School of Law Viewbook • Faculty

The greatest resource at the School of Law is its faculty. In teaching, scholarship and service to the profession and the public, the law faculty are leaders. The wealth of experiences and expertise of the current faculty is evident in the classroom. From corporate counsel to public defenders, from U.S. Supreme Court and Court of Appeals clerks to consultants on constitutional rights, from leaders of the state bar association to leaders in law reform, all segments of law practice and the law profession are represented.

RICHARD L. BARNES
Leonard B. Melvin Jr., Distinguished Lecturer and Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., University of Arizona; LL.M., Northwestern; articles editor, Arizona Law Review; law clerk to Judge Lawrence Howard, Arizona Court of Appeals; former attorney, DeConcini, McDonald, Brammer, Yetwin & Lacy, Tucson, Arizona; former associate professor, University of South Dakota; visiting associate professor, Brigham Young University; author of numerous articles on commercial law and American Indian law.
Courses: Contracts, Secured Transactions, Commercial Law, Agricultural Law and American Indian Law

DEBORAH H. BELL
Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Lecturer in Law and Professor of Law
B.A., Mississippi College; J.D., The University of Mississippi; editor-in-chief, Mississippi Law Journal; law clerk to Judge Elbert P. Tuttle Sr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit; former staff attorney, Atlanta Legal Aid Society; visiting assistant professor, Emory University; frequent lecturer on family law and housing law.
Courses: Poverty Law, Real Property, Family Law and Lawyering Skills

JOHN R. BRADLEY JR.
Professor of Law
B.A., Mississippi College; J.D., The University of Mississippi; editor-in-chief, Mississippi Law Journal; Phi Kappa Phi; faculty award as outstanding graduate of 1962; former associate attorney, Wise, Smith, & Carter, Jackson, Mississippi; visiting faculty member, Florida State University and University of Richmond; former president, Lafayette County Bar; in second term as chair, Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council; former chair, Mississippi Bar Section on Administrative Law and Workers’ Compensation; author of numerous publications on workers’ compensation law.
Courses: Contracts, Corporations and Workers’ Compensation

PHILLIP W. BROADHEAD
Clinical Professor and Director, Criminal Appeals Clinic, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law
B.A., Mississippi State University; J.D., Mississippi College School of Law; staff attorney, Mississippi Department of Human Services; solo practitioner, Columbia, Mississippi; Marion County public defender; Assistant Hinds County public defender; board of directors and past president, Mississippi Public Defenders Association; adjunct professor, Mississippi College; Mississippi Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules; Mississippi Bar; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Legal Aid and Defender Association; Clinical Section, American Association of Law Schools; American Bar Association.
Courses: Criminal Appeals Clinic, Federal Habeas Corpus Law and Criminal Trial Practice

CHARLES H. BROWER II
Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Lecturer in Law and Croft Associate Professor of International Law
B.A., University of Vermont; J.D., University of Virginia; Virginia Law Review; Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; executive council, American Society of International Law; co-chair, 97th annual meeting of the American Society of International Law; vice chair, Academic Council, Institute for Transnational Arbitration; former advocate for the Republic of Costa Rica; North American Users’ Council, London Court of International Arbitration; corresponding editor for arbitration and public international law, International Legal Materials; Board of Reporters (Nafta), Kluwerarbitration.com; visiting professor and scholar-in-residence, American University, Washington College of Law; former assistant professor, University of Baltimore School of Law; assistant director, University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law; former associate, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota; law clerk to Judge Marianne D. Short, Minnesota Court of Appeals; research fellow, Moscow State University.
Courses: Human Rights, International Commercial Arbitration, International Law, International Trade, Introduction to International Law (Croft Institute) and Law of Armed Conflict

MERCER E. BULLARD
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Georgetown University; J.D. University of Virginia; Order of the Coif; former articles editor, Virginia Law Review; law clerk to Judge Will Garwood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit; associate with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C.; assistant chief counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.; columnist for TheStreet.com; founder and current president, Fund Democracy, Inc.; consumer adviser, Financial Planning Association’s Government Relations Committee; author of dozens of articles on mutual fund regulation.
Courses: Corporations, Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Banking, Law and Economics, and Contracts

THOMAS K. CLANCY
Director, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law, and Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., University of Notre Dame; J.D., Vermont Law School; chief of the Post Conviction Unit, State Attorney’s Office for Prince George’s County; assistant attorney general for the state of Maryland, Criminal Appeals Division; adjunct or visiting professor at Vermont Law School, American University’s Washington College of Law, the University of Baltimore School of Law and the University of Maryland School of Law; author of a dozen law review articles on the Fourth Amendment.
Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Fourth Amendment Seminar, Criminal Justice and Constitutional Law

GEORGE C. COCHRAN
Professor of Law
B.S., North Carolina State University; J.D., University of North Carolina; Order of the Coif; editor-in-chief, North Carolina Law Review; law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Stanley Reed, United States Supreme Court; attorney, President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy; former associate attorney, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C.; former director, Center on Law and Poverty, Duke University; visiting professor, Fordham University; counsel, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York; frequent lecturer on civil rights.
Courses: Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction and Supreme Court Practice

JOHN M. CZARNETZKY
Mitchell, McNutt & Sams Lecturer in Law and Associate Professor of Law
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D., University of Virginia; executive editor, Virginia Law Review; former associate attorney, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Illinois; former associate attorney, McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Virginia; delegate to negotiations on the International Criminal Court; frequent lecturer and author of several articles on bankruptcy law and international criminal law.
Courses: Civil Procedure, Bankruptcy, Patent Law, Corporate Reorganizations and Commercial Law

DONNA D. DAVIS
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Harvard University; J.D., Boston College; LL.M., University of Florida; former counsel, Massachusetts Department of Revenue; visiting assistant professor, University of Florida and Boston College; author of several articles on federal tax policy.
Courses: Federal Income Taxation of Individuals, Corporate Taxation and International Taxation

SAMUEL M. DAVIS
Dean, Holder of the Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government, and Professor of Law
B.A., University of Southern Mississippi; J.D., The University of Mississippi; LL.M., University of Virginia; editor-in-chief, Mississippi Law Journal; former associate vice president for academic affairs and Allen Post Professor of Law, University of Georgia; visiting professor, Washington and Lee University; member, American Law Institute; former Mississippi commissioner, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; member, Mississippi Bar and American Bar Association; fellow, Mississippi Bar Foundation; member, Fellows of the Young Lawyers; author of Children in the Legal System, third edition (with Scott, Wadlington, and Whitebread), Children’s Rights and the Law (with Schwartz) and Rights of Juveniles: The Juvenile Justice System, second edition.
Courses: Children in the Legal System and Criminal Law

W.JASON DERRICK
Legal Writing Specialist and Acting Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Mississippi College; J.D., The University of Mississippi; intern with U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Mississippi.
Courses: Legal Research and Writing

KYLE DUNCAN
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Louisiana State University; J.D., Louisiana State University; Order of the Coif; executive senior editor, Louisiana Law Review; LL.M. Columbia University School of Law; associate-in-law; law clerk to Judge John M. Duh8E Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit; former assistant solicitor general, Texas Attorney General’s Office, Austin, Texas.
Courses: Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Law and Economics, and Professional Responsibility

MOLLY E. FERGUSSON
Legal Writing Specialist and Acting Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; J.D., The University of Mississippi; associate editor of Mississippi cases, Mississippi Law Journal; chair of the trial competition, Moot Court Board; staff editor, Journal of National Security Law; member, American Bar Association, Mississippi Bar Association.
Courses: Legal Research and Writing, Advanced Legal Writing

JOANNE IRENE GABRYNOWICZ
Director, National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center; Research Professor of Law; and editor-in-chief, Journal of Space Law
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York; J.D., Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; former professor, University of North Dakota; 2001 Women in Aerospace Outstanding International Award; chair, Federal Advisory Committee for the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive; official observer, United Nations Legal Subcommittee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; annual lecturer at the U.N. Office of Outer Space Affairs space law capacity-building workshops for developing nations; author of numerous articles on space law; member, International Institute of Space Law and ABA Forum on Air and Space Law.
Courses: International Space Law, U.S. Domestic Space Law and Remote Sensing Law

KRIS GILLILAND
Associate Professor of Law and Director of Law Library
B.A., Vanderbilt University; J.D., University of Alabama; MLS, University of Washington; executive editor, Journal of the Legal Profession; intern with Chief Judge George S. Wright, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Alabama; former associate law librarian for public services, Georgetown University Law Library; former head of reference, Columbia University Law Library; former adjunct faculty, Fordham Law School and Georgetown University Law Center.
Courses: Legal Research and Writing, and Advanced Legal Research

CHRISTOPHER R. GREEN
Assistant Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame; J.D., Yale Law School; senior editor, Yale Law Journal; law clerk to Judge Rhesa H. Barksdale, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit; associate with Phelps Dunbar Law Firm.
Courses: Real Estate Transactions, and Agency and Partnership

KAREN O. GREEN
Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Lecturer in Law and Professor of Law
B.S., J.D., The University of Mississippi; LL.M., New York University; Mississippi Law Journal; Phi Kappa Phi; visiting assistant professor, New York University; adjunct professor, The University of Alabama Graduate Tax Law Program; former associate dean, The University of Mississippi; member of the State Board of Banking Review and the Governor’s Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee; frequent lecturer at estate-planning and federal-taxation institutes.
Courses: Partnership Taxation, Federal Wealth TransferTaxation, Federal Taxation of Individuals and Estate Planning

MATTHEW R. HALL
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Harvard University; J.D., University of Kentucky; Order of the Coif; editor-in-chief, Kentucky Law Journal; law clerk to Judge John G. Heyburn, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky; law clerk to Judge Terence T. Evans, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit; former attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Courses: Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Legislation, National Security Law, Property and Constitutional Law

TIMOTHY L. HALL
Professor of Law, Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Law School Campaign
B.A., University of Houston; J.D., University of Texas; articles editor, Texas Law Review; law clerk to Judge Will Garwood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit; former associate attorney, Hughes & Luce, Austin, Texas; author of Separating Church and State: Roger Williams and Religious Liberty, Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary, American Religious Leaders, Entering the University and numerous articles on the First Amendment’s religion clauses and legal ethics; editor, Magill’s Legal Reference Guide, U.S. Laws and Acts; consulting editor, Ready Reference: Censorship.
Courses: Constitutional Law, Legal Profession, Law and Literature, and Trial Practice

MARC M. HARROLD
Counsel for National Programs, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law, and Visiting Professor
B.A., Clemson University; J.D., University of Mississippi School of Law.
Courses: Criminal Trial Practice, Pretrial Practice, General Practice and White Collar Crime

MICHAEL H. HOFFHEIMER
Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Lecturer in Law and Professor of Law
B.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago; J.D., University of Michigan; articles editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform; associate attorney, Frost & Jacobs, Cincinnati, Ohio; former appointed trial attorney for indigent criminal defendants, Cincinnati; author of Justice Holmes and the Natural Law, Edward Gans and the Hegelian Philosophy of Law and more than 50 articles and book reviews on legal, philosophical and historical topics.
Courses: Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Criminal Law and Legal History

ROBERT C. KHAYAT
Chancellor and Professor of Law
BAE, J.D., The University of Mississippi; LL.M., Yale University; articles editor, Mississippi Law Journal; former partner, Megehee, Brown, Williams & Khayat, Pascagoula, Mississippi; former associate dean and vice chancellor for university affairs, The University of Mississippi; former president, National Collegiate Athletic Association Foundation.

PATRICIA A. KRUEGER
Director of the Academic Excellence Program, Legal Writing Specialist and Acting Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Western Washington University; J.D., Willamette University College of Law; law clerk to Judge William A. Beckett, Lane County, Oregon Circuit Court; former staff attorney, North Mississippi Rural Legal Services; member, Mississippi Bar Fee Dispute Resolution Committee; former partner, Krueger and Eads, Oxford, Mississippi.
Courses: Legal Research and Writing, Advanced Legal Writing

KALI N. MURRAY
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., M. A., Johns Hopkins University; J.D., Duke University; Spring Symposium editor, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum; law clerk to Judge Catherine C. Blake, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Maryland; former attorney, Venable, LLP.
Courses: Property, Intellectual Property, Patents, International Intellectual Property and Environmental Law

GARY MYERS
Professor of Law
B.A., summa cum laude, New York University; M.A., J.D., Duke University; Phi Beta Kappa; articles editor, Duke Law Journal; law clerk to Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; former associate, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Georgia; author of Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials, West second edition (with Lange and LaFrance), and numerous articles on intellectual property, antitrust and torts law; visiting professor, William & Mary Law School and Tulane Law School; member, American Law Institute; member, American Bar Association committees on antitrust, business torts and media-law issues.
Courses: Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property, Law and Economics, Communications Law, Trial Practice and Torts

JACK WADE NOWLIN
Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Lecturer in Law and Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Angelo State University; J.D., University of Texas; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University; Order of the Coif; articles and notes editor, Texas International Law Journal; former lecturer in constitutional law, Princeton University; former visiting assistant professor of law, University of Arkansas; author of a number of publications on legal and constitutional theory.
Courses: Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law

E. FARISH PERCY
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., University of North Carolina; J.D., University of Virginia; Order of the Coif; Virginia Law Review; law clerk to Judge E. Grady Jolly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit; former partner, Tollison Law Firm, PA, Oxford, Mississippi; former attorney, Latham & Watkins, Washington, D.C.
Courses: Torts, Civil Procedure II, Appellate Advocacy and Insurance

LARRY J. PITTMAN
Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Lecturer in Law and Professor of Law
BBA, J.D., The University of Mississippi; LL.M., Harvard; Phi Kappa Phi; former associate attorney, Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, PC, Detroit, Michigan; former associate attorney, Harvey, Kruse, Westen & Milan, PC, Detroit; visiting assistant professor of law, University of Richmond; author of several articles on health-care law and dispute resolution.
Courses: Torts, Law and Medicine, Pretrial Practice, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Civil Procedure

LISA SHAW ROY
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., University of California, Riverside; J.D., University of Southern California; law clerk to Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr., U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit by designation; former associate attorney, Knapp, Marsh, Jones & Doran, LLP, Los Angeles, California.
Courses: Contracts, Legal Profession, and Law and Religion

RONALD J. RYCHLAK
Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Lecturer in Law, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
B.A., Wabash College; J.D., Vanderbilt University; Order of the Coif; law clerk to Judge Harry W. Wellford, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit; former associate attorney, Jenner & Block, Chicago; consultant to the Holy See’s delegation to the United Nations; member, Supreme Court committee to revise Mississippi Criminal Code; editorial board, Gaming Law Review; advisory board, Federalist Society of Mississippi; academic fellow, Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies; advisory board, International Solidarity and Human Rights Institute; listed in Who’s Who in American Law; author of Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis, Trial by Fury: Restoring the Common Good in Tort Litigation, Mississippi Criminal Trial Practice (with M. Harrold), Hitler, the War, and the Pope, Real and Demonstrative Evidence: Applications and Theory, Gaming Law: Cases and Materials (with Jarvis et al), and numerous articles and book chapters.
Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Gaming Law

PAUL M. SECUNDA
Assistant Professor of Law
A.B., Harvard; J.D., Georgetown University; Order of the Coif; articles and selection editor, American Criminal Law Review; law clerk to Judge Murray M. Schwartz, U.S. District Court for District of Delaware; former associate attorney, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; former associate attorney, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoades, LLP.
Courses: Labor Law, Employment Discrimination, Employer-Employee Relations, Employee Benefits, Higher-Education Law, Civil Procedure, Special Education Law and School Law

JACQUELINE E. SERRAO
Associate Director, National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center, and Lecturer
B.A., University of California-Los Angeles; J.D., Golden Gate University; LL.M., McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law; former associate professor, University of North Dakota; international aviation operations specialist, Federal Aviation Administration; former associate attorney, Chevalier, Allen & Lichman, LLP; former accredited representative of the International Law Association at the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization; aviation law adviser to the governments of Mongolia and Mozambique; frequent speaker and author of articles on aviation and space law.
Courses: Space Law and Aviation Law

MARY CAROLYN ELLIS STATON
Provost and Professor of Law
B.A., Tulane University; M.A., Columbia; J.D., Yale; former assistant U.S. attorney, Department of Justice, New Jersey; former associate attorney, Rosenman, Colin, et al., New York; former staff attorney, State Commission on Judicial Conduct, New York; former acting dean, The University of Mississippi; visiting Fulbright Professor, University of Frankfurt and University of Munich; visiting professor, University of Colorado; vice chair, Secretary of Defense’s Advisory Committee on Women in the Service; author of Mississippi Evidence, third edition.

HANS P. SINHA
Director, Prosecution Externship Program, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law, and Clinical Professor
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., LL.M., Tulane; former instructor and deputy director of the Tulane Law School Criminal Clinic; more than 12 years of criminal trial experience, serving as both a prosecutor and a public defender.
Courses: Prosecution Externship Program, Prosecution Function

ROBERT A. WEEMS
Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada Lecturer in Law and Professor of Law
B.S., Millsaps College; J.D., The University of Mississippi; assistant editor, Mississippi Law Journal; former partner, Brunini, Everett, Beanland & Wheeless, Vicksburg, Mississippi; author of Wills and Administration of Estates in Mississippi, third edition, and coauthor, with Robert M. Weems, of Mississippi Law of Torts.
Courses: Wills and Estates, Evidence, Torts and Trial Practice

C. JACKSON WILLIAMS
Director, Legal Research and Writing
BBA, University of Texas; J.D., The University of Mississippi; editor-in-chief, Mississippi Law Journal; former partner, Alston Rutherford Tardy & Van Slyke, Jackson, Mississippi; former director, Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel.
Courses: Legal Research and Writing, Death Penalty and The Judicial Process

THE ADMINISTRATION

SAMUEL M. DAVIS
Dean, Holder of the Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government, and Professor of Law
B.A., University of Southern Mississippi; J.D., The University of Mississippi; LL.M., University of Virginia

RONALD J. RYCHLAK
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Lecturer in Law and Professor of Law B.A., Wabash College; J.D., Vanderbilt University

SANDRA COX-McCARTY
Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs
B.A., The University of Mississippi; J.D., Mississippi College

CARY L. LEE
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
B.A., J.D., The University of Mississippi

CONSTANCE E. PARHAM
Registrar
B.A., Lamar University; MPA, The University of Mississippi

BARBARA VINSON
Director of Admissions

JOYCE M. WHITTINGTON
Director, Career Services and Scholarships
B.A., University of Southern Mississippi

CYNTHIA D. DAVIS
Director, Mississippi Judicial College
B.A., Sam Houston State University; J.D., Southern University

WILLIAM T. WILKINS
Director, Mississippi Law Research Institute
B.A., The University of the South; J.D., The University of Mississippi

JOANNE IRENE GABRYNOWICZ
Director, National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York; J.D., Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

THOMAS K. CLANCY
Director, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law
B.A., University of Notre Dame; J.D., Vermont Law School