American University
Administration
Jonathan R. Alger, President
Vicky M. Wilkins, Acting Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Sarah G. Baldassaro, Chief of Staff and Counselor to the President
Matthew D. Bennett*, Vice President and Chief Communications Officer
Bronté Burleigh-Jones*, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President and Treasurer
Traevena Byrd, Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary
JM Caparro, Director, Athletics and Recreation
Nkenge Friday, Vice President, Inclusive Excellence
Daniel Luperchio, Interim Vice President, University Advancement
Steve Munson, Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Raymond Lu-Ming Ou, Vice President, Student Affairs
Evelyn Thimba, Vice President, Undergraduate Enrollment Management
*Alumna/alumnus of American University
Incorporation
Established by Act of Congress of the United States,
February 24, 1893
Board of Trustees
Gina F. Adams,* Chair
Charles H. Lydecker,* Vice Chair
Janice Menke Abraham*
Jonathan R. Alger
Sally Amoruso
Gaurdie Banister Jr.
Stephanie M. Bennett-Smith
Wesley G. Bush
Jack C. Cassell*
Pamela M. Deese*
Marc N. Duber*
LaTrelle Easterling
Hani M.S. Farsi*
Roland Fernandes
Victoria D. Harker*
Mehdi Heravi*
Michael W. Kempner*
Amy V. Kothari*
Margery Kraus*
Gerald Bruce Lee*
Fernando Lewis Navarro*
Betsy A. Mangone*
Alan L. Meltzer*
Korey Neal Sr.*
Matthew S. Pittinsky*
Jeffrey A. Sine*
Jennifer Axe, Trustee
Thomas W. Merrill, Faculty Trustee
Angela Chen*, Student Trustee
* Alumna/alumnus of American University
Washington College of Law
Administration
Interim Dean Heather Hughes
Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Brandon Weiss
Associate Dean of Experiential Education Binny Miller
Associate Dean for Part Time & Evening Programs Cynthia Jones
Associate Dean for Scholarship Elizabeth Beske
Associate Dean of Finance & Administration Syed Azam Salahuddin
Associate Dean for Student Affairs David B. Jaffe
Assistant Dean for Adjunct Faculty Affairs William J. Snape III
Assistant Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid Akira Shiroma
Assistant Dean of Diversity, Inclusion & Affinity Relations Lisa Taylor
Assistant Dean of the Office of Academic Excellence Joni Wiredu
Assistant Dean of Academic Services & WCL Registrar Hilary Lappin
Full-Time Faculty
Jamie Abrams, BA, Indiana University Bloomington; JD, American University Washington College of Law; LLM, Columbia University. Professor of Law; Director, Legal Rhetoric
Padideh Ala’i, BA, University of Oregon; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law; Director, International and Comparative Legal Studies; Faculty Director, International Legal Studies Program; Director, TID
Hilary Allen, BA, University of Sydney, Australia; BL (LLB) University of Sydney, Australia; LLM, Georgetown University. Professor of Law
Kenneth Anderson, BA, University of California, Los Angeles; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law
Priya Baskaran, BA, New York University; JD, University of Michigan; LLM, Georgetown University. Associate Professor of Law; Director, Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
Elizabeth Beske, BA, Princeton University; JD, Columbia University. Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Scholarship
Chaz Brooks, BS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; MS, University of Tampa; JD, Georgetown University. Assistant Professor of Law; Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
Andy Budzinkski, BA, Washington & Lee University; JD, University of Michigan. Associate Professor of Law; Director, Civil Advocacy Clinic
Susan D. Carle, AB, Bryn Mawr College; JD, Yale University. Professor of Law
Michael W. Carroll, AB, University of Chicago; JD, Georgetown University. Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Janie Chuang, BA, Yale University; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law
Angela Jordan Davis, BA, Howard University; JD, Harvard University. Distinguished Professor of Law
Charles Duan, AB, Harvard College; JD, Harvard University. Assistant Professor of Law
Nwamaegwu Jeremi Duru, BA, Brown University; MPP, JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law; Director, WCL Sport & Society Initiative
Walter A. Effross, AB, Princeton University; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law
Lia Epperson, BA, Harvard University; JD, Stanford University. Professor of Law
Christine Haight Farley, BA, State University of New York, Binghamton; JD, State University of New York, Buffalo; LLM, JSD, Columbia University. Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, BA, Williams College; JD, University of Pennsylvania; LLM, Georgetown University. Professor of Law
Susan D. Franck, BA, Macalester College; JD, University of Minnesota; LLM, University of London. Professor of Law
Tianna Gibbs, BA, Stanford University; JD, Yale University. Professor of Law; Director, Gender Justice Clinic
Robert K. Goldman, BA, University of Pennsylvania; JD, University of Virginia. Professor of Law; Louis C. James Scholar
Claudio M. Grossman, Bachelor of Law and Social Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago; JSD, University of Amsterdam. Professor of Law; Dean Emeritus; Raymond I. Geraldson Scholar for International and Humanitarian Law
Lewis A. Grossman, BA, PhD, Yale University; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law; Affiliate Professor of History
Rebecca Hamilton, BEcon, University of Sydney, Australia; MA, JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law
Heather L. Hughes, BA, University of Chicago; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law; Interim Dean
David Hunter, BA, University of Michigan; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law
Cynthia E. Jones, BA, University of Delaware; JD, American University Washington College of Law. Professor of Law; Associate Dean of the Part-Time and Evening Division
Benjamin Leff, BA, Oberlin College; AM, University of Chicago; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law; Director, JD/MBA Dual Degree Program
Amanda Cohen Leiter, BS, MS, Stanford University; MS, University of Washington; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law, and Director, Program on Environmental and Energy Law
Maya Manian, BA, University of Michigan; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Health Law and Policy Program
James P. May, BA, Carleton College; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law
Binny Miller, BA, Carleton College; JD, University of Chicago. Professor of Law; Co-Director, Criminal Justice Clinic
Fernanda Nicola, BA, University of Turin; PhD, Trento University; LLM, Harvard University. Professor of Law; Director, International Organizations, Law, and Development
Diane F. Orentlicher, BA, Yale University; JD, Columbia University. Professor of Law
Andrew F. Popper, BA, Baldwin Wallace College; JD, DePaul University; LLM, The George Washington University. Professor of Law
Angi Porter, BA, JD, Howard University. Assistant Professor of Law
Jayesh Rathod, AB, Harvard University; JD, Columbia University. Professor of Law; Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Gustavo Ribeiro, LLB, Fundação Getulio Vargas; LLM, SJD, Harvard University. Assistant Professor of Law
Ira P. Robbins, AB, University of Pennsylvania; JD, Harvard University. Distinguished Professor of Law and Justice; Co-Director, Criminal Justice Practice & Policy Institute; Barnard T. Welsh Scholar
Ezra Rosser, BA, Yale University; JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law
Faraz Sanei, BA, University of California, Los Angeles; JD, Vanderbilt University. Assistant Professor of Law
Anita Sinha, BA, Barnard College, Columbia University; JD, New York University. Professor of Law; Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic
Brenda V. Smith, BA, Spelman College; JD, Georgetown University. Professor of Law; Director, Community Economic and Equity Development Clinic
David Snyder, BA, Yale University; JD, Tulane University. Professor of Law; Director, Business Law Program
Brandon M. Weiss, BS, Stanford University; MPP, JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law; Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Paul R. Williams, AB, University of California, Davis; JD, Stanford University. Rebecca I. Grazier Professor of Law and International Relations; Director, JD/MA Dual Degree Program
Thomas J. Williams, BA, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; MA, JD, University of Pennsylvania. Assistant Professor of Law
Law Library Administration
Khelani Clay, BA, Howard University; JD, American University Washington College of Law; MLS, The Catholic University of America. Assistant Law Librarian; Access Services
John Q. Heywood, BS, Northern Arizona University; JD, American University Washington College of Law. Associate Law Librarian; Digital and Electronic Media
Adeen Postar, AB, JD, Washington University; MLS, The Catholic University of America. Director of Law Library; Professor of Practice
Shannon M. Roddy, BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; JD, American University Washington College of Law; MLS, The Catholic University of America. Law Librarian
Ripple L. Weistling, BA, Brandeis University; MA, King’s College, London, England; JD, Georgetown University; MLS, The Catholic University of America. Assistant Law Librarian
Wanhong Linda Wen, BA, Hunan Normal University; MS, University of South Carolina. Law Librarian; Head of Collections and Bibliographic Services
Emeriti
David E. Aaronson, BA, MA, PhD, George Washington University; LLB, Harvard University; LLM, Georgetown University. B. J. Tennery Professor of Law Emeritus
Nancy S. Abramowitz, BS, Cornell University; JD, Georgetown University. Professor of Practice of Law
Evelyn Abravanel, AB,JD, Case Western Reserve University. Professor of Law Emerita
Jonathan B. Baker, AB, JD, Harvard University; MA, PhD, Stanford University. Retiring Emeritus, Professor of Law Emeritus.
Susan D. Bennett, BA, MA, Yale University; JD, Columbia University. Professor of Law and Director of the Community and Economic Development Clinic
Daniel Bradlow, BA, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; JD, Northeastern University; LL.M, Georgetown University. Professor of Law Emeritus
Barlow Burke Jr., AB, Harvard University; LLB, MCP, University of Pennsylvania; LL.M, SJD, Yale University. Professor of Law and John S. Myers and Alvina Reckman Myers Scholar
David Chavkin, BS, Michigan State University; JD University of California Berkley. Professor of Law Emeritus
Robert D. Dinerstein, AB, Cornell University; JD, Yale University. Retiring Emeritus Professor of Law, Director of the Disability Rights Law Clinic
Paul Figley, BA, Franklin and Marshall College; JD, Southern Methodist University. Professor of Legal Rhetoric Emeritus
Peter Jaszi, AB, JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law Emeritus
Billie Jo Kaufman, BS, MS, Indiana University; JD, Nova Southeastern University. Professor of Law Emerita
Patrick E. Kehoe, BCS, Seattle University; JD, MLibr, University of Washington. Law Librarian Emeritus
Candace S. Kovacic-Fleischer, AB, Wellesley College; JD, Northeastern University. Professor of Law Emerita
Susan J. Lewis, BA, University of California, Los Angeles; JD, Southwestern University; MLibr, University of Washington, Seattle. Law Librarian Emerita
Elliott S. Milstein, BA, University of Hartford; JD, University of Connecticut; LLM, Yale University. Professor of Law Emeritus
Sima Mirkin, BSc, Byelorussian Polytechnic Institute, Minsk, Belarus; MLS, University of Maryland. Associate Law Librarian
Teresa Godwin Phelps, BA, MA, PhD, University of Notre Dame; MSL, Yale University. Professor of Law Emerita
Andrew D. Pike, BA, Swarthmore College; JD, University of Pennsylvania. Professor of Law Emeritus
Nancy D. Polikoff, BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, George Washington University; JD, Georgetown University. Professor of Law Emerita
Jamin B. Raskin, BA, JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law Emeritus
Herman Schwartz, AB, JD, Harvard University. Professor of Law Emeritus
Ann Shalleck, AB, Bryn Mawr College; JD, Harvard University. Retiring Emerita Professor of Law, Director of the Women and the Law Program, and Carrington Shields Scholar
Michael E. Tigar, BA, JD, University of California, Berkeley. Professor of Law Emeritus
Mary Siegel Trotter, AB, Vassar College; JD, Yale University. Professor of Law Emerita
Robert Vaughn, BA, JD, University of Oklahoma; LLM, Harvard University. Professor of Law Emeritus
Richard J. Wilson, BA, DePauw University; JD, University of Illinois. Professor of Law Emeritus
Special Faculty Appointments
Tamar Alexanian, BA, Vanderbilt University; JD, University of Michigan. Practitioner in Residence, Civil Advocacy Clinic
Jonathan B. Baker, AB, JD, Harvard University; Ph.D. Stanford University. Research Professor of Law
Sean Flynn, BA, Pitzer College; JD, Harvard University. Professorial Lecturer in Residence
Bianca Garcia, BA, University of Illinois, Chicago; JD, American University Washington College of Law. Associate Professor of Legal Rhetoric
Horacio A. Grigera Naon, JD, LLD, University of Buenos Aires; LLM, SJD, Harvard University. Distinguished Practitioner in Residence; Director, Center for International Commercial Arbitration
Jessica Harris, BS, North Carolina A&T State University; JD, Charleston School of Law. Practitioner in Residence, Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic
Elizabeth A. Keith, BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; JD, George Mason University. Legal Rhetoric Instructor; Academic Coordinator of Legal Writing
Daniela Kraiem, BA, University of California, Santa Barbara; JD, University of California, Davis. Assistant Dean Office of Career and Professional Development, Practitioner in Residence
Jeffrey S. Lubbers, AB, Cornell University; JD, University of Chicago. Professor of Practice in Administrative Law; Law and Government Program
Claudia Martin, JD, Universidad de Buenos Aires; LL.M, American University Washington College of Law. Professorial Lecturer in Residence
Juan E. Mendez, LLB, Stella Maris Catholic University, Argentina. Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence
Olinda Moyd, BA, Coppin State University; JD, Ohio State University. Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Re-Entry Clinic
Citlalli Ochoa, BA, University of California, Santa Barbara; JD, University of California, Irvine. Practitioner in Residence, International Human Rights Law Clinic
Victoria Phillips, BA, Smith College; JD, American University Washington College of Law. Professor of the Practice of Law
Adeen Postar, AB, JD, Washington University; MLS, The Catholic University of America. Director of Law Library and Professor of Practice of Law
Heather E. Ridenour, BBA, Texas Women’s University; JD, Texas Wesleyan University. Legal Rhetoric Instructor; Director of Legal Analysis Program
Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon, JD, Universidad de los Andes; LLM, American University Washington College of Law; SJD, The George Washington University. Professorial Lecturer in Residence
Charles Ross, BA, University of Maryland, College Park; JD, American University Washington College of Law. Practitioner in Residence, Community Economic and Equity Development Clinic
Elizabeth Rylander, BA, University of Virginia; JD, The College of William & Mary. Assistant Professor of Legal Rhetoric
Susana SáCouto, BA, Brown University; MALD, Tufts University; JD, Northeastern University. Professorial Lecturer in Residence
Tracie Siddiqui, BA, Georgetown University; JD, University of Oklahoma. Practitioner in Residence, Intellectual Property Clinic
William J. Snape III, BA, University of California, Los Angeles; JD, George Washington University. Assistant Dean for Adjunct Faculty Development; Fellow in Environmental Law
David H. Spratt, BA, The College of William and Mary; JD, American University Washington College of Law. Legal Rhetoric Instructor
Chloe Sugino, BA, Marquette University; JD, Boston University. Practitioner in Residence, Immigrant Justice Clinic
Diane Weinroth, BA, University of California, Berkeley; JD, Columbia University. Supervising Attorney
Stephen Wermiel, BA, Tufts University; JD, American University Washington College of Law. Professor of the Practice of Law
Caroline Wick, BA, Tufts University; MS, JD, Tulane University. Practitioner in Residence, Disability Rights Clinic
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