The Interdisciplinary Circle represents the Law School's effort to assemble faculty members across the entire University whose work comes into contact with the law and with legal scholarship. It is the goal of the Interdisciplinary Circle to foster collaborative projects of value to the Louisville community and to the university as a whole.
Interdisciplinary Circle Events
Date: February 18, 2008, Noon
Location: Cox Lounge, School of Law
Speaker: Professor Tony Arnold, Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use, School of Law
Moderator: Professor Margaret Carreiro, Department of Biology
Topic: The Structure of the Land Use Regulatory System (Click here for presentation proposal)
Members of the Interdisciplinary Circle
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Tony ArnoldCollege of Law |
Professor Tony Arnold is the Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use. He is also the Chair of the interdisciplinary Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility, and teaches in the University's graduate urban planning program. A nationally recognized scholar in the environmental regulation of land use and property, he teaches in the areas of property law, land use planning and regulation, environmental law and policy, and water resources law and policy. |
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Kathy BeanCollege of Law |
Before joining the faculty in 1983, Professor Bean clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, served as staff attorney for the Legal Services Corporation of Iowa, and as director and instructor of a student legal services clinic at Drake University School of Law. Her work at Legal Services emphasized domestic and child custody work and the clinic she directed served low-income clients. After coming to Louisville, Professor Bean has remained active in work involving women, children and the poor. She has served as a board member for the Louisville Legal Aid Society, as a board member for the National Consumer Law Center in Boston, and as a member of the Kentucky Supreme Court Gender Bias Task Force. |
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Margaret CarreiroDepartment of Biology |
An associate Professor at the University of Louisville's Biology Department, Carreiro received her Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Rhode Island. Her interests lie in nutrient cycling, ecosystem ecology of terrestrial habitats, particularly those in urban and suburban landscapes. |
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Jim ChenCollege of Law |
Jim Chen joined the University of Louisville as dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 2007. Dean Chen is a prolific and influential scholar whose works span subjects such as administrative law, agricultural law, constitutional law, economic regulation, environmental law, industrial policy, legislation, and natural resources law. He is the coauthor of Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond (Aspen Publishers, 2006), the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the legal issues surrounding natural disasters. Dean Chen has also taught courses in criminal law and food and drug law. |
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John CrossCollege of Law |
John Cross joined the Louisville faculty in 1987 after several years in private practice in Minneapolis. Since coming to Louisville, he has taught and published in a wide variety of areas, ranging from the first-year course in Civil Procedure to Native American Law. In recent years, however, he has increasingly focused his efforts in two broad areas: intellectual property law (both domestic and international), and adjectival law (Civil Procedure, Conflicts, Federal Jurisdiction, and Comparative Systems). Because of his exemplary work in the intellectual property field, John was named the Grosscurth Chair in Law in 2005. |
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Vanessa CunninghamCommunication |
Cunningham focuses her research on communication and the law. |
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Joe D'AmbrosioKent School of Social Work |
Joseph G. D'Ambrosio earned his master's degree in social work with a specialization in marriage and family therapy in 2006. D'Ambrosio graduated from UofL's Brandeis School of Law in the 1980s and became the founding partner of the successful Louisville law firm D'Ambrosio & Associates. When he decided to focus his law career more on family and socio-economic issues, he enrolled in the social work program. D'Ambrosio also is credited with reviving the Kent School Student Association as its president. He organized some special activities such as trips to Appalachia and Chicago to expose social work students to other types of delivery sites. |
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Susan Kosse DuncanCollege of Law email: susan.duncan@louisville.edu |
Susan Hanley Duncan (formerly Kosse) received a B.A. from Miami University and a J.D. from the University of Louisville. She joined the Brandeis School of Law faculty as an adjunct in 1997 and full time in 2000. Her teaching and research interests are in lawyering skills and education law. Professor Duncan's scholarship has focused primarily on the issues surrounding children, including the need for anti-bullying laws and laws protecting children from pornography on the Internet. |
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Jasmine FarrierPolitical Science |
Jasmine Farrier grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and was a Political Science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In graduate school, she studied American political development with Jeffrey K. Tulis and Walter Dean Burnham at the University of Texas at Austin and received her Ph.D. in 2000. She then became a post-doctoral fellow with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia from 2000-2001. In January, 2002, Farrier joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville as an assistant professor. |
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Jose Manuel FernandezEconomics |
Professor Jose Fernandez does applied research in the areas of industrial organization, health economics, and information economics. |
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Jim FietCollege of Business |
Fiet holds the Brown Forman Chair in Entrepreneurship and teaches in Management and Entrepreneurship. |
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Judy FischerCollege of Law |
Professor Fischer received her B.A. and M.A. in English from Bradley University and her J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She then became a partner in a large litigation firm in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. After teaching at the University of Cincinnati and Chapman University, she joined the faculty at the University of Louisville's Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 2000. She teaches legal writing and women and the law. |
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Cate FoslWomen's and Gender Studies |
Fosl has served for several years on the Advisory Board of the Civil Rights Oral History Project of the Kentucky Oral History Commission, a project that has interviewed about 100 activists across Kentucky for their memories of the end of legal segregation. She is working on a book that examines the civil rights movement in Kentucky from 1954-1968, consisting of an edited collection of that project's oral histories as well as historiographical essays that place the interviews in context. She is the winner of a Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 2005-2006, for a new research that will look looking at questions of identity and social movement around lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) rights. |
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Mike FowlerPolitical Science |
Michael Fowler, Associate Professor of Political Science, specializes in international law and organization, negotiation and conflict resolution, diplomacy and world order, and the foreign relations of the United States. His area interests include Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, especially the Caribbean Basin. He first joined the faculty at the University of Louisville in the fall of 1994. |
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Grace GieselCollege of Law |
A graduate of Yale University, Professor Giesel received her Juris Doctor degree, with distinction, from Emory University School of Law. At Emory Professor Giesel was an editor of the Emory Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Professor Giesel clerked for the Honorable Boyce F. Martin, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. After a brief career as a litigator, Professor Giesel joined the faculty or the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. |
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Lauren HeberleUrban and Public Affairs |
Lauren Heberle is the Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Management and Director of the EFC Region 4. Her current work focuses on brownfields, smart growth, sustainable development, and environmental justice. |
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Jim JonesCollege of Law |
James T.R. Jones received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1975 and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1978. Before entering an academic career, he clerked for a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. In addition, he worked in private practice for firms in New York and Florida. In 1985, he entered teaching as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He joined the faculty of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville in 1986. |
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Avery KolersPhilosophy |
Kohlers received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He teaches Political Philosophy, Normative & Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Law. He is also the director of the Social Change program and affiliated with the Anne Braden Institute. |
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David LeibsonCollege of Law |
David J. Leibson received his B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University, cum laude, and his J.D. from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, graduating first in his class. He has an LL.M. from Harvard University. Professor Leibson came to the law faculty in 1971 as an adjunct instructor and accepted a full-time position in 1972. He has been a full professor since 1977 and the Bernard Flexner Professor of Law since 1989. Professor Leibson teaches and writes in the areas of torts and the Uniform Commercial Code. He co-authored The Uniform Commercial Code of Kentucky with his colleague, Professor Richard Nowka. |
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Clara LeuthartGeography and Geosciences |
Leuthart is an associate professor in the Department of Geography & Geosciences. Her interests include Environmental Issues, Hydrology, Biogeography and Sense of Place. |
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Ariana LevinsonCollege of Law |
Ariana Levinson joined the University of Louisville School of Law as a visiting assistant professor in 2007. Prior to teaching at Louisville Law, Levinson taught at USC School of Law and at UCLA School of Law. Levinson has worked in labor law, working as a fellow for the AFL-CIO's Legal Department, and has clerked for the Honorable John G. Davies (United States District Court, Central District of California) and for the Honorable Myra C. Selby (Supreme Court of Indiana). |
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E. Andrew LongCollege of Law |
Professor Andrew Long joins the Brandeis School of Law faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law following a clerkship with the New York Court of Appeals, LL.M. study at New York University School of Law and private practice in Oregon. His primary research and teaching interests include environmental and natural resources law, administrative law and property law. |
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Sam MarcossonCollege of Law |
Professor Marcosson graduated from Yale Law School in 1986. After clerking for Judge George C. Pratt on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, he joined the appellate staff at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C., where he spent the next eight years briefing and arguing cases in the federal courts of appeals. During that time, Professor Marcosson also helped to design and conduct the EEOC's training program for its employees after enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act before it went into effect in 1992. |
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Allison MartensPolitical Science |
Martens received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas. She teaches Public Law, American Government, and Law and Politics. |
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Kurt MetzmeierCollege of Law |
Kurt Metzmeier has a B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Louisville, an M.S.L.I.S. from the University of Kentucky, and a J.D. from University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, where he was a member of the Brandeis Honor Society and the editorial board of the University of Louisville Journal of Family Law (the predecessor of the University of Louisville Law Review). He has been a member of the Kentucky Bar since 1995. |
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Luke MilliganCollege of Law |
Professor Milligan focuses his research on theories of criminalization, law enforcement, and constitutional law. His most recent articles have been published in the Boston University Law Review (forthcoming), William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (forthcoming), and Cardozo Law Review. He currently teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. |
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Rick NowkaCollege of Law |
Professor Nowka is currently researching issues relating to Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. His most recent article constructs a frame work to enable a secured creditor to sell repossessed collateral on eBay. Works in progress include a study of the statute of limitations for secured creditors' deficiency actions and a student handbook for UCC Article 9. |
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Julie PeteetAnthropology |
Peteet received her Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1985. She teaches legal anthropology, gender, resistance and culture, refugees, transnationalism, and Middle East. |
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Joe PetroskoCollege of Education & Human Development |
Dr. Petrosko has been a member of the University of Louisville faculty since 1975. His specialty areas include educational research methodology, educational evaluation, and statistics. He has collaborated on research and evaluation studies in a number of different topic areas, including special education and occupational education. He has also done research related to the assessment and accountability provisions of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). |
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Cedric PowellCollege of Law |
Professor Powell has written over a broad range of topics including affirmative action and Critical Race Theory, the First Amendment and hate speech, and the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. His current research focuses on developing an analytical framework for critiquing constitutional neutrality under the Fourteenth Amendment (color-blindness) and the First Amendment 's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. His most recent article critiqued the Court's approach to congressional power in light of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. |
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Andrew RabinEnglish email: andrew.rabin@louisville.edu |
Rabin, who teaches Old and Middle English Literature, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His current research interests lie in Old English Language and Literature, Anglo-Saxon Law, History of the English Language, Middle English Literature, Medieval Theories of Language and Rhetoric. |
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Laura RothsteinCollege of Law |
Professor Rothstein's interdisciplinary scholarship involves education issues -- both K-12 and higher education. The work focuses on special education law (including discipline, school choice, genetics and students with disabilities) and higher education issues including Millennial behavior and students with disabilities, students with learning disabilities, and students with mental health and substance abuse issues. She has focused recent work on individuals with disabilities in health professions. Psychology is a related field, as is medicine, through her work comparing the legal profession and the medical profession and individuals with substance abuse and mental illness issues. Her work on affirmative action, diversity, and discrimination has interdisciplinary dimensions involving political science and sociology. |
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Enid Trucios-HaynesCollege of Law |
Professor Trucios-Haynes graduated from Stanford Law School in 1986 where she served as Associate Editor of the Stanford Law Review, Co-President of Women of Stanford Law and a member of the Stanford Latino Law Students Association. Her legal experience includes volunteer service at The Kingston Legal Aid Clinic in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies which she acquired during a semester abroad while attending Stanford Law School. Professor Trucios-Haynes' appellate work resulted in revising the U.S. Department of Labor's standard of review regarding U.S. employment experience acquired by foreign nationals in the permanent residence process. Prior to joining the University of Louisville School of Law faculty, Professor Trucios-Haynes was an active member of the American Immigration Lawyer's Association and the New York County Bar Association, where she served as a member of the Immigration Committee from 1991 to 1993. Professor Trucios-Haynes currently is a member of the American Bar Association, and the Hispanic National Bar Association. |