Professor Shayna Sigman
Associate Professor of Law, Touro Law Center.Professor Sigman received
her B.A., summa cum laude, 1997, Boston University; J.D., with high honors,
2000, University of Chicago Law School. Before joining Touro Law Center,
Professor Sigman was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota School of
Law, where she taught torts, remedies, sports law, law and economics,
jurisprudence, and creditor remedies/secured transactions. Prior to teaching
atMinnesota, she clerked for Chief Judge Richard A. Posner, United States Court
of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Professor Sigman has written and lectured
on a wide variety of subjects including: the jurisprudence of Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis, polygamy, Jewish law, violence in sports, and more. Professor
Sigman’s current research focuses on the interaction between private ordering
and legal regulation, particularly in the context of the family. In addition,
she is the Chair of the Jewish Law Section of the Association of American Law
Schools (AALS) for 2007-2008. When not engaged in teaching and scholarship,
Professor Sigman, sports-nut extraordinaire, can usually be found playing or
coaching ice hockey, training at the gym, or rooting for the New York Yankees.
Professor R. Collin Mangrum
Professor of Law, Creighton University School of Law.A. A. & Ethel
Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics; received his Bachelor of Arts degree,
magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1972; his Juris Doctor degree from
the University of Utah School of Law in 1974, where he was Associate Editor of
the LawReview; his Bachelor of Civil Laws from Oxford University in 1978; and
his Doctor of Juridical Science degree fromHarvardUniversity in 1983. He was in
private practice in Salt Lake City from 1975-1977; was Rotary International
Foundation Fellow in 1977 and in 1978; and he joined the Creighton faculty in
1979.He received a Visiting Scholar appointment to the University of Edinburgh
in the fall of 1986. He has written articles for Creighton Law Review, Duke Law
Journal, Utah Law Review, BYU Studies, and Mormon History Journal. His book
Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints, 1830-1900 (1988) (University of Illinois Press) won the National Alpha
Sigma Nu Book Award for 1989. He teaches Advanced Trial Practice, Church and
State, Evidence, History of American Legal Thought, Jurisprudence, and
Scientific Evidence.
Professor Richard Klein
Professor of Law, Touro Law Center.Richard Klein was a Ford Foundation
Study Fellowin International Development both at Columbia University, where he
obtained graduate degrees in international affairs, and atHarvard LawSchool.He
has been the recipient of grants from the Harvard Law School Center for
Criminal Justice and the Harvard Law School Civil Rights Coordinating
Committee. He is a past Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the
Association of American Law Schools, and serves on numerous committees of the
Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association. He has published
widely on the sixth amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel, on
judicial ethics in criminal cases, and on the constitutionality of the death
penalty.He has taught International Human Rights in China, Russia and India,
and has published numerous articles relating to human rights issues. Professor
Klein is the Bruce K. GouldDistinguished Professor of Law at Touro.
The Honorable Ron Merkel,Q.C.
International Criminal Law.The Honorable Ron Merkel received his law
degree from the University of Melbourne. He was a trial and appellate Justice
of the Federal Court of Australia from 1996 to 2006. He is the founding member
of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, and has served as President of the
Australian Council for Civil Liberties, and as a Commissioner of the
Commonwealth Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, among other
leadership positions with human rights organizations. He has delivered numerous
lectures and papers on topics relating to international law and human rights,
including The Right to Difference, 3 New York City Law Review 81 (1998) and
Separation of Powers – A Bulwark for Liberty and a Rights Culture, 69
Saskatchewan Law Review 129 (2006).
Jonathan I. Ezor
Professor of Law, Director of the Institute for Business, Law and Technology,
Touro Law Center.Jonathan I. Ezor is the Director of the Touro Law
Center Institute for Business, Law and Technology, and an Assistant Professor
of Law and Technology. He also serves as special counsel to The Lustigman Firm,
a marketing and advertising law firm based in New York City. A technology
attorney for more than a decade, Professor Ezor has represented advertising
agencies, software developers, banks, retailers and Internet service providers
as well as traditional firms, and has been in-house counsel to an online
retailer, an Internet-based document printing firm and a multinational Web and
software development company. He was also named one of Long Island Business
News’ “Top 40 Under 40” for 2005, and served as the Reporter for the New York
State Bar Association E-Filing Task Force. Author of Clicking Through: A
Survival Guide for Bringing Your Company Online (Bloomberg Press, 2000) and
coauthor of Producing Web Hits (IDG Books, 1997), Professor Ezor was a
columnist on legal issues for BusinessWeek Online and the@NY electronic
newsletter. He has also written for Business 2.0, Advertising Age (which named
him a “Web Warrior” in 1995), Law Technology News, the New York Law Journal,
and Infoworld. Professor Ezor is a graduate of BrandeisUniversity and Yale Law
School.
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