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Dean AlderucciDirector of ResearchCenter for AI and Patent AnalysisCarnegie Mellon [email protected]
Dean Alderucci is the Director of Research for the Center for AI and Patent Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University. His research is directed to patent law and policy, bridging the gap between legal analysis and AI, and creating new machine learning algorithms tailored to patent law and patent analysis tasks.
He was previously Chief IP Counsel & Chief Operating Officer of the Innovation Division for a global financial services company, and before that Chief Counsel & Senior Vice President of IP Strategy for a business incubator. His background is in computer science, mathematics, and law. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and is an inventor on over 200 granted U.S. patents.
He has also been teaching for over a decade. He has taught graduate courses on “Innovation Strategy,” “Intellectual Property,” and “Natural Language Processing” at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth College, and New York University.
Dionne E. Anthon Visiting ProfessorWidener University Commonwealth Law [email protected]
Dionne Anthon is a Visiting Professor of Legal Methods at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, coming from Florida International University College of Law where she is an Assistant Professor in the Legal Skills and Values program.
Professor Anthon is an expert in legal research and writing, assessment, and technology, and she has presented on these topics at many regional and national legal writing conferences. Her areas of interest span a broad range, from approaches to helping students improve their legal methods skills to innovative ways to assess students’ work.
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FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 26 AND 27, 2019
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
School of Law
Thinking About Law, Law Practice, and Legal Education
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Kevin D. AshleyProfessor of LawUniversity of Pittsburgh School of [email protected]
Kevin D. Ashley is an expert on computer modeling of legal reasoning and cyberspace legal issues. In 2002 he was selected as a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence “for significant contributions in computationally modeling case-based and analogical reasoning in law and practical ethics.” He has reported his research in conference proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, and the Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems (JURIX). He has also published in journals such as Jurimetrics, the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, and Artificial Intelligence and Law, the journal of record in the field of AI and Law, of which he is a co-editor in chief. Professor Ashley has been a principal investigator of a number of National Science Foundation grants to study reasoning with cases in law and professional ethics. He is also the author of Modeling Legal Argument: Reasoning with Cases and Hypotheticals (MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1990) and of Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics: New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
A former National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, Professor Ashley has been a visiting scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Bologna where he is a frequent visiting professor of the Faculty of Law, and a former President of the International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law. In addition to his appointment at the School of Law, Professor Ashley is a senior scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, an adjunct professor of computer science, and a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Intelligent Systems of the University of Pittsburgh.
Jamie J. BakerProfessorInterim DirectorTexas Tech University School of Law [email protected]
Professor Jamie Baker is the Interim Director of the Law Library at Texas Tech University School of Law. In addition to coordinating Law Library operations, Professor Baker teaches “Civil Trial: Practice & Litigation Materials” and “Academic Legal Writing.” Professor Baker’s scholarship primarily focuses on cognitive computing in the legal research realm. Her recent articles have appeared in the Law Library Journal and the South Carolina Law Review. Her blog, The Ginger Law Librarian, has been named an ABA Blawg 100, as well as a Top-Ten Blog for Information Professionals, and Best of the Legal Blogs by the Internet Legal Researcher. Professor Baker has spoken on artificial intelligence impacting legal research at the American Associate of Law Schools Annual Meeting, the South Carolina Law Review Annual Symposium, and the Southwestern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, among others.
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Dr. David Dausey Provost and Vice Presidentfor Academic AffairsOffice of the ProvostDuquesne [email protected]
Dr. David J. Dausey began serving as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs on July 1, 2018. Prior to joining Duquesne, Dausey served as provost and executive vice president of Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was also a distinguished professor of health policy and management at Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as senior director of health programs and initiatives.
An internationally recognized epidemiologist, Dausey was appointed a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology in 2012 and has directed more than $10 million in externally funded research grants. He has worked closely with international organizations and foundations such as the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the Global Health and Security Initiative and the Rockefeller Foundation. Domestically, he has collaborated with health care organizations in every region of the country, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Dausey is also an award-winning professor with expertise in distance and experiential learning. Recognition for his teaching excellence includes the Martcia Wade Teaching Award, the Alpha Theta Mentorship Award and the Panhellenic Intrafraternity Council Role Model Award. In addition to authoring books, research papers and articles, Dausey is regularly consulted as a health expert by national and international news outlets including CNN, BBC, NPR, USA Today and the Washington Post.
A Pittsburgh native, Dausey grew up in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania. He earned both his master’s degree and doctoral degree in epidemiology from Yale University. He completed post-graduate training in higher education administration at Harvard University.
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Randy J. Diamond Director of Library and Technology ResourcesProfessor of Legal ResearchUniversity of Missouri School of [email protected]
Professor Diamond teaches Advanced Legal Research and Electronic Discovery at the University of Missouri School of Law where he has been the law library director since 2006. Prior to becoming a law librarian, he was a litigation associate at Thompson Hine in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2010, Professor Diamond created an E-Discovery course to help students begin developing the skills and competencies required for this essential aspect of modern litigation practice. Professor Diamond has spoken at several electronic discovery CLE events and webinars including “BYOD in eDiscovery: Managing Risks and Ensuring Best Practices” for the Knowledge Group in 2017. Next fall he plans to co-teach a new course on Innovation and Technology in the Practice of Law with Dean Lyrissa Lidsky.
Professor Diamond is a Co-Founding Editor of the Legal Information & Technology Journal, an SSRN eJournal. He is also Co-Editor of the University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. His article “Advancing Public Interest Practitioner Research Skills in Legal Education,” appeared in the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology.
Tabrez Y. Ebrahim Associate Professor of LawCalifornia Western School of [email protected]@gmail.com
Tabrez Ebrahim is an Associate Professor at California Western School of Law, where he writes, teaches, and consults in the areas of patent law, entrepreneurship, and innovation. He is the recipient of a 2018-2019 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for teaching and research in patent law and technology entrepreneurship with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia. He is also a recipient of the 2019 Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship from the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Before starting at California Western, Professor Ebrahim was Visiting Research Fellow at Bournemouth University’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management in England and was a patent attorney in Texas. Professor Ebrahim graduated with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering (Univ. of Texas at Austin, with High Honors), a M.S. degree in mechanical engineering (Stanford Univ.), JD and MBA degrees (Northwestern University), and a LLM degree (Univ. of Houston Law Center). He is an inventor on a U.S. patent, and is a licensed attorney in Texas and registered with the United States Patent & Trademark Office.
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Kristi Gedid Senior Director, Global Legal Operations, MylanAdjunct Faculty, Paralegal InstituteDuquesne University School of [email protected]
Kristi Anne Gedid earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Duquesne University. In addition, Ms. Gedid attended the Duquesne University Paralegal Institute and The Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law before entering graduate school.
Ms. Gedid has extensive experience in the areas of complex commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and transactional law. Prior to joining a global generic and specialties pharmaceutical company, where she is the Senior Director of Global Legal Operations, Ms. Gedid worked for two Am Law 100 firms as well as a large Pittsburgh-based bank. Ms. Gedid has a particular appreciation for understanding the complexities of the intersection of business and law and enjoys using both her legal and business education and experience on a daily basis.
Brian S. Haney, Esq. [email protected]
Brian Seamus Haney is a technologist, writer, and lawyer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Brian Seamus graduated from Notre Dame Law School in May of 2018. While at Notre Dame, Brian Seamus served as a research assistant to Professor Veronica Root, conducting research in compliance and ethics. A lover of technology, Brian Seamus now researches the intersections of natural language processing, deep reinforcement learning, and quantum computing with a focus toward developing general intelligence systems.
Anna P. HemingwayAssociate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Methods Widener University Commonwealth Law [email protected]
Anna Hemingway is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Methods at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Her teaching and scholarship focus on ethics, legal education, legal writing, and property law topics. Before teaching, she worked as in-house counsel and taught psychology.
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Emily Janoski-Haehlen Associate ProfessorAssociate Dean of Academic Affairs & Institutional ExcellenceDirector, Law LibraryThe University of Akron School of [email protected]
Emily Janoski-Haehlen is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Institutional Excellence at the University of Akron School of Law. Dean Janoski-Haehlen is also the Director of the Law Library and an Associate Professor of Law. She teaches “Technology in Law,” a survey course of legal technology skills and tools. She has taught this course since 2012 and is constantly adapting it to include emerging legal technologies. She is the Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education and has presented on the topic of legal tech competency at the Akron Bar Association, SALT teaching conference, ABA Techshow, SEALS, AALL, and AALS annual meeting, the Federal Bar Association, and various regional law library and legal education conferences. She has a J.D. from Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University and an MLS from the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Patrick Juola Professor of Computer ScienceDuquesne UniversityDepartment of Mathematics and Computer [email protected]
Dr. Patrick Juola has been working for more than a decade on new ways to solve humanities problems of practical interest using computers. Most of his work has focused on determining the authorship of a document via stylometry (the study and measurement of writing style). Using this technology, Juola has been able to identify J.K. Rowling’s use of a pen name to write The Cuckoo’s Calling, to testify about judicial misconduct in Chevron Corp. v. Donziger, and to help a refugee remain in the United States in Federal Immigration Court. Some of the software he has helped to create is available for use under an open-source license from www.jgaap.com.
The key insight that guides Juola’s research is that there are lots of ways to say or write the same message, and people are free to choose from among many different ways to express the same ideas. Frequently-made choices become habits, and habits can be picked up by looking at other things a person has said or written, so a piece of writing that shows the same habitual choices is likely to be a piece of writing by the same person. At a broader scale, people who share attributes are likely to make similar choices, and so we can detect choices made by specific groups.
Juola received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) in 1995, then worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher in the department of experimental psychology at Oxford University (UK). Since 1998, he has been working at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) in the mathematics and computer science department, where he currently holds the position of Professor of Computer Science.
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Ganes KesariCo-founder and Head of AnalyticsGramener Inc. [email protected]
Ganes Kesari co-founded Gramener (gramener.com), a pioneering Data Science company, where he heads Analytics and Innovation. Ganes has advised hundreds of enterprises like E&Y, Deloitte, Novartis, and NGOs such as the Gates Foundation consume their data better through powerful and engaging data stories. He is passionate about the confluence of machine learning, information design, and business value.
Ganes is a passionate writer and speaker, on an endeavor to simplify data science and help everyone understand its true potential. He speaks at technology summits, data science conferences and leading academic institutions. His articles have a wide following and he’s recognized as a top writer in ‘Artificial Intelligence’ on Medium. (medium.com/@kesari).
Dr. Timothy T. Lau, Esq. Research Associate Federal Judicial Center Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building 202.502.4089 [email protected]
Timothy Lau is a research associate at the Federal Judicial Center. He serves as the Center’s liaison to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence. His work at the Center also touches on issues concerning the intersection of law and technology. He was the author of the Center’s report, “Trade Secret Seizure Best Practices under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016,” that was developed and submitted to Congress pursuant to the Act. At present, he is developing “pocket guides” to educate federal judges about artificial intelligence, and he also interfaces with the IEEE to communicate the needs of the judiciary to industry. Dr. Lau earned his J.D. at Stanford Law School and his Sc.D. in materials science and engineering from MIT. He clerked for Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Jan M. LevineProfessor of LawDirector of Legal Research & Writing Duquesne University School of Law 412.396.1048 [email protected]
An expert in the field of legal writing and research, Professor Jan M. Levine has more than three decades of experience leading legal writing and research programs. In 2007, Levine joined the faculty at Duquesne, and the legal research and writing program has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation’s best every year since then, ranking sixth in the country for 2013. Before coming to Duquesne, Levine directed the legal writing program at the Temple University School of Law for eleven years, where the program was also recognized by U.S. News & World Report. Before that, Levine directed the writing programs at the University of Arkansas School of Law and the University of Virginia School of Law, and taught as an adjunct writing professor at his alma mater, the Boston University School of Law.
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A graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Levine is a nationally recognized scholar who has published many articles on legal research and writing; one of his works was his contribution to several chapters of the second editions of the ABA Sourcebook on Legal Writing. He is also a frequent presenter at national conferences on legal research and writing.
Levine was the founding president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD); served as elected member of the ALWD’s board of directors; was a member of the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute and the board of directors of SCRIBES, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects; and served as chair and member of the ABA Communications Skills Committee. In 2014 Levine received the Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing and the Section Award by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research.
Ashley LondonAssociate Director of Bar Studies & Assistant Professor of Legal Skills Duquesne University School of Law [email protected]
Ashley M. London is the Associate Director of Bar Studies and an Assistant Professor of Legal Skills at Duquesne University School of Law. In addition to her role teaching bar preparation courses and providing individualized student counseling, she develops comprehensive bar preparation programming with a focus on student outcomes.
Her areas of expertise include bar admissions/licensure requirements; the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE); bar examination essay writing; family law; guardian ad litem-special proceedings; estate planning; landlord/tenant law; housing code enforcement; and media relations.
London discovered her passion for teaching after leaving private practice and serving for four years on the faculty at Charlotte School of Law in the Academic Success/Bar Preparation department in Charlotte, N.C. She previously worked at Legal Aid of North Carolina in the housing division and operated her own law firm, where she focused on civil litigation and served as a guardian ad litem for special proceedings representing elderly and mentally handicapped clients.
Her professional writing includes serving as a contributing writer and substantive editor for the Case Management Manual for United States Bankruptcy Judges, 2012 Edition, and writing for the Mecklenburg Bar News and North Carolina State Bar Journal.
Upon graduation from law school, London was selected from applicants nationwide to take part in the 2011 Volunteer Legal Intern Program in Washington, D.C., and was recruited by the Bankruptcy Judges Division and Article III Judges Division.
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Melissa Love Koenig Associate Professor of Legal WritingMarquette University Law [email protected]
Melissa Love Koenig is an Associate Professor of Legal Writing at Marquette Law School. Melissa co-advises the moot court program at Marquette. Melissa co-founded the Legal Writing Institute’s Moot Court Committee and is a past committee co-chair. She co-authored The Moot Court Advisor’s Handbook with Jim Dimitri and Susie Salmon. She is currently the chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin. With Julie Oseid and Amy Vorenberg, she co-authored “OK, Google: Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Lawyering,” which is forthcoming in the Marquette Law Review.
Nicholas A. LongSenior Director of Legal OperationsReed [email protected]
Nick serves as the Senior Director of Legal Operations for Reed Smith. In his role, he works closely with Reed Smith’s Knowledge Management, Client Technology Solutions and Practice Innovation teams to develop creative solutions to help deliver legal services in the most effective way for our clients and our firm.
Nick also manages Reed Smith’s Staff Attorney Group, developing cost effective staffing solutions for our clients. In addition, he assists with the administration of our Business and Finance Group. Nick previously worked as a partner in our Global Corporate Group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.
Emile Loza de Siles, Esq. Founder, Technology & Cybersecurity Law Group, [email protected]
Emile Loza de Siles founded Technology & Cybersecurity Law Group, PLLC in 2003 and has provide trusted mission-centered legal counsel to innovators across industries from Fortune 100 to emerging companies. Emile is also assistant professor (adjunct) at the University of Maryland – University College and teaches graduate cybersecurity classes.
Emile holds a bachelor’s degree in medical technology, an M.B.A., and, from The George Washington University Law School (“GW Law”), a J.D. She also earned from Georgetown University a cybersecurity strategy graduate certificate and will complete a data science graduate certificate from Harvard University this year.
Emile was a visiting scholar with GW Law’s International and Comparative Law Program in 2010 and a Fellow of GW Law’s Center for Law, Economics, and Finance in 2010-11. Her legal scholarship concentrates on digital law topics and on entrepreneurship and law.
Emile has presented and published extensively on law, technology, cybersecurity, and legal and data ethics topics. Prior to her legal career, Emile was a clinical scientist and subsequently held business executive and managerial positions in healthcare, genetics, information technology, optoelectronics, and other technology fields. She will be joining the Duquesne University School of Law faculty, starting with the 2019/20 academic year.
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Kevin Miller Chief Executive [email protected]
Kevin joined LegalSifter after nearly nine years at Industrial Scientific Corporation (ISC), a global safety company committed to ending death on the job by the end of the century. Kevin completed his tenure as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to ISC, he helped launch an online version of Argosy University, with regionally-accredited bachelors, masters, and doctoral programs in business, education, and psychology. Before Argosy, he spent nearly six years in a variety of roles at FreeMarkets and Ariba, its acquirer, in the global sourcing and procurement software space. Kevin holds a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, an M.B.A. from the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary, and a B.A. degree in History from Davidson College. Kevin is also a licensed attorney in the state of Ohio.
Kate Norton Assistant ProfessorDirector, Clinical & International ProgramsDuquesne University School of [email protected]
Katherine L.W. Norton is Duquesne Law’s director of clinical and international programs. Within the clinical legal education program, she supervises the Family Law Clinic. She consults for the firm of Voelker & Kairys, P.C. Norton previously served in private practice with the law firms of Elliott & Davis, P.C. and Pollock, Begg, Komar, Glasser & Vertz, P.C. practicing in all areas of family law at both the Court of Common Pleas and appellate levels. Norton received her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Allegheny College.
Wesley M. Oliver Professor of LawAssociate Dean for Faculty ScholarshipDirector of the Criminal Justice ProgramDuquesne University School of [email protected]
Wesley M. Oliver is associate dean for faculty scholarship, director of the criminal justice program, and professor of law at Duquesne University School of Law. He teaches in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law. His scholarship has examined numerous aspects of criminal law and procedure, including search and seizure, interrogations, material witness detentions, wiretapping, plea bargaining, Prohibition, and the history of policing.
Oliver hosted a television program entitled Crime and Punishment on the Pennsylvania Cable Network and served as a legal analyst for NBC News’ coverage of the criminal proceedings against Jerry Sandusky. He is a frequent commentator on criminal justice issues, having appeared on ABC World News, CBS This Morning, 48 Hours Investigates, NBC Nightly News, TODAY Show, MSNBC’s Ed Show and commented on NPR. Oliver has been quoted by newspapers that include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, and San Francisco Examiner.
Oliver earned J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale University and J.D. and B.A. degrees from the University of Virginia. He is licensed to practice law in Tennessee.
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Julie OseidProfessor of LawUniversity of St. Thomas School of [email protected]
Julie Oseid recently published a book, Communicators-in-Chief: Lessons in Persuasion from Five Eloquent American Presidents, about Thomas Jefferson (metaphor), James Madison (rigor), Abraham Lincoln (brevity), Ulysses Grant (clarity) and Teddy Roosevelt (zeal). She is a Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN.
Seema Phekoo, Esq.Counsel & Vice-President in Legal Data Management & AdvisoryBNY [email protected]
Seema Phekoo is a Counsel & Vice-President in Legal Data Management & Advisory at BNY Mellon where she is a key advisor to the development and direction of the enterprise artificial intelligent legal agreement repository. She advises the firm on leveraging legal technology, including artificial intelligence, machine learning and contract analytics, for enterprise regulatory programs and enhancing the businesses processes. Ms. Phekoo is also regularly engaged on trading and regulatory matters for the Markets businesses. Ms. Phekoo received her J.D. from Hofstra University of School of Law and LL.M. in International Arbitration, International Business and Trade Law from American University Washington College of Law.
Richard B. Phelps New [email protected]
Rick Phelps is an experienced leader in the Media and Entertainment Industry. He has led several large scale media workflow automation projects while working for Chellomedia in Europe. His work with the Media Services team at Chellomedia included automating file based workflows which ultimately led to several publications and presentations on the subject.
Prior to joining Chellomedia Mr. Phelps moved to Amsterdam where he served as a consultant for Flash Logistics. Highlights of his tenure there include management of all of the Pan-European logistics associated with the roll out of one of the world’s largest Tier 1 networks for UUNET (now Verizon). In addition, he is responsible for setting up the commercial activities and EMEA operations for Flash, prior to its acquisition by VHL Logistics in 2006.
Mr. Phelps has a degree in Communications and currently lives in New Jersey with his wife Esther and four children.
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Teresa Godwin Phelps Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Rhetoric ProgramAmerican University Washington College of [email protected]
Teresa Godwin Phelps is Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Rhetoric Program at American University’s Washington College of Law. She has been involved in teaching legal writing and developing legal writing programs for the past thirty years, both at WCL and at the University of Notre Dame Law School. In 1986, she wrote a seminal article, “The New Legal Rhetoric,” that has had lasting influence on the way that legal writing is taught. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Legal Rhetoric & Communication and is on the Board of Directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. In addition to her expertise in legal rhetoric, her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and narrative; she has written about the power of legal narratives in areas as diverse as domestic violence and transitional democracy.
She has published numerous articles and three books on legal writing, on women and the law, and on transitional democracy and truth commissions. Her book, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), analyzes and evaluates truth commissions through the lens of narrative theory. Her more recent work focuses on the relationship between storytelling and building a human rights culture and on post-conflict remedies for sexual violence against women.
Professor Phelps has lectured widely in the United States and internationally, including in Bangladesh, England, The Netherlands, Australia, and Mexico. At Notre Dame, she was Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and was awarded the Grenville Clark Award, given to a person who advances the causes of peace and human rights. In 2005, she held the Padre Kino Chair in Faith and Culture at the Universidad Iberoamericano in Mexico City. In 2011, she was awarded the Courage Award by the Legal Writing Institute.
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Oliver Round, Esq.Counsel & Vice-PresidentLegal Data Management & AdvisoryBNY [email protected]
Oliver Round is a Counsel & Vice-President in Legal Data Management & Advisory at BNY Mellon, where he advises the enterprise on leveraging legal technology, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, contract analytics, contract generation and contract life-cycle management. Mr. Round is counsel to the firm’s artificial intelligent legal agreement repository and contract analytics platform as well as to numerous enterprise regulatory programs. In addition, he focuses on strategically enhancing end-to-end business-as-usual process automation, and is a lead architect of artificial intelligence proof-of-concepts. Mr. Round is also regularly engaged with the trading businesses, including the roll out of the firm’s new FX Prime Brokerage business. Mr. Round is an alumnus of both Fordham Law School and Lafayette College.
James B. Schreiber, Ph.D. Professor of Epidemiology/StatisticsSchool of NursingDuquesne [email protected]
James B. Schreiber, Ph.D. joined the School of Nursing as a Professor in August 2016. He received his doctorate in Learning and Cognition from Indiana University Bloomington in 2000. He has published over 60 articles in journals, such as Journal of Educational Psychology, American Journal of Health Education, and Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, along with chapters and reviews. In addition, he has over 120 national and international presentations. He is the author of a research methods book with John Wiley and Son and a book on motivation with Springer. He is currently under contract for a statistical analysis book.
He has been an Advisory Board member for the Lemelson Center for the Study of Innovation and Invention, Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network within the NICHD, and a panel reviewer with the IES and NSF. In addition, he held a research fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution from 2011-2012 and has consulted for the education group at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With Peter Miller helped developed the initial inception of the Homeless Education Network in Pittsburgh.
He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Educational Research, The Journal of Experimental Education, and Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs. He is currently an Associate Editor for the new journal Medical Management and Economics.
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Amanda SholtisProfessor of Legal Methods andDirector of Academic SuccessWidener University Commonwealth Law [email protected]
Amanda Smith is a Professor of Legal Methods and Director of Academic Success at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Her teaching and scholarship focus on how best to prepare students for practice. Before teaching, she clerked with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and practiced with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.
Drew Simshaw Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Legal PracticeGeorgetown University Law [email protected]
Drew Simshaw is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice, at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a former communications and technology attorney with the Institute for Public Representation. Professor Simshaw researches public interest issues in communications and technology law, including the regulation of emerging technologies, the ethical implications of legal tech design and use, and legal research and writing pedagogy in light of new technologies. His article, “Ethical Issues in Robo-Lawyering: The Need for Guidance on Developing and Using Artificial Intelligence in the Practice of Law,” was recently published in the Hastings Law Journal. Professor Simshaw previously taught as a fellow in Georgetown Law’s Communications and Technology Law Clinic and at Elon University School of Law. This summer he will join the faculty of the Gonzaga University School of Law. Professor Simshaw earned his B.A. from the University of Washington, J.D. from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and LL.M. with distinction from Georgetown Law.
Sarah Starnes Assistant Law Librarian The University of Akron School of [email protected]
Sarah Starnes is an Assistant Law Librarian and adjunct professor of law at the University of Akron School of Law. Professor Starnes teaches Legal Analysis, Writing and Research, Advanced Legal Research, and Legal Drafting and serves as the law review liaison. She is also working with Dean Janoski-Haehlen to develop a legal technology certificate and a required, first-year, Legal Technology skills course. Professor Starnes has a J.D. from Valparaiso University Law School and an MLS from Indiana University.
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Amy VorenbergClinical ProfessorDirector of Legal WritingUniversity of New Hampshire School of [email protected]
Amy Vorenberg has just completed the third volume of a three-volume first-year legal writing textbook, Preparing for Practice, Legal Writing and Analysis in Law School’s First Year. She is an active ALWD Board member. She is the Director of Legal Writing at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
Igor Vuletić, Ph. D.Associate Professor of Criminal LawFaculty of Law OsijekJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek 385 (0)31 224 500385 95 369 45 16 [email protected]
Igor Vuletić was born in Osijek on 4 Nov 1982. He graduated law at the Faculty of Law Osijek in 2006. He has defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Law Zagreb (University of Zagreb, Croatia) in December 2011 (Ph.D. in criminal law and criminal sciences). He is employed at the Faculty of Law Osijek (Department of Criminal Sciences) since 2006, first as an assistant lecturer (2006 – 2011), senior assistant (2011 – 2013), assistant professor (2013 – 2018) and associate professor (2018 – present). Between 2014 and 2017 he was vice-dean for education and students. He teaches substantive criminal law, international criminal law and criminology at graduate and post-graduate level. Igor was awarded with Max Planck fellowship for study visit to Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany (Feb 2011). He was guest researcher at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge, UK (Mar 2013). As a guest lecturer, he holds lectures in China (Nanjing Audit University), Lithuania (Kazimiero Simonovičiaus University in Vilnius) and Hungary (University of Pecs). In April 2014, Igor was appointed as a researcher and in December 2016 as a vice-dean of the Research Centre for European Criminal Law at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (Shanghai, China). Since November 2018 he has been a consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Igor speaks English (advanced level) and German (basic level).
Virginia L. ZaccariProgram DirectorDuquesne University School of LawParalegal [email protected]
Ginny has worked at the Duquesne University Paralegal Institute for six years. She became the Director of the Program in September 2017. Ginny received a paralegal certificate from Dyke College in Cleveland, Ohio and worked as a paralegal in a diverse array of law firms and corporations. She has experience in medical malpractice defense and corporate and business law. Ginny has a B.S. in Education and taught for 26 years as an elementary school teacher. She also received a graduate certification in Montessori Studies.