Alena M. Allen, AALS Deputy Director, and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Professor of Law, University of Arkansas – Fayetteville School of Law

Professor Allen teaches family law, health law electives, and torts. She previously served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Interim Dean. Prior to joining the University of Arkansas, Allen taught at the Cecil C. Humphreys University of Memphis School of Law where she won Professor of Year in 2013, the Farris Bobango Faculty Scholarship Award in 2019, and the MLK 50 Faculty Service Award in 2021. She also served as Director of Diversity and Director of Research.

Allen’s work has appeared in the North Carolina Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, and the Cardozo Law Review. Allen’s research focuses on the intersection of health policy and feminist theory. Beginning in August 2022, Allen will serve as Deputy Director of The Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

Adam Davidson, Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Chicago, The Law School

Adam Davidson is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He researches and teaches primarily in the areas of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and the intersection of race and law. His current projects focus on how tools within these and other areas of the law can further debates about reforming or abolishing police, prisons, and the prison industrial complex.

Adam holds a BA in theatre from the Ohio State University and a JD from the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty, Adam taught at the Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law, and served as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Judge Diane P. Wood on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Judge James S. Gwin on the Northern District of Ohio.

Meera Deo, The Honorable Vaino Spencer Chair/Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School

Meera E Deo is Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) and The Honorable Vaino Spencer Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. She was previously the Neukom Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation. Her research merges jurisprudence with empirical methods to interrogate institutional diversity, affirmative action, and racial representation. Professor Deo’s book, Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia, examines how the intersection of raceXgender affects faculty experiences. She has received support from the National Science Foundation, Paul & Daisy Soros, AccessLex, and Wolters Kluwer. She is a member of the American Law Institute.

Nyamagaga Gondwe, Assistant Professor of Tax Law, University of Wisconsin Law

Nyamagaga Gondwe (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Tax Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She is a scholar of economic justice, race and the law, and tax policy. Nyamagaga earned her JD from Yale Law School in 2018. She then clerked for Judge Jeffrey Meyer on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut from 2018-2019. In 2019 she joined the D.C. office of Skadden as a tax associate. From 2020-2022 she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at the NYU School of Law.

Katherine Macfarlane, Associate Professor, Southern University Law Center

Professor Katherine Macfarlane is a leading expert on civil rights litigation and disability law. In 2021, she chaired the AALS Disability Law Section and co-founded a disabled law professors affinity group. Prior to joining Southern, she was an associate professor at the University of Idaho and a teaching fellow at LSU Law Center. Before entering academia, she served as lead counsel in civil rights actions brought in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She clerked for the District of Arizona and the Ninth Circuit, and received her B.A. from Northwestern University, and her J.D. from Loyola Law School.

Kimberly M. Mutcherson, Co-Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School

Kimberly Mutcherson is Co-Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. Her scholarly work sits at the intersection of family law, health law, and bioethics. Dean Mutcherson writes on issues related to reproductive justice with a particular focus on assisted reproduction, abortion, and maternal-fetal decision-making.

She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Adrien Katherine Wing, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs Bessie Dutton Murray Professor, University of Iowa College of Law

Dean Adrien K. Wing has just finished teaching her 35th year at the University of Iowa College of Law. She is the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law as well as the Associate Dean for International & Comparative Law programs. She is a former Chair of the Appointments Committee and former Chair of the Diversity Committee as well as former Associate Dean for Faculty Development. She is currently a member of the ABA Council on the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. She holds an AB from Princeton magna cum laude, MA from UCLA, and JD from Stanford.

Myriam Gilles, Professor of Law, Former Vice Dean, Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Myriam Gilles is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Yale Law School. Before becoming a professor, she was a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis. She joined the faculty at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2000, and served as Vice Dean from 2016-2019. In 2018, Professor Gilles was named the Paul R. Verkuil Research Chair.

Professor Gilles specializes in class actions and aggregate litigation and has written extensively on forced arbitration clauses. She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee (2013, 2017, 2019) and the House Judiciary Committee (2019 and 2020) on the impact of forced arbitration and class action bans, and before the Vermont Assembly (2017) and the Oregon Legislature (2018) on state law efforts to blunt the effect of these provisions. Professor Gilles also writes on civil rights and structural reform litigation, medical malpractice, access to justice and tort law. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the nation’s top law reviews, including Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, Penn, Texas, and Yale, and her work has been cited in numerous judicial decisions. She is the 5th most cited civil procedure scholar in the country, and an editor of an influential casebook in the field, Babcock, Massaro, Spaulding and Gilles, Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems (Wolters Kluwer, 7th ed.). Professor Gilles teaches Torts, Civil Procedure, Products Liability, and Complex Litigation, and was named “Best First Year Teacher” by the graduating class of 2019. She currently serves on the boards of the Justice Resource Center and Public Justice, on the board of advisors of the People’s Parity Project, and she is an Academic Fellow of the Pound Civil Justice Institute and was elected to the American Law Institute in 2022.

Kimberly M. Mutcherson, Co-Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, Chair

Kimberly Mutcherson is Co-Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. Her scholarly work sits at the intersection of family law, health law, and bioethics. Dean Mutcherson writes on issues related to reproductive justice with a particular focus on assisted reproduction, abortion, and maternal-fetal decision-making.

She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Columbia Law School

Christopher J. Peters, C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law

Christopher J. (“C.J.”) Peters is C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Professor of Law at The University of Akron School of Law. He joined the Akron Law faculty as Dean in June 2017 and served in that position until February 2022.

Peters has been a legal educator for more than twenty-five years and has won multiple teaching awards. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, legal and constitutional theory, civil procedure, and law and leadership. His articles have been published in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the Columbia Law Review, among other journals, and he has authored or edited two books of legal theory.

A Michigan native, Peters earned his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and his law degree from the University of Michigan. He practiced in civil litigation with the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins before beginning his teaching career. He and his family live in Hudson, Ohio.

Sarah A. Seo, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Sarah Seo is a professor at Columbia Law School, where she teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and legal history. Her book, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom, received numerous prizes and was named one of 2019’s ten best history books by Smithsonian Magazine. Seo received her A.B. and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School; she also clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the Columbia Law School faculty, Seo taught at Iowa Law School.

Marcy S. Strauss, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Marcy Strauss has been a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles since 1984. She is a widely-cited scholar of criminal procedure. Her primary areas of expertise include Miranda, the nature of consent, and freedom of speech; she has also written and lectured extensively on the illegality of torture. The U.S. Supreme Court cited her scholarship in Berghuis v. Thompkins, 560 U.S. 370 (2010), Maryland v. Shatzer, 559 U.S. 98 (2010), and Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103 (2006). In 2011, she received the Excellence in Teaching award from the graduating class. She has been on the Appointments Committee for almost a decade and has been the Chair of the Committee for the last 3 years.