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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.

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Leonard Baynes Dean and Professor of Law	Emily Berman Assistant Professor of Law	Raymond Britton Professor of Law	Johnny Buckles Professor of Law	Marcilynn Burke Associate Dean, Associate 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	Jim Hawkins Associate Professor of Law
Lonny Hoffman 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	Jacqueline Lipton 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	Jordan Paust 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	Spencer Simons Associate Professor of Law	William Streng Professor of Law	Sandra Thompson Professor of Law	Ronald Turner Professor of Law
Greg Vetter 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	David Bender Visiting Faculty	Julian Cardenas Garcia Research Assistant Professor	Nicole Casarez Visiting Faculty
Michael Ewer Visiting Faculty	Amy Hawk Blakely Asst. Dir	Tracy Hester Lecturer	Cassandra Jeu Innocence/DP Clinic	Jim Lawrence Blakely Director
Jeffrey Newberry Innocence/DP Clinic	Susan Sakmar Visiting Faculty	Ronald Scott Research Professor	Ben Sheppard AA White Director	Kristina Van Arsdel Director of Internship and Externship Programs
Yolanda Vazquez	Yolanda Vazquez	Gordon Walker Visiting Faculty	Allison Winnike Research Director and Research Professor

Emeritus Faculty

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

Faculty In Memoriam

James E. Herget

Ira B. Shepard

Stephen Zamora

Visiting Scholars

Melissa Hamilton

Adjunct Faculty

Judge Georgia Akers	Natalie Alfaro	Katayoun Alidadi	Yocel Alonso	Jeffrey Anapolsky
Anna Archer	Ray Ashburg	Christopher Bacon	Meagan Baker	Steve Baldassano
Justen Barks	James Beebe	Craig Bergez	Emily Bolon	Theodore Borrego
Lynn Bortka	William Boyce	Tim S. Braley	Dan Brennan	Jenny 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	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	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	Doug Koger	Paul Krieger	Daniel H. Kroll	Nathaniel Kummerfeld
Kathleen Lake	Daniella Landers	Daniel Leightman	Tracy Leissner	Kevin Lewis
Chris Long	Manuel Lopez	Alfonso Lopez De La Osa Escribano	Karen Lukin	Ryan Maierson
Abe Martinez	Jani Maselli	Hew Maurice	Honorable Debra Ibarra Mayfield	Scott McCay
Ryan McConnell	Rich McIver	Roni Mihaly	Anshu Mitchell	Bill Moore
Keith Morris	Ewell Murphy	Norman Nadorff	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
Ignacio Pinto-Leon	Peter Querubin	James Ray	Robert (Randy) Roach	Ann Ryan Robertson
Volker Roeben	Reynaldo Romero	Judge Lee Rosenthal	Kathleen Rubinstein	Janet Rushing
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	Lydia Tiede	D.C. Toedt III.	Stacey Tovino
John "Jack" Townsend	Jonna Treble	John Unger	Razvan Ungureanu	Juan Vasquez
Yolanda Vasquez	Juan Vasquez, Sr.	Judge Vanessa Velasquez	Ray Viada	Odean Volker
Laranda Walker	Ronald Wardell	Jeff Weems	Bob Wicoff	Catherine Wile
Kristy Williams	John Woodruff	Carey Worrell	Denney Wright