2009-10 Written Work Supervisors by Subject Matter

Supervisors Listed by Faculty Name

Please note: faculty may be listed in more than one category and not all subjects they will supervise are listed in each category.

Business Organization, Commercial Law, and Finance

Constitutional Law and Civil Rights

• Professor Anne Alstott (Law and Government, via her seminar, Law and Government: An Introduction to Scholarship)
• Professor Christine Desan (Legal and Constitutional History)
• Professor Einer Elhauge  (Selected topics in Statutory Interpretation)
• Professor Richard Fallon (Constitutional Law and Federal Courts) 
• Assistant Professor James Greiner (Redistricting)
• Professor Lani Guinier (Law and Social Movements) (on leave Fall Term)
• Visiting Professor Ian Haney Lopez (Equal Protection, Critical Race Theory, Latinos and the Law) (Spring term only)
• Professor Andrew Kaufman (Constitutional Law, selected topics) (on leave Fall Term)
• Professor Randall Kennedy (Race Relations Law)
• Professor Michael Klarman (Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Legal History)
• Visiting Professor Richard Lazarus (Supreme Court Advocacy) (Winter term only)
• Visiting Professor Sanford Levinson (American Constitutional Design, Emergency Powers) (Fall term only)
• Professor Kenneth Mack (American Legal History, History of the Legal Profession, Race and the Law, Property)
• Visiting Professor Catherine MacKinnon (Constitutional Law) (Fall term only)
• Clinical Professor Phillip Malone (Online Speech and Anonymity)
• Professor Frank Michelman (Constitutionalism, Constitutional Law)
• Professor Martha Minow (Equality, First Amendment, Law and Education)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Erin Murphy (Criminal Procedure)
• Professor Gerald Neuman (Transnational Aspects of Constitutional Law)
• Visiting Professor Anne O’Connell (Agency Design and Reorganization, Appointments Clause/Agency Officials, Agency Rulemaking and Oversight) (Spring term only)
• FAS Assistant Professor Ryan Owens (Judicial Politics, Separation of Powers, Internal Supreme Court Dynamics) (Spring term only)
• Professor Richard Parker (Constitutional Law)
• Visiting Associate Professor Jedediah Purdy (Constitutional Law) (Spring term only)
• Visiting Professor Cristina Rodriguez (Constitutional Law, Immigration Law and Policy, Administrative Law, Civil Rights Law) (Spring term only)
• Visiting Professor Theodore Ruger (Constitutional Law, Judicial Institutions and Judicial Behavior, Statutory Interpretation) (Fall term only)
• Professor Carol Steiker (Capital Punishment, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure)
• Assistant Professor Matthew Stephenson (Administrative Law, Legislation and Statutory Interpretation)
• Professor William Stuntz (Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Law and the Culture Wars)
• Clinical Professor Ronald Sullivan (Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Race)
• Professor Laurence Tribe (Constitutional Law)
• Professor Mark Tushnet (U.S. Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law)
• Professor Lloyd Weinreb (Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal and Political Philosophy) 
• Visiting Professor G. Edward White (American Legal and Constitutional History)
• Visiting Professor Tobias Wolff (Conflict of Laws, Federal Courts and Federal Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law, Free Speech and First Amendment, Civil Rights)

Criminal Law and Procedure

• Ms. Jessica Budnitz (Juvenile Justice)
• Professor Alan Dershowitz (Criminal Law) (on leave Spring Term)
• Professor Janet Halley (Rape Law, Gender in International Criminal Tribunals and Postconflict Justice)
• Assistant Professor Adriaan Lanni (Criminal Law and Procedure) (on leave Fall Term)
• Visiting Professor Catherine MacKinnon (Criminal and Humanitarian Law) (Fall term only)
• Clinical Professor Phillip Malone (Cyberlaw, Internet Law, Cybercrime/Computer Crime, Computer Forensics and Digital Evidence, Online Speech and Anonymity)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Erin Murphy (Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Crime and Technology, Forensic Evidence) (Spring term only)
• Professor David Rosenberg (Criminal Procedure)
• Professor Carol Steiker (Capital Punishment, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure)
• Professor William Stuntz (Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Law and the Culture Wars)
• Clinical Professor Ronald Sullivan (Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Ethics, Race)
• Ms. Dena Sacco (Child Pornography, Child Exploitation, Youth Online Safety) (Spring term only)
• Assistant Clinical Professor Alex Whiting (Criminal Law, War Crime Prosecutions)

Disciplinary Perspectives and Law

• Professor Yochai Benkler (Cooperation, Generosity, Pro-Social Behavior, Access to Knowledge)
• Assistant Clinical Professor Robert Bordone (Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Mediation, Dispute Systems Design, Consensus Building Processes)
• Ms. Jessica Budnitz (Social Entrepreneurship)
• Judge John Cratsley (Judging/Courts, Judicial Administration, Court Management) (Winter and Spring terms only)
• Professor Bruce Hay (Law and Literature, Law and the Arts)
• Professor Louis Kaplow (Law and Economics)
• Professor Duncan Kennedy (Law and Economics)
• Professor Charles Nesson (Relation of University to Law, Law and Strategic Games, Digital Library)
• FAS Assistant Professor Ryan Owens (Law and Social Sciences) (Spring term only)
• Professor Richard Parker (Law and Literature)
• Clinical Professor Brian Price (Community Economic Development, Small Business and Micro-Enterprise)
• Visiting Professor Dan Simon (Law and Psychology)
• Professor Kathryn Spier (Law and Economics)
• Professor Alan Stone (Law and Literature, Law and Psychiatry)
• Professor William Stuntz (Law and the Culture Wars)

Employment and Labor Law

• Professor Elizabeth Bartholet (Employment Discrimination) (on leave Spring term)
• Mr. Peter Carfagna (Sports Law) (Fall and winter terms only)
• Mr. Steven Churchill (Employment Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, Employment Civil Rights)
• Assistant Professor James Greiner (Employment Discrimination)
• Professor Duncan Kennedy (Labor Law)
• Professor David Rosenberg (Labor Law)
• Assistant Professor Benjamin Sachs (Employment Law, Labor Law) 

Environmental Law

• Mr. Tyler Giannini (Human Rights and the Environment) (Spring term only)
• Visiting Professor Richard Lazarus (Natural Resources Law) (Winter term only)
• Visiting Professor Jedediah Purdy (Property, Natural Resources Law, Environmental Law) (Spring term only) 
• Professor Henry Smith (Property, Natural Resources)
• Visiting Professor Michael Vandenbergh (Environmental Law, Climate Change and Related Topics)

Family, Gender and Children’s Law

• Professor Elizabeth Bartholet (Family Law, Children and the Law, Employment Discrimination) (on leave Spring term)
• Ms. Jessica Budnitz (Juvenile Justice)
• Professor I. Glen Cohen (Family Law Issues related to Reproductive Technology)
• Professor Janet Halley (Family Law, Law and Gender, Law and Sexuality, Feminism and the Law, History of Family Law as a Legal Topic, Rape Law, Gender in International Criminal Tribunals and Postconflict Justice)
• Visiting Professor Catherine MacKinnon (International Law, Human Rights, Criminal and Humanitarian Law, Constitutional Law, Feminist Theory) (Fall term only)
• Ms. Dena Sacco (Child Pornography, Child Exploitation, Youth Online Safety) (Spring term only)
• Professor Lucie White (Domestic and International Poverty Lawyering, Economic and Social Rights, Gender and Poverty, Social Welfare Policy)

Government Structure and Function

• Professor Anne Alstott (Law and Government, via her seminar, Law and Government: An Introduction to Scholarship)
• Judge John Cratsley (Judging/Courts, Judicial Administration, Court Management) (Winter and Spring terms only)
• Professor Einer Elhauge  (Selected topics in Statutory Interpretation)
• Professor Richard Fallon (Constitutional Law, Federal Courts)
• Professor Gerry Frug (Local Government Law)
• Acting Dean Howell Jackson (Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy, Social Security and Entitlement Reform)
• Visiting Professor Anne O’Connell (Agency Design and Reorganization, Appointments Clause/Agency Officials, Agency Rulemaking and Oversight) (Spring term only
• Professor Philip Heymann (Law and Government) (on leave Spring Term)
• Mr. Peter Hutt (Food and Drug Law, Health Law, Administrative Law) (Winter and Spring terms only)
• Professor Todd Rakoff (Administrative Law, Statutory Interpretation)
• Visiting Professor Cristina Rodriguez (Constitutional Law, Immigration Law and Policy, Administrative Law, Civil Rights Law) (Spring term only)
• Visiting Professor Theodore Ruger (Health Law, Statutory Interpretation) (Fall term only)
• Professor David Rosenberg (Federal Courts) 
• Professor Matthew Stephenson (Administrative Law, Legislation and Statutory Interpretation, Positive Political Theory)
• Professor Jonathan Zittrain (National Security) (on leave Fall Term)

Health Law

• Professor I. Glenn Cohen (Bioethics, Health Law, Food and Drug Law, Family Law Issues related to Reproductive Technology)
• Professor Einer Elhauge  (Selected topics in Health Policy)
• Mr. Robert Greenwald (Health Law, HIV and LGBT Law and Policy)
• Mr. Peter Hutt (Food and Drug Law, Health Law, Administrative Law) (Winter and Spring terms only)
• Assistant Professor Benjamin Roin (Health Law, FDA Law, Patent Law)
• Visiting Professor Theodore Ruger (Health Law, Statutory Interpretation) (Fall term only)
• Professor Alan Stone (Law and Psychiatry)

Human Rights

• Clinical Professor Deborah Anker (Refugee and Asylum Law, Immigration Law)
• Clinical Professor James Cavallaro (Human Rights) 
• Ms. Susan Farbstein (Transitional Justice, Alien Tort Statute Litigation, Human Rights in Southern Africa) (Spring term only)
• Mr. Tyler Giannini (Business and Human Rights, Human Rights and the Environment) (Spring term only)
• Professor Martha Minow (Human Rights)
• Professor Gerald Neuman (Immigration and Nationality Law, Human Rights in the Shadow of Terrorism, Transnational Aspects of Constitutional Law)
• Visiting Professor Cristina Rodriguez (Immigration Law and Policy) (Spring term only)

Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw and Technology, and Arts and Entertainment

• Professor Yochai Benkler (Internet and Society, Copyrights, Patents, and other Exclusive Rights)
• Professor I. Glenn Cohen (Bioethics, Health Law, Food and Drug Law, Family Law Issues related to Reproductive Technology)
• Visiting Professor Julie Cohen (Intellectual Property, Information Privacy, Cyberlaw Theory)
• Professor William Fisher (Copyright, Patent Law, Trademark Law)
• Mr. Urs Gasser (Cyberlaw, Privacy/Data protection law, Intellectual Property Law, Comparative Law, Theory of Regulation)
• Professor Charles Nesson (Digital Library)
• Professor John Palfrey (Internet Law, Copyright Law, Democracy)
• Clinical Professor Brian Price (Entertainment Industry)
• Assistant Professor Benjamin Roin (Patent Law, Health Law, FDA Law)
• Ms. Dena Sacco (Child Pornography, Child Exploitation, Youth Online Safety) (Spring term only)
• Professor Henry Smith (Intellectual Property)
• Professor Jonathan Zittrain (Cyberlaw, including privacy, property, speech, and internet governance) (on leave Fall Term)

International, Comparative, and Foreign Law

• Professor William Alford (Chinese Law and Legal History, International Trade Law, International or Comparative Dimensions of Legal Profession, Pacific Legal Community)
• Clinical Professor Deborah Anker (Refugee and Asylum Law, Immigration Law)
• Assistant Professor Gabriella Blum (Public International Law, International Law and International Relations, Conflict Management, Counterterrorism, International Negotiations)
• Assistant Professor Rachel Brewster (International Trade, International Law and International Relations Theory, International Investment Law, Corruption)
• Clinical Professor James Cavallaro (Human Rights)
• Visiting Professor Lori Damrosch (International Law, Foreign Relations Law) (Fall term only)
• Professor Christine Desan (Political Economy, Law and Globalization)
• Ms. Susan Farbstein (Transitional Justice, Alien Tort Statute Litigation, Human Rights in Southern Africa) (Spring term only)
• Mr. Urs Gasser (Comparative Law)
• Mr. Tyler Giannini (Business and Human Rights, Human Rights and the Environment)
• Professor Mary Ann Glendon (Comparative Law, European Law)
• Professor Janet Halley (Gender in International Criminal Tribunals and Post-conflict Justice)
• Professor Duncan Kennedy (Comparative Law, Law and Development, Legal History, Legal Theory)
• Professor Reinier Kraakman (Comparative Corporate Law, Comparative Business Entities)
• Visiting Professor Catherine MacKinnon (International Law, Human Rights, Criminal and Humanitarian Law) (Fall term only)
• Visiting Professor Peter Murray (Comparative Civil Procedure, International and Domestic Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Comparative Law) (Fall term only)
• Professor Gerald Neuman (Immigration and Nationality Law, Human Rights in the Shadow of Terrorism, Transnational Aspects of Constitutional Law)
• Professor Mark Ramseyer (Japanese Law)
• Visiting Professor Cristina Rodriguez (Immigration Law and Policy) (Spring term only)
• Professor Hal Scott (International Finance)
• Professor Mark Tushnet (Comparative Constitutional Law)
• Professor Lucie White (Domestic and International Poverty Lawyering, African Legal Studies, Economic and Social Rights, Gender and Poverty, Social Welfare Policy)
• Assistant Clinical Professor Alex Whiting (War Crime Prosecutions)
• Professor Jonathan Zittrain (Foreign Affairs, National Security)

Legal and Political Theory

• Professor Scott Brewer (Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Law)
• Assistant Professor Rachel Brewster (International Law and International Relations Theory)
• Visiting Professor Julie Cohen (Cyberlaw Theory)
• Professor Christine Desan (Legal and Social Theory)
• Mr. Urs Gasser (Theory of Regulation)
• Professor John Goldberg (Common Law, Jurisprudence, Political Philosophy, Torts)
• Visiting Professor Ian Haney Lopez (Critical Race Theory) (Spring term only)
• Professor Bruce Hay (Law and Social or Political Theory)
• Professor Duncan Kennedy (Legal Theory)
• Visiting Professor Sanford Levinson (Political Theory and Jurisprudence) (Fall term only)
• Visiting Professor Catherine MacKinnon (Feminist Theory) (Fall term only)
• Professor Lewis Sargentich (Jurisprudence)
• Professor Matthew Stephenson (Positive Political Theory)
• Professor Lloyd Weinreb (Legal and Political Philosophy)

Legal History

• Professor William Alford (Chinese Law and Legal History)
• Visiting Professor Daniel Coquillette (Legal History)
• Professor Christine Desan (Legal and Constitutional History)
• Professor Charles Donahue, Jr. (European Legal History, including Roman and English prior to 1700)
• Professor Morton Horwitz (American Legal History)
• Professor Duncan Kennedy (Legal History)
• Professor Michael Klarman (Constitutional History, Legal History)
• Assistant Professor Adriaan Lanni (Ancient Law, Legal History) (on leave Fall Term)
• Professor Kenneth Mack (American Legal History, History of the Legal Profession, Race and the Law, Property)
• Professor Bruce Mann (American Legal History 1600-1850)
• Visiting Professor Jedediah Purdy (Legal History) (Spring term only)
• Professor William Stuntz (History of Crime and Criminal Justice)
• Visiting Professor G. Edward White (American Legal and Constitutional History)

Legal Profession, Legal Ethics, and Professional Responsibility

• Ms. Jeanne Charn (Legal Profession, Delivery of Legal Services, Affordable Housing, Housing Markets and Housing Finance, Social Welfare Programs, Consumer Credit and Related Legal Needs, Lawyering and Lawyers in Personal Service, Community Lawyering and Lawyers)
• Visiting Professor Daniel Coquillette (Legal Education, Legal Ethics)
• Mr. Lawrence Fox (Professional Responsibility, The Attorney Client Privilege, Limits of Advocacy) (Spring term only)
• Professor Mary Ann Glendon (Legal Profession)
• Professor Andrew Kaufman (Legal Profession, Judicial Ethics) (on leave Fall Term)
• Mr. Rafael Mares (Housing Law and Policy, Community Lawyering, Delivery of Legal Services, Law and Social Change)
• Clinical Professor Ronald Sullivan (Ethics)
• Professor David Wilkins (Legal Profession, Legal Ethics, Legal Education)

Procedure and Practice

• Assistant Clinical Professor Robert Bordone (Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Mediation, Dispute Systems Design, Consensus Building Processes)
• Professor Scott Brewer (Contracts, Evidence)
• Ms. Jeanne Charn (Delivery of Legal Services, Lawyering and Lawyers in Personal Service, Community Lawyering and Lawyers)
• Mr. Steven Churchill (Lawyering Skills)
• Judge John Cratsley (Judging/Courts, Judicial Administration, Court Management) (Winter and Spring terms only)
• Ms. Susan Farbstein (Transitional Justice, Alien Tort Statute Litigation, Human Rights in Southern Africa) (Spring term only)
• Mr. Robert Greenwald (Health Law, HIV and LGBT Law and Policy)
• Assistant Professor James Greiner (Quantitative Methods and Law, Civil Procedure)
• Professor Bruce Hay (Evidence and Legal Procedure)
• Visiting Professor Richard Lazarus (Supreme Court Advocacy) (Winter term only)
• Mr. Rafael Mares (Housing Law and Policy, Community Lawyering, Delivery of Legal Services, Law and Social Change)
• Visiting Professor Peter Murray (Evidence, Comparative Civil Procedure, International and Domestic Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Comparative Law) (Fall term only)
• Professor Ashish Nanda (Strategy, Organization, and Management of Law Firms and Professional Service Firms, Emerging Organizations, Career Paths Development, Turnover, Development and Retention in Law Firms, Balancing Work / Life in Law and Professional Service Firms)
• Professor David Rosenberg (Class Actions)
• Professor William Rubinstein (Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation)
• Professor Henry Smith (Remedies)
• Professor Kathryn Spier (Analytical Methods)
• Professor Lucie White (Domestic and International Poverty Lawyering)
• Assistant Clinical Professor Alex Whiting (War Crime Prosecutions)

Regulatory Law

• Professor Anne Alstott (Law and Government, via her seminar, Law and Government: An Introduction to Scholarship)
• Professor Elizabeth Bartholet (Employment Discrimination)
• Mr. Peter Carfagna (Sports Law) (Fall and winter terms only)
• Mr. Steven Churchill (Employment Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, Employment Civil Rights)
• Professor I. Glenn Cohen (Bioethics, Health Law, Food and Drug Law, Family Law Issues related to Reproductive Technology)
• Mr. Urs Gasser (Theory of Regulation)
• Mr. Tyler Giannini (Human Rights and the Environment) (Spring term only)
• Mr. Robert Greenwald (Health Law, HIV and LGBT Law and Policy)
• Assistant Professor James Greiner (Employment Discrimination)
• Mr. Peter Hutt (Food and Drug Law, Health Law, Administrative Law) (Winter and Spring terms only)
• Acting Dean Howell Jackson (Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy, Social Security and Entitlement Reform)
• Professor Duncan Kennedy (Housing Law, Labor Law)
• Visiting Professor Richard Lazarus (Natural Resources Law)
• Visiting Professor Anne O’Connell (Agency Design and Reorganization, Appointments Clause/Agency Officials, Agency Rulemaking and Oversight) (Spring term only)
• Visiting Professor Jedediah Purdy (Property, Natural Resources Law, Environmental Law) (Spring term only)
• Assistant Professor Benjamin Roin (Patent Law, Health Law, FDA Law)
• Professor David Rosenberg (Labor Law)
• Visiting Professor Theodore Ruger (Health Law, Statutory Interpretation) (Fall term only)
• Assistant Professor Benjamin Sachs (Employment Law, Labor Law)
• Professor Henry Smith (Property, Natural Resources)
• Professor Matthew Stephenson (Administrative Law, Legislation and Statutory Interpretation)
• Visiting Professor Michael Vandenbergh (Environmental Law, Climate Change and Related Topics)

Taxation

• Ms. Marion Fremont-Smith (Taxation and Regulation of Non-profit Organizations) (Spring term only)
• Professor Daniel Halperin (Non-profit Organizations, Retirement Income Policy, Social Security, Tax Policy)
• Professor Louis Kaplow (Tax Policy)
• Professor Duncan Kennedy (Trusts)
• Professor Bruce Mann (Trusts and Estates, Charitable Trusts and Foundations)
• Professor Robert Sitkoff (Fiduciary Administration, Trusts and Estates, Wills, Charitable Organizations)
• Professor Alvin Warren (Taxation)