Our faculty are famous for having equally strong commitments to teaching and to undertaking scholarship that matters. In fact, the Iowa Law faculty is nationally recognized for its scholarly productivity and well-known for its interdisciplinary interests. A number of faculty members have Ph.D.s, and the faculty publishes regularly in history, social science, and general humanities journals as well as traditional law reviews.
Our faculty list includes members of the full-time faculty as of the fall semester of 2023. The list includes those temporarily away on visits to other institutions, on reduced teaching loads, and on phased retirement. Separately listed are members with emeritus status; adjunct and visiting faculty who are scheduled to teach during the 2023-24 academic year, or have taught during the previous two academic years and are expected to have a continuing relationship with Iowa Law; and our courtesy faculty who hold complimentary appointments at the College of Law as of the fall semester of 2023.
Full-time Faculty
Samantha Barbas
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Aliber Family Chair in Law
Professor Barbas is a prominent scholar and presenter of legal and media history—with a focus on journalism, privacy, defamation, and the First Amendment—and the award-winning author of seven full-length books. Barbas received the Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020.
Dawn Barker Anderson
Title/Position
Associate Dean of Innovation
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Director, Writing and Academic Success Center
Professor Anderson teaches Legal Analysis, Writing and Research and is the director of the Writing and Academic Success Center and the college’s academic success program.
Bethany Berger
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Allan D. Vestal Professor of Law
Bethany Berger, the Allan D. Vestal Professor of Law, is one of the nation's leading experts in federal Indian Law, Property Law, and legal history. She co-authors the leading casebooks in American Indian Law and Property Law and has published extensively in top law journals. Berger's distinguished career includes significant contributions to legal scholarship, service as a judge for the Southwest Inter-Tribal Court of Appeals, and advocacy work for Native American and children's rights.
Christina Bohannan
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Lauridsen Family Fellow in Law
Professor Bohannan teaches Torts, Copyright Law, Conflict of Laws and advanced seminars in intellectual property law. Most of her current scholarship is in intellectual property law, the First Amendment, and competition law.
Jonathan C. Carlson
Title/Position
Professor of Law and International Studies
Victor & Carol Alvarez Fellow in Law
Professor Carlson focuses on international trade and commercial law, international environmental law, and the law of global climate change. He frequently lectures abroad.
Andrew Crouse
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Professor Crouse joined the faculty in 2020 and teaches legal rhetoric, legal ethics, contract drafting, and negotiation. Professor Crouse graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2004 and went on to have an extensive career in practice and in legal academia before joining Iowa Law.
Mihailis Diamantis
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Ben V. Willie Professor in Excellence
Mihailis Diamantis’ legal research focuses on corporate crime and criminal theory. He is concerned with how familiar concepts like mens rea shape corporate incentives and the justice of verdicts involving corporate defendants. He has subsidiary interests in privacy law and surveillance.
Diane Lourdes Dick
Title/Position
Charles E. Floete Distinguished Professor of Law
Professor Diane Lourdes Dick focuses her teaching and scholarship on business and tax law, with particular emphasis on commercial finance, business bankruptcy and out-of-court restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and business entity taxation.
Bram Elias
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Elias has directed the Clinic’s immigration practice since 2015. His students represent clients in immigration proceedings and in state and federal judicial proceedings affecting immigrants' rights, and work with organizational clients engaged in advocacy related to immigration law and policy.
Stella Burch Elias
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Chancellor William Gardiner Hammond Fellow in Law
Professor Elias teaches civil procedure, international law, immigration law, and comparative law courses, and she directs Iowa’s London Law Program. Her research involves public international and comparative law, with a focus on United States and foreign immigration and nationality laws.
Brian Farrell
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction
Director, Citizen Lawyer Program
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights
Brian Farrell teaches international law, criminal law, and human rights courses. He is Director of the Citizen Lawyer Program, Associate Director of the UI Center for Human Rights, and was a co-founder of the Innocence Project of Iowa. Brian also serves as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Galway (formerly NUI Galway) and is a member of the Iowa Judicial Branch Court Navigators Pilot Project Task Force.
Daria Fisher Page
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Clinical Programs
Clinical Professor of Law
Daria Fisher Page teaches and directs the Community Empowerment Law Project in the legal clinic at Iowa Law. Her students represent individuals, nonprofits, and municipalities working to strengthen their communities, create economic opportunity, and advance social justice in matters ranging from entity formation and strategic planning to coalition building and the design of advocacy plans. Her research and scholarship currently focus on access to, and experiences of, justice; meaningful community engagement; and legal education reform.
Lorraine Gaynor
Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Professor Gaynor is a professor of legal analysis, writing and research. Prior to Iowa Law she served as a senior staff attorney at Iowa Legal Aid.
Josephine Gittler
Title/Position
Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law
Professor Josephine Gittler is the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law. She has secondary appointments in the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. She is Director of the National Health Law and Policy Resource Center and Co-Director of the Guardianship and Conservatorship Institute. Her teaching, scholarship, and service focuses on health law and policy; elder law and policy, children, families and the law (child maltreatment, juvenile delinquency and the child welfare and juvenile justice systems); alternate dispute resolution (negotiation and mediation); and the legislative process and statutory interpretation and drafting.
Megan Graham
Title/Position
Associate Clinical Professor
Director, Technology Law Clinic
Megan Graham is an associate clinical professor and the director of the Technology Law Clinic. Her work centers on the role technology plays in criminal defendants’ cases and the broader criminal legal system.
Andy Grewal
Title/Position
Orville L. and Ermina D. Dykstra Professor in Income Tax Law
Professor Grewal’s scholarly interests relate to tax law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law. He has testified in Congress on tax administration issues, and his scholarship in that area has formed the basis for several taxpayer challenges to the Treasury's regulatory authority, including in cases before several United States Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Alison Guernsey
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Federal Criminal Defense Clinic
Professor Guernsey teaches in and directs the law school’s Federal Criminal Defense Clinic. Under her supervision, law students represent indigent individuals charged with federal crimes in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth and Sixth Circuits.
Emily Hughes
Title/Position
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law
Professor Hughes teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Before coming to the College, she was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where she taught criminal law, criminal procedure (investigations and adjudication), and a seminar discussing mitigation and the death penalty.
Andrew Jordan
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Andrew Jordan focuses his research on issues in legal philosophy with an emphasis on normative issues in constitutional adjudication and contract theory. He has also published widely on topics in moral philosophy.
Mary M. Ksobiech
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Professor Mary Ksobiech is a Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research. She is an alumna of the University of Iowa College of Law. In 2006, she joined the faculty of The University of Alabama School of Law where she taught courses in Legal Writing, Litigation Drafting, and Judicial Opinion Drafting and served as the Assistant Dean of Students. She will be teaching in the areas of Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy, and Academic Support.
Christopher Liebig
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Professor Liebig currently teaches Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research. He worked several years as a litigator in private practice in Hartford and Boston, before leaving practice to earn an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Marc Linder
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Professor Linder represented migrant farm workers at Texas Rural Legal Aid for seven years. Before then, he pursued graduate studies at the universities at Göttingen and West Berlin and taught at Roskilde University Center in Denmark, the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, and the UI College of Law. Professor Linder specializes in Labor Law.
Kate Melloy Goettel
Title/Position
Clinical Associate Professor
Kate Melloy Goettel is a clinical associate professor and a national leader in immigration law and federal court practice. She will start and lead a federal civil rights clinic with an immigration focus.
Robert T. Miller
Title/Position
F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Finance and Law
Professor Miller's scholarship concerns corporate and securities law, the economic analysis of law, and the philosophy of law, and he has taught courses in Business Associations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Law and Economics, Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Antitrust, Contracts, Deals, and Capitalism.
Todd Pettys
Title/Position
Professor of Law
H. Blair and Joan V. White Chair in Civil Litigation
Professor Pettys joined the faculty in 1999. Professor Pettys’ courses include constitutional law, federal courts, and a seminar on pending supreme court cases.
Anya Prince
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law
Professor Prince’s teaching and research interests explore the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic testing, with particular focus on genetic discrimination, health and reproductive privacy, and use of big data and algorithms. She teaches torts, health law, insurance law, and genetics law.
Jason Rantanen
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Faculty
David L. Hammer and Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd Professor of Law
Director, Innovation, Business, and Law Center
Professor Rantanen writes in the areas of patent law, federal courts, and empirical legal studies. He is the faculty advisor for the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Society student group and director of the University of Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center.
Shannon Roesler
Title/Position
Charlotte and Frederick Hubbell Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Faculty Director, Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative
Professor Roesler joins Iowa Law after serving as the Robert S. Kerr, Jr. Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Law at Oklahoma City University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on environmental justice, environmental governance, climate change litigation, and land use.
César F. Rosado Marzán
Title/Position
Edward L. Carmody Professor of Law
Director, Graduate Programs & Visiting Scholars
Professor Rosado Marzán is internationally known for his award-winning research and scholarship in labor and employment law. He studies the various ways workers organize to gain power and better represent their interests, be it through traditional labor unions or so-called "alt-labor" organizations.
Ryan T. Sakoda
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Sakoda is an Associate Professor with a focus on the empirical analysis of crime and criminal justice policy. His writings include topics such as the use of solitary confinement and the effects of post-release supervision and probation.
Leonard A. Sandler
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
Clinical Professor Len Sandler joined the faculty in 1990 to direct one of the first HIV/AIDS law school clinics in the U.S. with students providing holistic representation to individuals, their families, and allies. He founded and directs the award-winning Law and Policy in Action Clinic to give law students experience solving recurring, systemic problems that cannot be addressed through litigation. They provide no-cost consultant services, technical assistance, legislative advocacy, and representation to nonprofits, community groups, governments, and businesses on disability, civil rights, housing, healthcare, elder abuse, LGBTQ, and other issues. Sandler and his clinic students also represent and provide transactional services for families and present workshops on estate planning, guardianship, and other legal issues.
Lorie Schweer
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Lorie Schweer graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with an accounting degree in 1984. Professor Schweer first practiced as a certified public accountant and then worked in banking for 13 years. In the banking industry, she focused on regulatory compliance, audit, loan quality, and commercial lending. After graduating from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2003, she practiced law with a focus on tax planning, estate planning, probate, and exempt organization governance.
Caroline Sheerin
Title/Position
Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing & Research
Caroline Sheerin graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1993, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. She then taught English in Japan for two years and after returning from Japan, she received her Masters in East Asian Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. She then went to the University of Michigan Law School, where she received her JD in December 1999.
Gregory H. Shill
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law
Gregory Shill is interested in firms, cities, and transportation, and he writes in the fields of corporate law, securities regulation, and law and economic geography. His articles have been published in top law reviews and his research and views have been featured in leading national media.
Vinita R. Singh
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Singh joins our faculty as a visiting assistant professor of law. She specializes in national security law, economic statecraft, and taxation.
Sean Sullivan
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Bouma Faculty Fellow in Law
Professor Sean Sullivan joined the faculty of the College of Law in 2017. His research focuses on foundational topics in antitrust and evidence law—things like why we can infer market power from market shares and what it means for a jury to find the truth of a disputed fact. He also studies markets, negotiation, and decision making using tools of experimental economics.
June Tai
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Field Placement Programs
Professor June Tai is the Director of the Field Placement Program for the law school and supervises students in field placements. Her practice has focused on civil litigation, particularly in patent and other intellectual property disputes. She earned her J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Cristina Tilley
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Claire Ferguson-Carlson Faculty Fellow in Law
Cristina Tilley writes in the areas of tort law and media law. Professor Tilley has authored numerous articles that investigate the boundary between public and private law, with particular emphasis on the appropriate treatment of speech and speech injuries. Her scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
James Toomey
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Law
Professor Toomey’s research applies philosophical and empirical methods to essential questions at the intersection of bioethics and private law theory, from whether genes can be owned to when the law ought to intervene in the decision-making of those with dementia.
Lea VanderVelde
Title/Position
University of Iowa Distinguished Chair
Director of the RAOS project, (Reconstruction Amendment Optical Scanning)
Lea VanderVelde researches 19th century lives, court decisions, and other occurrences that significantly impacted the course of American law, particularly in the areas of slavery, work, property, and the Constitution. She is currently using digital research technologies to examine American national expansion in the critical years before the Civil War and the Reconstruction Congress debates that enhanced American freedom.
Carissa Vogel
Title/Position
Law Library Director & Professor of Instruction
Professor Vogel was Associate Dean for Library Services, Director of the Law Library, and Professor of Legal Research at the Dr. Lillian and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library at the Cardozo School of Law. Prior to her time at Cardozo, she was Assistant Director for Research and Instruction and Lecturer-in-Law at Cornell University Law Library, and Head of Public Services and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University’s Arthur W. Diamond Law Library.
Kevin Washburn
Title/Position
N. William Hines Dean and Professor of Law
Kevin Washburn joined Iowa Law as its 18th dean on June 15, 2018. Prior to entering academia, he clerked for a judge on the Ninth Circuit, worked as a trial attorney and then a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as the general counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission. As an academic, he has held faculty positions at Minnesota and Arizona, and taught for a year as a visitor at Harvard.
Amy Weismann
Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Assistant Director, UI Center for Human Rights
Amy Weismann teaches core courses in the Human Rights Certificate program and assists with the management and development of the certificate program. She is also the assistant director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.
Jill Wieber Lens
Title/Position
Professor of Law
Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence
Jill Wieber Lens, the Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence, is a leading legal expert on stillbirth, focusing on how laws shape the experience and perception of stillbirth in the U.S. Her interdisciplinary research, inspired by the stillbirth of her son Caleb in 2017, spans multiple legal contexts and often highlights the disproportionate impact of stillbirth on marginalized communities. A distinguished graduate of Iowa Law, Lens has published extensively in top law reviews and has contributed to prominent media outlets such as the New York Times, Slate, and Time.
Adrien Wing
Title/Position
Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs
Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law
Adrien Wing joined the faculty in 1987, and currently teaches Critical Race Theory, Sex Discrimination Law, and Law in the Muslim World. In addition to being the Associate Dean for International & Comparative Law programs, she hold two other administrative positions. She is the Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights and Director of the Law School’s summer program in France.
Joseph Yockey
Title/Position
Associate Dean for Research and Professional Development
David H. Vernon Professor of Law
Professor Yockey teaches Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Private Companies, and a seminar on Compliance, Ethics, and Risk Management. His teaching has been recognized at the college and university level—named Iowa Law teacher of the year in 2012 and a five-time nominee for the campus-wide President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence. He is also the faculty advisor to the Iowa Law Review, and a co-founder of the law school’s First-Generation Professionals (FGP) student organization.
Affiliated Faculty
Dain Donelson
Title/Position
Professor, College of Law
Professor of Accounting, Tippie College of Business
Henry B. Tippie Excellence Chair
Linda Kerber
Title/Position
May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History Emerita, Lecturer in Law
Professor Kerber teaches courses in Gender and Legal History. She is the author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship for which she was awarded the Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in U.S. legal history and the Joan Kelley Prize for the best book in women's history.
Michael E. Moore
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Medieval and European History
Dr. Moore's research centers on ecclesiastical, legal and scholarly traditions of Europe from late antiquity through the Carolingian Empire. His work encompasses the history of medieval politics, the history of scholarship, the papacy, liturgy, royal law, canon law, and the "history of history."
Rishab Nithyanand, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Emeriti-Faculty Scholar
Rishab Nithyanand holds an affiliated appointment in the College of Law and co-directs the Center for Publics, Platforms, and Personalization (CP3). He is also an assistant professor and emeriti-faculty scholar in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa where he leads the SPARTA lab.
Louise Seamster
Title/Position
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology
Louise Seamster studies race and economic inequality, particularly in cities. She writes about racial politics and urban development, emergency financial management, debt, and the myth of racial progress. Her research centers on the interactive financial and symbolic factors reproducing racial inequality across multiple domains.
Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Islamic Studies
Professor Souaiaia teaches Islamic law, women in Islam and the Middle East, human rights law, religion and politics, religion in the public sphere, and Introduction to Islamic civilization. His primary research areas of interest include social justice in the Islamic discourse, political dissent in Islam, women in Islamic law, Islamic political theory, modern Islamic thought, and religion and politics in the Islamic civilization.
Visiting and Adjunct Faculty
Mark A. Albright
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Mark A. Albright is a founding member of Perlman, Bajandas, Yevoli & Albright, P.L. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions; private equity and venture capital funding; software and technology licensing; and startups and emerging companies.
Dave Bright
Title/Position
Associate Director, Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center
Adjunct Faculty Member
Jo Butterfield
Title/Position
Student and Education Support Specialist
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
Adjunct Instructor in Human Rights
Human Rights Certificate Program Advisor
Don Ford
Title/Position
Head of Research and Foreign, Comparative, and International Law
Adjunct Instructor in Law
Don Ford is the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian and an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at Iowa Law.
N. William Hines
Title/Position
Joseph F. Rosenfield Professor and Dean Emeritus
Professor Hines completed his phased retirement in 2014, but he continues teaching part-time.
Terry Jacobs
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
The Honorable John A. Jarvey
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Judge Jarvey is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Iowa Law.
Ellen L. Jones
Title/Position
Head of Reference
Adjunct Lecturer in Law
Following completion of her Library Science degree, Ellen Jones joined the staff of the University of Iowa Law Library as a Reference Librarian. During her tenure at the Library, Ellen has coordinated and taught legal research as part of the first year legal writing program since 1994. She has also coordinated and taught Advanced Legal Research, a 2-credit, pass-fail course, often with co-teachers, since the Spring 1997 semester.
Eileen Kamerick
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Eileen Kamerick is known among top corporations – from privately-held companies to global public conglomerates – as a strategic and collaborative executive who drives profitable growth while significantly enhancing stakeholder value. Eileen is a recognized expert on corporate governance and a frequently requested speaker on the topic by leading legal and governance organizations.
Amy Koopmann
Title/Position
Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications & Innovation
Adjunct Lecturer in Law
Sheldon F. Kurtz
Title/Position
David H. Vernon Professor of Law Emeritus
Professor Kurtz joined the University of Iowa College of Law Faculty in 1973. Since then, he has been teaching at the College of Law, except for a one year visiting professorship at the University of Virginia Law School and a two-year stint as Dean of the Florida State University College of Law. He also holds an appointment in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Professor Kurtz became an emeritus faculty member in 2022 and continues teaching part-time.
Kate Mueting
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty
Professor Kate Mueting is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Iowa Law. She teaches in the Semester in DC program.
Peter Persaud
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Elisabeth Reynoldson
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Elisabeth Reynoldson is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Iowa Law.
Retired and Emeriti Faculty
Patricia Nassif Acton
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Law Emerita
Professor Acton has taught Clinical Law, Commercial Transactions, Arts & Entertainment Law, Trusts and Estates, and the Legal History of Iowa.
Gail Agrawal
Title/Position
Dean Emerita and F. Wendell Miller Professor of Law
Dean Agrawal was the 17th dean of The University of Iowa College of Law serving from 2010 - 2018.
John S. Allen
Title/Position
Herschel G. Langdon Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Allen and his students represented clients before courts and administrative agencies in a broad range of civil matters. Much of his work has focused on employment law, including employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, and unemployment insurance cases.
Patrick B. Bauer
Title/Position
Professor of Law Emeritus
Professor Bauer studies Iowa Debt Collection Law and Iowa Real Estate Financing Law. His current research includes appellate review of findings of fact, mortgage foreclosure deficiency judgments, Iowa's homestead exemption, federal farm bankruptcy legislation in the 1930s, and federalization of debt collection law in the 1990s.
Arthur E. Bonfield
Title/Position
Allan D. Vestal Chair and Associate Dean Emeritus
Professor Bonfield joined the Iowa Law School faculty in 1962 and has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, North Carolina, and Tennessee Law Schools, and at the Law Schools of Hofstra University and Lewis and Clark. Until August 2014, Professor Bonfield served as Associate Dean for Research, building the Iowa Law Library into the best public law library in the nation.
William G. Buss
Title/Position
O.K. Patton Professor Emeritus
Professor Buss took emeritus status in 2010. In retirement, he continues to be an active scholar. At the present time, Professor Buss is devoting all of his scholarly work to researching and writing about the American influence on the Australian Constitution.
Patricia A. Cain
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair Emerita
After graduating from law school, Professor Cain practiced law in Montgomery, Alabama, specializing in tax law. In 1974, she joined the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law, where she taught for 17 years. During this period of time she taught as a Visiting Professor at a number of different law schools, including Wisconsin, Tulane, and the University of Southern California. In 1991, she joined the law faculty at the University of Iowa. She was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1996 to 1999 and Associate Dean for Admissions from 2001-2003. In the 2003-2004 academic year, Professor Cain served as Interim Provost of the University and then as Vice Provost until her retirement.
Ann Laquer Estin
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair in Law Emerita
Professor Estin focused primarily in family law and international family law. As a member of the International Society of Family Law, she has served as an expert observer at the Hague Conference on Private International Law in connection with several of the Hague Children’s Conventions. In addition, she teaches courses in contracts and Federal Indian Law.
Thomas P. Gallanis
Title/Position
Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law Emeritus
Professor Thomas P. Gallanis held the Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law. He became an emeritus faculty member in 2023. Professor Gallanis specializes in trust, succession, property, and fiduciary law, with a particular interest in their comparative and cross-border aspects, and also is a historian of English and European law.
N. William Hines
Title/Position
Joseph F. Rosenfield Professor and Dean Emeritus
Professor Hines completed his phased retirement in 2014, but he continues teaching part-time.
Herbert Hovenkamp
Title/Position
Ben and Dorothy Willie Chair Emeritus
Professor Hovenkamp is a recognized expert and prolific author in the area of Antitrust law. He joined the Iowa law faculty in 1986. Before coming to Iowa, Professor Hovenkamp was Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and prior to that he was Instructor, Department of History and American Civilization, University of Texas.
Nicholas Johnson
Title/Position
Retired Adjunct Faculty Member
Nicholas Johnson is among roughly 700 individuals listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009), described by the publisher as “leading figures in the history of American law, from the colonial era to the present day.” He taught at the College of Law from 1981 until his retirement in 2014.
Carolyn Jones
Title/Position
Dean Emerita and Orville L. and Ermina D. Dykstra Chair in Income Tax Law Emerita
Carolyn Jones joined the University of Iowa College of Law in 2004 as the 16th Dean of the College. She served as Dean until 2010 when she returned to the faculty of Iowa Law. The period on which much of her works focuses is World War II and the postwar era when much of the current income tax system developed. She has contributed to eight books on tax law and is the author of numerous scholarly articles on the issue. Dean Jones took emerita status in 2021.
Sheldon F. Kurtz
Title/Position
David H. Vernon Professor of Law Emeritus
Professor Kurtz joined the University of Iowa College of Law Faculty in 1973. Since then, he has been teaching at the College of Law, except for a one year visiting professorship at the University of Virginia Law School and a two-year stint as Dean of the Florida State University College of Law. He also holds an appointment in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Professor Kurtz became an emeritus faculty member in 2022 and continues teaching part-time.
Jim Leach
Title/Position
Retired Chair in Public Affairs, Visiting Professor of Law and Senior Scholar
Paul M. Neuhauser
Title/Position
Professor of Law Emeritus
Professor Neuhauser joined the faculty of the College of Law in 1963. Prior to that he was in private practice with the New York City law firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett. A former Associate Dean of the College of Law, he was also Director of the College of Law's Summer Program in International and Comparative Law. In addition to his regular courses in the corporate law field, he teaches a course in Comparative Corporation Law. He also has been active in using United States corporation law to influence American corporations doing business in South Africa and in various other nations that deny human rights. Professor Neuhauser is a member of the Iowa and New York bars.
Mark J. Osiel
Title/Position
Aliber Family Chair in Law Emeritus
Professor Osiel has served as consultant in several, high-profile international trials and advised the Department of Defense on anti-terrorism prosecutions. He regularly addresses international organizations and governments in post-conflict societies on issues of transitional justice. His regular courses include International Criminal/Humanitarian Law, Judicial Remedies, International Law, as well as seminars on Transitional Justice and on The Law of Armed Conflict.
John C. Reitz
Title/Position
Edward Carmody Professor of Law Emeritus
Professor Reitz's love of foreign languages led him to focus his professional career on comparative law and transnational transactions. Prior to joining the faculty of the College of Law in 1983, Professor Reitz served as an American Fellow to the faculty of the Salzburg Seminar on American Law and Institutions.