Faculty Expertise

Dedman School of Law Faculty Experts

Faculty & Title	Areas of Expertise
Hillel J. Bavli Associate Professor of Law	Evidence Torts Procedure Law and Statistics Law and Economics
Misty Birdsong '02 Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy and Director of Academic Success	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. Larry and Jane Harlan Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Law	Constitutional Law
Chante Brantley Director of the VanSickle Family Law Clinic and Clinical Professor	Family Law
Martin Camp Professor of Practice and Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs \| SMU Dedman School of Law	Business Property Law Real Estate Law
Dale Carpenter Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law	Constitutional Law First Amendment Law LGBT Rights and the Law Civil Rights
Carliss Chatman Associate Professor of Law	Business Commercial Law Ethics and Compliance
Anthony J. Colangelo Professor of Law	Conflict of Laws Civil Procedure Public International Law Private International Law U.S. Foreign Relations Law
James W. Coleman Professor of Law	Energy Law
Nathan Cortez Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation and Adelfa Botello Callejo Endowed Professor of Law in Leadership and Latino Studies	Administrative Law Food and Drug Law Health Law International Health Legislation and Regulation
Gregory S. Crespi Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professorship in Commercial and Insurance Law and Professor of Law	Contract Law Disability Rights Corporate Law Law and Economics Legal Education
Ruth A. Cross Director of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy Program and Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy Civil Litigation Dispute Resolution
Beverly C. Dureus Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Monika U. Ehrman Professor of Law	Energy Law Environmental Law Oil and Gas Property Law Natural Resources
Joanna L. Grossman Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law and Professor of Law	Sex Discrimination Family Law
Christopher H. Hanna Alan D. Feld Endowed Professor of Law and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor	International Tax Law Corporate Tax Law Tax Accounting
Grant M. Hayden Professor of Law	Corporate Governance Voting Rights Labor Law
Patricia S. Heard Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Christine Hurt Alan R. Bromberg Centennial Chair in Corporate, Partnership, Business and Securities Law and Professor of Law	Business Associations Corporate Tax Law Microfinance Securities Regulation Torts
Greg Ivy Associate Dean for Library and Technology and Senior Lecturer	Information Technology in Legal Education Legal Research
Chris Jenks Professor of Law	Autonomous Weapons Military Law National Security Law Evidence Criminal Law International Law Human Rights
Jeffrey Kahn University Distinguished Professor, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law	U.S. Constitutional Law Russian Law National Security Law International Human Rights Law European Convention on Human Rights Administrative Law
Thomas S. Leatherbury Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the First Amendment Clinic	Appellate Practice and Advocacy Class Actions First Amendment Law
Anna A. Mance Assistant Professor of Law	Civil Procedure Climate Law Environmental Law International Law and Development Public Governance and Accountability
George A. Martinez Professor of Law	Immigration Law Law and Philosophy
Thomas Wm. Mayo Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law	Bioethics Election Law Health Law Non-profit Organizations
Orly Mazur Associate Professor of Law	Federal Income Tax Law International Tax Law Corporate Tax Law Tax Policy
Sari Mazzurco Assistant Professor of Law	Intellectual Property Law and Technology
Pamela R. Metzger Executive Director of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center and Professor of Law	Criminal Law Family Law
Seema Mohapatra MD Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law and Professor of Law	Bioethics Torts Family Law Health Care Health Law
Natalie Nanasi Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and Associate Professor of Law	Clinical Legal Education Humanitarian Immigration Law Domestic Violence Law
Jason P. Nance Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law	Education Policy and Law Empirical Legal Studies Legal Profession School-to-Prison Pipeline
Joseph J. Norton James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor in Financial Institutions Law	Business International Economic Law
Anna Offit Assistant Professor of Law	Criminal Law Legal Ethics Evidence Juries Discrimination Trial Strategy Empirical Legal Research
Carla L. Reyes Associate Professor of Law	Commercial Law Corporate Law Law and Technology as it relates to Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence
C. Paul Rogers III Marilyn Jeanne Johnson Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law and Former Dean	Antitrust Law Contract Law
Julia (Julie) Patterson Forrester Rogers Professor of Law	Real Estate Law Property Law
Eric Ruben Associate Professor of Law	Constitutional Law Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Legal Ethics Second Amendment Weapons Law
Meghan J. Ryan Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law	Law and Science Torts Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Actual Innocence Death Penalty Implicit Bias
Christina M. Sautter Professor of Law	Corporate Governance Mergers and Acquisitions Transactional Law
Mary Spector Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, Director of the Civil/Consumer Clinic and Professor of Law	Consumer Credit Consumer Debt Collection Credit Reporting Deceptive Trade Practices Tenants Rights Access to Justice Clinical Teaching
Jennifer Rangel Stagen Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Marc I. Steinberg Rupert and Lillian Radford Chair in Law and Professor of Law	Business Enterprise Law Securities Law Legal Ethics
Heather L. Stobaugh Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research
Diane M. Sumoski Director of the W. W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic, Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Institute for Children's Rights, and Clinical Professor	Child Welfare Law Investigations Trial Advocacy Civil Litigation
Joshua C. Tate Professor of Law	Legal History Trusts and Estates Property Law
David O. Taylor Co-Director of the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation and Professor of Law	Patent Law Patent Litigation Federal Civil Procedure Appellate Practice and Advocacy Contract Law
Elizabeth Lee Thompson Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy
Jenia Iontcheva Turner Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professor in Criminal Law	Criminal Procedure Comparative Criminal Procedure International Criminal Law International Law
Kandace D. Walter Director and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Small Business and Trademark Clinic	Intellectual Property
Jessica Dixon Weaver Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law	Child Welfare Law Children's Rights Family Law Legal Ethics Feminist Legal Issues
Leo Yu Assistant Clinical Professor of Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy	Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy Civil Rights Asian American Jurisprudence