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
Hope Metcalf
Title/Position
Clinical Associate Professor
Metcalf comes to the University of Iowa after more than 15 years at Yale Law School. From 2014-2024 she served as executive director for the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights Law; she also co-taught in the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic.
Anya Prince
Title/Position
Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law
Professor
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 Chair
Professor
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
Professor
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
Professor
Director, Graduate Programs and 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.
Lorie Schweer
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
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 and Research
Professor of Instruction
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 in December 1999.
Sean Sullivan
Title/Position
Jon and Sarah Fister Chair in Law & Economics
Professor
Professor Sean Sullivan joined the faculty of the College of Law in 2017. His research involves core questions in antitrust and evidence law—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. He also studies markets, negotiation, and small-sample statistical methods as an experimental economist.
June Tai
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
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
Claire Ferguson-Carlson Faculty Fellow in Law
Professor
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.
James Toomey
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Professor Toomey’s research applies philosophical and empirical methods to essential questions at the intersection of bioethics and private law theory, from whether genes can be owned to when the law ought to intervene in the decision-making of those with dementia.
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
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.
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 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
F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Law
Professor
Professor Yockey teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, artificial intelligence, compliance, social enterprise, 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.
Affiliated 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
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
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 Professor 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.
Bram Elias
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
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
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 University of Galway (formerly NUI Galway) and is a member of the Iowa Judicial Branch Court Navigators Pilot Project Task Force.
Daria Fisher Page
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
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.
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 Associate 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
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
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
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 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 Ksobiech
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
Director, Academic Success
Director, Appellate Advocacy
Professor Mary Ksobiech is Director of Academic Success and 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 and Research
Professor of Instruction
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
Kate Melloy Goettel is a clinical associate professor and a national leader in immigration law and federal court practice. She will start and lead a federal civil rights clinic with an immigration focus.
Visiting and Adjunct 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
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
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 Professor 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.
Bram Elias
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
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
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 University of Galway (formerly NUI Galway) and is a member of the Iowa Judicial Branch Court Navigators Pilot Project Task Force.
Daria Fisher Page
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
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.
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 Associate 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
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
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
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 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 Ksobiech
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
Director, Academic Success
Director, Appellate Advocacy
Professor Mary Ksobiech is Director of Academic Success and 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 and Research
Professor of Instruction
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
Kate Melloy Goettel is a clinical associate professor and a national leader in immigration law and federal court practice. She will start and lead a federal civil rights clinic with an immigration focus.
Hope Metcalf
Title/Position
Clinical Associate Professor
Metcalf comes to the University of Iowa after more than 15 years at Yale Law School. From 2014-2024 she served as executive director for the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights Law; she also co-taught in the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic.
Anya Prince
Title/Position
Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law
Professor
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 Chair
Professor
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
Professor
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
Professor
Director, Graduate Programs and 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.
Lorie Schweer
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
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 and Research
Professor of Instruction
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 in December 1999.
Sean Sullivan
Title/Position
Jon and Sarah Fister Chair in Law & Economics
Professor
Professor Sean Sullivan joined the faculty of the College of Law in 2017. His research involves core questions in antitrust and evidence law—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. He also studies markets, negotiation, and small-sample statistical methods as an experimental economist.
June Tai
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
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
Claire Ferguson-Carlson Faculty Fellow in Law
Professor
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.
James Toomey
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Professor Toomey’s research applies philosophical and empirical methods to essential questions at the intersection of bioethics and private law theory, from whether genes can be owned to when the law ought to intervene in the decision-making of those with dementia.
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
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.
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 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
F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Law
Professor
Professor Yockey teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, artificial intelligence, compliance, social enterprise, 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.
Retired and Emeriti 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
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
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 Professor 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.
Bram Elias
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
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
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 University of Galway (formerly NUI Galway) and is a member of the Iowa Judicial Branch Court Navigators Pilot Project Task Force.
Daria Fisher Page
Title/Position
Clinical Professor
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.
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 Associate 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
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
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
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 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 Ksobiech
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Professor of Instruction
Director, Academic Success
Director, Appellate Advocacy
Professor Mary Ksobiech is Director of Academic Success and 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 and Research
Professor of Instruction
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
Kate Melloy Goettel is a clinical associate professor and a national leader in immigration law and federal court practice. She will start and lead a federal civil rights clinic with an immigration focus.