Rome Program: 2010 Faculty

 

James P. Carey, B.A., cum laude, Holy Cross, 1965; J.D., University of Chicago, 1968

 

Professor James P. Carey is director of the Advocacy Center, Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He teaches evidence, criminal law, criminal procedure, comparative criminal procedure and trial advocacy. Before coming to Loyola, Professor Carey served 10 years as an assistant Cook County (Chicago) Public Defender, where he was a member of the homicide task force and a supervisor in the Maybrook court center. He is a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and serves as the program director of the Midwest Regional Trial Skills Program for NITA. He won the Oliphant Award for service to NITA in 2005. He is a former member of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association, and is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Bar Foundation. He has taught comparative criminal procedure in the Rome summer program seven times starting in 1997. He also teaches in Loyola's exchange program with Hurtado Jesuit University, Santiago, Chile, where his focus is on criminal procedure and trial advocacy.

Professor James Carey

 

James J. Faught, B.A., Notre Dame, 1971; J.D., Loyola Chicago, 1976


Dean Faught practiced law in a small Chicago firm for three years before returning to Loyola, where he earned his law degree, to become a member of the administration in 1979. As  associate dean for administration, he oversees the general operation of the School of Law including admissions, registration, and career resources. He has served on a number of professional committees including the Illinois State Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Education, Admission and Competence as chair; various Law School Admission Council Committees; the Illinois State Bar Association Committee on Liaison with the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission; and the Lawyers' Assistance Program of Illinois. In 2004, Dean Faught was appointed to the Illinois Executive Ethics Commission. He has published articles on the status of women in law schools and on controversial student organizations. Dean Faught is the director of Loyola's Externship Program, and he is the founder and director of the London Comparative Advocacy Program.

 

Associate Dean James Faught

 

Allen S. Shoenberger, B.A., Swathmore, 1966; J.D., Columbia College, 1969; LL.M., New York University, 1972


After graduation from law schoo, Professor Shoenberger served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Kenya from 1969-1971; he was the assistnat editor of the East African Law Reports and an International Legal Center Fellow during that period. He was also a Ford Urban Law fellow in 1971-72, as well as a National Science Foundation Fessow to the Seminar in Social Science Methods in Legal Education in 1972. He has been a hearing officer for the Illinois Pollution Control Board. He has served as a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States on disability law, as well as for other agencies and gruops, often in various areas regarding the rights of the disabled with particular attention to educational rights. He has also supervised the appellate practicum program, which represents prisoners on court appointment before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit as well as before the U.S.  Supreme Court. He has received joint appointments with Loyola's Schools of Social Work and Medicine.

Associate Dean James Faught

 

Barry Sullivan, A.B., Middlebury College, 1970; J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1974


Professor Barry Sullivan joined the Loyola faculty as Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy in 2009. He previously has been Co-Chair of Jenner & Block's Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group, Dean of Washington and Lee University School of Law, a Fulbright professor at the University of Warsaw, a visiting fellow of the University of London, an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, and a law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Sullivan has argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and in state and federal appellate courts throughout the country. He  teaches and writes about the Supreme Court, and in the areas of constitutional and administrative law, civil rights law, civil and appellate practice, legal argument, and the legal profession. His work has appeared in the Dublin University Law Journal, the Yale Law Journal, the Northwestern Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Tulane Law Review, and the Warsaw University Law Review, among others.

Professor Barry Sullivan

 

Anne-Marie Rhodes, B.A., Albertus Magus College, 1973; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1976
 

Anne-Marie Rhodes is a professor of law at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches Income Tax, Estate and Gift Tax, Estates, Estate Planning, Art Law and Comparative Law: Legal Systems in the Americas-Chile. She is the co-founder of Loyola's summer foreign programs and the Chile initiative with Universidad Alberto Hurtado, where she is also involved with their advanced tax program. She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee in 2008. Professor Rhodes is an Academic Fellow of ACTEC (American College of Trust and Estate Counsel), where she was co-chair of the Legal Education Committee. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the ACTEC Foundation. Professor Rhodes is Of Counsel at the Chicago office of the international law firm ReedSmith. Professor Rhodes is a graduate of Harvard Law School. She is currently working on a case book, Art Law: A Transactional Approach, to be published by Caroline Academic Press in 2011.

Professor Anne-Marie Rhodes

 

Anita Weinberg, B.A., Michigan, 1974; M.S.S.W., Columbia, 1977; J.D., Loyola Chicago, 1986 


Anita Weinberg has worked on behalf of children and families for 30 years as an attorney and as a social worker. Currently she is Clinical Professor, and Director of the ChildLaw Policy Institute at Loyola's School of Law. Professor Weinberg teaches courses in legislative advocacy, domestic violence, and children's "best interests." She involves students in interdisciplinary policy and legislative projects in the areas of child welfare and health.

Professor Anita Weinberg

 

Neil G. Williams, B.A., Duke, 1978; J.D., University of Chicago, 1982

 

Professor Williams received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Following his graduation from law school, he served as law clerk to the Hon. George N. Leighton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. After his clerkship he joined the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin, where he handled general corporate finance and securities law matters. Professor Williams joined the full-time School of Law faculty in 1989.

Professor Neil Williams

 

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