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BURKE HEADING WEST AS DEAN OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW
Associate Dean collaborating with my new colleagues to than 100 adjunct professors. She also oversees
Marcilynn Burke develop innovative research, educational, faculty scholarship and development, the
is leaving the and public service programs that will benefit O'Quinn Law Library and Metropolitan
University of the law school and society as a whole." Programs. Burke has been a key member of
Houston Law Burke joined the UHLC faculty in 2002 and the dean's senior leadership team, responsible
Center at the was named associate dean in 2015. She also has for policy development and strategic initiatives
end of the spring served as a co-director of the Environment, and their implementation. She also chaired
2017 semester to Energy & Natural Resources Center and the the University's Campus Carry Committee
become dean of lead faculty editor for the Environment & implementing state gun legislation.
the University of Oregon School of Law. Energy Law & Policy Journal. Burke earned her bachelor's degree in
"Marcilynn has been a terrific administrator, She took a leave of absence from 2009 to International Studies in 1991 from the
worked to treat faculty equitably, and has 2013 to serve at the U.S. Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
been a strong voice for faculty support," Dean Interior, where she began as the Bureau of where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She
Leonard M. Baynes said. "She will be sorely Land Management (BLM) deputy director obtained her law degree in 1995 from Yale
missed, but Oregon is very lucky to be getting for programs and policy. In 2011, President Law School. She clerked for the Honorable
a leader with Marcilynn's vision, commitment, Obama designated her as the acting assistant Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of
and values." secretary for Land and Minerals Management. Virginia before joining the Washington, D.C.,
"I am deeply honored and excited to serve As associate dean, Burke is principally office of the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen
as the next dean of Oregon Law," Burke responsible for implementing each semester's & Hamilton.
said. "Over the years, I have learned a faculty teaching schedule, administering the At the Law Center, Burke taught courses on
tremendous amount from Dean Baynes faculty summer research grants and travel Property, Environmental Land Use Law, Land
and my colleagues about what it takes to requests, and hiring and supervising more Use, and Natural Resources.
be a great law school. I look forward to
The Law Center recently awarded nine professorships to faculty recognized for their outstanding legal scholarship.
Darren Bush Sapna Kumar Ronald Turner
Leonard B. Rosenberg College Associate Professor, A.A. White Professor of Law
Professor of Law George Butler Research Professor of Law Turner joined the faculty in 1998 having served as
Bush joined the faculty in 2003 and serves as director Kumar joined the faculty in 2009 and serves as a labor-management relations examiner with the
of the Environment, Energy & Natural Resources co-director of the Institute for Intellectual Property National Labor Relations Board, practiced law in
Center. He served as an Attorney General’s Honor & Information Law. She clerked for Honorable Judge Chicago, and taught at the University of Alabama
Program Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division’s Transportation, Energy, Kenneth F. Ripple on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; School of Law. His primary areas of expertise are in labor, employment,
& Agriculture Section. His scholarship focuses on the intersection spent two years at Duke University Law School where she was a Faculty and constitutional law. He teaches employment discrimination, labor law,
of regulation and antitrust, with emphasis on deregulated markets, Fellow and part of the Center for Genome Ethics Law & Policy; and torts, constitutional law, and a course on AIDS and the law. Pennsylvania,
immunities and exemptions, and merger review. Utah, J.D. 1998. practiced intellectual property litigation with a Chicago firm. She teaches J.D. 1984.
courses on Patent Law, Administrative Law, and Property. Chicago, J.D.
2003.
Barbara J. Evans
Alumnae College Professor of Law Greg Vetter
Evans joined the faculty in 2007 and serves as director Ellen Marrus HIPLA College Professor of Law
of the Center on Biotechnology & Law. She was a Royce Till Professor of Law Vetter joined the faculty in 2002 and serves as
Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics Marrus joined the faculty in 1995 and serves as co-director of the Institute for Intellectual
and conducts an active research agenda, including director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy. She Property & Information Law. His scholarship is at
projects funded by the NIH and FDA. She was a partner in the international practiced as a public defender in California where she the intersection of software with patent law,
regulatory practice of a large New York firm and was a research professor represented juveniles in delinquency proceedings, copyright law, and licensing law. He previously worked in the software
of medicine and director of the program in Pharmacogenomics, Ethics, and children and families in child welfare cases. Her scholarship field, practiced with the firm of Kilpatrick Stockton, and clerked for the
and Public Policy at the Indiana University School of Medicine/Center for concentrates on juvenile law, children’s rights, and professional ethics. San Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Bioethics. Yale, J.D., 1994. UHLC, LL.M., Health Law, 2003. Francisco, J.D. 1990. Georgetown, LL.M., Advocacy, 1992. Circuit. Northwestern, J.D. 1999.
Jim Hawkins Jessica Roberts
Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Bret Wells
George Butler Research Professor of Law George Butler Research Professor of Law Associate Professor,
Hawkins joined the faculty in 2008 after practicing Roberts serves as director of the Health Law & Policy George Butler Research Professor of Law
in the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski. He Institute which is ranked 2nd by U.S. News & World Wells joined the faculty in 2011 after working in the tax
clerked for the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Report. She joined the faculty in 2010, teaching departments of two international corporations and the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. His research and teaching interests include Contracts, Health Law, Disabilities & the Law, and Genetics & the Law. She Houston based law firm of Baker Botts LLP. He teaches
consumer borrowing, the fringe banking industry, and the fertility business. is a national expert on Disability Law and in 2015 was named a Greenwall courses in Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, International
University of Texas, J.D. 2006. Faculty Scholar in Bioethics. Yale, J.D. 2006. Taxation, and Oil and Gas. University of Texas, J.D. 1989.
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