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New Law School Faculty Appointments
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Upon completing military service as an officer in the United States Army, Fr. Araujo served as a trial attorney and attorney advisor in the Solicitor's Office of the United States Department of the Interior (1974-1979). In 1979 he joined the Law Department of The Standard Oil Company (Ohio) and served in a variety of capacities until 1985. After corporate service, he joined the general corporate department of a New England law firm and remained there until entering the Society of Jesus in 1986. Since 1997, he has served as an advisor to the Holy See providing counsel on issues dealing with public international law. He was a member of the law faculty at Gonzaga University from 1994-2005 and became the Robert Bellarmine, S.J. University Professor in American and Public International law; then he was Ordinary Professor, the Pontifical Gregorian University, 2005-2008. He has been a visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; St. Louis University School of Law; and Boston College School of Law. In the academic year 2000-2001, he was the Stein Fellow at Fordham University Law School. During his graduate legal studies in New York, he was the Chamberlain Fellow at Columbia University School of Law.
He was appointed as the inaugural holder of the John Courtney Murray, S.J. University Professorship at Loyola University in July of 2009. |
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Samuel Brunson joined the faculty in July 2009. Before joining the faculty, Professor Brunson worked in the tax department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. He also clerked for the Honorable George W. Miller on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. |
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Nadia Sawicki joined the Loyola faculty in 2009. Her primary fields of expertise are bioethics and health law. Her scholarship evaluates recent developments in health law from two perspectives: one through the lens of legal academic inquiry, and the other grounded in ethical theory generally with particular focus on bioethics. As a legal scholar, she considers whether legislative, judicial, and policy developments in the medical and public health arenas are consistent with existing jurisprudence - for example, whether traditional tort law conceptions of injury support the recognition of novel torts such as wrongful birth and wrongful living. In addition, she uses her training in bioethics and moral philosophy to consider these developments from a broader normative perspective - that is, by identifying the ethical principles underlying social and professional norms, and determining the extent to which lawmakers and policymakers may rightfully take these norms into account. |
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Barry Sullivan graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1974 and clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1974-1975. He was an associate (1975-80) and partner (1981-1994, 2001-2009) in Jenner & Block, where he was principally engaged in litigation and served as Co-Chair of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group. Mr. Sullivan has litigated significant cases across the country, at all levels of the state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. For example, Mr. Sullivan represented Andrew Wilson in the landmark death penalty case of People v. Wilson, 116 Ill. 2d 29 (1987), which was the first criminal conviction reversed because of police torture in Area 2 of the Chicago Police Department. Among his other notable cases were Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), in which he was lead counsel for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights as amicus curiae, and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), in which he represented the American Bar Association as amicus curiae. He was one of the attorneys for the United States in American Textile Manufacturers Institute v. Donovan, 452 U.S. 490 (1981), which upheld the OSHA standard for occupational exposure to cotton dust. More recently, he argued City of Bridgeton v. Missouri-American Water Co., 219 S.W.3d 226 (Mo. Sup. Ct. 2007), a landmark land use case, in the Missouri Supreme Court. |
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Michael Zimmer has joined Loyola's law faculty as a Professor of Law. A widely recognized scholar in the areas of employment discrimination law, labor and employment law and constitutional law, Professor Zimmer is co-author of Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination (1982; 2d ed. 1988; 3d ed. 1994; 4th ed. 1997, 5th ed. 2000; 6th ed. 2003; 7th ed. 2008), The Global Workplace (2006), Employment Discrimination: Law & Practice (2002), Employment Discrimination (1988), Cases & Materials on Employment Law (1993), Federal Statutory Law of Employment Discrimination (1980) and author of Employment Discrimination Roadmap. He has also published articles in numerous leading law journals.
Professor Zimmer has taught employment discrimination law, employment law, international and comparative employment law and labor law and has also taught torts, contracts, constitutional law, administrative law and US foreign relations law. |
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Lea Krivinskas Shepard has joined Loyola's law faculty as a Professor of Law. After graduating from Harvard Law School, where she served as executive editor of the Harvard International Law Journal, she worked as an associate at Jones Day in Cleveland, Ohio, her hometown. Professor Shepard later clerked for the Honorable James G. Carr, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and the Honorable Terence T. Evans of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Shepard's research interests include bankruptcy, consumer law and credit, and financial institutions. |
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Alexander Tsesis has joined Loyola's law faculty as an assistant professor. He teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, First Amendment, and a seminar devoted to civil rights issues. Tsesis's scholarship focuses on constitutional law and civil rights. His publications include two books, The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom (New York University Press, 2004) and Destructive Messages (New York University Press, 2002). His third book, dealing with U.S. civil rights from the Revolutionary period to the present, will be published in winter 2008 by the Yale University Press. Tsesis is a frequent presenter to law school faculties nationwide on issues involving constitutional law, civil rights, and hate speech legislation. |
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Mary Bird (JD '87) has rejoined the law school as the Director of Public Service Programs. Mary's experience as a lawyer, public servant, and educator is extensive. She has served as a former supervising attorney at the Office of the Public Guardian, a staff attorney in the Children's Rights Project of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, and as the first attorney for the Office of the Inspector General for DCFS. Her new position was created by the School of Law to strengthen its commitment to social justice and to better support the many public service activities of its students and faculty. In her new role at Loyola, Mary will coordinate law school public service events, conferences, and student publications, as well as create and facilitate pro bono opportunities and community outreach for faculty, administration, students, and alumni. |
| Megan Kerby (JD '07) has joined the School of Law as Assistant Director of the Advocacy Center. Megan is a Loyola law alumna and a former member of the law school's Moot Court Board, and the National Moot Court Competition team, where she received the Best Oral Advocate Award. As assistant director, Megan's responsibilities will include developing a strategic plan for Loyola's Center for Advocacy and assisting Professor James P. Carey in the daily administration of the law school's advocacy program. |
