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KATHERINE BREM Law School in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Voices in Gender Paper Competition. Her
Clinical Assistant Professor Southwestern’s faculty, he was a Bigelow scholarship has been cited in briefs before the
Katherine Brem returns to Fellow and lecturer at the University of U.S. Supreme Court. Currently, she serves
the Law Center after nine Chicago Law School; an associate at the as the reporter for the ABA Commission on
years in private practice. Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block, the Future of Legal Services. Her work on
Professor Brem first came LLP; and a law clerk to Judge David S. Tatel of entrepreneurship and innovation in legal
to the Law Center in the fall the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. services has been recognized by numerous
of 2000 as a clinical assistant professor of Fagundes’ scholarship focuses on the norms national awards and private grant funding.
Legal Research and Writing and taught law- and psychology of tangible and intangible Before her academic career, Knake was an
yering skills, and occasionally legal drafting, property. His writing was cited by the U.S. associate at Mayer, Brown in Chicago and
for five years. Prior to coming to the Law Supreme Court in Citizens United; has been Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va., where
Center, Professor Brem spent six years with selected for presentation via peer review she specialized in commercial litigation,
Baker Botts LLP as an associate in the trial calls for papers at national and international telecommunications and labor/employment
department. Professor Brem graduated with conferences and workshops; and appears law. She teaches classes in professional
honors from the University of Texas School regularly in leading law reviews, including the responsibility. She earned her J.D. from the
of Law in 1994, where she served on the Texas Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, University of Chicago Law School in 1999.
Texas Law Review. Her research and teach- Vanderbilt Law Review and Northwestern SARAH J. MORATH
ing interests include the use of legal tech- University Law Review. Fagundes teaches Clinical Associate Professor
nology in practice, procedural issues, and courses in property, statutory interpretation,
the introduction of the U.S. legal system to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and trusts and Professor Morath came to
non-U.S. lawyers. wills. He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa the Law Center from the
at Harvard College where he earned his A.B. University of Akron School
KATYA DOW ’92 summa cum laude in 1996. He received his J.D. of Law where she taught legal
Professor of Practice, Legal Program Director, Juve- cum laude in 2001 from Harvard Law School, writing since 2010. Prior to
nile and Capital Advocacy Project (JCAP) where he served as articles editor joining the Akron faculty, Morath clerked
Since creating a juvenile of the Harvard Law Review. for Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., of the
record sealing clinic at the RENEE KNAKE U.S. District Court, District of Maine; Justice
Law Center in June 2015, Professor of Law, Joanne and Larry Doherty Chair in Andrew M. Mead, of the Maine Supreme
Dow and her students have Legal Ethics Judicial Court; and justices of the Maine
sealed nearly 200 juvenile Superior Judicial Court. Her research interests
records in Harris County. Professor Knake joined the include environmental and natural resources
JCAP, which is funded primarily by private Law Center faculty as the law, food law policy and legal writing
foundations, government grants and Joanne and Larry Doherty pedagogy. Her articles have appeared in the
individuals, is in the process of developing Chair in Legal Ethics. She Oregon Law Review; Duke Environmental
an adult records expungement program and came to the Law Center from Law and Policy Forum; and Natural
a guardian ad litem program for dual status Michigan State University Resources Journal. She is a regular contributor
youth. Dow earned a B.A. in psychology College of Law where she served as the to several legal writing publications and is an
(with department honors) from the Foster Swift Professor of Legal Ethics and assistant editor for the Journal of the Legal
University of Texas at Austin in 1988 and a co-director of the Kelley Institute of Ethics Writing Institute. She is the author of “From
J.D. in 1992 from the University of Houston and the Legal Profession. In 2015, she served Farm to Fork: Perspectives on Sustainable
Law Center, where she was an editor on as scholar-in-residence at Stanford Law Food Systems in the Twenty-First Century.”
the Houston Journal of International Law. School’s Center on the Legal Profession Morath earned her J.D. from the University
She previously practiced international and as a visiting scholar at the American of Montana School of Law in 2007 and
commercial and insurance litigation in New Bar Foundation. Her expertise and research her M.E.S. in Environmental Studies from
York and Houston. interests include the First Amendment and Yale University, School of Forestry and
the regulation of attorney speech, legal Environmental Studies, in 2000. She earned a
DAVID FAGUNDES ethics, access to justice, and gender and the B.A. in Geology in 1998 from Vassar College,
Professor of Law, Assistant Dean for Faculty Development legal profession. Knake is an author of the where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Fagundes was a casebook, “Professional Responsibility: A KENNETH R. SWIFT
familiar face around the Law Contemporary Approach,” and numerous Clinical Associate Professor
Center before officially joining articles. One of her articles won the 2012
the faculty, having spent the Professional Responsibility Section Paper Professor Swift taught legal
previous two academic years Competition for the Association of American writing at Hamline University
as a visiting professor from Southwestern Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting; School of Law for nearly 20
another paper won the 2012 AALS New years. His experience includes

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