
Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Timothy Lubin
Jessie Ball DuPont Professor of Religion
- Tucker Hall 204
- Email: lubint@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8146
Professor Lubin teaches courses on Asian religions and comparative study of religion and law. He researches Hindu religious history, law in ancient Asia, and texts and inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Old Javanese and Old Tamil.
Adedayo (Dayo) Abah
Provost Faculty Fellow and Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
- Reid Hall 204
- Email: abahd@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8077
Abah teaches courses on communications law, news media, crisis communication, and international communication. Her research areas include online anonymous speech, international defamation law, copyright issues, Nollywood in African cinema, women and Nollywood, religion and the media, and immigrant media use.
Nydia Ayala
Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Science
- Parmly Hall 234
- Email: nayala@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8839
Dr. Ayala’s courses include Cognitive Psychology, Memory in Everyday Life, and Psychology & Law. Informed by theories of recognition memory and decision making, her research aims to improve the utility of police identification procedures. She is presently interested in legal decision makers’ assessments of the reliability of eyewitness evidence.
Melina Bell
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Professor of Philosophy and Law
- Washington Hall 312
- Email: bellm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8899
Bell is a part of the faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability, and the Law, Justice, and Society Program. She also teaches at the Law School. Professor Bell’s primary research interests are in political philosophy, philosophy of law, and feminist philosophy.
C. Elizabeth Belmont
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Community Legal Practice Clinic
- Lewis Hall 234
- Email: belmontb@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8561
Professor Belmont’s areas of expertise include family law, elder law and litigation. She earned her undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University and her JD from Loyola University of Chicago Law School.
Nathan Bowden
Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration
- Huntley Hall 125B
- Email: bowdenn@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8013
Professor Bowden is an attorney, educator, and consultant whose primary research interests involve how we regulate financial institutions and other businesses that offer products and services to consumers. His teaches courses about conflict of laws, secured transactions, and financial regulation in the U.S.
Kevin Crotty
Professor of Classics, The J. Donald Childress Professor in Foreign Languages
- Tucker Hall 102
- Email: crottyk@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8910
Crotty’s courses include Classical Mythology; Homer; and Law, Litigation and Justice in the Ancient World. His research interests include myth, archaic Greek poetry, Plato and legal theory.
Nathan Dean
Assistant Professor of Law, Justice and Society
- Ruscio Center for Global Learning 223
- Email: ndean@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-4075
Dr. Dean teaches and writes on civil rights, social inequality, and discrimination combining perspectives from public law and political theory. Ph.D. in Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law; B.A. in Political Science, Haverford College
Mark A. Drumbl
Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law; Director, Transnational Law Institute
- Lewis Hall 453
- Email: drumblm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8531
Professor Drumbl’s areas of expertise include international law, transnational law, mass violence and human rights, and global environmental govenance. He received a BA and MA from McGill University, a JD from University of Toronto, and a LLM and SJD from Columbia University.
Michelle Drumbl
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Robert O. Bentley Professor of Law, and Director, Tax Clinic
Drumbl is the associate dean for academic affairs and Robert O. Bentley Professor of Law at the W&L School of Law. She is also director of the Tax Clinic. Her teaching and research interests include federal income taxation of individuals, tax procedure and tax policy.
Peter Grajzl
Professor of Economics
- Holekamp Hall 003
- Email: grajzlp@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8049
Grajzl teaches courses in introductory economics, microeconomics, economics of institutions and mathematical methods. His research centers on comparative institutional economics, law and economics, and political economy.
Alana Holland
Assistant Professor of History
- Newcomb Hall 223
- Email: aholland@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8912
Toni Locy
Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
Locy teaches courses on covering the courts and law, news writing, in-depth reporting, multimedia storytelling design and sports journalism. She was previously a journalist for 25 years, covering primarily the federal court system.
Russell A. Miller
J.B. Stombock Professor of Law
- Lewis Hall 473
- Email: millerra@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8516
Professor Miller’s areas of expertise include public law (constitutional law, administrative law and international law), comparative law theory and method, German law and legal culture. He receive his undergraduate degree from Washington State University, an MA and JD from Duke, and a LLM and JW from Goethe University in Germany.
Mark Rush
Director of International Education and Professor of Politics
- Ruscio Center for Global Learning 141
- Email: rushm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8904
Rush writes on U.S. politics, constitutional law, elections and democracy around the world, global affairs, and higher education. His current scholarly work includes presidential power, international politics, judicial activism, elections and democratic reform, civic education, higher education, and law and technology.
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