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A number of distinguished scholars have joined or will join Northwestern Law over the next few years. They include Gordon S. Wood, one of the country's leading historians of Colonial America; Charles Taylor, one of the most influential political philosophers of our time (he will hold a joint position with the philosophy department); and John O. McGinnis, an expert in constitutional law and international trade.

Wood will permanently join the Northwestern faculty in 2003. Currently the Alva O. Way University Professor of History at Brown University, Wood won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "The Radicalism of the American Revolution." He also was awarded the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and a National Book Award nomination for "The Creation of the American Republic." He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and previously taught at the College of William and Mary, Cambridge University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan.

Taylor, who joined the Northwestern faculty in 2002 as a Board of Trustees professor with a joint appointment at the Law School and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, will teach at the Law School for the first time in winter 2003. Taylor's interests include the role of law in political theory, history of philosophy, truth, theism, interpretation, the human sciences, liberalism, pluralism and difference. He has studied and written about the worth of distinctive cultural traditions, the modern understanding of the self, and the philosophy of Hegel.

Taylor received his Ph.D. from Oxford University and has taught at McGill University in Montreal since 1961. In 1992 the Quebec provincial government awarded Professor Taylor the Prix Léon-Gérin, the highest honor given for contribution to Quebec intellectual life, and in 2000 he was named a grand officer de l'Ordre national du Quebec. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the British Academy, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

McGinnis, who first came to Northwestern from the Cardozo School of Law in 2001 as a visiting professor of law, will permanently join the faculty in 2002. He earned his BA and JD from Harvard University and his MA from Oxford University. From 1987 to 1991, he was deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. McGinnis recently was appointed to the advisory committee on NAFTA and labor standards. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative also has added him to the roster of Americans who can be appointed as panelists to resolve World Trade Organization disputes.

Consistent with its strategy to build a diverse faculty with rising scholars who will build their careers and reputations at Northwestern, the Law School is also pleased to announce that Kimberly Yuracko and Claire Priest will join the faculty this fall as assistant professors of law.

Yuracko has joined the Northwestern faculty after serving as a visiting assistant professor for the 2001-02 academic year. Her primary research interest is in contemporary feminist theory. Yuracko received her Ph.D. and law degree from Stanford University and previously taught at University of California-Irvine. She will teach courses in family law and employment law. Her book Perfectionism and Contemporary Feminist Values is currently being published by Indiana University Press.

Priest, a graduate of Yale Law School, served as editor of the Yale Law Journal and was the John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics from 1995 to 1999. She won the John M. Olin prize for best paper on law, economics and public policy and the Joseph Parker Prize for best paper on legal history in 1997-98. She served as the Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law in 2000-01. Priest's research interests include contracts, commercial law, bankruptcy, legal history, torts, antitrust, property, trusts and estates and family law.

David L. Cameron, a 1986 Northwestern Law graduate, first joined our faculty as a visitor in spring of 2002. This year, he joins us as associate director of the new Tax Program and will teach Advanced Property Taxation and Entity Taxation in the fall and Advanced Property Taxation another section of Entity Taxation in the spring. He has written many articles on land use and tax issues. He was voted 1995 Teacher of the Year at Willamette University College of Law, where he taught courses in taxation, real estate finance, and property.

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