Mark C. Alexander
Mark C. Alexander is President of AALS and the Arthur J. Kania Dean and Professor of Law at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Alexander’s areas of expertise include constitution law, election law, the First Amendment and criminal procedure. His research interests focus on the constitutional dimensions of election law and campaign reform. Alexander has authored several books on the First Amendment and constitutional law, and his scholarship has been published in leading journals such as Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Stanford Law & Policy Review and NYU Review of Law & Social Change.
Jill I. Gross
Jill I. Gross
Jill I. Gross is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, teaching courses in ADR, securities law, and professional responsibility. She is co-author of the treatise Broker-Dealer Law and Regulation and the casebook Arbitration: Law Policy, and Practice, and has published dozens of book chapters and articles on the negotiation, mediation and arbitration of commercial and securities disputes. She has chaired the AALS Section of Dispute Resolution, and is an arbitrator for the AAA and FINRA. She received an A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Cornell University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.
David L. Jamison
David L. Jamison
David Jamison earned his M.A. and J.D. from the University of Michigan. A 30-year faculty member at the University of Akron, he won that University’s Outstanding Teaching Award, was the Ohio Communication Teacher of the Year, and was twice named Outstanding Adjunct Faculty member at Akron’s Law School. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar from 1979-2002. In 2002 he became Dean, later Provost and Interim President at Robert Morris University. He has been an adjunct at Duquesne Law since 2011, teaching Torts and Sports and Entertainment Law. He was selected by Duquesne Law students for an Adjunct Professor teaching award in 2023.
Joseph Lesovitz
Joseph Lesovitz
Joseph Lesovitz is a Partner in the Forensic, Litigation and Valuation Services Group of Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC, where he specializes in calculating damages in complex commercial litigation and in providing financial consulting and forensic accounting services to attorneys, public and private corporations, insurance companies, and governmental agencies. Mr. Lesovitz has provided consulting and litigation services for cases involving complex commercial damages, economic damage calculations, lost profits analysis, intellectual property infringements, business valuations, and forensic investigations. He has served as a neutral accounting arbitrator in various post-acquisition disputes related to working capital adjustments, earn-out disputes, and other financial related disputes. Mr. Lesovitz has been qualified as an expert and presented testimony in depositions and trials in federal court, state court, and arbitration.
Mr. Lesovitz is an adjunct professor at the Villanova University School of Law where he teaches a course on economic damages and litigation strategy, and previously taught a course on introduction to accounting and business valuation.
Katherine Macfarlane
Katherine Macfarlane
Professor Katherine Macfarlane is a leading expert on civil rights litigation and disability law. She is the incoming Director of the Syracuse University College of Law Disability Law and Policy Program. During the 2022-2023 academic year, Professor Macfarlane served as Special Counsel to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, where she worked on the Department’s overhaul of regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, focusing on higher education. Professor Macfarlane’s disability law scholarship addresses reasonable accommodations and access to health care. She previously served as chair of the AALS Section on Disability Law, and co-founded an AALS affinity group for disabled law professors and allies.
Prior to joining academia, Professor Macfarlane was an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Department, and an associate in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s Los Angeles and New York offices. She clerked for the District of Arizona and the Ninth Circuit, and is admitted to practice in California and New York. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University, and her J.D., cum laude, from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she served as Chief Articles Editor of the Loyola Law Review. She lives in Syracuse with her dog Cooper.
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb is the Director of the Critical Race and Gender Studies JD Concentration & Professor of Law at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She researches, teaches, and writes in the areas of critical rhetoric, discourse and genre analysis, critical race feminism, and legal history. McMurtry-Chubb is a leader in designing curricula to facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. She is the author of over 30 publications, including the books Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, May 2021); Strategies and Techniques for Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into the Core Law Curriculum (Wolters Kluwer, August 2021); and Critical and Comparative Rhetoric: Unmasking Privilege and Power in Law and Legal Advocacy to Achieve Truth, Justice, and Equity (Bristol University Press, July 2023 (co-authored)). She is also a contributor to Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press 2016).
In 2019, Teri was awarded the 2018 Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication for her article The Rhetoric of Race, Redemption, and Will Contests: Inheritance as Reparations in John Grisham’s Sycamore Row, 48 Univ. Memphis L. Rev. 890 (2018). She is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing – the first person of color and first Black woman to achieve this honor, and the 2023 UIC Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. Teri presently serves as the Lead PI for the Humanizing Critical Race Theory Project, which is funded through a grant to UIC by the Mellon Foundation.
Tara Willke
Tara Willke
Tara Willke is the associate dean for strategic academic programs and an associate professor of law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. She grew up in North Dakota, and after serving four years on active duty in the United States Air Force, she received her undergraduate degree in 2000 and her J.D. in 2004. Before entering academia, she practiced commercial litigation. At Duquesne Kline, she manages the school’s strategic initiatives and also teaches in the legal writing and bar prep programs.