FacuIty News New Faculty Profiles "I had a really enjoyable time with the faculty and the students," he says. "AH the ideas and the discussion, it was really, really fun. 50 when I had the chance to join the Richard McAdams: faculty this year, I was happy." Professor McAdams and his wife now have two a Richard McAdams began planning a career as a law professor homes, condominium in the South and a house in even before he started law school. "I debated in college, Loop Champaign and are between wife is stili my coach was a professor, and I thought he had a great currendy dogs. "My teaching job," he explains. at Illinois, so we are living in both places, which is a Íittle he is excited about his Of course, McAdams did not begin teaching right out of challenging." Nonetheless, very job at and wants it noted that he is a rabid Carolina the University ofVirginia Law 5chool. Instead he took a Chicago clerkship with ChiefJudge basketball fan, dating back to his days there as an undergraduate. Harrison L. Winter of the U.5. "This way, all the students from Duke can start making fun Court ofAppeals for the Fourth of me on day one." Circuit, a position he loved. Then, after working at Morgan, Lee Fennell: Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia Lee Fennell has a lot in common with Richard McAdams. for three years, he took a job They both love to teach, they both wanted to enter academia teaching at Chicago-Kent because it offered them the opportunity to spend a lot of College ofLaw in 1990. "I knew time thinking about specific I had to make the transition legal puzzles, they like dogs and pretty early in my career, or it they both have spouses teaching was just going to keep getting Richard McAdams at the University of Illinois. harder," he notes. "My husband is an anthropology McAdams spent seven years at Kent teaching criminallaw professor at Illinois," Fennell (which he will also teach this fall at the Law 5chool) and says. "50 although we live in doing research on race discrimination and social norms. He Beverly [on the South Side of followed that up with two years at Boston University Law Chicago], he spends some dme 5chool and then accepted a position at the University of down in Urbana-Champaign Illinois College of Law in Urbana-Champaign while his during the week when he is III debated in college, my coach was a teaching. And we have three dogs." Lee Fennel/ Fennell took a job at Pettit professor, and I thought he had a great job." and Martin following her 1990 graduation from Georgetown - ar Richard McAdams University Law Center. After two years, she took a job the State and Local Legal Center. "In private practice yOU wife a at the accepted position university teaching sociology. that che can't really look at all the side avenues and riddles "That was a McAdams muses. "We had big adjustment," the dienr law presents, you only have the time to look at what been living in big cities for years, and then we moved to needs, and I really wanted the time for that exploration." this town of I liked the and the 100,000. faculty university and Local Fennell's job writing amicus briefs at the 5tate and the students from the start, but I came to right really as ir Legal Center was much doser to academic work, love Urbana-Champaign." involved examining the policy implications of Iegal decis!o�' McAdams has been a visiting professor at Yale Law 5chool Long interested in the intertwining of law and econo01ll'"S' and the University ofVirginia Law 5chool, as well as a Visiting Fennell to look at how peopl.; began using game theory . Fellow at the Research 5chool of Social 5ciences ofAustralian on (lrtlC1e beh·ave strategically; In 1994 she published an National University. During his years at Illinois he continued game theory and social welfare. his research on criminallaw and procedure, social norms, for a Then in 1996 Fennell made an unusual choice r and in 2005 he visited the Law 5chool. o,re.l' inequality. Then, a tW future law school professor, she began work on 22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL • FALL 2007 Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at the and how elected officials exercise authority and control over University ofVirginia. "It was my hrst chance to teach, those agencies. More and more, those assumptions are and I really enjoyed it." being proven wrong. There's a void in our understanding of After graduating in 1998, she spent a fast-paced year at why agencies behave as they do, and we're going to have to the Virginia School Boards Association before accepting a rethink how we ought to go about designing and channeling Bigelow Fellowship at the Law School, where she taught the bureaucracy." legal research and writing and a seminar on distributive Masur became interested in administrative law while justice. "I worked on an article on land use and I wrote attending Harvard Law School. After graduating in 2003 another piece focusing on how people in communities he clerked for ChiefJudge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United affect the value of local public goods like education and States District Court for the Northern District of California, safety in those communities." and then for Judge Richard Afrer completing her Bigelow, Fennell became an assistant Posner of the U.S. Court of professor at the University ofTexas School of Law and in Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Both were valuable experiences. "In can't look private practice Vou really "The content of the cases at all the side avenues and riddles that the law was less important than the interaction with the judges," presents, Vou only have the time to look at Masur explains. "Law schools what the client and I wanted needs, really tend to present an overly the time for that exploration," theoretical picture of what judges are doing. I was struck - Lee Fennell by how much more pragmatic Jonathan Masur 2004 became an associate professor at the University of and context-oriented they actually Illinois of College Law, where she was promoted to full are. Judge Posner and Judge Patcl don't necessarily go into in professor 2006. She has also been a visiting professor at cases thinking about general, sweeping theories, but their Vale Law the School, N.Y.U. School ofLaw and the University decisions are so well constructed that those types of theories School of ofVirginia Law. sometimes emerge organically." Fennell is very pleased to be back at the Law School, ln 2005 Masur became a Bigelow Fellow at the Law where she will start off this fall teaching Property. "It's School, where he did research in administrative law and absolutely the best law school, but I already knew that from my she notes. "There is so so Bi�elow," much energy and "No other school has a more vibrant intellectual many ideas floating around. It's a wonderful place in terms interesri or a more dedicated ofhaving Ie to community řacultv" eresung peop share ideas with and to help make your work better." - Jonathan Masur Jonathan Masur: behaviorallaw and economics. The hrst course he teaches as Jonathan . a full member of the will be tirsr-year Criminal Law. Masur also went faculty into legal for reasons virni]1 ar scholarship "I visited a lot of different schools last and I had the to Lee Fe II year, , because the that lntcreSt hi n.ne legal problems chance to the Law School to a few other lm are dlffi . compare quite lCU1 t to I·ore exp m pracnce. But rathcr than Wor Masur notes. "No other school has a more vibrant ki on 1 places," ng d and fi�t . �n social-welfare law, Masur's love is a �se intellectual or a more dedicated cl mmlstrauve community faculty. Everyone "o. law. uch .. eve tt or . takes an interest in each other's work and ideas and as not acl here, . mmlstrat1ve . bureaucracies are lClmplex an '. cl " a whole the Law School a level of intellectual « generates flt the llltngulllg creatures, he says. A vast number irn . P°rtant that is far greater than the sum of its h decisions in thilS activity parts." � country are made administ . being rť rators, and 6or a 1 I Icd ong Ume scholars have ur)()nr a . legal set of assu mpt10ns abour how policy is made FAL L 2 o o 7 • T H E UN I V E R S I T Y o F CHI C A G o L A W S C H o o L 23 Faculty Nevvs FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP 2006-2007 u Albert Alschuler "Tribute to Bernard Meltzer, Kenneth Dam "Conílicts of Interest in "Group Report: What is the u Celebrating Great 74 University of Chicago The Law-Growth Nexus: Health Care: Who Guards Role of Heuristics in Making u u Lawyering. Review of Law Review 417 (2007). The Rule of Law and the Guardians?" 50 Law. in Heuristics and the Welsh S. 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