The Faculty

The greatest resource at the School of Law is its faculty. 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 to leaders in law reform, all segments of law practice and the law profession are represented.

Michelle Alexandre

Associate Professor

B.A., Colgate University; J.D., Harvard; Assistant Professor, The University of Memphis; Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Baltimore; Adjunct Professor, American College of Law; Adjunct Professor, Wallace Community College; recipient of Fulbright Fellowship to Trinidad; civil rights attorney, Chestnut Sanders Sanders Pettaway Campbell & Albright, LLC; associate in Corporate Real Estate Department, Debevoise & Plimpton; law clerk to Judge John P. Fullam, U.S. Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania.

Courses: Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law, Political/Civil Rights Law

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; attorney, DeConcini, McDonald, Brammer, Yetwin & Lacy, Tucson, Arizona; 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 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 Eleventh Circuit; staff attorney, Atlanta Legal Aid Society; visiting assistant professor, Emory University; frequent lecturer on family law and housing law.

Courses: Family Law, International Family Law and Lawyering Skills; Legislative and Policy Clinic; and director, Civil Legal Clinic

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; associate attorney, Wise, Smith, & Carter, Jackson, Mississippi; visiting faculty member, Florida State University and University of Richmond; president, Lafayette County Bar; two terms as chair, Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council; chair, Mississippi Bar Section on Administrative Law and Workers’ Compensation; author of numerous publications on workers’ compensation law, including the treatise Bradley & Thompson, Mississippi Workers’ Compensation (Thomson/West 2006, 2007).

Courses: Contracts, Corporations and Workers’ Compensation

Phillip W. Broadhead

Director, Criminal Appeals Clinic, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law and Clinical Professor

B.A., Mississippi State University; J.D., Mississippi College; admitted to the Mississippi Bar 1981; staff attorney, Mississippi Department of Human Services; solo practitioner, Columbia, Mississippi; Marion County public defender; Assistant Hinds County public defender; member of the board of directors and past president, Mississippi Public Defenders Association; adjunct professor, Mississippi College; appointee, Mississippi Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Legal Aid and Defender Association; Clinical Education Section, Association of American Law Schools; Clinical Legal Education Association; American Bar Association.

Courses: Criminal Appeals Clinic, Federal Habeas Corpus Law and State 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 (ASIL); co-chair, ASIL 97th annual meeting; Tillar House Sabbatical Fellow (ASIL 2007-08); commercial panel, American Arbitration Association; executive committee, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA); vice chair, ITA Academic Council; co-chair, 18th Annual ITA Workshop; advocate for the Republic of Costa Rica; North American Users’ Council, London Court of International Arbitration; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb); steering group, International Commercial Disputes Committee, ABA Section of International Law and Practice; corresponding editor for arbitration and public international law, International Legal Materials; Board of Reporters (NAFTA), Kluwerarbitration.com; visiting fellow, Lauterpacht Research Centre, Cambridge University; visiting professor and scholar-in-residence, American University, Washington College of Law; assistant professor, University of Baltimore School of Law; assistant director, University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law; 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

Associate Professor of Law

B.A., Yale University; M.A., Georgetown University; J.D., University of Virginia; Order of the Coif; articles editor, Virginia Law Review; law clerk to Judge Will Garwood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth 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 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

W. Tucker Carrington

Director, Mississippi Innocence Project

B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Hollins College; J.D., University of Tennessee; E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown Law Center, 1997-99; staff and supervising attorney, D.C. Public Defender Service, 1999-2007; visiting professor of law, Georgetown Law Center, 2005-07.

Courses: Innocence Clinic and Federal Trial Practice

 

David W. Case

Associate Professor of Law

B.A., J.D., cum laude, The University of Mississippi; LL.M., Columbia University; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University; comments editor, Mississippi Law Journal; law clerk to Judge Rhesa Barksdale, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; partner with Ott & Purdy, Jackson, Mississippi; trial and appellate attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch; Bridgestone Americas Fellow in Environmental Management, Vanderbilt University (1998-2001); senior research associate, Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies (1998-2001); Assistant Professor of Law, University of Memphis (2001-07).

Courses: Environmental Law, Environmental Torts, Administrative Law, Property and Civil Procedure

Thomas K. Clancy

Director, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law, and Research 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, the University of Maryland School of Law, and the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law; author of the treatise The Fourth Amendment: Its History and Interpretation and a dozen law review articles on the Fourth Amendment.

Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure II and Fourth Amendment Seminar

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; associate attorney, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C.; director, Center on Law and Poverty, Duke University; visiting professor, Fordham University (1986 to present); counsel, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York; frequent lecturer on civil rights.

Courses: Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction and Supreme Court Practice

Benjamin P. Cooper

Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., Amherst College; J.D., University of Chicago; member of editorial board, University of Chicago Law Review; law clerk to Judge Anthony J. Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; associate and partner with Kirkland & Ellis, LLP; associate and partner with Pepper Hamilton, LLP, Washington, D.C.; trial lawyer, Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Courses: Legal Profession, Civil Procedure II, Higher Education and the Law, and Property

John M. Czarnetzky

Mitchell, McNutt & Sams Lecturer in Law and Professor of Law

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D., University of Virginia; executive editor, Virginia Law Review; associate attorney, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Illinois; 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, Corporations, 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; 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; associate vice president for academic affairs and Allen Post Professor of Law, University of Georgia; visiting professor, Washington and Lee University; elected member, American Law Institute; 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

W. Jason Derrick

Legal Writing Specialist and Acting Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., Mississippi College; J.D., The University of Mississippi

Courses: Legal Research and Writing, Advanced Legal Writing, Law and Film, and Law and Popular Culture

 

 

 

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. Duhé Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; assistant solicitor general, Texas Attorney General’s Office, Austin, Texas.

Courses: Comparative Law, Admiralty, Constitutional Law and European Union Law

 

 

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 and Drafting

 

Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz

Director, National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, and Research Professor of Law

B.A., Hunter College, City University of New York; J.D., Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; editor-in-chief, Journal of Space Law and Res Communis, aerospace law blog; professor, University of North Dakota; 2001 Women in Aerospace Outstanding International Award; 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; author of numerous articles on space law; board 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; M.L.Lib., University of Washington; associate law librarian for public services, Georgetown University Law Library; head of reference, Columbia University Law Library; and adjunct professor, 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 University; senior editor, Yale Law Journal; law clerk to Judge Rhesa H. Barksdale, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; associate with Phelps Dunbar Law Firm.

Courses: Real Estate Transactions, Commercial Paper and Constitutional Law

 

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; adjunct professor, The University of Alabama Graduate Tax Law Program; visiting assistant professor, New York University; associate dean, The University of Mississippi School of Law; member of the Governor’s Tax Study Commission, the State Board of Banking Review and the Governor’s Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee; lecturer at estate planning and federal taxation institutes.

Courses: Partnership Taxation, Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation, Federal Taxation of Individuals and Estate Planning

Matthew R. Hall

Associate 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 Seventh Circuit; attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Courses: Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Immigration, Legislation, National Security Law and Property

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; 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; partner, Megehee, Brown, Williams & Khayat, Pascagoula, Mississippi; associate dean and vice chancellor for university affairs, The University of Mississippi; 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; law clerk to Judge William A. Beckett, Lane County, Oregon Circuit Court; staff attorney, North Mississippi Rural Legal Services; partner, Krueger and Eads, Oxford, Mississippi.

Courses: Legal Research and Writing, and Advanced Legal Writing

 

Donald R. Mason

Associate Director, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law, and Lecturer

B.A., J.D., The University of Iowa; prosecuting attorney, Page County, Iowa, and Marshall County, Iowa; director, Iowa Prosecuting Attorneys Training Coordinator Council (Iowa Department of Justice), and executive director (and lifetime member), Iowa County Attorneys Association; Lawyers Conference staff director and project director, Task Force on Reduction of Litigation Cost and Delay, ABA Judicial Division; municipal court judge, West Virginia; research attorney, National White Collar Crime Center; co-founder and first president, Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance; alumni member and “President’s Award” honoree, National District Attorney’s Association; member, several ABA sections and committees; drafter and presenter of legislation, reference materials and training on range of criminal justice topics.

Courses: Cybercrime, Sentencing, White Collar Crime and Internet Crimes Against Children

Gary Myers

Professor of Law

B.A., 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; associate, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Georgia; author of Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (Thomson West, third edition 2007, with Lange and LaFrance), The Intersection of Antitrust & Intellectual Property Law (Thomson West 2007) and Principles of Intellectual Property Law (Thomson West 2008); also author of numerous articles on intellectual property, antitrust and torts law; visiting professor, William & Mary Law School, Tulane Law School and Loyola Law School of New Orleans; member, American Law Institute and American Bar Association.

Courses: Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright Law; Antitrust IP Seminar, 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; lecturer in constitutional law, Princeton University; visiting assistant professor of law, University of Arkansas; author of a number of publications in the field of constitutional law and theory.

Courses: Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, Jurisprudence and Criminal Procedure I: Investigation, and Criminal Law

E. Farish Percy

Associate 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 Fifth Circuit; partner, Tollison Law Firm, PA, Oxford, Mississippi; 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; associate attorney, Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, PC, Detroit, Michigan; 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 Bioethics

Anne E. Pitts

Attorney at Law and Adjunct Professor, Director, Public Service Internship Program

B.A., J.D., The University of Mississippi; associate with McDavid & Associates, PA, specializing in intellectual property and general litigation; partner, Fergusson Pitts, PLLC, specializing in intellectual property, entertainment and business law; representing internationally distributed magazine, publishing companies and artists, art foundations, nonprofits and commissions.

Courses: Legal Research and Trial Practice

Lisa Shaw Roy

Associate 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 Eleventh Circuit by designation; 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 Sixth Circuit; associate attorney, Jenner & Block, Chicago; adviser to the Holy See’s delegation to the United Nations; Supreme Court committee to revise Mississippi Criminal Code; Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission; editorial board, Gaming Law Review; chair, University Intercollegiate Athletics Committee and faculty athletics representative; advisory board of the Catholic League for Political and Civil Rights; 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; author of a monthly column for Crisis magazine online.

Courses: Constitutional Law, International Security, Evidence and Gaming Law

Mary Carolyn Ellis Staton

Provost and Professor of Law

B.A., Tulane University; M.A., Columbia; J.D., Yale University; assistant U.S. attorney, Department of Justice, New Jersey; associate attorney, Rosenman, Colin, et al., New York; staff attorney, State Commission on Judicial Conduct, New York; acting dean, The University of Mississippi School of Law; 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; 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 and 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; 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 and Torts

 

C. Jackson Williams

Director, Legal Research and Writing

BBA, University of Texas; J.D., The University of Mississippi; editor-in-chief, Mississippi Law Journal; partner, Alston Rutherford Tardy & Van Slyke, Jackson, Mississippi; director, Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel.

Courses: Legal Research and Writing, Death Penalty and The Judicial Process