Law School Catalog | 2006-2008

6. The Faculty

The following faculty members held appointments during the fall semester 2005-2006.

Professors Emeritus

Hans W. Baade, Professor Emeritus, The Hugh Lamar Stone Chair Emeritus of Civil Law
      AB, Syracuse, 1949; DrIur, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel, 1951; LLB, LLM, Duke, 1955; Diploma, Haagse Academie voor Internationaal Recht, 1956

Richard V. Barndt, Professor Emeritus
      BSL, Utah, 1959; LLB, 1960

William W. Gibson Jr., Professor Emeritus, The Sylvan Lang Professor Emeritus
      BA, Texas, 1954; LLB, 1956

Robert W. Hamilton, Professor Emeritus, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair Emeritus
      AB, Swarthmore College, 1952; JD, Chicago, 1955

Leon Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus, Joseph C. Hutcheson Professor Emeritus in Law
      JD, Baylor, 1943; AB, 1950; LLM, New York, 1952

Jack Ratliff, Professor Emeritus, Ben Gardner Sewell Professor Emeritus in Civil Trial Advocacy
      BA, Texas, 1956; LLB, 1962

John F. Sutton Jr., Professor Emeritus, A. W. Walker Centennial Chair Emeritus
      JD, Texas 1941

James M. Treece, Professor Emeritus, Charles I. Francis Professor Emeritus in Law
      BS, Illinois, 1959; JD, 1961; MA, 1962

Russell J. Weintraub, Professor Emeritus, The Ben H. and Kitty King Powell Chair Emeritus in Business and Commercial Law
      BA, New York, 1950; JD, Harvard, 1953

Professors and Senior Lecturers

Alexandra Wilson Albright, Senior Lecturer
      BA, University of the South, 1977; JD, Texas (Austin), 1980

David A. Anderson, Professor, Fred and Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law
      AB, Harvard, 1962; JD, Texas (Austin), 1971

Mark L. Ascher, Professor, The Sylvan Lang Professor
      BA, Marquette, 1975; MA, Kansas State, 1977; JD, Harvard, 1978; LLM, New York, 1981

Lynn Baker, Professor, Frederick M. Baron Chair in Law
      BA, Yale, 1978; BA, Oxford, 1982; JD, Yale, 1985

Mitchell N. Berman, Professor, The Bernard J. Ward Centennial Professor in Law
      AB, Harvard, 1988; JD, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1993; MA, 1994

Bernard S. Black, Professor, Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence in the School of Law
      AB, Princeton, 1975; MA, California (Berkeley), 1977; JD, Stanford, 1982

Lynn E. Blais, Professor, Leroy G. Denman Jr. Regents Professor in Real Property Law
      AB, Wellesley College, 1983; JD, Harvard, 1988

Philip C. Bobbitt, Professor, A. W. Walker Centennial Chair
      AB, Princeton, 1971; JD, Yale, 1975; PhD, Oxford, 1983; MA, 1984

Oren Bracha, Assistant Professor
      LLB, Universitat Tel-Aviv, 1998; LLM, Harvard, 2000; SJD, 2003

Loftus C. Carson II, Professor, Ronald D. Krist Professor in Law
      BS, Cornell, 1968; MPAff, Princeton, 1970; JD, Harvard, 1973; MBA, Pennsylvania, 1980

Michael J. Churgin, Professor, Raybourne Thompson Centennial Professor in Law
      AB, Brown, 1970; JD, Yale, 1973

Sarah H. Cleveland, Professor, The Marrs McLean Professor in Law
      AB, Brown, 1987; MSt, Oxford, 1989; JD, Yale, 1992

Jane Maslow Cohen, Professor, Edward Clark Centennial Professor in Law
      BA, Wellesley College, 1967; JD, Yale, 1971

Frank B. Cross, Professor, Herbert D. Kelleher Centennial Professor in Business Law
      BA, Kansas, 1977; JD, Harvard, 1980

Jens C. Dammann, Assistant Professor
      JD, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, 1997; LLM, Yale, 2001; JSD, 2003; DrJur, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, 2004

John Deigh, Professor
      AB, California (Los Angeles), 1971; MA, 1975; PhD, 1979

George E. Dix, Professor, A. W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law
      BS, Wisconsin, 1964; JD, 1966

John S. Dzienkowski, Professor, John S. Redditt Professor in State and Local Government
      BBA, Miami (Florida), 1980; JD, Texas (Austin), 1983

Karen L. Engle, Professor, W. H. Francis Jr. Professor
      BA, Baylor, 1984; JD, Harvard, 1989

William E. Forbath, Professor, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law
      AB, Harvard, 1974; BA, Cambridge, 1976; JD, Yale, 1983; PhD, 1992

David S. Gamage, Assistant Professor
      AB, AM, Stanford, 2000; JD, Yale, 2005

Mark P. Gergen, Professor, The Fondren Foundation Centennial Chair for Faculty Excellence
      BA, Yale, 1979; JD, Chicago, 1982

Julius G. Getman, Professor, Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair
      BA, City College (New York), 1953; JD, Harvard, 1958; LLM, 1963

Steven J. Goode, Distinguished Teaching Professor, G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair in Law
      BA, Williams College, 1972; JD, Yale, 1975

Lino A. Graglia, Professor, A. Dalton Cross Professor at Law
      BA, City College (New York), 1952; LLB, Columbia, 1954

Patricia I. Hansen, Professor, J. Waddy Bullion Professor in Law
      AB, Harvard, 1982; JD, Yale, 1987

Henry T. C. Hu, Professor, Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance
      BS, Yale, 1975; MA, 1976; JD, 1979

Derek P. Jinks, Assistant Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1991; MA, JD, Yale, 1998

Stanley M. Johanson, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Fannie Coplin Regents Chair
      BS, Yale, 1955; LLB, Washington (Seattle), 1958; LLM, Harvard, 1963

Calvin H. Johnson, Professor, Andrews & Kurth Centennial Professor in Law
      BA, Columbia, 1966; JD, Stanford, 1971

Emily E. Kadens, Assistant Professor
      BA, Chicago, 1992; MA, 1993; Diploma, Universite Catholique de Louvain, 1995; MA, Princeton, 1997; PhD, 2001; JD, Chicago, 2004

Susan R. Klein, Professor, Baker and Botts Professor in Law
      BA, Wellesley College, 1984; JD, California (Berkeley), 1989

Douglas Laycock, Professor, Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law
      BA, Michigan State, 1970; JD, Chicago, 1973

Teresa R. LeClercq, Senior Lecturer
      BS, Southwest Texas State, 1968; MA, 1970; PhD, Texas (Austin), 1977

Brian Leiter, Professor, Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law
      AB, Princeton, 1984; JD, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1987; PhD, 1995

Sanford V. Levinson, Professor, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial Chair in Law
      BS, Duke, 1962; PhD, Harvard, 1969; JD, Stanford, 1973

Katherine V. Litvak, Assistant Professor
      BA, California (Los Angeles), 1996; MA, Harvard, 1998; JD, Stanford, 2001

Ronald J. Mann, Professor, The Ben H. and Kitty King Powell Chair in Business and Commercial Law
      BA, Rice, 1982; JD, Texas (Austin), 1985

Basil Markesinis, Professor, Jamail Chair in Law
      LLB, Etnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon, 1965; Doctor Iuris, 1968; MA, PhD, Cambridge, 1970; LLD, 1988; DCL, Oxford, 1995

Inga Markovits, Professor, "The Friends of Joe Jamail" Regents Chair in Law
      DrJur, Freie Universitat Berlin, 1966; LLM, Yale, 1969

Richard S. Markovits, Professor, The John B. Connally Chair in Law
      BA, Cornell, 1963; PhD, London, 1966; LLB, Yale, 1968

Thomas O. McGarity, Professor, W. James Kronzer Chair in Trial and Appellate Advocacy
      BA, Rice, 1971; JD, Texas (Austin), 1974

Roy M. Mersky, Professor, Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law
      BS, Wisconsin, 1948; JD, 1952; MALS, 1953

Linda S. Mullenix, Professor, Morris and Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy
      BA, City College, City University of New York, 1971; MPhil, Columbia, 1974; PhD, 1977; JD, Georgetown, 1980

Robert J. Peroni, Professor, James A. Elkins Centennial Chair in Law
      BSC, DePaul, 1973; JD, Northwestern, 1976; LLM, New York, 1980

Hersel W. Perry, Associate Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1976; PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1981; JD, Texas (Austin), 1986

Scot Powe, Professor, Anne Green Regents Chair
      BA, Yale, 1965; JD, Washington (Seattle), 1968

William C. Powers Jr., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law, and John Jeffers Research Chair in Law
      BA, California (Berkeley), 1967; JD, Harvard, 1973

David M. Rabban, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law
      BA, Wesleyan, 1971; JD, Stanford, 1974

Alan S. Rau, Professor, Burg Family Professor in Law
      BA, Harvard, 1963; LLB, 1967

R. Anthony Reese, Professor, The Thomas W. Gregory Professor
      BA, Yale, 1986; JD, Stanford, 1995

David W. Robertson, Distinguished Teaching Professor, W. Page Keeton Chair in Tort Law
      BA, Louisiana State, 1960; LLB, 1961; LLM, Yale, 1965; JSD, 1968

John A. Robertson, Professor, Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law
      BA, Dartmouth College, 1964; JD, Harvard, 1968

Lawrence G. Sager, Professor, Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
      BA, Pomona College, 1963; LLB, Columbia, 1966

John J. Sampson, Professor, William Benjamin Wynne Professor in Law
      BBA, Minnesota (Duluth), 1957; LLB, 1966

Alvaro Santos, Assistant Professor
      JD, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1999; LLM, Harvard, 2000; SJD, 2005

Wayne C. Schiess, Senior Lecturer
      BA, Brigham Young, 1986; JD, Cornell, 1989

Thomas K. Seung, Professor, Jesse H. Jones Regents Professor in Liberal Arts
      BA, Yale, 1958; MA, 1961; PhD, 1965

M. Michael Sharlot, Professor, Wright C. Morrow Professor in Law
      BA, Antioch College, 1958; LLB, Pennsylvania, 1962

Charles M. Silver, Professor, Roy W. and Eugenia C. McDonald Endowed Chair of Civil Procedure
      BA, Florida, 1979; MA, Chicago, 1981; JD, Yale, 1987

Ernest E. Smith III, Professor, The Rex G. Baker Centennial Chair in Natural Resources Law
      BA, Southern Methodist, 1958; LLB, Harvard, 1962

David Simon Sokolow, Senior Lecturer
      BA, Columbia, 1970; MA, 1971; JD, 1979; MBA, Texas (Austin), 1993

Jane Stapleton, Professor, Ernest E. Smith Professor in Law
      BS, New South Wales, 1974; PhD, Adelaide, 1977; LLB, Australian National, 1981

Jordan M. Steiker, Professor, Cooper K. Ragan Regents Professor in Law
      BA, Wesleyan, 1984; JD, Harvard, 1988

Michael F. Sturley, Professor, Stanley D. and Sandra Rosenberg Centennial Professor in Property Law
      BA, Yale, 1977; BA, Oxford, 1980; JD, Yale, 1981; MA, Oxford, 1985

Teresa A. Sullivan, Professor
      BA, Michigan State, 1970; MA, Chicago, 1972; PhD, 1975

Gerald Torres, Professor, Bryant Smith Chair in Law
      AB, Stanford, 1974; JD, Yale, 1977; LLM, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1980

Wendy E. Wagner, Professor, Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor in Law
      BA, Hanover College, 1982; MEnvironStds, Yale, 1984; JD, 1987

Louise Weinberg, Professor, William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice
      AB, Cornell, 1954; JD, Harvard, 1969; LLM, 1974

Olin Guy Wellborn III, Professor, William C. Liedtke Sr. Professor in Law
      AB, Harvard, 1970; JD, 1973

Jay L. Westbrook, Professor, Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1965; JD, 1968

Zipporah B. Wiseman, Professor, Thos. H. Law Centennial Professor in Law
      BA, McGill, 1950; LLB, Yale, 1954

Patrick Woolley, Professor, Beck, Redden & Secrest Professor in Law
      AB, Stanford, 1984; JD, Yale, 1987

Ernest A. Young, Professor, Judge Benjamin Harrison Powell Professor in Law
      BA, Dartmouth, 1990; JD, Harvard, 1993

Mark G. Yudof, Professor, Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts
      BA, Pennsylvania, 1965; LLB, 1968

Adjunct Professors

Douglas W. Alexander, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Pomona College, 1975; JD, Houston (University Park), 1980

William R. Allensworth, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Austin College, 1968; JD, Texas Tech, 1974

John J. Baker, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Austin College, 1985; JD, Notre Dame, 1990

William G. Barber, Adjunct Professor
      BSChE, Texas (Austin), 1984; JD, 1987

William H. Beardall Jr., Adjunct Professor
      BA, Rhodes College, 1975; JD, Harvard, 1978

Jerry A. Bell, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1974; JD, 1977

Allison H. Benesch, Adjunct Professor
      BA, George Washington, 1975; MSW, Maryland (Baltimore), 1980; JD, Southern Methodist, 1985

William P. Bowers, Adjunct Professor
      BBA, Texas A&M, 1972; JD, Southern Methodist, 1975; LLM, Georgetown, 1979

J. E. (Buster) Brown, Adjunct Professor
      BS, Texas A&I, 1963; JD, Texas (Austin), 1967

W. Amon Burton Jr., Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas Technological College, 1963; MA, Wichita State, 1964; LLB, Texas (Austin), 1968

Edward A. Cavazos, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1990; JD, 1993

Joseph A. Cialone II, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1966; JD, 1972

Jeffrey Civins, Adjunct Professor
      AB, Brandeis, 1967; MS, Pennsylvania State, 1970; JD, Texas (Austin), 1975

Leif M. Clark, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Maryland (College Park), 1968; JD, Houston (University Park), 1980

Dana Livingston Cobb, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1987; JD, 1990

Ted Cruz, Adjunct Professor
      AB, Princeton, 1992; JD, Harvard, 1995

Dick DeGuerin, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas, 1963; LLB, 1965

Hector De Leon, Adjunct Professor
      BSEd, Texas (Austin), 1970; JD, 1973

Philip Durst, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Houston, 1978; MA, JD, Texas (Austin), 1982

John C. Fleming, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Lee College (Tennessee), 1971; JD, Houston, 1975

Fred Fuchs, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Angelo State University, 1971; JD, Texas (Austin), 1976

Eric R. Galton, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Duke, 1973; JD, Texas (Austin), 1976

James B. Gambrell, Adjunct Professor
      BSME, Texas, 1949; MA, Columbia, 1950; LLB, New York, 1957

James C. Harrington, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Pontifical College Josephinum, 1968; MA, Detroit, 1970; JD, 1973

P. Michael Hebert, Adjunct Professor
      AB, Georgetown, 1967; JD, Louisiana State (Baton Rouge), 1970

Thomas S. Henderson, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas A&M, 1971; JD, Texas (Austin), 1976

Max R. Hicks, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1969; JD, 1976

Steven L. Highlander, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Central Missouri State, 1983; PhD, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1988; JD, 1992

Ricardo H. Hinojosa, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1972; JD, Harvard, 1975

Sharon F. Keller, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Rice, 1975; JD, Southern Methodist, 1978

Robert N. Kepple, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Ohio State, 1979; JD, Georgetown, 1982

Mark L. Kincaid, Adjunct Professor
      BBA, Texas (Austin), 1980; JD, 1983

Maurie A. Levin, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Vassar College, 1985; JD, Northeastern, 1992

Philip K. Maxwell, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1966; JD, 1969

Henry S. May, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1969; JD, 1971

Angela Melina Raab, Adjunct Professor
      BFA, New York, 1984; JD, Texas (Austin), 1991

Melinda Montford, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1992; JD, 1995

Franklin Myers, Adjunct Professor
      BS, Mississippi State, 1974; JD, Mississippi, 1977

Manuel H. Newburger, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Trinity, 1980; JD, Texas (Austin), 1983

Patrick L. O'Daniel, Adjunct Professor
      BBA, Texas (Austin), 1989; JD, 1992

Robert C. Owen, Adjunct Professor
      AB, Georgia, 1984; MA, 1986; JD, Harvard, 1989

David L. Parker, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1976; PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1981; JD, Texas (Austin), 1983

E. Lee Parsley, Adjunct Professor
      BBA, Texas Tech, 1982; MBA, 1983; JD, 1989

Catherine J. Pedamon, Adjunct Professor
      Baccalaureat, Notre-Dame College (France), 1984; Maitrise, Universite de Droit, d'Economie et de Sciences sociales (Paris II), 1989; DEA, 1990; LLM, Harvard, 1992

Mark L. Perlmutter, Adjunct Professor
      BS, Northeastern Illinois, 1971; JD, Texas (Austin), 1974

Henry A. Petri Jr., Adjunct Professor
      BSCE, Rice, 1984; JD, Texas (Austin), 1987

Sean J. Petrie, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1993; JD, Stanford, 1997

Louis T. Pirkey, Adjunct Professor
      BSChE, Texas, 1960; JD, George Washington, 1964

Laura L. Prather, Adjunct Professor
      BBA, Texas (Austin), 1988; JD, 1991

Brian C. Rider, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Rice, 1969; JD, Texas (Austin), 1972

Jennifer S. Riggs, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Arlington), 1981; JD, Texas (Austin), 1984

Robert M. Roach Jr., Adjunct Professor
      BA, Georgetown, 1977; JD, Texas (Austin), 1981

George Robertson, Adjunct Professor
      BBA, Texas, 1943; LLB, 1948

Meredith M. Rountree, Adjunct Professor
      AB, Yale, 1986; JD, Georgetown, 1991

David A. Sheppard, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1970; JD, 1974

William D. Signet, Adjunct Professor
      BS, Santa Clara, 1973; JD, Columbia, 1976

Bea Ann Smith, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas, 1961; MA, Brandeis, 1966; JD, Texas (Austin), 1975

Rose B. Spector, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Barnard College, 1954; JD, St. Mary's, 1965

William F. Stutts, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas (Austin), 1973; JD, Virginia, 1976

Matthew J. Sullivan, Adjunct Professor
      BS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1982; JD, St. Mary's, 1990

Eva Janice Summer, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Wake Forest, 1966; MA, Florida State, 1968; JD, Texas (Austin), 1976

Terry O. Tottenham, Adjunct Professor
      BSPhr, Texas (Austin), 1967; JD, 1970; LLM, George Washington, 1973

Robert W. Turner, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Rice, 1960; LLB, Texas, 1963

Timothy J. Tyler, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Yale, 1986; JD, Texas (Austin), 1994

Lana K. Varney, Adjunct Professor
      BJ, Texas (Austin), 1980; JD, 1988

Clark Watts, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas, 1961; MD, Southwestern Medical School, 1962; JD, Missouri (Columbia), 1990

David G. Wille, Adjunct Professor
      BS, Wisconsin (Madison), 1988; MS, 1989; JD, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1992

Mark B. Wilson, Adjunct Professor
      BA, Texas A&M (College Station), 1986; MA, Texas (Austin), 1989; JD, 1992

Paul Womack, Adjunct Professor
      BS, Louisiana State (Baton Rouge), 1970; JD, Texas (Austin), 1975