Our faculty are famous for having equally strong commitments to teaching and to undertaking scholarship that matters. In fact, the Iowa Law faculty is nationally recognized for its scholarly productivity and well-known for its interdisciplinary interests. A number of faculty members have Ph.D.s, and the faculty publishes regularly in history, social science, and general humanities journals as well as traditional law reviews.
Our faculty list includes those temporarily away on visits to other institutions, on reduced teaching loads, and on phased retirement. Separately listed are members with emeritus status; adjunct and visiting faculty who are scheduled to teach during the academic year, or have taught during the previous two academic years and are expected to have a continuing relationship with Iowa Law; and our courtesy faculty who hold complimentary appointments at the College of Law.
Full-time Faculty
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Todd Pettys
Title/Position
Dean
H. Blair and Joan V. White Chair in Civil Litigation
Professor
Dean and Professor Todd Pettys joined the faculty in 1999. He specializes in issues concerning American constitutional law but has taught a variety of additional courses, including Evidence and Federal Courts.
Katharine Baker
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair in Law
Professor
Professor Baker is an Aliber Family Chair in Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of women’s intimate lives and the law.
Samantha Barbas
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair in Law
Professor
Professor Barbas is a prominent scholar and presenter of legal and media history—with a focus on journalism, privacy, defamation, and the First Amendment—and the award-winning author of seven full-length books. Barbas received the Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020.
Dawn Barker Anderson
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
Ferguson Carlson Fellow
Director, Iowa Law Writing Center
Dawn Anderson is a Professor of Instruction and irector of the Iowa Law Writing Center at the University of Iowa College of Law. Her expertise includes legal writing and analysis, legal education and pedagogy, academic success, and the development of professional judgment, with a particular focus on the effective and responsible integration of artificial intelligence into legal education and practice.
Bethany Berger
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law
Professor
Professor Bethany Berger is a widely read scholar of Federal Indian Law, Property, and Legal History. She is a co-author and member of the Editorial Board of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, the foundational treatise in the field, and co-author of leading casebooks in both Property Law and American Indian Law.
Christina Bohannan
Title/Position
Lauridsen Family Fellow in Law
Professor
Professor Bohannan teaches Torts, Copyright Law, Conflict of Laws and advanced seminars in intellectual property law. Most of her current scholarship is in intellectual property law, the First Amendment, and competition law.
Jonathan C. Carlson
Title/Position
Victor and Carol Alvarez Fellow in Law
Professor
Professor Carlson focuses on international trade and commercial law, international environmental law, and the law of global climate change. He frequently lectures abroad.
Andrew Crouse
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
Ferguson Carlson Fellow
Professor Crouse joined the faculty in 2020, and he specializes in legal analysis, legal ethics, and business law.
Mihailis Diamantis
Title/Position
Ben V. Willie Professor in Excellence
Professor
Mihailis Diamantis’ legal research focuses on corporate crime, law and technology, criminal justice, and legal theory. Much of his recent work is concerned with how emerging technologies and familiar concepts like mens rea shape corporate incentives.
Diane Lourdes Dick
Title/Position
Charles E. Floete Distinguished Chair of Law
Professor
Diane Lourdes Dick is the Charles E. Floete Distinguished Chair of Law and Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. Her teaching and scholarship focus on business bankruptcy and restructuring, commercial finance, corporate governance, taxation, and questions involving data, artificial intelligence, and digital assets.
Bram Elias
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
Wagner-Murphy Fellow
Director, Immigration Advocacy Clinic
Professor Elias has directed the Clinic’s immigration practice since 2015. His students represent clients in immigration proceedings and in state and federal judicial proceedings affecting immigrants' rights, and work with organizational clients engaged in advocacy related to immigration law and policy.
Stella Burch Elias
Title/Position
Bouma Family Fellow
Professor
Professor Elias teaches civil procedure, international law, immigration law, and comparative law courses, and she directs Iowa’s London Law Program. Her research involves public international and comparative law, with a focus on United States and foreign immigration and nationality laws.
Brian Farrell
Title/Position
Professor of Instruction
Director, Citizen Lawyer Program
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights
Brian Farrell is a Professor of Instruction at the University of Iowa College of Law. He is Director of Iowa Law’s Citizen Lawyer Program, Associate Director of the UI Center for Human Rights, and directs the College of Law’s undergraduate Human Rights Certificate program.
Daria Fisher Page
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
Wagner-Murphy Fellow
Director, Community Empowerment Law Project
Daria Fisher Page teaches and directs the Community Empowerment Law Project in the legal clinic. Her students represent individuals, nonprofits, and municipalities working to strengthen their communities, create economic opportunity, and advance social justice in matters ranging from entity formation and strategic planning to coalition building and the design of advocacy plans. Her research and scholarship currently focus on access to, and experiences of, justice; meaningful community engagement; and legal education reform.
Lorraine Gaynor
Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Professor Gaynor is a professor of legal analysis, writing and research. Prior to Iowa Law she served as a senior staff attorney at Iowa Legal Aid.
Josephine Gittler
Title/Position
Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law
Professor
Professor Josephine Gittler is the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law. She has secondary appointments in the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. She is Director of the National Health Law and Policy Resource Center and Co-Director of the Guardianship and Conservatorship Institute. Her teaching, scholarship, and service focuses on health law and policy; elder law and policy, children, families and the law (child maltreatment, juvenile delinquency and the child welfare and juvenile justice systems); alternate dispute resolution (negotiation and mediation); and the legislative process and statutory interpretation and drafting.
Megan Graham
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
Director, Technology Law Clinic
Managing Attorney, Clinical Law Program
Megan Graham is a clinical professor, managing attorney for Iowa Law's Clinical Law Program, and the director of the Technology Law Clinic. Her work centers on the role technology plays in criminal defendants’ cases and the broader criminal legal system.
Andy Grewal
Title/Position
Orville L. and Ermina D. Dykstra Chair in Income Tax Law
Professor
Professor Grewal’s scholarly interests relate to tax law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law. He has testified in Congress on tax administration issues, and his scholarship in that area has formed the basis for several taxpayer challenges to the Treasury's regulatory authority, including in cases before several United States Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Alison K. Guernsey
Title/Position
Herschel G. Langdon Clinical Professor of Trial Advocacy
Clinical Professor
Director, Federal Criminal Defense Clinic
Alison K. Guernsey directs the law school’s Federal Criminal Defense Clinic, one of only two trial-level federal criminal defense clinics in the nation. Under her supervision, law students represent indigent people charged with criminal offenses in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa at all stages of the case from initial appearance through direct appeal.
Emily Hughes
Title/Position
Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law
Professor
Professor Hughes teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Before coming to the College, she was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where she taught criminal law, criminal procedure (investigations and adjudication), and a seminar discussing mitigation and the death penalty.
Andrew Jordan
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Professor Andrew Jordan’s research focuses on issues in constitutional theory and legal philosophy with an emphasis on normative issues in constitutional adjudication.
Mary Ksobiech
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
Ferguson Carlson Fellow
Director, Academic Success
Director, Appellate Advocacy
Mary Ksobiech is a Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research. She also serves as the Director of Appellate Advocacy and the Director of Academic Success.
Christopher Liebig
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
Ferguson Carlson Fellow
Professor Liebig currently teaches Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research. He worked several years as a litigator in private practice in Hartford and Boston, before leaving practice to earn an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Marc Linder
Title/Position
Professor
Professor Linder represented migrant farm workers at Texas Rural Legal Aid for seven years. Before then, he pursued graduate studies at the universities at Göttingen and West Berlin and taught at Roskilde University Center in Denmark, the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, and the UI College of Law. Professor Linder specializes in Labor Law.
Kate Melloy Goettel
Title/Position
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Federal Impact Litigation Clinic
Kate Melloy Goettel, a national leader in immigration law and federal court practice, directs the Federal Impact Litigation Clinic at the College of Law. The Federal Impact Litigation Clinic works at the intersection of immigration law, administrative law, federal court practice, and civil rights.
Hope Metcalf
Title/Position
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Human Rights Initiative Clinic
Hope Metcalf teaches, researches and practices in the field of human rights law. Trained as a U.S. litigator, Metcalf brings a pragmatic, client-based perspective to advise partner organizations on transnational strategies.
Anya Prince
Title/Position
David H. Vernon Professor in Law
Anya Prince is the David H. Vernon Professor of Law. Her teaching and research interests explore health and genetic privacy, with a particular focus on genetic discrimination, the health privacy implications of big data, and the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic testing.
Jason Rantanen
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Faculty
David L. Hammer and Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd Chair
Professor
Jason Rantanen is the David L. Hammer and Willard L. “Sandy” Boyd Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty.
Shannon Roesler
Title/Position
Charlotte and Frederick Hubbell Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Professor
Faculty Director, Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative
Shannon Roesler is the Charlotte and Frederick Hubbell Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Law and the Faculty Director of the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative at the College of Law. She specializes in the areas of environmental law, administrative law, and property law.
César F. Rosado-Marzán
Title/Position
Edward L. Carmody Professor of Law
Faculty Liaison, Iowa Labor Education Center
Director, Graduate Programs and Visiting Scholars
Associate Faculty, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Caroline Sheerin
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
Ferguson Carlson Fellow
Director, Bar Success
Caroline Sheerin graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1993, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. She then taught English in Japan for two years and after returning from Japan, she received her Masters in East Asian Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. She then went to the University of Michigan Law School, where she received her JD.
Sean Sullivan
Title/Position
Jon and Sarah Fister Chair in Law & Economics
Professor
Sean Sullivan holds the Jon and Sarah Fister Chair in Law & Economics at the University of Iowa College of Law. His research involves core questions in antitrust law and evidence—questions like why market shares tell us anything about market power and what it means for a jury to find the truth of a disputed fact.
June Tai
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
Ferguson Carlson Fellow
Director, Field Placement Programs
Director, Nonprofit Structure and Strategy Clinic
June Tai is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Field Placement Program and Director of the Nonprofit Structure and Strategy Clinic at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Marzieh Tofighi Darian
Title/Position
Faculty Fellow
Visiting Assistant Professor
Marzieh Tofighi Darian joined the University of Iowa College of Law as a Faculty Fellow after serving as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. She earned both her S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
James Toomey
Title/Position
Associate Professor
James Toomey—an expert in bioethics, private law, law and philosophy, health law, and elder law—joined the faculty in 2024.
Lea VanderVelde
Title/Position
Professor
University of Iowa Distinguished Chair
Director, RAOS project, (Reconstruction Amendment Optical Scanning)
Lea VanderVelde researches 19th century lives, court decisions, and other occurrences that significantly impacted the course of American law, particularly in the areas of slavery, work, property, and the Constitution. She is currently using digital research technologies to examine American national expansion in the critical years before the Civil War and the Reconstruction Congress debates that enhanced American freedom.
Carissa Vogel
Title/Position
Director, Law Library
Professor of Instruction
Professor Vogel was Associate Dean for Library Services, Director of the Law Library, and Professor of Legal Research at the Dr. Lillian and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library at the Cardozo School of Law. Prior to her time at Cardozo, she was Assistant Director for Research and Instruction and Lecturer-in-Law at Cornell University Law Library, and Head of Public Services and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University’s Arthur W. Diamond Law Library.
Amy Weismann
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction
Assistant Director, UI Center for Human Rights
Amy Weismann teaches core courses in the Human Rights Certificate program and assists with the management and development of the certificate program. She is also the assistant director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.
Jill Wieber Lens
Title/Position
Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence
Professor
Jill Wieber Lens, the Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence, is a leading legal expert on stillbirth, focusing on how laws shape the experience and perception of stillbirth in the U.S. Her interdisciplinary research, inspired by the stillbirth of her son Caleb in 2017, spans multiple legal contexts and often highlights the disproportionate impact of stillbirth on marginalized communities. A distinguished graduate of Iowa Law, Lens has published extensively in top law reviews and has contributed to prominent media outlets such as the New York Times, Slate, and Time.
Adrien Wing
Title/Position
Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs
Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law
Professor
Adrien Wing is the Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs and the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she has taught since 1987.
Joseph Yockey
Title/Position
F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Law
Professor
Director, Innovation, Business, and Law Center
Professor Yockey teaches and writes at the intersection of artificial intelligence, law, business, corporate governance, compliance, and higher education. His teaching has been recognized at the college and university level—named Iowa Law teacher of the year in 2012 and 2023 and received the university-wide President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022. He is also the faculty advisor and co-founder of the law school’s First-Generation Lawyers (FGL) student organization.
Visiting Faculty
Anthony Gaughan
Title/Position
Visiting Professor
Anthony Gaughan is a visiting professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. He is the Kern Family Chair in Law and Professor of Law at Drake University Law School. He is also a senior fellow in the Election Law Program at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Luke Hall
Title/Position
Visiting Clinical Associate Professor
Luke Hall is an expert in immigration law. Their advocacy work has focused on a range of issues, including policy recommendations related to humanitarian protections and relief from removal, the development of immigration detention standards, and advancing protections for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and transgender individuals in immigration detention.
Neil Hamilton
Title/Position
Visiting Professor
Mason Ladd Visiting Professor
Stephanie Patridge
Title/Position
Visiting Professor
Philosopher in Residence
Stephanie Patridge teaches courses on ethics and human rights. Her research focuses on ethics, aesthetics, and social philosophy.
Dean A. Strang
Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Dean A. Strang is a criminal defense lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin, and an adjunct professor at the law schools of the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University.
Adjunct Faculty
The Honorable Helen Adams
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
Judge Helen Adams is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Mark A. Albright
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
Mark A. Albright is a founding member of Perlman, Bajandas, Yevoli & Albright, P.L. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions; private equity and venture capital funding; software and technology licensing; and startups and emerging companies.
Alvaro Almanza
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
The Honorable Lars Anderson
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
Ted Anton
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
Ted Anton is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Carlos Bailey
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
Stephen Baird
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
Steve Baird is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Affiliated Faculty
Jovana Davidovic
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Jovana Davidovic is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy.
Karisa Harland
Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Karisa Harland is an assistant professor of emergency medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Sara Mitchell
Title/Position
Professor
Sara Mitchell is a professor in the Department of Political Science.
Rishab Nithyanand
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Rishab Nithyanand is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science.
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, QC
Title/Position
Global Affiliated Professor
Adjunct Instructor
Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC is a global affiliated professor with the College of Law.
Louise Seamster
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Louise Seamster is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology.
Alexander Somek
Title/Position
Global Affiliated Professor
Adjunct Instructor
Alexander Somek is a global affiliated professor with the College of Law.
Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Ahmed E. Souaiaia is an associate professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies.
Miranda Welbourne Eleazar
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Miranda Welbourne Eleazar is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business where she focuses on Entrepreneurship, Ethics, and Strategic Management.
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Patricia Nassif Acton
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law Emerita
Professor Acton has taught Clinical Law, Commercial Transactions, Arts & Entertainment Law, Trusts and Estates, and the Legal History of Iowa.
Gail Agrawal
Title/Position
Dean Emerita and F. Wendell Miller Professor of Law
Dean Agrawal was the 17th dean of The University of Iowa College of Law serving from 2010 - 2018.
John S. Allen
Title/Position
Clinical Professor Emeritus
Professor Allen and his students represented clients before courts and administrative agencies in a broad range of civil matters. Much of his work has focused on employment law, including employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, and unemployment insurance cases.
Patrick B. Bauer
Title/Position
Professor of Law Emeritus
Professor Bauer studies Iowa Debt Collection Law and Iowa Real Estate Financing Law. His current research includes appellate review of findings of fact, mortgage foreclosure deficiency judgments, Iowa's homestead exemption, federal farm bankruptcy legislation in the 1930s, and federalization of debt collection law in the 1990s.
Arthur E. Bonfield
Title/Position
Allan D. Vestal Chair and Associate Dean Emeritus
Professor Bonfield joined the Iowa Law School faculty in 1962 and has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, North Carolina, and Tennessee Law Schools, and at the Law Schools of Hofstra University and Lewis and Clark. Until August 2014, Professor Bonfield served as Associate Dean for Research, building the Iowa Law Library into the best public law library in the nation.
Patricia A. Cain
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair Emerita
After graduating from law school, Professor Cain practiced law in Montgomery, Alabama, specializing in tax law. In 1974, she joined the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law, where she taught for 17 years. During this period of time she taught as a Visiting Professor at a number of different law schools, including Wisconsin, Tulane, and the University of Southern California. In 1991, she joined the law faculty at the University of Iowa. She was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1996 to 1999 and Associate Dean for Admissions from 2001-2003. In the 2003-2004 academic year, Professor Cain served as Interim Provost of the University and then as Vice Provost until her retirement.
Ann Laquer Estin
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair in Law Emerita
Professor Estin focused primarily in family law and international family law. As a member of the International Society of Family Law, she has served as an expert observer at the Hague Conference on Private International Law in connection with several of the Hague Children’s Conventions. In addition, she teaches courses in contracts and Federal Indian Law.