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We are pleased to announce the following new faculty members who will permanently join the Northwestern Law community in fall 2006:

Albert Alschuler, Professor of Law
Albert Alschuler will join the Northwestern Law faculty this fall after serving as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in spring 2005. He specializes in criminal justice and has written on topics including plea bargaining, sentencing reform, privacy, search and seizure, civil procedure, jury selection, legal history, legal ethics, confessions, courtroom conduct, William Blackstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, American legal theory, and other topics, most of them in the area of criminal justice. He is currently the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago.

Olufunmilayo Arewa, Associate Professor of Law
Funmi Arewa was most recently an assistant professor and assistant director of the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. Her areas of expertise include intellectual property, international trade and business, business law, entrepreneurship, empirical methods, and finance. She was previously the chief financial officer and general counsel at Boston-based JT Venture Partners, LLC. She has written several articles and presented on issues relating to copyright infringements, securities regulations, and global intellectual property.

Sandra Babcock, Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Sandra Babcock was a visiting clinical professor in the Center for International Human Rights in spring 2006 and will join the Northwestern Law faculty as a clinical associate professor of law. For more than a decade, she has been a prominent advocate for the incorporation of human rights norms in U.S. death penalty jurisprudence. She is currently serving as director of the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, a program funded by Mexico to assist Mexican nationals facing capital punishment in the United States. For her work on behalf of Mexican nationals facing the death penalty, she was awarded the Aguila Azteca, the highest honor bestowed by the government of Mexico upon citizens of foreign countries, in 2003.

Locke Bowman, Clinical Associate Professor of Law; Legal Director, MacArthur Justice Center
Locke Bowman joined the Law School faculty following the MacArthur Justice Center's relocation to Northwestern from the University of Chicago this summer. He has been with the center since 1992 and has handled a wide variety of civil and criminal litigation. His work focuses on cases involving police misconduct, compensation of the wrongfully convicted, rights of the media in the criminal justice system, and firearms control. He previously served as law clerk to Judge Hubert L. Will of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and was an associate at Mayer, Brown & Platt. He was also an assistant corporation counsel in the City of Chicago Law Department and a criminal defense lawyer at Silets & Martin before joining the center. Based on votes from fellow attorneys, Chicago Magazine named Bowman an Illinois "Super Lawyer" in 2005 and 2006 for his work in constitutional law and civil rights.

Lee Epstein, Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law
Lee Epstein visited Northwestern as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in fall 2005 and will join the Law School faculty as the Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law in September 2006. She is currently the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Washington University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation for her work on judicial politics and has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 70 articles and essays, as well as 13 books. Professor Epstein was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is co-teaching a faculty workshop on Empirical Legal Scholarship at the Law School in May.

Karl Lutz, Senior Lecturer
Karl Lutz is currently a Business Law Faculty Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School, teaching courses in business transactions, private equity and entrepreneurial transactions, law firms and legal careers, and professional responsibility. He was formerly a senior partner with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago and New York. While at Kirkland, he practiced corporate law, specializing in private equity, venture capital, leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and board representations. He also served on Kirkland's senior management committee. He has lectured on numerous occasions at graduate law and business schools, and has served as general counsel of a public company.

Joe Margulies, Clinical Associate Professor of Law; Assistant Director, MacArthur Justice Center
Joe Margulies (JD '88), lecturer and trial attorney at the MacArthur Justice Center, has been a successful civil rights and capital defense attorney for 14 years. He has represented death row inmates across the country and was lead counsel in the Guantanamo Bay detainees case Rasul et al. v. Bush et al., heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. While at the MacArthur Justice Center, Margulies is on leave from Margulies & Richman, PLC, his criminal defense and civil rights practice in Minneapolis. Following law school, Margulies clerked for the Honorable William Hart in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. He later served as senior staff attorney of the Texas Capital Resource Center, where he represented men and women on Texas' death row. In May 2005, the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights awarded Margulies with the Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Award for his work on post-9/11 civil liberties litigation.

David Scheffer, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law; Director, Center for International Human Rights
David J. Scheffer rejoins Northwestern Law after serving as a visiting clinical professor in the Center for International Human Rights during the 2005-06 academic year. He was previously the U.S. Ambassador at Large For War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation in U.N. talks establishing the International Criminal Court. During his ambassadorship he was responsible for negotiating and coordinating U.S. support for the establishment and operation of international and hybrid criminal tribunals and U.S. responses to atrocities anywhere in the world. He has published extensively on international legal and political issues in books, law reviews, journals, and newspapers, as well as appearing regularly in the national and international media.

Nancy Staudt, Class of 1940 Professor of Law
Nancy Staudt will join the Northwestern Law faculty after serving as a professor of law and faculty advisor of the LLM Program in Taxation at Washington University in St. Louis. She was a visiting professor in the Tax Program at Northwestern in fall 2005. Professor Staudt has spent the last year investigating judicial decision making in the context of taxpayer lawsuits. Her articles, "Taxpayers in Court: A Systematic Study of a (Misunderstood) Doctrine," Emory Law Journal (forthcoming), and "Modeling Standing," explore the doctrine and politics of taxpayer standing at every level of the federal judicial hierarchy.

Abe Wickelgren, Assistant Professor of Law
Abe Wickelgren joins Northwestern Law's faculty following his post as a lecturer in the department of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on law and economics, industrial organization, contract theory, and bargaining theory. He holds a JD and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and is a previous recipient of the Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics.

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