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 members of the full-time faculty as of the fall semester of 2023. The 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 2023-24 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 as of the fall semester of 2023.
Full-time Faculty
John S. Allen
Title/Position
Herschel G. Langdon Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Allen and his students represent 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.
Dawn Barker Anderson
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Professor Anderson teaches Legal Analysis, Writing and Research and is the director of the Writing Resource Center and the college’s academic success program.
Christina Bohannan
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Lauridsen Family Fellow in Law
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
Professor of Law and International Studies
Victor & Carol Alvarez Fellow in Law
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 & Research
Professor Crouse is an Associate Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research. He taught various courses at Hamline University School of Law and then Mitchell Hamline School of Law, including legal writing, advanced torts, and property. He also served as assistant dean of law students and diversity and legal counsel for the university during the combination of Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law.
Mihailis Diamantis
Title/Position
Ben V. Willie Professor in Excellence
Mihailis Diamantis’ legal research focuses on corporate crime and criminal 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 Professor of Law
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.
Bram Elias
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
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
Professor of Law
Chancellor William Gardiner Hammond Fellow in Law
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.
Ann Laquer Estin
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair in Law
Professor Estin teaches and writes 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.
Brian Farrell
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction
Director, Citizen Lawyer Program
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights
Brian Farrell teaches international law, criminal law, and human rights courses. He is Director of the Citizen Lawyer Program, Associate Director of the UI Center for Human Rights, and was a co-founder of the Innocence Project of Iowa. Brian also serves as an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Ireland Galway and is a member of the Iowa Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission.
Daria Fisher Page
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Clinical Programs
Clinical Professor of Law
Daria Fisher Page teaches and directs the Community Empowerment Law Project in the legal clinic at Iowa Law. 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.
Josephine Gittler
Title/Position
Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law
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
Associate Clinical Professor
Director, Technology Law Clinic
Megan Graham is an associate clinical professor 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 Professor in Income Tax Law
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 Guernsey
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Federal Criminal Defense Clinic
Professor Guernsey teaches in and directs the law school’s Federal Criminal Defense Clinic. Under her supervision, law students represent indigent individuals charged with federal crimes in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth and Sixth Circuits.
Emily Hughes
Title/Position
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law
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 of Law
Professor Andrew Jordan focuses his research on issues in legal philosophy with an emphasis on normative issues in constitutional adjudication and contract theory. He has also published widely on topics in moral philosophy.
Mary M. Ksobiech
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Professor Mary Ksobiech is a Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research. She is an alumna of the University of Iowa College of Law. In 2006, she joined the faculty of The University of Alabama School of Law where she taught courses in Legal Writing, Litigation Drafting, and Judicial Opinion Drafting and served as the Assistant Dean of Students. She will be teaching in the areas of Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy, and Academic Support.
Christopher Liebig
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
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 of Law
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.
Robert T. Miller
Title/Position
F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Finance and Law
Professor Miller's scholarship concerns corporate and securities law, the economic analysis of law, and the philosophy of law, and he has taught courses in Business Associations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Law and Economics, Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Antitrust, Contracts, Deals, and Capitalism.
Christopher Odinet
Title/Position
Josephine R. Witte Professor of Law
Professor Chris Odinet’s research specializes in commercial law, consumer finance, and property law, with an emphasis on digital/crypto assets, financial regulation, bankruptcy, and mortgage lending. He teaches courses in Property Law; Secured Transactions; Real Estate Law and Finance; Bankruptcy; Payments Systems; and Consumer Finance Law.
Todd Pettys
Title/Position
H. Blair and Joan V. White Chair in Civil Litigation
Professor Pettys joined the faculty in 1999. Professor Pettys’ courses include constitutional law, federal courts, and a seminar on pending supreme court cases.
Anya Prince
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law
Professor Prince’s teaching and research interests explore the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic testing, with particular focus on genetic discrimination, health and reproductive privacy, and use of big data and algorithms. She teaches torts, health law, insurance law, and genetics law.
Jason Rantanen
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Faculty
David L. Hammer and Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd Professor of Law
Director, Innovation, Business, and Law Center
Professor Rantanen writes in the areas of patent law, federal courts, and empirical legal studies. He is the faculty advisor for the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Society student group and director of the University of Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center.
Shannon Roesler
Title/Position
Charlotte and Frederick Hubbell Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Faculty Director, Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative
Professor Roesler joins Iowa Law after serving as the Robert S. Kerr, Jr. Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Law at Oklahoma City University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on environmental justice, environmental governance, climate change litigation, and land use.
César F. Rosado Marzán
Title/Position
Edward L. Carmody Professor of Law
Director, Graduate Programs & Visiting Scholars
Professor Rosado Marzán is internationally known for his award-winning research and scholarship in labor and employment law. He studies the various ways workers organize to gain power and better represent their interests, be it through traditional labor unions or so-called "alt-labor" organizations.
Ryan T. Sakoda
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Sakoda is an Associate Professor with a focus on the empirical analysis of crime and criminal justice policy. His writings include topics such as the use of solitary confinement and the effects of post-release supervision and probation.
Leonard A. Sandler
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
Clinical Professor Len Sandler joined the faculty in 1990 to direct one of the first HIV/AIDS law school clinics in the U.S. with students representing individuals. He later founded and directs the award-winning Law and Policy in Action Clinic to give law students experience solving recurring, systemic problems that cannot be addressed through litigation. They provide no-cost consultant services, technical assistance, legislative advocacy, and representation to nonprofits, community groups. governments, and business on disability, civil rights, housing healthcare, elder abuse, LGBTQ, and other issues. Sandler and his clinic students also represent and provide transactional services for families and present workshops on estate planning, guardianship, and other legal issues.
Lorie Schweer
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Lorie Schweer graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with an accounting degree in 1984. Professor Schweer first practiced as a certified public accountant and then worked in banking for 13 years. In the banking industry, she focused on regulatory compliance, audit, loan quality, and commercial lending. After graduating from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2003, she practiced law with a focus on tax planning, estate planning, probate, and exempt organization governance.
Caroline Sheerin
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
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 in December 1999.
Gregory H. Shill
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law
Gregory Shill is interested in firms, cities, and transportation, and he writes in the fields of corporate law, securities regulation, and law and economic geography. His articles have been published in top law reviews and his research and views have been featured in leading national media.
Vinita Singh
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Singh joins our faculty as a visiting assistant professor of law. She specializes in national security law, economic statecraft, and taxation.
Sean Sullivan
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Bouma Faculty Fellow in Law
Professor Sean Sullivan joined the faculty of the College of Law in 2017. His research focuses on foundational topics in antitrust and evidence law—things like why we can infer market power from market shares and what it means for a jury to find the truth of a disputed fact. He also studies markets, negotiation, and decision making using tools of experimental economics.
June Tai
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Field Placement Programs
Professor June Tai is the Director of the Field Placement Program for the law school and supervises students in field placements. Her practice has focused on civil litigation, particularly in patent and other intellectual property disputes. She earned her J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Cristina Tilley
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Claire Ferguson-Carlson Faculty Fellow in Law
Cristina Tilley writes in the areas of tort law and media law. Professor Tilley has authored numerous articles that investigate the boundary between public and private law, with particular emphasis on the appropriate treatment of speech and speech injuries. Her scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
Lea VanderVelde
Title/Position
University of Iowa Distinguished Chair
Director of the 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
Law Library Director & 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.
Kevin Washburn
Title/Position
N. William Hines Dean and Professor of Law
Kevin Washburn joined Iowa Law as its 18th dean on June 15, 2018. Prior to entering academia, he clerked for a judge on the Ninth Circuit, worked as a trial attorney and then a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as the general counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission. As an academic, he has held faculty positions at Minnesota and Arizona, and taught for a year as a visitor at Harvard.
Amy Weismann
Title/Position
Assistant 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.
Adrien Wing
Title/Position
Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs
Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law
Adrien Wing joined the faculty in 1987, and currently teaches Critical Race Theory, Sex Discrimination Law, and Law in the Muslim World. In addition to being the Associate Dean for International & Comparative Law programs, she hold two other administrative positions. She is the Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights and Director of the Law School’s summer program in France.
Joseph Yockey
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Research and Professional Development
David H. Vernon Professor of Law
Professor Yockey teaches Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Private Companies, and a seminar on Compliance, Ethics, and Risk Management. His teaching has been recognized at the college and university level—named Iowa Law teacher of the year in 2012 and a five-time nominee for the campus-wide President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence. He is also the faculty advisor to the Iowa Law Review, and a co-founder of the law school’s First-Generation Professionals (FGP) student organization.
Affiliated Faculty
Dain Donelson
Title/Position
Professor, College of Law
Professor of Accounting, Tippie College of Business
Henry B. Tippie Excellence Chair
Linda Kerber
Title/Position
May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History Emerita, Lecturer in Law
Professor Kerber teaches courses in Gender and Legal History. She is the author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship for which she was awarded the Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in U.S. legal history and the Joan Kelley Prize for the best book in women's history.
Michael E. Moore
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Medieval and European History
Dr. Moore's research centers on ecclesiastical, legal and scholarly traditions of Europe from late antiquity through the Carolingian Empire. His work encompasses the history of medieval politics, the history of scholarship, the papacy, liturgy, royal law, canon law, and the "history of history."
Louise Seamster
Title/Position
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology
Louise Seamster studies race and economic inequality, particularly in cities. She writes about racial politics and urban development, emergency financial management, debt, and the myth of racial progress. Her research centers on the interactive financial and symbolic factors reproducing racial inequality across multiple domains.
Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Islamic Studies
Professor Souaiaia teaches Islamic law, women in Islam and the Middle East, human rights law, religion and politics, religion in the public sphere, and Introduction to Islamic civilization. His primary research areas of interest include social justice in the Islamic discourse, political dissent in Islam, women in Islamic law, Islamic political theory, modern Islamic thought, and religion and politics in the Islamic civilization.
Visiting and Adjunct Faculty
Noëlle Sinclair
Title/Position
Head of Special Collections
Adjunct Lecturer in Law
As Head of Special Collections, Noëlle oversees the Law Library archives and rare book collections. In addition to managing the Special Collections, she also provides reference service, guest lectures in the first-year LAWR program, and teaches in the Hubbard Program.
The Honorable David R. Stras
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Judge Stras is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Iowa Law.
Paul Thelen
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Director, Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center
Paul Thelen is an adjunct faculty member and director of the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center. He focuses on legal, communication, and leadership obstacles and opportunities for charitable organizations. His work will bring him to communities throughout the state, and he will teach undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses at the University of Iowa.
The Honorable C. J. Williams
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Judge Williams graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1988. He clerked for Chief Judge Donald E. O'Brien of the Northern District of Iowa for two years, after he worked for the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, for two years prosecuting criminal cases. From 1992 to 1997 he worked as a trial attorney for Lathrop & Gage in Kansas City, during which time he also taught Federal Criminal Law as an adjunct at the Kansas City School of Law. From 1997 until 2016, he was an assistant US Attorney in Cedar Rapids doing criminal prosecution. In 2016, he became a Federal Magistrate Judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. In 2018, he became a Federal District Court Judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
Mark Wyeth
Title/Position
Adjunct Lecturer
Mark is a Barrister called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1983 and a Bencher of the Inner Temple. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2009, and practices from Wyeth Thomas Chambers in Waltham Abbey, near London. Mark’s practice is predominantly in criminal law, commercial law, and intellectual property law.
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
John-Mark Stensvaag
Title/Position
Charlotte and Frederick Hubbell Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Law Emeritus
James J. Tomkovicz
Title/Position
Edward Howrey Professor Emeritus
Professor Tomkovicz joined the faculty in 1982 after serving as a Visiting Professor at Iowa in the spring of 1981 and an Adjunct Professor at UCLA during the 1981-82 academic year. Since joining the Iowa faculty, Professor Tomkovicz has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Investigation, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication and Evidence. He became an emeritus faculty member in 2021.
