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Assistant Professor Sherry Batzer
Public Sector Law Clinic, Access to Justice Clinic, Interviewing & Counseling
batzers@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Curt Benson
Evidence, Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II, General Practice Externship
bensonc@cooley.edu
Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor Tracey Brame
Moot Court, Access to Justice Clinic
bramet@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Paul Carrier
Property I, Property II, European Union Law, Advanced Practice Skills – International Law, Modern International Contract Law and Practice, Jessup International Moot Court Competition Team, Co-Director Foreign Study in Toronto Program
carrierp@cooley.edu
Assistant Professor Bradley Charles
Research and Writing, Introduction to Law, General Practice Externship, ARC Faculty Advisor
charleb@cooley.edu
Associate Professor and Clinic Director Cindy E. Faulkner
Access to Justice Clinic, Public Sector Law Clinic
faulknec@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Heather Garretson
Contracts I, Contracts II, Sales & Negotiable Instruments
garretsh@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Marjorie Gell
Taxation, Tax Research & Argument Technique (LL.M.)
gellm@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Christopher G. Hastings
Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II, Comparative Procedure (Michigan)
hastingc@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Tonya Krause-Phelan
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Defending Battered Women
krausept@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Paul K. Marineau
Wills, Estates & Trusts, International Tax – Outbound, Taxation
marineap@cooley.edu
Professor Dena M. Marks
Contracts I, Contracts II, Sales & Negotiable Instruments, Research & Writing, Advanced Research & Writing, Scholarly Writing
marksd@cooley.edu
Professor John H. Marks
Torts I, Torts II, Equity & Remedies, Workplace & Employment Discrimination, Legal Research & Writing, Advanced Legal Research & Writing, Intraschool Moot Court, National Moot Court
marksj@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Jeffrey Martlew
Pretrial Skills, Trial Skills
martlewj@cooley.edu
Associate Dean and Professor Nelson P. Miller
Torts I, Torts II, Professional Responsibility, No-Fault Insurance, Tax-Exempt Organizations, Health Law, Advanced Professional Ethics, Workplace & Employment Discrimination Law
millern@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Michael Molitor
Business Organizations, Securities Regulation, Wills, Estates and Trusts
molitorm@cooley.edu
Professor James M. Peden
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Terrorism and the Law, International Criminal Law
pedenj@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Donald K.S. Petersen
Property II, Secured Transactions, Sports and Entertainment Law
petersed@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Devin S. Schindler
Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, Terrorism and the Law
schindld@cooley.edu
Assistant Professor Jane M. Siegel
Research & Writing
siegelj@cooley.edu
Associate Professor Paul T. Sorensen
Torts I, Torts II, Contracts I, Equity & Remedies, General Practice Externship
sorensep@cooley.edu
Assistant Professor Victoria Vuletich
Professional Responsibility
vuleticv@cooley.edu
Assistant Professor Derek Witte
Contracts I
witted@cooley.edu
FACULTY NEWS
January 2010
Sherry Batzer
Professor Batzer met with County and Sheriff Department personnel preparing and evaluating Public Sector Law Project matters for students. She also served pro-bono at Ferguson Apartments.
Tracey Brame
Assistant Dean Brame received a Giants Award, specifically the Floyd Skinner Justice Award, given by Grand Rapids Community College to recognize contributions of leading members of the minority community. She provided inter-cultural competence training to attorneys at Varnum Riddering Schmidt & Howlett.
Heather Garretson
Professor Garretson worked with the Disaster Legal Relief Association to coordinate the campus response to the destruction in Haiti, attended a Grand Haven Christian School Promotions Committee meeting, led the Junior Girls youth group meeting for Covenant Life Church in Grand Haven, and attended a training meeting for a United Way Health Panel, as a step toward participating in a community group that will propose a distribution of funds for health issues for the Ottawa County United Way.
Professor Garretson also drafted an abstract of the article Can the Professor Come Out and Play? Scholarship, Teaching, and Theories of Play for the Grand Rapids-campus faculty.
Dena Marks
Professor Dena Marks is teaching and directing Cooley's Down Under program in Australia and New Zealand.
John Marks
Professor John Marks is teaching and directing Cooley's Down Under program in Australia and New Zealand.
Nelson Miller
Dean Miller had the book A Law Student’s Guide to the Knowledge, Skills, and Ethics Dimensions of Legal Education accepted for publication by Carolina Academic Press.
He also had an article on The Role of Law Schools in Shaping Culturally Competent Lawyers published in the Michigan Bar Journal. He completed edits on his Torts course-book The Practice of Tort Law for publication by Vandeplas Publishing Co. next month.
He also served pro-bono in the Nonprofit Incorporation Project.
Mike Molitor
Professor Molitor continued his weekly reading tutor visits with a student at Campau Park Elementary. He also continues working on a law review article with the working title- The Crucial Gatekeeping Role of the Nominating Committee: Strengthening Nominating Committees in the Aftermath of Shareholder Access to the Proxy, Majority Voting, De-Staggered Boards, and the End of Broker Non-Votes.
Professor Molitor also continued his work as a member of the Honor Council.
Devin Schindler
Professor Devin Schindler won the school-wide Beattie Teaching Award, given at graduation to the professor garnering the greatest support in a poll of graduating students.
He also appeared on Professor Curt Benson's "The Lawyers" radio show on WOOD-AM to discuss the constitutionality of health care reform.
Victoria Vuletich
Professor Vuletich had an article Is Property More Important than People? The Moral Inadequacy of Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 accepted for publication by the Charlotte Law Review.
She also participated in the second meeting of the ABA CLE Stakeholder's Group, which is making a recommendation to the ABA Board of Governors regarding the future of continuing legal education in the ABA.
Derek Witte
Professor Witte had an article entitled Your Opponent Does Not Need A Friend Request To See Your Page: Facebook and ESI accepted for publication by the McGeorge Law Review (University of the Pacific).
He also authored the 2010 E-Discovery Update for Michigan ICLE and presented at the 2010 William Campbell Law Review in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the topic of Facebook and e-discovery. |
