a member of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (since 1986), the ABA Family Law Section (since 1987), the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (since 1989) and the Selden Society (since 1992). He also serves as a faculty member of the Indiana Judicial College (since 1976), the National Judicial College (since 1978), the National College of Juvenile & Family Law (since 1979), the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (since 1979) and the National Association of Counsel for Children (since 1996).

• family law, parental rights, collection of child-payments

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JAY TIDMARSH earned his A.B. from Notre Dame in 1979 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1982. A member of the Wisconsin Bar since 1982, he practiced law as a trial attorney with the Torts Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., from 1982 to 1989, where he handled aspects of the Agent Orange and Love Canal litigations along with other matters involving environmental torts, professional malpractice and other injuries caused by governmental contractors. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His areas of academic interest include civil procedure, complex civil litigation, federal courts, remedies and torts. He has served as reporter to the Advisory Group on the Civil Justice Reform Act for the Northern District of Indiana (1990-93) and to the Advisory Commission on Local Rules of Procedure for the Northern District of Indiana (since 1990). He is a member of the American Law Institute (since 1999).

• complex civil litigation
• environmental torts

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