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The University of Houston Law Center Faculty

The faculty of the University of Houston Law Center is among the largest and most distinguished in the country. Comprised of 43 Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty, 12 Clinical Faculty who teach in our clinics and first-year legal writing program, an additional 20 full time non-tenure track faculty members, and more than 100 adjunct faculty, UH’s reputation for scholarly and teaching excellence is widely recognized. The Law Center’s highly prolific faculty publish in the leading law reviews in the country and their work has been very influential with commentators, lawyers and courts throughout the country, and the world. The Law Center’s commitment to teaching excellence is equally notable. Since 2001 eight faculty members at the Law Center have won the UH Teaching Excellence Award, the highest university-wide teaching award. Beyond the university, our faculty have been widely recognized for their outstanding teaching.

For the Law Center’s Promotion and Tenure Standards, adopted April 2012, please click here.

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Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Leonard Baynes Dean and Professor of Law	Emily Berman Assistant Professor of Law	Johnny Buckles Professor of Law	Darren Bush Professor of Law	Seth Chandler Professor of Law
Anthony Chase Associate Professor of Law	David Crump Professor of Law	Richard Dole Professor of Law	David Dow Professor of Law	Meredith Duncan Associate Professor of Law
Barbara Evans Professor of Law	David Fagundes Professor of Law	Victor Flatt Professor of Law	Jim Hawkins Associate Professor of Law	Lonny Hoffman Professor of Law
Blake Hudson Professor of Law	Paul Janicke Professor of Law	Craig Joyce Professor of Law	Renee Knake Professor of Law	Sapna Kumar Associate Professor of Law
David Kwok Assistant Professor of Law	Peter Linzer Professor of Law	Jessica Mantel Associate Professor of Law	Ellen Marrus Professor of Law	Douglas Moll Professor of Law
James Nelson Assistant Professor of Law	Raymond Nimmer Professor of Law	Thomas Oldham Professor of Law	Michael Olivas Professor of Law	Robert Palmer Professor of Law
Robert Ragazzo Professor of Law	D. Theodore Rave Assistant Professor of Law	Jessica Roberts Associate Professor of Law	Joseph Sanders Professor of Law	William Streng Professor of Law
Sandra Thompson Professor of Law	Ronald Turner Professor of Law	Greg Vetter Associate Dean, Professor of Law	Gina Warren Associate Professor	Bret Wells Associate Professor of Law
Kellen Zale Assistant Professor of Law

Clinical Faculty

Katherine Brem Clinical Faculty - LSS	Christopher Heard Transactional Clinic Director	Whitney Heard Clinical Faculty-LSS	Janet Heppard Clinical Faculty and Director Clinics	Geoffrey Hoffman Clinical Faculty-Immigration
Richard McElvaney Clinical Faculty-Consumer	Sarah Morath Clinical Faculty - LSS	Merle Morris Clinical Faculty-LSS	Susan Rachlin Clinical Faculty-LSS	Lauren Simpson Clinical Faculty-LSS
Kenneth Swift Clinical Faculty - LSS	Tobi Tabor Clinical Faculty-LSS	Lisa Tilton-McCarthy Clinical Faculty-LSS	Tasha Willis Clinical Faculty-Mediation

Other Faculty

Paul Asofsky Tax LL.M. Director	Janet Beck Immigration Clinic	Julian Cardenas Garcia Research Assistant Professor	Amy Hawk Blakely Asst. Dir	Tracy Hester Lecturer
Cassandra Jeu Innocence/DP Clinic	Jim Lawrence Blakely Director	Alfonso Lopez de la Osa Escribano Director, Center for U.S. and Mexican Law	Jeffrey Newberry Innocence/DP Clinic	Bill Powers Director of Internship & Externship Programs
Ronald Scott Research Professor	Kristina Van Arsdel Assistant Clinical Professor	Allison Winnike Research Director and Research Professor	Denney Wright Professor of Practice

Visiting Professors and Scholars

David Bender	Nicole Casarez	Joseph Dellapenna	Michael Ewer	Carmen Gonzalez
Melissa Hamilton	Craig Jackson	Susan L. Sakmar	Dru Stevenson	Rebecca Stewart
Katherine Vukadin	Gordon Walker

Emeritus Faculty

Richard M. Alderman	Sidney Buchanan	John Jay Douglass	Stephen K. Huber	John Mixon
Geraldine Szott Moohr	Thomas Newhouse	Laura E. Oren	Jordan Paust	Robert Schuwerk
Jacqueline Lang Weaver

Faculty In Memoriam

Adjunct Faculty

Judge Georgia Akers	Natalie Alfaro Gonzales	Katayoun Alidadi	Yocel Alonso	Jeffrey Anapolsky
Anna Archer	Ray Ashburg	Christopher Bacon	Meagan Baker	Steve Baldassano
Justen Barks	James Beebe	Craig Bergez	Emily Bolon	Rainey Booth
Theodore Borrego	Lynn Bortka	William Boyce	Tim Braley	Dan Brennan
Jennifer Brevorka	Charles D. Brown	Judge Harvey Brown	Judge Susan Brown	John Buckley
Stephanie Bustamante	Franklin Bynum	Larry Campagna	Maria-Vittoria Carminati	Ben Carpenter
Derrick Carson	Daragh John Carter	Anne Chandler	Donna Clark	Steven Cook
Kristina Culley	David Cunningham	Daniel Davis	Mickey Davis	Willie Daw
Alistair Dawson	Corey Devine	Ali Dhanani	Daniel Dib	Sashe Dimitroff
Linda Dole	Katya Dow	Brandon Draper	Arthur Dula	Andrew Edison
Erin Epley	Charles Eskridge	Judge David Farr	Rena Felton	Jonna Flores
Zandra Foley	John-Thomas Foster	Samir Foteh	Jack Frels	Valerie Friedrich
Edward Gallagher	David Gerger	Richard Ginsburg	Mark Goranson	Bernard Goudeau III
Julie Gray	Michael Griffin	Alamdar Hamdani	Lawrence Hanson	David Harrell
Eleanor Haynes	Kevin Hedges	Maurice Hew	Judge Belinda Hill	Kate HIll
Justin Hodge	John Hofmeister	Mark Hoose	Sharon Hormann	Jackie Houlette
Robert Hughes	Alexander Hunt	Lee B. Hunt	Richard Husseini	Charles Irvine
Jay Jackson	Brant Johnson	Erin Jones	Alexander Kaplan	Daniel Kasprzak
Tara Kelly	Jessica Kemp	Anita Kerin	David Keyes	Jeffrey King
Allyson Kinzel	Doug Koger	Daniel H. Kroll	Nathaniel Kummerfeld	Kathleen Lake
Daniella Landers	Daniel Leightman	Tracy Leissner	Kevin Lewis	Chris Long
Karen Lukin	Ryan Maierson	Abe Martinez	Jani Maselli	William Matthews
Hew Maurice	Honorable Debra Ibarra Mayfield	Scott McCay	Ryan McConnell	Rich McIver
Roni Mihaly	Anshu Mitchell	Bill Moore	Keith Morris	Kim Muller
Ewell Murphy	Norman Nadorff	Diane Neal	Lauren Neely	John Newton
Pamela Nieto	Angela Odensky	Ruth Okediji	Edward Osterberg Jr.	Stephen Pate
Snehal Patel	Jim Perdue Sr.	Lorena Perez McGill	Will Peterson	Kenneth R. Phillips
Peter Querubin	James Ray	Robert (Randy) Roach	Ann Ryan Robertson	Carmen Roe
Volker Roeben	Reynaldo Romero	Judge Lee Rosenthal	Kathleen Rubinstein	Gregory S. Saikin
Judge R.K. Sandill	Charles Schwartz	George Secrest	Shahzado Shaikh	Scott Sherman
Richard Sherry	Eugene J. Silva II.	James W. Skelton, Jr.	Erin Smith	Frank Smith
Michael Solar	Daniel Sternthal	April Strahan	Alison Sulentic	Gus Tamborello
Yvonne Taylor	James Thurmond	Lydia Tiede	D.C. Toedt III.	Stacey Tovino
John "Jack" Townsend	Jonna Treble	John Unger	Razvan Ungureanu	Juan Vasquez
Juan Vasquez, Sr.	Judge Vanessa Velasquez	Ray Viada	Odean Volker	Laranda Walker
Ronald Wardell	Jeff Weems	Elizabth Weinmann	Bob Wicoff	Catherine Wile
Kristy Williams	John Woodruff	Carey Worrell	Brad Wyly