Authors

The Penn State Law Review has been published continuously since 1897. Since that time, the Law Review has highlighted the works of numerous judges, professors, and practitioners. Each one of them has contributed sound and insightful commentary which was included in the pages of our journal. This directory lists our most recent authors.
*Click on author's name to read more about the author; info accurate at the time of most recent publication with the Penn State Law Review.

Elizabeth Thornburg

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Elizabeth Thornburg is a Professor of Law at the SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas.  She teaches and writes in the area of civil procedure and alternative dispute resolution. Drawing on her experience with civil rights and commercial litigation, her scholarship focuses on the procedural fairness of the litigation process, especially at the pleadings, discovery, and jury charge…

Gary S. Gildin

December 14, 2009

Hon. G. Thomas and Anne G. Miller Chair in Advocacy; Director, Miller Center for Public Interest Advocacy; Professor of Law.  J.D., Stanford Law School; B.A., University of Wisconsin.

Professor Gildin is recognized as one of the nation’s leading teachers of advocacy skills and is a leader in the use of technology to assist instruction and learning. In 1999 he received the…

Shoba Wadhia

December 14, 2009

Clinical Professor and Director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; B.A., Indiana University, with honors.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia joined Penn State Law in July 2008 as director of the school’s new Center for Immigrants’ Rights and as a clinical professor of law. She also teaches Asylum…

Ramzi Kassem

December 14, 2009

Ramzi Kassem is Assistant Professor of Law and directs the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic. With his students, Professor Kassem has represented prisoners of various nationalities presently or formerly held at American military facilities at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, and at other detention sites worldwide.

Before joining the CUNY law faculty, Professor Kassem was a Robert M.…

Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

December 14, 2009

Professor of Law at Cornell University School of Law.  B.A., M.A., (Psychology) The Johns Hopkins University, 1988; J.D., Stanford University, 1993; Ph.D., (Psychology) Stanford University, 1994.

Jeffrey Rachlinski is an innovator in both administrative law, and in social psychology and the law. Since he joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1994, less than a year after receiving a Ph.D. in…

James Maxeiner

December 14, 2009

Associate Professor of Law & Associate Director, Center for International & Comparative Law at University of Baltimore School of Law.

Professor Maxeiner began his career as a trial attorney in the Honors Program of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington DC. He was awarded the Max Rheinstein Fellowship at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at…

Ray Campbell

December 14, 2009

Ray Campbell is a visiting assistant professor of law at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.  He teaches Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, and Business Planning. His research focuses on the legal process and on the legal profession.

Professor Campbell received his undergraduate degree from Yale College, and his law degree from the University of Virginia School of…

Kit Kinports

December 14, 2009

Polisher Family Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.

Professor Kit Kinports joined Penn State Law in 2006 from the University of Illinois College of Law. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Professor Kinports clerked…

Mark R. Brown

December 14, 2009

Mark R. Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky and graduated from the University of Louisville School of Law (1984).  He has a B.S. from the University of Dayton (1981). Following graduation from the University of Louisville, Professor Brown earned his LL.M. at the University of Illinois (1988).  He clerked for the Honorable Harry W. Wellford, Judge of the United States…

Nancy Welsh

December 14, 2009

Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.  J.D., Harvard University; B.A., Allegheny College.

Professor Nancy Welsh is a leading scholar in the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with research and writing focusing primarily on negotiation and court-connected and agency-connected mediation. She has examined the procedural justice offered by these processes, their potential to resolve…

Victor C. Romero

December 14, 2009

Maureen B. Cavanaugh Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.

A native of the Philippines, Professor Romero teaches and writes in the area of immigrant and minority rights. Professor Romero joined the faculty in 1995 after working in private practice and as a law clerk to a federal judge in…

James Pfander

December 14, 2009

Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law.  Professor James E. Pfander has focused his teaching and research on federal jurisdiction and procedure. Much of his recent work deals with the history and structure of Article III of the Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court of the United States in relation to inferior courts and tribunals. Oxford…

Steven B. Lichtman

November 1, 2009

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Shippensburg University.

Author of:

Black Like Me:  The Free Speech Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 119.

From the Author:

1 An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, ME, May 8, 2009.  The author would like to thank Ken Kersch for his helpful comments…

E. Gregory Wallace

November 1, 2009

Associate Professor of Law, Campbell University School of Law.

Author of:

Justifying Religious Freedom:  The Western Tradition.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 485.

From the Author:

1 I am deeply grateful to John Harrison, Stephen Smith, Tony Baker, Lynn Buzzard, Dick Bowser, Stephanie Wallace, Woody Woodruff, and especially Bob O’Neil, my dissertation advisor at the University of Virginia School of Law, for their comments on earlier…

James R. Maxeiner

November 1, 2009

Associate Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law.  J.D. Cornell, LL.M. Georgetown, Ph. D. in Law (Dr. jur.) Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.

Author of:

Imagining Judges that Apply Law:  How They Might Do It.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 469.

From the Author:

1 This essay is based on a presentation and submission to Panel 4: Imagining New Structures of Civil Justice (Including a…

Seth Barrett Tillman

November 1, 2009

Seth Barrett Tillman is a career federal law clerk.  Adjunct Professor Rutgers University School of Law (Newark).

Author of:

Blushing Our Way Past Historical Fact and Fiction: A Response to Professor Geoffrey R. Stone’s Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture and Essay.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 391.

From the Author:

1 The views expressed are solely my own.  I thank Professors Benjamin H. Barton,…

John Linarelli

August 30, 2009

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, University of La Verne College of Law.

Author of:

Analytical Jurisprudence and the Concept of Commercial Law.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 119.

From the Author:

1 I owe a debt of gratitude to Professor Jan Dalhuisen, King’s College University of London, for his encouragement throughout the years as I struggle to work out my own…

Mary L. Clark

August 30, 2009

Associate Professor, American University Washington College of Law.

Author of:

Judges Judging Judicial Candidates:  Should Currently Serving Judges Participate in Commissions to Screen and Recommend Article III Candidates Below the Supreme Court Level? 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 49.

Honorable Jan R. Jurden

August 30, 2009

Author of:

The Assault on Judicial Independence and the Uniquely Delaware Response. 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 217.1

From the Author:

1 This article was written by Devera B. Scott, Esq., Keith J. Feigenbaum, Esq., Kelley M. Huff, Esq., and the Honorable Jan R. Jurden. (Judge Jurden, a 1988 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law, serves on the Delaware Superior Court.)…

Devera B. Scott

August 30, 2009

Author of:

The Assault on Judicial Independence and the Uniquely Delaware Response.  114 Penn St. L. Rev. 217.1

From the Author:

1 This article was written by Devera B. Scott, Esq., Keith J. Feigenbaum, Esq., Kelley M. Huff, Esq., and the Honorable Jan R. Jurden. (Judge Jurden, a 1988 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law, serves on the Delaware Superior…

Keith J. Feigenbaum

August 30, 2009

Author of:

The Assault on Judicial Independence and the Uniquely Delaware Response.  114 Penn St. L. Rev. 217.1

From the Author:

1 This article was written by Devera B. Scott, Esq., Keith J. Feigenbaum, Esq., Kelley M. Huff, Esq., and the Honorable Jan R. Jurden. (Judge Jurden, a 1988 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law, serves on the Delaware Superior…

Aditi Bagchi

August 30, 2009

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School. J.D. Yale Law School; M.Sc. Oxford University; A.B. Harvard College.

Author of:

Intention, Torture, and the Concept of State Crime.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 1.

From the Author:

1 Thanks to Bill Burke-White, George Fletcher, Seth Kreimer, Georg Reitboeck, participants in a faculty workshop at Hofstra Law School and participants in a session of…

Kelley M. Huff

August 30, 2009

Author of:

The Assault on Judicial Independence and the Uniquely Delaware Response. 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 217.1

From the Author:

1 This article was written by Devera B. Scott, Esq., Keith J. Feigenbaum, Esq., Kelley M. Huff, Esq., and the Honorable Jan R. Jurden. (Judge Jurden, a 1988 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law, serves on the Delaware Superior Court.)…

Christopher R. Drahozal

August 1, 2009

John M. Rounds Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law.

Author of:

Private Ordering and International Commercial Arbitration.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1031.

Restating the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1333.

From the Author:

1 I appreciate helpful comments from Steve Ware and Felix Dasser, and, on a prior draft, from attendees at the Annual Meeting of…

Lawrence W. Newman

August 1, 2009

Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP (New York).

Author of:

Agreements to Arbitrate and the Predictability of Procedures. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1323.

Sarah R. Cole

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Sarah Rudolph Cole, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey Designated Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Director, Program on Dispute Resolution; B.A.,University of Puget Sound (cum laude); J.D., University of Chicago Law School (cum laude). In law school, Professor Cole was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Chicago Legal Forum. Following law school, she clerked for the…

George A. Bermann

August 1, 2009

Chief Reporter and Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, and Director, European Studies Program, Columbia University School of Law.

Author of:

Ascertaining the Parties’ Intentions in Arbitral Design. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1013.

Restating the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1333.

From the Author:

1 The ideas presented in this Essay are those…

Catherine A. Rogers

August 1, 2009

Professional ethics and international arbitration scholar Catherine Rogers joined Penn State as a professor of law in 2008. Professor Rogers holds a joint appointment as a professor of law at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy, where she is in residence in the Spring semesters.

Professor Rogers’ scholarship focuses on the convergence of the public and private in international dispute…

William E. Butler

August 1, 2009

William E. Butler, formerly of University College London, is the preeminent authority on the law of Russia and other former Soviet republics and the author, co-author, editor, or translator of more than 120 books on Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He also edits the journal Russian Law, published by the Russian Academy of Legal…

Christopher S. Gibson

August 1, 2009

Associate Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School. J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; M.P.P., Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; B.A., University of Chicago.

Author of:

Arbitration, Civilization and Public Policy: Seeking Counterpoise between Arbitral Autonomy and the Public Policy Defense in View of Foreign Mandatory Public Law.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1227.

From the Author:

1 I…

Crina Mihaela Baltag

August 1, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers Research Fellow in International Arbitration, School of International Arbitration, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.

Author of:

Denial of Benefits and Article 17 of the Energy Charter Treaty.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1301.

Andrea Bjorklund

August 1, 2009

Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law.

Author of:

The Civilization of Investment Arbitration.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1269.

From the Author:

1 I am grateful to Seán Duggan and Meg Kinnear for comments and suggestions. Any errors, of course, remain my responsibility. I also thank the librarians at U.C. Davis for their customary prompt assistances and Deans Johnson and…

Hans Smit

August 1, 2009

Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law, Columbia University, Editor-in-Chief, The American Review of International Arbitration.

Author of:

Contractual Modifications of the Arbitral Process.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 995.

From the Author:

1 The views expressed in this article are the author’s only. The author gratefully acknowledges the research assistance provided by Neel Maitra, Class of 2009 Columbia Law School. Copyright by the author.

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Kristen M. Blankley

August 1, 2009

Squire, Sanders and Dempsey L.L.P.

Author of:

Empirical Research on Consumer Arbitration:  What the Data Reveals.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1051.

From the Author:

1 Thanks to Chris Haas and Todd Starker for reviewing earlier drafts of this article. Special thanks to Glenn Myatt, PhD, for commenting on earlier drafts of this article, for the many tutorials on data mining, and for the…

Loukas Mistelis

August 1, 2009

Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration and Director, School of International Arbitration, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.

Author of:

Denial of Benefits and Article 17 of the Energy Charter Treaty. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1301.

Sue Irion

August 1, 2009

Author of:

How Congress Can Make a More Equitable Federal Arbitration Act.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1081.

From the Author:

1 I would like to thank the attorneys of the firm Freking & Betz in Cincinnati, OH for their thoughtful comments.

Genevieve Saumier

August 1, 2009

Associate Professor and Member of the Institute of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal.

Author of:

Consumer Arbitration in the Evolving Canadian Landscape.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1203.

From the Author:

1 I would like to thank my colleague Frédéric Bachand for many lively and challenging discussions that we’ve had concerning consumer arbitration. Of course, the views expressed here are mine…

Stavros Brekoulakis

August 1, 2009

Lecturer in International Dispute Resolution, Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University London.

Author of:

The Relevance of the Interests of Third Parties in Arbitration:  Taking a Closer Look at the Elephant in the Room.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1165.

From the Author:

1 I would like to thank Mr. John Ribeiro for his valuable linguistic comments.

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Jack J. Coe, Jr.

August 1, 2009

Associate Reporter and Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law.

Author of:

Restating the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1333.

Book Review of:  L. Margaret Moses, The Principles and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration (Cambridge Univ. Press 2008).1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1369.

From the Author:

1 The author thanks J.D. candidate Sarah Christian for cheerful and capable research…

Richard C. Reuben

August 1, 2009

Richard C. Reuben is the James Lewis Parks Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law.

Author of:

Personal Autonomy and Vacatur After Hall Street.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1103.

From the Author:

1 I thank the David M. Beckerman Faculty Research Fellowship, the U. G. Lewellen Faculty Research Fellowship, and the Charles Rehm Faculty Research Fellowship for their support…

Thomas Carbonneau

August 1, 2009

Professor Carbonneau is a scholar of international, comparative, and domestic arbitration. He has written more than fifteen well regarded books and eighty scholarly articles. As a Fulbright Scholar, he will hold the Visiting Chair in Comparative Law and Legal Pluralism at McGill Faculty of Law in Montréal, Quebec, Canada in spring 2010. As faculty director of Penn State’s Institute for…

Richard A. Bales

August 1, 2009

Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Faculty Development, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University.

Author of:

How Congress Can Make a More Equitable Federal Arbitration Act. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1081.

Larry Catá Backer

February 1, 2009

Professor of Law, The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania; Director, Coalition for Peace & Ethics, Washington, D.C.

Author of:

From Constitution to Constitutionalism: A Global Framework for Legitimate Public Power Systems.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 671.

From the Author:

1 The author can be contacted at lcb911@gmail.com. Many thanks to my research assistant, Augusto Molina (Penn State…

Frank S. Ravitch

February 1, 2009

Frank S. Ravitch is a Professor of Law at the Michigan State University College of Law. He is the author of the books, Marketing Creation: The Law and Intelligent Design (Cambridge Univ. Press, expected 2010); Masters of Illusion: The Supreme Court and the Religion Clauses (NYU Press 2007); Law and Religion, A Reader: Cases, Concepts, and Theory, 2nd Ed. (West 2008)…

Elizabeth W. King

February 1, 2009

Visiting Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School.

Author of The Ethics of Mining for Metadata Outside of Formal Discover.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 801.

From the Author:

1 I am grateful to Luke Dalton for valuable contributions and to Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law and Hofstra Law School for their support.

Mark S. Scarberry

February 1, 2009

Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law.

Author of John Leland and James Madison: Religious Influence on the Ratification of the Constitution and on the Proposal of the Bill of Rights.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 733.

From the Author:

1 I would like to thank Professor Edward J. Larson for his helpful comments and encouragement.

Christian C. Day

October 1, 2008

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor of Law (2006-2008), Syracuse University College of Law, Associate Director, The Center on Property, Citizenship and Social Entrepreneurism (Corporate Counsel and Governance). A. B., Cornell University, 1967; J.D., New York University, 1970.

Author of Risky Business: Popular Images and Reality of Capital Markets Handling Risk—From the Tulip Craze to the…

Geoffrey D. Korff

October 1, 2008

J.D. Syracuse University; B.A. Ohio State University.

Author of Reviving the Forgotten American Dream.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 417.

From the Author:

1 I must first thank Professor Robert Ashford for his assistance through every stage in the research and writing of this paper, and for introducing me, through his Binary Economics and Property Rights Seminar, to the concept of broadening capital ownership.…

Jeffrey Shulman

October 1, 2008

Associate Professor, Legal Research and Writing, Georgetown University Law Center. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Author of The Outrageous God:  Emotional Distress, Tort Liability, and the Limits of Religious Advocacy.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 381.

From the Author:

1 This article was supported by a grant from the Georgetown University Law Center. I would like to thank my colleagues…

Suzanne M. Scheller

October 1, 2008

J.D. Hamline University, B.A. Northwestern College.  Associate, Pearson, Randall, Schumacher & LaBore, P.A. – Minneapolis, MN.

Author of Arbitrating Wrongful Death Claims for Nursing Home Patients: What is Wrong with this Picture and How to Make it “More” Right. 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 527


J.D. Hamline University, B.A. Northwestern College.

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