People
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.
Carin Crain
Title/Position
Associate Dean of Student and Career Services
Carin Crain has served as the Associate Dean of Student and Career Services at the University of Iowa College of Law since August 2007. Before coming to Iowa, she worked in various capacities at Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California, including: Lecturer In Law, Special Education Hearing Officer, Director of Off-Campus Clinical Programs, and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs. Dean Crain started her legal career as a Staff Attorney at the Sacramento and Shasta Regional Offices of Legal Services of Northern California. Before attending law school she taught English and English as a Second Language to junior high students in Los Angeles.
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.
Nathan Davis
Title/Position
Admin Services Coordinator
Diane Debok
Title/Position
Creative Media Developer
Diane Debok is on the staff of the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center.
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.
Dain Donelson
Title/Position
Professor, College of Law
Professor of Accounting, Tippie College of Business
Henry B. Tippie Excellence Chair
Christopher Drahozal
Title/Position
Visiting Professor of Law and John M. Rounds Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law
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.
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.
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.
AJ Finch, J.D.
Title/Position
Assistant Director, Career and Judicial Clerkships
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