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University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Miscellaneous Law School Publications Law School History and Publications 2007 University of Michigan Law School Faculty, 07/08 University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.umich.edu/miscellaneous Part of the Legal Biography Commons, and the Legal Education Commons Citation University of Michigan Law School, "University of Michigan Law School Faculty, 07/08" (2007). Miscellaneous Law School Publications. http://repository.law.umich.edu/miscellaneous/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School History and Publications at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Miscellaneous Law School Publications by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To turn the pages of this slim booklet is to begin to know some of the most distinguished legal scholars in the world. Among these 92 members of the Michigan Law faculty arc leaders in constitutional, international, tax, environmental, and business law, and in many other areas of scholarship, as well. For students hoping to build a world-class legal education, there is no better foundation. But these printed pages exist in only two dimensions, whde legal education, like the real world, exists in three. Stepping inside the magnificent buildings of the University of Michigan Law Quad brings these photographs and stories to life. Two-dimensional biographies become three-dimensional professors. Here, beneath the vaulted ceilings of Hutchins Hall, an inter nationally renowned intellectual property expert who testified before Congress yesterday will exchange views on Internet file sharing with a passing student. Here, professors with experi ence hard-won as ach-isers to presidents or advocates before the Supreme Court now turn their remarkable minds to preparing members of our extraordinary and diverse student body for a life in the law. It's the heart of a l\lichigan Law education. Welcome. E van H. Caminker Dean , U niversity of i\l ichigan La11 School A licia Alvarez will specialize in worker's rights cases this year lJ nj, c rs it.v or M i c Ii igau I .aw School _{Ln our general clinic after teaching last year in the Urban Communities Clinic. She has developed numerous clinics as a faculty member at De Paul University College of Law in Chicago and in El Faculty Salvador as a consultant for the National Center for State Courts and DPK Consulting, Inc. Professor Alvarez was a Fulbright Scholar and "I arrived at Michigan Law immediately after finishing a Ph.D. in history with the Visiting Profe�;sor at the University of El Salvador, where she co-coor dinated a Central American Clinical Conference. She was also a visit hope and expectation that law school would constitute another major step in my ··, ing professor of clinical education at Boston College. Professor Alvarez intellectual growth, not just professional or vocational training in law as a trade. My has worked with Business and Professional People for the Public expectations were more than met by the crew of humanistic intellectuals - not Interest and the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. She was on the National Steering Committee of the Association of American Law just historians but accomplished scholars in philosophy, literature, political theory, Schools' conforence on law schools and equal justice issues as well as anthropology, psychology, and other fields - that made up a large part of the the chair of the poverty law section. Michigan faculty. In this atmosphere, the study of law was the best sort of profes In addition, she chaired the Legal sional training, the kind that equipped me both to enter the profession at a high Aid Committee of the Chicago Bar Association and was on the level - for me, a Supreme Court clerkship - and to get the critical perspective and Board of Directors forthe Society intellectual training that prepared me for the academic position that I had aimed at of American Law Te achers. Professor from the start." Alvarez receiYed her B.A., magna cum laude, from Loyola University of Chicago and her Gerald F. Leonard, '95 J.D. , cum laud.�, from Boston for Associate Dean Academic r\ffairs and College Law �;chool. Professor Hoston University School of La\\" Alicia 3 Alva ichael S. Barr teaches Financial Institutions, International Finance, euven S. Avi-Yonah, the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and MJurisdiction and Choice of Law, and Transnational Law. Professor OF [\!] I CI l lGAN LAW Rdirector of the International Tax LL.M. Program, specializes in Barr is currently engaged in a large-scale empirical project on finan- C H OO L I� TllE international taxation and international law, and is widely published in S cial services for low- and moderate-income households as the Faculty these subject areas. He also served as consultant to the U.S. Treasury N, \TI O N AL L E ADEH I N Investigator for the Detroit Area Study. He served as chair and is on and OECD on tax competition, and is a member of the Steering TllE INTE RD IS C IPl.INAHJ the Executive Committee of the Section on Financial Institutions of the Group of the OECD's International Network For Tax Research and STUDY CW Tl I E LAW. Association of American Law Schools. Professor Barr recently co-orga chair of the American Bar Association's Tax Section Committee on I\I ICH IG,\N I � UNIQ U E nized the World Bank's conference on financialaccess. He earned his Consumption Taxes. Professor Avi-Yonah earned his B.A., summa cum li\J TllE NU�113EH 01' B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University; an M. Phil. in international laude, from Hebrew University and then earned three degrees from LAW l'I HJl' ESSOHS \\I 10 relations from Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar; and Harvard: an A.M. in history, a Ph .D. in history, and a J.D., magna cum AHE ALSO C:OVE HNING his J.D. from Yale Law School. Professor Barr clerked forJustice David laude, from Harvard Law School. Avi-Yonah has been a visiting profes FACULT'r �IE MBEH� OF A H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for Judge sor of law at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. Pierre N. Leval, then of the Southern District of New York. He served in WOHL.ll-CL;\SS DEPA11T- He has also served as an assistant profes- senior positions in the U.S. government from M ENT IN ,\NOTH EH sor oflaw at Harvard. In addition, 1994 to 200 1: special adviser and counselor DISCIP LI N E . TllEIH he has practiced law with Milbank, on the Policy Planning Staff of the State MULJ"I DISCI PLIN AHY Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New Department; Treasury Secretary Robert E. Al'PRO,\CI I TO <JU E S - York; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Rubin's special assistant; deputy assistant TI ONS OF llU� IAN Katz, New York; and Ropes & Gray, secretary of the Treasury for commu- llE I IA\"I OH AND SOCIAL Boston. His teaching inter nity development policy; and ests focus on various POLIC Y OFl'E RS OUH special adviser to the President. aspects of taxation STUD ENTS Tl IE OPPOH- Barr is also a nonresident and international TUNIT Y TO l'UHSUE senior fellow at the Brookings law. 1\ D E El'EH Uf\DEH- Institution. ST,\NDINC 01' TllE LA\\' ;\ND LEC;AL Reuven S. J\J ichacJ S. INSTITUTION� . onah 4 Barr "As a person interested in representing start-up com mri Ben-Shahar, the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, is 0 panies and ,·cnture capital the founder and director of the John M. Olin Center for Law firms, pursuing a J.D./1\1.B.A. and Economics and the head of the Program in Law, Economics, and at Michigan is the best ssistant Professor Laura Beny joined the University of Michigan Te chnology. Before joining the Law School faculty, he taught as an educational decision I've ever ALaw School m 2003. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in econom assistant professor oflaw and economics at Te l-Aviv University, was a made. The formal training research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, and clerked at the l'\'e received in accounting ics at Harvard University, her J.D. at Harvard Law School, and her Supreme Court oflsrael. Professor Ben-Shahar teaches Contracts, and finance at the business B.A. in economics at Stanford University. At Harvard Law School, Electronic Commerce, Insurance Law, Sales Law, Intellectual Property, school has enriched my she won a prize for outstanding paper in law and economics for her and Economic Analysis of Law. He holds a B.A. in economics and coursework at the Law empirical research on insider trading laws and stock markets across School tremendously, and 2006 LL.B. from Hebrew University, and an LL.M., S.J.D. , and Ph.D. in countries and in September she testified about insider trading has been highly regarded by economics from Harvard. He writes in the fields of contract law and before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her research interests span law firms and clients during products liability. His work has been published in many journals, law and economics, finance, economic institutions, and develop my summer clerkships. among them the Yale Law journal; University ef Chicago Law Review; ment. Beny is a research fellow at the William Davidson Institute at Exposure to a variety of Journal ef Law, Economics and Organization;journal ef the Stephen M.