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. His courses include constitutional law, federal courts, and a seminar on pending Supreme Court cases.
Katharine Baker
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair in Law
Professor
Katharine Baker is an expert in Family Law, specifically the modern law of marriage and parenthood. 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
Professor Anderson teaches Legal Analysis, Writing and Research and is the director of the Writing and Academic Success Center and the college’s academic success program.
Bethany Berger
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law
Professor
Bethany Berger, the Allan D. Vestal Professor of Law, is one of the nation's leading experts in federal Indian Law, Property Law, and legal history. She co-authors the leading casebooks in American Indian Law and Property Law and has published extensively in top law journals. Berger's distinguished career includes significant contributions to legal scholarship, service as a judge for the Southwest Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals, and advocacy work for Native American and children's rights.
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 teaches legal rhetoric, legal ethics, contract drafting, and negotiation. Professor Crouse graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2004 and went on to have an extensive career in practice and in legal academia before joining Iowa 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. He is concerned with how familiar concepts like mens rea shape corporate incentives and the justice of verdicts involving corporate defendants. He has subsidiary interests in privacy law and surveillance.
Diane Lourdes Dick
Title/Position
Charles E. Floete Distinguished Chair of Law
Professor
Professor Diane Lourdes Dick focuses her teaching and scholarship on business and tax law, with particular emphasis on commercial finance, business bankruptcy and out-of-court restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and business entity taxation.
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
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.
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.