Lisa
Alexander
Assistant Professor of Law
J.D., Columbia University
Contracts, Business Organizations, Community Development Law
Originally from New York, Professor Alexander focuses her
scholarly interests on the study of transactional legal strategies
to foster equitable urban community development that minimizes
displacement, mitigates poverty and promotes racial and social
justice. Professor Alexander is an Associate Editor of the Journal
of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, a
publication of the American Bar Association (ABA). Prior to
joining the faculty, Professor Alexander practiced in the Chicago
Office of Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., where she focused on
community economic development, non-profit organizations,
affordable and fair housing, and residential and commercial real
estate. She was also awarded a competitive Equal Justice Works
Fellowship (formerly NAPIL), and with it worked as a staff attorney
at the Chicago Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.
Tonya
Brito
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., Harvard University
Family Law; Civil Procedure; Children, Law and Society
A native New Yorker, Associate Professor Brito teaches family
law and several advanced courses she developed, including Children,
Law & Society and Adoption & Policy. Her scholarly
interests include open adoption, family law, children's legal
issues and poverty law. She has written on the relationship
between family law and welfare law, the promotion of marriage as
anti-poverty policy, the image of mothers in poverty discourse, and
how working mothers fare under spousal support law. She is
currently working on a number of projects, including a qualitative
study of the role of law and trust in open adoption and an
anthology of readings on children, law and society. Before
entering academia, Professor Brito practiced law for several years
in Washington, D.C., and served as a judicial law clerk on the U.S.
District Court for the Distric of Columbia.
Anuj C.
Desai
Assistant Professor of Law
J.D., University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
Master's in International Affairs, Columbia University
Copyright, Trademarks, Cyberlaw
Professor Desai brings a diverse set of professional experiences
to his teaching at the Law School, including having served as
legal assistant to the American judges at the Iran-United States
Claims Tribunal in The Hague, and working at the U.S. State
Department and in the Legal Resource Centre in Grahamstown, South
Africa. His current research interests focus on the intersection
between international law and communication and information
technology. He has written on a variety of topics related to law
in cyberspace, including Internet filters, copyright, privacy, the
First Amendment, and domain name dispute resolutions.
Linda S.
Greene
Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law, Associate Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs
J.D., University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Employment Discrimination,
Legislation, Race-Conscious Remedies
A California native, Professor Greene is one of the nation's most prominent African-American women in legal education. She began her career as a civil rights attorney at the NAACP, and went on to serve as Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she participated in the Senate's consideration of five U.S. Supreme Court nominees. She is former Chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Minority Groups and former President of the Society of American Law Teachers. In addition to her teaching, she is Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University as a whole. She serves on numerous boards and foundations, including the U.S. Olympic Committee, and co-founded the Black Women in Sports Foundation.
James E.
Jones, Jr.
Professor Emeritus and Professor of Industrial Relations Emeritus
J.D., University of Wisconsin
M.A., University of Illinois
B.A., Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri (HBCU)
Administrative Law, Arbitration, Employment Discrimination, Labor
Law
A native of Little Rock, Arkansas and the segregated school
systems of the '30s, '40s and '50s, Professor Jones wrote the first
executive order for President Kennedy establishing the framework
for public sector collective bargaining, as well as rules and
regulations from 1961-69 relating to affirmative action in
employment. He established the first discrimination law course at
Wisconsin, in 1970. He continues to do labor arbitration and other
internal union dispute settlement nationally. Joining the U.S.
Department of Labor upon graduation from the UW Law School in 1953,
he progressed from legislative attorney to Counsel for Labor
Relations, Director of the Office of Labor Management Policy
Development, and Associate Solicitor in the Office of Labor. He
has received numerous awards for his lifetime achievement.
Thomas W.
Mitchell
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., Howard University
LL.M., University of Wisconsin
Real Estate, Remedies, Rural Land Tenure
A native of San Francisco, Professor Mitchell won a substantial
Ford Foundation grant to document the way in which state property
laws have served to dismantle the land holdings of rural black
farmers. He has testified before a panel in the U.S. House of
Representatives on matters pertaining to black land loss in the
rural South, supervised students working on behalf of communities
that need legal assistance to retain their property and natural
resources: black and Appalachian communities in the South, Native
American communities in the Dakotas and New Mexico, and
Mexican-American communities along the Texas-Mexico border.
Professor Mitchell's land tenure interests have also taken him to
Zimbabwe and South Africa. He has published articles in academic
journals on land tenure in rural America.
Richard
Monette
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of Oregon
M.A., University of North Dakota
Indian Law, Property, Torts
Professor Monette specializes in drafting provisions for
constitutions and codes for Indian Tribes. He assisted the
Havasupi Tribe in drafting seven substantive amendments to their
constitution. He also worked with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
of Oklahoma to draft an entirely new constitution, which was
approved in April 2006 in an election also conducted by the Bureau
of Indian Affairs. He has had many years of experience assisting
tribes with constitutional reform projects, including drafting a
new constitution in 1992-3 for the Hochunk tribe. He was a staff
attorney with the Indian affairs committee and served as director
of legislative affairs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in
Washington, D.C. He has been elected twice as chairman of the
Turtle Mountain Tribe, and has served as Chief Judge for Pascua
Yaqui Tribe.
Pilar N.
Ossorio
Associate Professor of Law and Medical Ethics
Ph.D., Stanford University (Microbiology and Immunology)
J.D., University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
Biotechnology Law, Patent Law
Professor Ossorio teaches at the Law School, at the School of
Medicine and Public Health, and is Program Faculty in the graduate
program in Population Health. Prior to joining the University of
Wisconsin, she was Director of the Genetics Section at the
Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Ossorio
has had an extensive career in the sciences. After receiving her
Ph.D., she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cell biology at
Yale University School of Medicine and worked as a consultant for
the federal program on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
(ELSI) of the Human Genome Project. She is a member of the Human
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee, a national
committee to monitor and revise voluntary guidelines on the conduct
of human embryonic stem cell research; a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); and a member of
the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics.
Asifa
Quraishi
Assistant
Professor of Law
S.J.D. Harvard Law School
L.L.M., Columbia Law School
J.D., University of California-Davis
Comparative Law, Constitutional Law
Professor Quraishi is a specialist in Islamic law and legal
theory. Her expertise ranges from U.S. law on federal court
practice to constitutional legal theory, with a comparative focus
in Islamic law. Her professional experience includes serving as a
judicial law clerk with Judge Edward Dean Price on the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of California and as the
death penalty law clerk for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Quraishi made news in 2001 when she drafted a clemency
appeal brief in the case of Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who was
sentenced to flogging for fornication in Zamfara, Nigeria. She is
founding member of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers
(NAML) and the California group American Muslims Intent Learning
and Activism (AMILA). She is an associate of the Muslim Women's
League, and has served as past president and board member of
Karamah: Muslim Women for Lawyers for Human Rights.
Stephanie
Tai
Assistant
Professor of Law
Ph.D., Tufts University
J.D., Georgetown University
Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Comparative Asian
Environmental Law
Raised in the South by two chemists, Professor Tai entered the
legal profession to learn how to improve the use of science in
environmental protection. She has written on the consideration of
scientific studies and environmental justice concerns by
administrative agencies, and is currently studying the role of
scientific dialogues before the judicial system. Her other
teaching interests include environmental justice, risk regulation,
and comparative Asian environmental law. She began her legal
career as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural
Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she
briefed and argued cases involving a range of issues, from the
protection of endangered cave species in Texas to the issuance of
dredge and fill permits under the Clean Water Act. Prior to
practicing law, Professor Tai served as a judicial law clerk on the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Court.
Joseph
R. Thome
Professor Emeritus
LL.B., Harvard University
Comparative Law, Contracts, Land Reform in Latin America, Latin
American Legal Institutions, Law and Modernization in the Third
World
Professor Thome's research and teaching focus on the process of
legal reform in Latin America and on legal issues of social and
economic change in Latin America and Africa. He has served as a
consultant for the World Bank in Equatorial Guinea and for the U.S.
Agency for International Development to evaluate its projects
across Latin America, and lectured and consulted on land tenure
issues in South Africa. He had a long relationship with the
university's Land Tenure Center, participating in several projects
in Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, and has
conducted research and lectured on land tenure, legal reform and
other law and development issues in Argentina, Costa Rica, the
Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, South Africa, and Uruguay.
Professor Thome was born and spent his childhood in Costa Rica. He
is bi-lingual in Spanish-English, and fluent in Portuguese.