Michael Asimow

UCLA School of Law

Visiting Professor of Law Michael Asimow returns to Stanford Law this spring, teaching Taxation I. He is a professor of law emeritus at UCLA School of Law, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1967. He is an expert in the fields of administrative law and the portrayal of law in popular culture.

Nita Farahany

Vanderbilt University Law School

Visiting Associate Professor of Law Nita Farahany is at Stanford Law this year to teach Liability, Responsibility, and Punishment in the winter as well as Current Topics in Bioethics in the spring. As an associate professor of law and philosophy at Vanderbilt, she is a leading expert in law and the biosciences; her research focuses on the legal, philosophical, and social issues that arise from developments in the biosciences. In 2010, President Obama appointed Farahany to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

Siegfried Fina

University of Vienna School of Law

Siegfried Fina is a visiting professor of law from the University of Vienna School of Law, where he is an associate professor of European Union law and technology law. He is teaching European Union Law in the winter. No stranger to Stanford, Fina is co-founder and co-director of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum at Stanford Law and a research affiliate at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is an expert in business-related and technology-related law and policy of the European Union as well as legal aspects of the EU-U.S. trade and economic governance issues of the trans-Atlantic marketplace.

Pratheepan (Deep) Gulasekaram ’01

Santa Clara Law School

Pratheepan (Deep) Gulasekaram is a visiting assistant professor of law from Santa Clara Law School where he specializes in the areas of immigration, federalism, and citizenship. His current research focuses on constitutional issues in the immigration context. He is teaching Immigration Law in the winter.

Daniel Hulsebosch

NYU School of Law

Visiting Professor of Law Daniel Hulsebosch is a legal and constitutional historian who is an expert on the relationships between migration, territorial expansion, and the development of legal institutions and doctrines. His current research focuses on the expansion of American legal culture in the two generations after the American Revolution. He is teaching Property in the winter.

Mark McKenna

University of Notre Dame Law School

Mark McKenna comes to Stanford Law as the Edwin A. Heafey, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law. He is visiting from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he specializes in the area of intellectual property. His other research interests include copyright, the right of publicity, and the intersection between various types of intellectual property protection. He is teaching Advanced Topics in Unfair Competition and Intellectual Property: Trademark in the fall.

Bernadette (Bernie) Meyler ’03

Cornell Law School

Bernadette Meyler comes to Stanford Law this spring from Cornell Law as the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights and will teach History of the Common Law in England and America and Constitutional Law I. Her research and teaching focuses on British and American legal history, the intersection between common law and constitutional law, law and literature, and law and religion.

David Patton

The University of Alabama School of Law

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law David Patton comes to Stanford Law this winter to head the Criminal Defense Clinic, which he also directed at the University of Alabama School of Law. Before joining the Alabama faculty, he taught the Federal Defender Clinic at New York University School of Law and spent six years working as a trial attorney in the federal defender office of the Southern District of New York.

Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo

Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas

Professor Pérez-Perdomo is a visiting professor of law from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela, where he is dean of the Faculty of Juridical and Political Studies. He is a leading scholar in the area of sociology of law in Latin America. Pérez-Perdomo is teaching Law and Society in International Perspective and, in conjunction with Professor Lawrence M. Friedman, the SPILS Law and Society Seminar, both in the fall.

William Simon

Columbia Law School

William Simon returns to Stanford Law from Columbia Law School this fall as a Herman Phleger Visiting Professor, teaching Professional Responsibility and Reconstructing the Administrative State: Theory and Practice. He was on Stanford Law’s faculty from 1981 to 2003, first as the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and then the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law. His research interests include professional responsibility, corporations, and foundations of the regulatory state.

Jonathan Zittrain

Harvard Law School

Visiting Professor Jonathan Zittrain returns from Harvard Law School this winter, teaching Cyberlaw: Difficult Problems, an innovative joint course with Harvard Law students. Zittrain’s research interests include digital property, electronic privacy, technology in  education, cyberlaw, intellectual property, torts, trademark, privacy, electronic commerce, Internet governance, and the role played by private “middle people” in Internet architecture.