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David E Adelman
Professor and Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law, School of Law
dadelman@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 0877
Expertise: David E. Adelman teaches and writes in the areas of environmental law, intellectual property law, and climate change policy. Professor Adelmans research focuses on the many interfaces between law and science. His articles have addressed such topics as the implications of emerging genomic technologies for toxics regulation, the tensions between legal and scientific evidentiary standards in regulatory decision making, and development of effective policies for promoting innovation relevant to addressing climate change.

Ari Adut
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
ariadut@mail.la.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4284
Expertise: Comparative and Historical Sociology; Social Theory; Political Sociology; Media and the Public Sphere
Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Law; Sociology of Emotions; Western Europe; Middle East; Qualitative and Historical Methods; Sociology.

Ricardo C Ainslie
M. K. Hage Centennial Professor in Education, Counseling Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
rainslie@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0364, +1 512 471 4407
Expertise: Explores the intersection of psychology and culture through such topics as the psychological experience of immigration, ethnic conflicts and the impact of violence within communities, and the relationship between individual and collective identity. Is also interested in US-Mexico health, including addressing health disparities.
<em>Note: Dr. Ainslie will not be taking new students for the 2023 academic year.</em>

John R Allison
Professor Emeritus, Department of Business, Government and Society, Red McCombs School of Business
john.allison@utexas.edu
Expertise: Patents and other areas of intellectual property such as trade secrets copyrights and trademarks; business.

David A Anderson
Professor Emeritus, School of Law
danderson@law.utexas.edu
Expertise: Torts, mass communications law, and the law of libel and privacy

Owen L Anderson
Lecturer, School of Law
oanderson@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1446
Expertise: Oil, gas/energy law

Ronen Avraham
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
ravraham@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1357
Expertise: Torts, Tort Reform, Healthcare Reform, Insurance Law, Law and Economics

Mark B Baker
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business
m.baker@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Multinational corporate law; international trade law; legal aspects of terrorism; international law; business.

William H Beardall
Clinical Professor, School of Law
bbeardall@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 784 0683
Expertise: Wage rights and policy; Low-wage workers; Immigrant workers; Guest workers; Immigrant worker rights and issues; Immigration reform; Legal aid for low-income persons; Public interest law; Law school clinics

Lynn E Blais
Professor Emeritus, School of Law
lblais@law.utexas.edu
Expertise: Environmental law, adminstrative law, and property

Robert G Bone
Professor and G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair in Law, School of Law
rbone@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1233
Expertise: Class action, federal civil procedure, complex litigation, and intellectual property, especially trademark and trade secret law.

Oren Bracha
Professor, School of Law
obracha@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9325
Expertise: Intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory.

Sarah Brayne
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
sbrayne@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8641
Expertise: surveillance practices and technologies; predictive analytics, criminal justice, data collection

Matthew A Brown
Lecturer, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
matthewbrown@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5515
Expertise: Brown's primary research goal is to develop a more thorough understanding of how past and future treatments affect specimens as sources of data, and the impact these treatments have on the science of paleontology. This approach examines the interplay of historic and current practices in the field, laboratory, and collections, and how the scientific community interprets these results in the literature. He also studies how such events foster an evolution of best practices, policy, and law, and he advocates for fossils on public lands. Brown is an active member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, and is the founder of the Association for Materials and Methods in Paleontology.

Joshua W Busby
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
busbyj@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8946
Expertise: Busby is the author of several studies on climate change, national security, and energy policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the German Marshall Fund, and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Busby is one of the lead researchers in the Strauss Center project on Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a $7.6 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. He has also written on U.S.-China relations on climate change for CNAS and Resources for the Future.

Noel B Busch-Armendariz
Professor, School of Social Work
nbusch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6388, +1 512 471 3470
Expertise: sexual assault, interpersonal violence, domestic violence, prostitution, human trafficking, refugees and asylum seekers, adult entertainment industry, restorative justice.

Norma V Cantu
Ken McIntyre Professor for Excellence in School Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
ncantu@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8593
Expertise: Teaches topics in civil rights and the intersection of law and policy in education; served as assistant secretary of education for Civil Rights during the Clinton administration.

M Bayani Cardenas
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
cardenas@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6897
Expertise: Hydrology and Hydrogeology

Mounira M Charrad
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
charrad@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6300, +1 512 232 6311
Expertise: Political Sociology; State Formation; Social Movements; Gender and Women's Rights; Colonialism; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Middle East and North Africa; gender issues

Robert M Chesney
Dean, School of Law
rchesney@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1298
Expertise: National security law and policy; terrorism (history, law, policy); law of war; federal criminal law relating to national security; intelligence and the law; constitutional law.

Richard J Chuchla
Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program Director, JSG Energy and Earth Resources
richard.chuchla@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9510
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Graduate studies were focused on igneous processes, magmatism and related formation of ore deposits. Professional career included exploration for base and precious metal ore deposits, coal assessment and development, and research, exploration and development in the upstream sector of the oil and gas business. Managerial positions led to development of skills in commercial analysis, strategic planning and valuation. Concurrently, led numerous teams negotiating new contracts which led to a strong grounding in analysis of fiscal regimes and petroleum contracts. Familiar with many of the world's basins and experienced in both conventional deepwater and unconventional resources.
Remain very interested in the technology of extractive industries and related commercial and policy issues. As Director of the Energy and Earth Resources graduate program, my personal learning objective is to broaden and deepen my understanding of renewable resources.
Have a personal passion regarding the workings of the creative process and how it is impeded. Wrote a widely read internal company newsletter called Creative Contemplations.

Michele Y Deitch
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
michele.deitch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2562, +1 512 296 7212
Expertise: juvenile justice; prison reform; crime and criminal justice

Mechele Dickerson
Professor, School of Law
mdickerson@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1311
Expertise: Consumer debt, U.S. housing crisis, income and wealth inequality, student loans, remedies

John N Doggett
Professor of Instruction, Department of Management, Red McCombs School of Business
john.doggett@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7671, +1 512 471 3676
Expertise: International entrepreneurship, global competition, sustainability, energy

Ariel E Dulitzky
Clinical Professor, School of Law
adulitzky@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1256
Expertise: International human rights law, Latin America

John S Dzienkowski
Professor, School of Law
jdzienkowski@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1367
Expertise: John Dzienkowski teaches and writes in the areas of professional responsibility of lawyers, real property, international energy transactions, and oil and gas taxation. He is widely regarded as one of the most dynamic and effective speakers on topics of professional responsibility and he has delivered almost one hundred ethics presentations to in-house corporate departments, large and small law firms, state bar continuing legal education programs, and law faculties throughout this country.

Veit F Erlmann
Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
erlmann@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2092
Expertise: Ethnomusicology; African culture

Karen L Fingerman
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
kfingerman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0618
Expertise: adolescene and young adulthood, adult development, aging, diversity and culture, interpersonal relationships, parenting and caregiving

William E Forbath
Professor, School of Law
wforbath@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1326
Expertise: Constitutional law, legal history, social and economic rights in courts, social movements of Africa, Texas low-income housing

Julius G Getman
Professor Emeritus, School of Law
jgetman@law.utexas.edu
Expertise: Labor law, employment law, higher education

Denise L Gilman
Clinical Professor, School of Law
dgilman@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7796
Expertise: Denise Gilman teaches and directs the Immigration Clinic after having joined the clinical faculty at the University of Texas Law School in the fall of 2007. Professor Gilman received her undergraduate degree with honors in political science from Northwestern University. She received her law degree from Columbia University School of Law where she served on the Law Review. Professor Gilman also has an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Gilman clerked for Judge Thomas M. Reavley, at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is fluent in Spanish.

John M Golden
Professor, School of Law
jgolden@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1469
Expertise: Patent law, intellectual property, administrative law, contracts, science and technology

Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
gloria@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6343
Expertise: Sociology of Gender and Sexuality; Migration Studies; Sexual Violence; Masculinities; Sociology of Family Life; Qualitative Methodologies; Gender issues, Family relationships

Steven Goode
Professor, School of Law
sgoode@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1331
Expertise: Evidence; criminal law; professional responsibility & ethics with emphasis on privileges and confidentiality; communication

Benjamin G Gregg
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
bgregg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7274
Expertise: Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Political Theory, Social Theory, Bioethics, Genetic Manipulation of Humans

Patricia I Hansen
Professor, School of Law
phansen@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1321
Expertise: International trade law; North American Free Trade Agreement; business

Kelly L Haragan
Clinical Professor, School of Law
kharagan@law.utexas.edu
Expertise: Environmental law, Clean Air Act, air permitting
William M Hart
Adjunct Professor, School of Law
william.hart@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Copyright Law

Barbara C Hines
Adjunct Professor, School of Law
bhines@law.utexas.edu
Expertise: Immigration law, constitutional and statutory rights of immigrants in federal and immigration courts.

Henry T Hu
Professor, School of Law
hhu@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1373
Expertise: Law and economics of corporate and international finance; swaps; derivatives; securities; banking; corporate governance; hedge funds; mutual funds; new financial products and financial innovation; corporate hedging; investment and risk management; business, economics & labor

Thomas M Hunt
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
tmhunt@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1540
Expertise: Examines the intersection of sport and international political history.

William Inboden
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
inboden@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2411, +1 512 471 2601
Expertise: National Security, Foreign Policy

Charles S Jackson
Research Associate Professor, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences
charles@ig.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0401
Expertise: global warming, abrupt climate change, sea level rise, ocean mixing, Bayesian Inference, inverse modeling, simulation, climate projections, uncertainty quantification

Derek P Jinks
Professor, School of Law
djinks@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1265
Expertise: Public International law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, and criminal law.

Calvin H Johnson
Professor, School of Law
cjohnson@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1306
Expertise: Federal tax law; constitutional law; accounting; business, economics & labor.

Peniel E Joseph
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
peniel.joseph@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7241
Expertise: Africana studies, women's studies, ethnic studies, law, society, political science.

Manuel J Justiz
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
mjustiz@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1695
Expertise: Bringing the experience of 28 years as dean of the College of Education, Justiz shares his expertise in topics of public policy, the politics of education, and providing equal access for minorities in education.

Robert H Kane
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
robertkane@utexas.edu
Expertise: Contemporary disputes about ethics and values, freedom and responsibility, in a pluralist world of conflicting beliefs and points of view and the implications of these disputes for social ethics, politics, law and religion

William R Kelly
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
wkelly@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4142
Expertise: Criminal Justice/Criminology/Ecology of Crime, Program and Policy Research and Evaluation, Research Methodology and Statistics

Jennifer E Laurin
Professor, School of Law
jlaurin@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3627
Expertise: criminal and constitutional litigation, regulation of criminal justice institutions, civil rights, criminal procedure

Mark A Lawrence
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
malawrence@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9304
Expertise: U.S. Foreign Relations, the Vietnam War, International History, Decolonization

Brian P Levack
Professor and John E. Green Regents Professorship in History; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
levack@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: The history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, witchcraft

Sanford V Levinson
Professor, School of Law
slevinson@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1351
Expertise: Constitutional Law, constitutional design, emergency powers and constitutional theory, torture and the law

Stephen T Limberg
Professor, Department of Accounting, Red McCombs School of Business
stephen.limberg@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5347, +1 512 471 7698
Expertise: U.S. federal income taxation of partnerships; U.S. federal income taxation of international transactions

Angela K Littwin
Professor, School of Law
alittwin@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5561
Expertise: Bankruptcy; consumer credit especially credit cards; secured credit

Thomas O McGarity
Professor, School of Law
tmcgarity@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1384
Expertise: administrative law, environmental law, food safety law, and torts

Linda S Mullenix
Professor, School of Law
lmullenix@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1375
Expertise: Mass tort litigation; class action litigation; federal civil procedure; federal courts; professional responsibility

J T Oden
Professor and Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering No. 2, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
oden@oden.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3312
Expertise: Finite element and computational methods and computational methods that can be applied to multiple physical phenomena and applications including energy, via subsurface fluid flow of oil, gas, and CO2 storage.

Paola Passalacqua
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
paola@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3319
Expertise: Multi-scale analysis of hydrological processes; Dynamics of environmental transport on river networks and deltaic systems; Quantitative analysis and modeling of landscape forming processes, geomorphic transport laws and subgrid-scale parameterization

H W Perry Jr
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
hwperry@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1852, +1 512 232 7228
Expertise: U.S. Supreme Court; constitutional interpretation; the intersection of law and politics; free speech; class actions; public law

Becky M Pettit
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
bpettit@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9850
Expertise: Social Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Labor Markets, Research Methods

Lucas A Powe
Professor, School of Law
spowe@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1345
Expertise: U.S. Supreme Court; First Amendment; Second Amendment; Constitutional law; sports law

Robert A Prentice
Professor, Department of Business, Government and Society, Red McCombs School of Business
rprentice@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5246
Expertise: General business law, securities regulation, mergers & acquisitions, insider trading, law of electronic commerce, legal liability of accoutants, ethics

Heath J Prince
Director (0379), Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
heath.prince@raymarshallcenter.org
+1 512 471 2193
Expertise: workforce development, labor markets, measuring poverty in developing countries

David M Rabban
Professor and Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Law
drabban@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1308
Expertise: Higher education law, academic freedom, free speech, labor law, legal history, constitutional law

Mary Rose
Director, HDO Undergraduate Program, College of Liberal Arts
mrose@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6336
Expertise: Juries and jury decision making, empirical analysis of the law, lay understanding of law and legal practices; justice perceptions; jury behavior; emotions and law, social psychology

Stephen Russell
Department Chair, Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
stephen.russell@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0753, +1 512 471 8391
Expertise: Adolescent sexuality; LGBT youth; parent-adolescent relationships; childhood development

Lawrence Sager
Professor, School of Law
lsager@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1355
Expertise: Constitutional law, constitutional theory, religious liberties, legal process

John J Sampson
Professor Emeritus, School of Law
jsampson@law.utexas.edu
Expertise: Family Law; abuse and neglect of children; child custody and support; community property; legislation; paternity; children''s rights; Texas marital relations and divorce

Amy K Sanders
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
amy.sanders@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: international and comparative media law; First Amendment; law and emerging technology; journalism; media literacy; media ethics

Wayne Schiess
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
wschiess@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1333
Expertise: Legal writing; legal research; drafting; plain language

Daron R Shaw
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
dshaw@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7275
Expertise: American politics; campaigns and elections; public opinion and voting behavior; polls and survey research.

Andrew B Shea
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
andrew.shea@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5303
Expertise: director; screenwriter; producer; documentary filmmaker

David S Sibley
Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
sibley@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8545
Expertise: Vertical restrictions, including bundling and tying; vertical and horizontal mergers; public utility pricing and regulatory policy; equilibrium constraints on tests of single firm conduct under Section 2 of the Sherman Act.

Michael Sierra-Arévalo
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
msa@utexas.edu
Expertise: Police; policing; gangs; gun violence; violence prevention

Stephen Slick
Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, Intelligence Studies Project
sbslick@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0814
Expertise: Nuclear Proliferation, Contemporary Foreign Policy, International Security, International Relations, Terrorism, Urban and Regional Policy, Nuclear Strategy and Arms Control, Public Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy

David S Sokolow
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, School of Law
dsokolow@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1379
Expertise: Contract law, corporate law, entertainment law, art law

William G Spelman
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
spelman@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Urban policy and management; urban politics; criminal justice policy; prisons; municipal policing; community crime prevention

David B Spence
Professor, School of Law
david.spence@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 554 9350
Expertise: David Spence is a professor in the Department of Business, Government and Society at The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Spence's research and teaching focuses on business-government relations and the regulation of business, particularly energy and environmental regulation. Before coming to academia, he was a practicing attorney representing public utilities, energy companies and others in connection with a wide variety of environmental and energy regulatory matters.

James C Spindler
Professor, School of Law
jspindler@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1096
Expertise: Securities regulation, corporate law, corporate finance, securities disclosure, corporate fraud, corporate governance, executive compensation, securitizations, and auction rate securities

Elissa C Steglich
Clinical Professor, School of Law
esteglich@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1387
Expertise: immigration and citizenship law, immigrant's rights

Jordan M Steiker
Professor, School of Law
jsteiker@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1346
Expertise: Capital punishment; constitutional law; federal habeas corpus; criminal law

Michael F Sturley
Professor, School of Law
msturley@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1350
Expertise: Admiralty and maritime law, particularly the commercial aspects of maritime law (such as the international carriage of goods by sea); Supreme Court practice; commercial law, payment systems

Melinda E Taylor
Executive Director, Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Business
mtaylor@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3641
Expertise: Melinda E. Taylor is a Senior Lecturer and Executive Director of the Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration and Environmental Law. Taylor joined the faculty of the Law School in January 2006. Prior to joining the faculty, she was the director of the Ecosystem Restoration Program of Environmental Defense where she managed a staff of attorneys, scientists and economists engaged in projects to protect endangered species and water resources across the United States. Taylor has also served as deputy general counsel of the National Audubon Society in Washington, D.C. and was an associate at Bracewell & Patterson in Washington.

Shirley E Thompson
Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
s.thompson@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory

Philip U Treisman
Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences
uri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2271, +1 512 471 6190
Expertise: Education Policy; mathematics education; economics of education; educational equity; education program design and evaluation volunteerism

Angela Valenzuela
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
valenz@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6008
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Specializes in urban education from a sociological and multicultural perspective, with a focus on minority youth in schools, particularly at the K-12 level.

Stephen I Vladeck
Professor, School of Law
svladeck@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9198
Expertise: federal jurisdiction, constitutional law, and national security law

Wendy E Wagner
Professor, School of Law
wwagner@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1477
Expertise: Professor Wagner is a leading authority on the use of science by environmental policy-makers. Prof. Wagners research focuses on the intersection of law and science, with particular attention to environmental policy.

Heather K Way
Clinical Professor, School of Law
hway@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1210
Expertise: Issues related to affordable housing, community development, social equity, and transit-oriented development.

Jay L Westbrook
Professor, School of Law
jwestbrook@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1303
Expertise: Bankruptcy; international business litigation and arbitration; commercial law especially Article 9; secured credit

Abraham L Wickelgren
Professor and Bernard J. Ward Professor in Law, School of Law
awickelgren@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1904
Expertise: Antitrust law, antitrust economics, contracts, and law and economics

Samuel C Woolley
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
swoolley@utexas.edu
Expertise: computational propoganda