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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.

2017 Faculty Scholarship PDF

2017 Faculty Scholarship Flipbook

2016 Faculty Scholarship PDF

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 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	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	Amanda Watson Director of the O'Quinn Law Library, Assistant Professor of Law	Bret Wells Professor of Law
Kellen Zale Assistant Professor of Law

Clinical Faculty

Katherine Brem Clinical Faculty - LSS	Alissa Gomez Lecturer - Lawyering Skills and Strategies	Christopher Heard Clinical Faculty - Entrepreneurship	Whitney Heard Clinical Faculty - LSS	Janet Heppard Clinical Faculty and Director Clinics
Geoffrey Hoffman Clinical Faculty - Immigration	Richard McElvaney Clinical Faculty - Consumer	Sarah Morath Director, Lawyering Skills and Strategies	Hilary Reed Lecturer - Lawyering Skills and Strategies	Lauren Simpson Clinical Faculty - LSS
Kenneth Swift Clinical Faculty - LSS	Lisa Tilton-McCarthy Clinical Faculty - LSS	Miriam Werner Lecturer - Lawyering Skills and Strategies	Tasha Willis Clinical Faculty - Mediation

Other Faculty

Paul Asofsky Tax LL.M. Director	Julian Cardenas Garcia Research Assistant Professor	Katya Dow Legal Practice Professor	Amy Hawk Blakely Asst. Dir	Tracy Hester Lecturer
Cassandra Jeu Innocence/DP Clinic	Saleha Khumawala	Jim Lawrence Blakely Director	Alfonso Lopez de la Osa Escribano Director, Center for U.S. and Mexican Law	Diane McManus Legal Clinic Supervisor
Jeffrey Newberry Innocence/DP Clinic	Bill Powers Director of Internship & Externship Programs	Ronald Scott Research Professor	Denney Wright Professor of Practice

Visiting Professors and Scholars

David Bender	Nicole Casarez	Michael Ewer	Craig Jackson	Susan L. Sakmar
Dru Stevenson	Katherine Vukadin

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

Raymond Britton	Eliezer Ereli	James E. Herget	Raymond T. Nimmer	Irene Merker Rosenberg
Yale Leonard Rosenberg	Ira B. Shepard	Stephen Zamora

Adjunct Faculty

Molly Abshire	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	Krisa Benskin	Craig Bergez
Nathan Block	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	Louis Brucculeri	John Buckley	Stephanie Bustamante
Franklin Bynum	Larry Campagna	Maria-Vittoria Carminati	Ben Carpenter	Derrick Carson
Daragh John Carter	Butch Cersonsky	Walter Champion	Anne Chandler	Donna Clark
Ricardo Colmenter	Steven Cook	Carlo Cotrone	Kristina Culley	David Cunningham
Daniel Davis	Mickey Davis	Willie Daw	Alistair Dawson	Corey Devine
Ali Dhanani	Daniel Dib	Sashe Dimitroff	Linda Dole	Michael Doyle
Brandon Draper	Genesis Draper	Arthur Dula	Andrew Edison	Erin Epley
Charles Eskridge	Judge David Farr	Rena Felton	Gary Fischman	Dena Fisher
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	Sharon Hormann	Jackie Houlette
Robert Hughes	Alexander Hunt	Lee B. Hunt	Richard Husseini	Charles Irvine
Jay Jackson	Brant Johnson	Erin Jones	Karen 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	Stephen Landry	Daniel Leightman	Tracy Leissner
Jordan Lewis	Kevin Lewis	Zoe Littlepage	Erik Locascio	Chris Long
Manuel Lopez	Peter Lowy	Karen Lukin	Ryan Maierson	Clark Martin
Abe Martinez	Jani Maselli	Jasper Mason	William Matthews	Hew Maurice
Tom Mavrakakis	Honorable Debra Ibarra Mayfield	Scott McCay	Ryan McConnell	Rich McIver
Robert McStay	Roni Mihaly	Allison Miller	Anshu Mitchell	Susham Modi
Bill Moore	Keith Morris	Kim Muller	Ewell Murphy	George 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	Lawrence Pinsky
Ignacio Pinto-Leon	Peter Querubin	Anna Raimer	Ricky Raven	James Ray
Katherine Ray	Francisco Rivero	Robert (Randy) Roach	Ann Ryan Robertson	Carmen Roe
Volker Roeben	Reynaldo Romero	Judge Lee Rosenthal	Kathleen Rubinstein	Janet Rushing
Matthew Rychlicki	Dustin Rynders	Gregory S. Saikin	Judge R.K. Sandill	Charles Schwartz
George Secrest	Shahzado Shaikh	Chris Shea	Jeffrey Sher	Jeffrey Sher
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	Matt Todd
D.C. Toedt III.	Stacey Tovino	John "Jack" Townsend	Jonna Treble	John Unger
Razvan Ungureanu	Kristina Van Arsdel	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	Allison Winnike
James Winton	John Woodruff	Carey Worrell	Joshua Wyde	Brad Wyly