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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.
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.
Elisabeth Reynoldson
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Elisabeth Reynoldson is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Iowa Law.
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.
Christopher Rossi
Title/Position
Adjunct Faculty Member
Dr. Rossi is the author of Whiggish International Law: Elihu Root, the Monroe Doctrine, and International Law in the Americas (Brill/Nijhoff), Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation (Cambridge University Press), Broken Chain of Being, James Brown Scott and the Origins of Modern International Law (Kluwer), and Equity and International Law (Transnational).
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.
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.
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.
Noëlle Sinclair
Title/Position
Head of Special Collections
Adjunct Lecturer in Law
As Head of Special Collections, Noëlle oversees the Law Library archives and rare book collections. In addition to managing the Special Collections, she also provides reference service, guest lectures in the first-year LAWR program, and teaches in the Hubbard Program.
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.
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.
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