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Full-time and Regular Faculty 1 participated as a member of the Megan’s Law Task Force, the U.S.- FULL-TIME AND REGULAR Medico Border Task Force, and the National Association of Attorneys General Task Force concerning the Victim’s Rights Amendment to the FACULTY U.S. Constitution. He is a recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award from Victims, Families, and Survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing, Adeline Allen the Randolph Award, the highest award given by the United States Department of Justice, and the Marvin Award, given each year to the Associate Professor Adeline Allen received her B.S. in Physical outstanding attorney by the National Association of Attorneys General. Anthropology from UCLA, cum laude, and her J.D. from Regent University Professor Holsclaw also served as Legislative Counsel to Congressman School of Law in the honors track. She served as the Executive Editor Dan Lungren from 2005-2013 and served as Interim Dean of Trinity Law of the Regent University Law Review. Professor Allen was a Visiting School in 2001. Professor Holsclaw teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Fellow with Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Procedure, and Immigration Law. Ideals and Institutions for the 2017-2018 academic year. Professor Allen teaches Contracts and Torts. Daniele Le Daniele Le is an Assistant Dean at Trinity Law School, where she Narcis Brasov oversees the online Juris Doctor courses and the Legal Research & Assistant Professor Narcis Brasov received his B.A. in Philosophy and Writing program. She teaches Legal Research and Writing 1 and Legal his B.A. in Spanish from USC, his M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and Research and Writing 2. Professor Le has been a Lecturer in Law for Ethics from Biola University, and his J.D. from Trinity Law School. He the residential program at the USC Gould School of Law, where she was the Trinity Law Student of the Year award recipient, served as the taught Legal Writing to LL.M. students and supervised LL.M. and M.C.L. Executive Editor of the Trinity Law Review, placed 2nd place in the Black students in Directed Research. She has also taught Topics in American Law Students Association Western Regional Moot Court Competition, Law as part of USC’s online LL.M. and MSL programs. Previously, she and 5th place in the National Moot Court Competition in 2015. Professor served as the Director of Academic Support at Trinity Law School. Brasov taught high school level Spanish for the Norwalk-La Mirada Professor Le received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science Unified School District since 2003 before joining the full-time faculty in from the University of California, Los Angeles. She then attended the 2018. Professor Brasov teaches Advanced Exam Approaches and Skills, Chapman University School of Law where she received her Juris Doctor Wills, Trusts, and Estates, and Professional Responsibility and Ethics. degree, cum laude, and graduated in the top 10% of her class. She was the Editor-in-Chief of the Chapman Law Review and an extern for the late Dana Clark Honorable Arthur L. Alarcón of the United States Court of Appeals for Associate Professor Dana Clark received his B.A. in History/Political the Ninth Circuit. A member of the California State Bar since December Science from Point Loma College and his J.D. from Western State 2006, she practiced primarily in the area of municipal finance, where University College of Law. Professor Clark taught on an adjunct basis she represented California school districts, water districts, and special at Western State University College of Law as well as at Trinity before districts. joining the full-time faculty in 2013. He was named Associate Dean in 2016. He is an experienced general civil litigation and appellate attorney. R. Neil Rodgers Professor Clark teaches Torts, Remedies, and Civil Litigation Skills and Clinical Professor R. Neil Rodgers received his B.A. in Political Science Negotiations. He also serves as Faculty Advisor to Trinity’s Federalist from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his J.D. from Western Society chapter and its Scholar Program. State University College of Law. He practiced law privately in areas of bankruptcy, Chapter 11 reorganizations, workouts, and debtor- Andrew DeLoach creditor law. Professor Rodgers has represented clients in all facets Assistant Professor Andrew DeLoach received his B.A. in Literature/ of bankruptcy practice, including service as a Chapter 7 and Chapter Writing from the University of California, San Diego, and his J.D. from 11 trustee and counsel to trustees. He formed and advised business California Western School of Law in San Diego. Professor DeLoach entities and handled business litigation in state and federal courts in attended the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism, and addition to advising corporations on merger and acquisition matters Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, and became a Fellow of the and representing corporations in securities matters. Professor Rodgers Academy, hosted a radio program discussing Christian apologetics, world also handled family law matters and served as special bankruptcy to religions, and the application of legal standards of evidence to historic the Orange County Tax Collector. Professor Rodgers taught at Trinity Christianity from 2009-2012. He practiced law in civil litigation before as an adjunct professor from 2001 until 2015 when he joined the full- opening his own practice specializing in estate planning and probate. time faculty. He has taught Business Associations, Constitutional He taught on an adjunct basis at Concordia University as well as Trinity Law, Torts, Contracts, Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure, before joining the full-time faculty in 2017. Professor DeLoach teaches and Community Property. Professor Rodgers also coaches Trinity’s Constitutional Law, Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Jurisprudence, Legal Interscholastic Moot Court team and provides consulting to Trinity Apologetics, is the professor-in-residence for the summer International alumni who are building bankruptcy practices. Human Rights program in Strasbourg, France, the Director of the Center for Human Rights and also serves as Trinity’s Law Review Faculty Joy Statler Advisor. Assistant Professor Joy Statler received her J.D. from Trinity Law School. Professor Statler directs Trinity’s academic support programs. She is also Kevin Holsclaw the Director of the Trinity Law Clinics and serves as an instructor and Clinical Professor Kevin Holsclaw served as Acting Assistant Attorney advisor to faculty and students involved in Trinity’s clinical programs. General for Legislation in the United States Department of Justice and formerly served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the California Venus Griffith Trunnel Department of Justice with the responsibility for the development Assistant Professor Venus Griffith Trunnel received her B.A. in of criminal justice policy for the California Attorney General. He also Communication Arts, with a minor in English, from Loyola Marymount 2 Full-time and Regular Faculty University, her J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law, and her LL.M from George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. Her law practice is concentrated in transactional work in the areas of trademark and copyright law, and she is a former Trademark Examiner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She began her career in insurance defense litigation in the areas of construction defect, employment law, and insurance coverage. Professor Trunnel has been teaching at Trinity Law School since 2015 and teaches Legal Research and Writing and Intellectual Property for the J.D. program and teaches Contracts for the MLS program at Trinity. She is currently the Flex Program Coordinator at Trinity. Michael Schutt Clinical Associate Professor Michael Schutt is the Director of the Institute of Christian Legal Studies (ICLS), a cooperative ministry of the Christian Legal Society and Trinity Law School. The mission of ICLS is to train and encourage Christian law students, law professors, pre-law advisors and practicing attorneys to seek and study Biblical truth, including the natural law tradition, as it relates to law and legal institutions, and to encourage them in their spiritual formation and growth, their compassionate outreach to the poor and needy, and integration of Christian faith and practice with their study, teaching, and practice of law. Professor Schutt is an honors graduate of the University of Texas Law School. He is Editor- in-Chief of the Journal of Christian Legal Thought, a publication of ICLS. Professor Schutt is the author of Redeeming Law; Christian Calling and the Legal Profession (2007), a vocational exhortation for law students and lawyers, and he has authored several law review articles, essays, and supplements on biblical principles for use in the law school classroom. Professor Schutt's primary focus is expanding the influence of ICLS through Trinity Law School. Professor Schutt teaches in the area of the relationship between lawyers, faith, and culture..