Faculty and Staff

Faculty 

Timothy Lubin

Timothy Lubin

Jessie Ball DuPont Professor of Religion

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.

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Adedayo (Dayo) Abah

Adedayo (Dayo) Abah

Provost Faculty Fellow and Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications

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.

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Nydia Ayala

Nydia Ayala

Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Science

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.

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Melina Bell

Melina Bell

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Professor of Philosophy and Law

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.

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C. Elizabeth Belmont

C. Elizabeth Belmont

Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Community Legal Practice Clinic

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.

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Nathan Bowden

Nathan Bowden

Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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.

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Kevin Crotty

Kevin Crotty

Professor of Classics, The J. Donald Childress Professor in Foreign Languages

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.

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Nathan Dean

Nathan Dean

Assistant Professor of Law, Justice and Society

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

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Mark A. Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law; Director, Transnational Law Institute

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.

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Michelle Drumbl

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.

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Shannon Fyfe

Shannon Fyfe

Assistant Professor of Law

Peter Grajzl

Peter Grajzl

Professor of Economics

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.

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Alana Holland

Alana Holland

Assistant Professor of History

Toni Locy

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.

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Russell A. Miller

Russell A. Miller

J.B. Stombock Professor of Law

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.

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Mark Rush

Mark Rush

Director of International Education and Professor of Politics

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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Staff 

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson

Administrative Assistant

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