Jeffrey Addicott

Director, Warrior Defense Project | Professor of Law

Biography

Lt. Colonel (US Army, Ret.) Jeffrey Addicott is a full Professor of Law and the Director of the Warrior Defense Project at St. Mary’s University School of Law. An active duty Army officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for twenty years, Addicott spent a quarter of his career as the senior legal advisor to the US Army Special Forces.

He served in senior legal positions in Germany, Korea, Panama and throughout the United States and deployed on numerous occasions to areas of armed conflict, awarded a Legion of Merit for his work in Peru.

As an internationally recognized authority on national security and terrorism Law, Dr. Addicott not only lectures and participates in professional and academic organizations both in the United States and abroad (over 900 speeches), but he also testifies before Congress on a variety of legal and policy issues.

Dr. Addicott is a regular contributor to national and international media outlets to include FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, OAN, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal (over 5,000 interviews). Addicott is a prolific author, publishing over 100 books, articles, and monographs on a variety of legal and policy issues.

Among his many contributions to the field of law, Addicott pioneered the teaching of law of war and human rights course to the militaries of numerous nascent democracies in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Addicott was also the Associate Dean for Administration (2006-2007) and headed the Center for Terrorism Law.


Publications

Articles in a Periodical

Awards & Highlights

  • Recipient: “2017, The Silver Patrick Henry Medallion, awarded by the Military Order of the World Wars, for ‘patriotic achievement’ to America’s national defense.”
  • Recipient: “2012, The J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Award 2012, awarded by the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations for ‘academic excellence.”
  • Recipient: “2011, The Vice Admiral George C. Dyer Award 2011, Military Order of the World Wars, awarded each year to the ‘most outstanding article published by the Officer Review magazine.”
  • Recipient: “2010, The J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Award 2010, awarded by the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of investigations for ‘academic excellence.”
  • Recipient: “2007, The St. Mary’s Alumni Association’s St. Mary’s University School of Law Distinguished Faculty Award 2017, awarded each year to the distinguished law faculty member.”
  • Recipient: “1999, Distinguished Service Medal of the State of Alabama, awarded for ‘exceptionally meritorious and distinguished military or civilian service for or to the benefit of the United States or the State of Alabama.”
  • Co-recipient: “1995, The American Bar Association’s Hodson 1995, awarded each year to the ‘outstanding public sector law office in the nation.”
  • Recipient: “1993, The Outstanding Career Army Judge Advocate Award 1993, awarded annually to one Army lawyer, by the Judge Advocates Bar Association.
  • Recipient: “1983, Academy of Health Sciences Commander’s Award, awarded for ‘outstanding service to Fort Sam Houston.”

Books

  • Christian Doctrines (Imprimatur Press ed., Jan. 2, 2022).
  • Trump Judges:  Protecting America’s Establishment Pillars to “Make America Great Again,” (Dallas, TX: Imprimatur Press, 2020).
  • Categorical Bible Doctrines, (Dallas, TX: Imprimatur Press, 2019).
  • Radical Islam Why?: Confronting Jihad at Home & Abroad, (Tucson, AZ: Lawyers and Judges Pub. Co., 2016).
  • Terrorism Law: Materials, Cases, Comments, 7th ed. (Tucson, AZ: Lawyers and Judges Pub. Co., 2014).
  • Globalization, International Law, and Human Rights, Addicott, Bhuiyan, & Chowdhury(New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2012).
  • Constitutional Rights for Guantanamo Detainees: An Immediate Look at the Legal and Governmental Ramifications of Boumediene v. Bush, Addicott; Rose III (New York, NY: Thompson/Aspatore Pub. Co., 2008).
  • Selected Essays on State Open Government Law and Practice in a Post-9/11 World, Addicott & Garcia, editors, (Tucson, AZ: Lawyers and Judges Pub. Co., 2008).
  • State Open Government Law and Practice in a Post-9/11 World, Addicott, Cochran, Dalglish & Winegar, editors, (Tucson, AZ: Lawyers and Judges Pub. Co., 2007).
  • Human Rights & International Humanitarian Law Handbook (Bogotá, Colombia: Imprenta y Publicaciones de las Fuerzas Militares, 1999).
  • Law of War: Handbook for Officers of Armed Forces of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine: Lubava Pub. Co., 1996).
  • Code of Conduct for Participants in Military Operations, (Kiev, Ukraine, Ministry of Defense: Lubava, 1995).
  • Derechos Humanos: Decalogo de las Fuerzas del Orden, (Lima, Peru: Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, 1993).

Book Chapters

  • Foreword, in Honor Killing (Daniel Akbari & Paul Tetreault, 2015).
  • Is the Use of Coercive Interrogation or Torture Permissive and Effective as a Counter-terrorism Method?, in Contemporary Debates on Terrorism (Richard Jackson; Samuel Justin Sinclair, 2012).
  • Radical Islam’s Manipulation of the Media (with Nathanial Fulmer & Robert Gunn), in Terrorism Research & Analysis Project (TRAP): A Collection of Thoughts, Ideas,Perspectives, Vol. 1 (Andrew Bringuel, ed., 2011).
  • Cyberterrorism: Legal and Polices Issues, in Legal Issues in the Struggle Against Terror (John Norton Moore & Robert Turner, eds., 2010).
  • The War on Terror: War or Metaphor?, in Political Leadership (Joseph Masciulli, Mikhail A. Molchanov & W. Andy Knight, eds., 2009).
  • Institutionalizing Human Rights in the Militaries of the Emerging Democracies: The Case of Peru, in Fear of Persecution: Global Human Rights, International Law, and Human Well-Being, (James D. White & Anthony J. Marsella, eds., 2007).
  • Teaching Intelligent Design and the Anthropic Principle in the Public Schools, in 1-3
  • Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman, ed., 2006).
  • The Role of Special Operations Forces in the War on Terror, in The Global War on Terrorism: Assessing the American Response, (John Davis, editor, 2006).
  • (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Pub. Inc., 2004).
  • Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Review and New Paradigm, in Transnational Threats: Blending Law Enforcement and Military Strategies, (Carolyn W. Pumphrey, ed., 2000).
  • The Appeal of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, in Dr. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination: The Case Reopened, John Paul Jones, ed., 1995).

Memberships

  • Sons of the American Revolution
  • Member of the Bar of Alabama; U.S. Supreme Court; Court of Military Appeals; American Bar Association
  • International Society for Military Law
  • The Law of War
  • Military Order of the World Wars (life member)
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  • Special Forces Association
  • Sons of Confederate Veterans
  • Board Member of the Toda Institute for Peace
  • Contributing editor for JURIST
  • Law Faculty on Federalist Society
  • National Security Committee Consultant, American Legion
  • Retired Army Judge Advocates Association (life member)

Presentations

Foreign presentations include numerous professional lectures at universities and government institutions in Colombia, Peru, Ukraine, Germany, France, Austria, Canada, Thailand, Japan, India, Honduras, Haiti, Egypt, Kuwait, Panama, Guatemala, Albania, Okinawa, South Korea, England, Mexico, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, Greece, Israel, Russia, Luxembourg, China, Poland, and Uruguay.

Presentations in the United States include over 900 appearances at universities, public and private; State and Federal institutions and academies; as well as more than 5,000 appearances on radio, print, and television broadcasts to include: Associated PressNew York TimesLondon TimesWashington PostWall Street Journal, USA Today, Miami HeraldLos Angeles Times,Chicago TribuneWashington TimesWashington ExaminerAir Force Times, Army TimesMarine Corps TimesFederal Times, Miami Herald, FOX NEWS Channel, One America News, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, PBS, NBC, CBS, NPR, BBC, The Blaze, Voice of Russia, China Daily and Al-Jazeera.

Jeffrey Addicott has taught at the following institutions:

  • 1980-1981: Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland; Berlin, Germany. Business Law and Government.
  • 1982-1983: Adjunct Professor, Central Texas College; Korea. Business Law.
  • 1984-1985: Professor, Academy of Health Sciences; San Antonio, TX. Health Law.
  • 1988-1989: Adjunct Professor, Chapman College; Tacoma, WA. Graduate level International Law.
  • 1989-1992: Assistant Chair, International Law Department, The Judge Advocate General’s School; Charlottesville, VA. Graduate level International Law, National Security Law and Criminal Law.
  • 1995: Adjunct Professor, Central Michigan University: Washington, D.C. Graduate level International Law.
  • 1996: Adjunct Professor, Central Texas College; Central Michigan University; Webster University; Fayetteville, NC. Criminal Law, Graduate level Business Law, Graduate level Administrative Law.
  • 1997: Adjunct Professor, Campbell University; Fayetteville, NC. Business Law.
  • 1998-2001: Adjunct Professor, Central Michigan University. Savannah, GA; Fort Myers, FL; Fayetteville, NC; Arlington, LA. Graduate level International Law and Administrative Law.

Jeffrey Addicott

Director, Warrior Defense Project | Professor of Law

Contact Information

Education

  • S.J.D., University of Virginia School of Law Graduate Program, 1994
  • LL.M., University of Virginia School of Law Graduate Program, 1992
  • LL.M., The Judge Advocate General’s School, 1987
  • Command and General Staff College, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, 1985
  • J.D., University of Alabama School of Law, 1979
  • B.A., University of Maryland (with honors), 1976

License to Practice

  • Alabama

Specialties and Courses

  • Administrative Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Comparative Law
  • Constitutional Criminal Law
  • Federal Civil Procedure
  • Medical Malpractice
  • National Security Law
  • Terrorism Law
  • Military Legal Issues
  • Oral Depositions

Michael S. Ariens

Aloysius A. Leopold Professor of Law

Biography

After graduating law school, Ariens worked as a law clerk at the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. He then worked as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Holland & Knight for three years. He was a civil litigator for firm clients in state and federal courts in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, in both trial and appellate courts.

In addition to teaching at St. Mary’s, he has served as a part-time visiting professor at Southern Methodist University, a visiting professor at Catholic University Columbus School of Law, and a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

He is the author of five books. His book Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas received two awards. He is also the author of fifty law review articles, essays, and other scholarly works, and a number of book reviews.


Publications

Books

  • The Lawyer’s Conscience: A History of American Lawyer Ethics (University Press of Kansas, 2022)
  • American Constitutional Law and History (2d ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2016)
  • American Constitutional Law and History (Carolina Academic Press, 2012)
  • Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas (Texas Tech University Press, 2011)
  • Law School: Getting In, Getting Out, and Getting On (Carolina Academic Press, 2010)
  • Religious Liberty in a Pluralistic Society (2d ed., 2002) (with Destro)
  • Religious Liberty in a Pluralistic Society (1996) (with Destro)

Articles in a Periodical

Book Chapters and Entries

  • Church and State in Ohio, 1785-1833, in DISESTABLISHMENT AND RELIGIOUS DISSENT: CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS IN THE NEW AMERICAN STATES, 1776-1833, at 249-271 (Carl H. Esbeck & Jonathan Den Hartog eds., 2019)
  • Religion and Roman Catholicism in American Legal History, in American Law from a Catholic Perspective: Through a Clearer Lens 1 (Ronald J. Rychlak ed., Rowman & Littlefield 2015)
  • Teaching Legal History Through Storytelling, in Teaching Legal History: Comparative Perspectives 32 (Robert M. Jarvis ed., Wildy, Simmonds & Hill 2014)
  • Simon Greenleaf, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 234 (Roger K. Newman ed., 2009)
  • Charles T. McCormick, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 370 (Roger K. Newman ed., 2009)
  • Edmund M. Morgan, Jr., in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 389 (Roger K. Newman ed., 2009)
  • United States v. Cruikshank, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Gale Publishing 2008)
  • Religion in the 19th Century—Bible Wars, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006)
  • Church and State in the United States, 1900-2001, in New Catholic Encyclopedia (2003)
  • Religion in the Courtroom, in Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom (2003)
  • Forms of Legal Practice, in The Oxford Companion to American Law (Oxford University Press 2002)
  • Sole Practitioners, in The Oxford Companion to American Law (Oxford University Press 2002)
  • Paralegal and Legal Secretary, in The Oxford Companion to American Law (Oxford University Press 2002)
  • Defining ‘Church’ in American Law, in Church Autonomy: A Comparative Survey (Gerhard Robbers ed., 2001)
  • On ‘Doctrine’ and the Establishment Clause, in Vouchers for School Choice: Challenge or Opportunity? An American Jewish Reappraisal (Marshall J. Breger & David M. Gordis eds., 1998)

Media Highlights


Michael S. Ariens

Aloysius A. Leopold Professor of Law

Education

  • LL.M., Harvard University, 1987
  • J.D., Marquette University, 1982
  • B.A., St. Norbert College, 1979

License to Practice

  • District of Columbia
  • Wisconsin

Specialties and Courses

  • American Legal History
  • Church and state
  • Constitutional Law
  • Evidence
  • Professional Responsibility

Rishi Batra

Professor of Law | Englehardt Research Fellow

Biography

Professor Batra is a nationally recognized speaker and scholar in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution. He regularly offers training across the country on legal negotiation and mediation strategy, alternative dispute resolution pedagogy, and dispute resolution scholarship. Prior to St. Mary’s, he was Director of the Leadership and Appropriate Dispute Resolution (LADR) program for the US Air Force Academy, where he trained future Air Force officers in negotiation principles and strategy.

Professor Batra was previously a full professor with tenure at Texas Tech University School of Law, where he taught courses on Alternative Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and Intellectual Property. He was awarded the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of his teaching abilities. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon, UNLV Boyd School of Law, Santa Clara Law, teaching negotiation skills and applications.

Professor Batra’s scholarship focuses on Dispute Resolution, and in particular applying dispute resolution perspectives to diverse fields such as criminal procedure and election law. His work has appeared in the George Mason Law Review, the Ohio State Law Review, and the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, among others.

Professor Batra served as the co-chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Law Schools Committee, including co-chairing the national ABA Representation in Mediation Competition. He currently serves on ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Council, among other ADR service roles.

Before Texas Tech, Professor Batra was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier Law School. He was previously the Langdon Fellow in Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. At Moritz, Professor Batra taught Mediation and Negotiation courses and supervised students mediating hundreds of cases including small claims, landlord-tenant, and criminal matters. He is the co-founder and was the first director of the Ohio State Student Mediation Program.


Honors and Awards

  • President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014

Publications

Articles in a Periodical

  • “Resolving Civil Forfeiture Disputes”, 66 KAN. L. REV. 399 (2017).
  • “Using the Terms Integrative and Distributive Bargaining in the Classroom: Time for Change?”, 2017 J. DISP. RESOL. 29 (2017).
  • “Improving the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act”, 24 GEO. MASON L. REV. 743 (2017).
  • “Judicial Participation in Plea Bargaining: A Dispute Resolution Perspective”, 76 OHIO ST. L. J. 565 (2015).
  • “Standards of Legitimacy in Criminal Negotiations”, 20 HARVARD NEGOT. L. REV. 61 (2015).

Presentations

  • “Military Education in Conflict Analysis and Transformation: Identifying the Needs of Today’s Airmen”, Air Force Negotiation Center Roundtable, April 20, 2021
  • Dispute Resolution as Leadership, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference, April 17, 2021
  • Considering Alternatives to Trial: Alternative Dispute Resolutions and Mediations, Practicing Law Institute, January 6, 2021
  • Negotiating Plea Bargains: Strategic and Social Concerns, UC Davis School of Law Lawyering Skills Education Workshop Series, March 13, 2020, Davis CA
  • Real Estate Owned with Others – the UPHPA, Estate Planning, Guardianship and Elder Law Conference, August 2, 2019, Galveston, TX

Rishi Batra

Professor of Law | Englehardt Research Fellow

Contact Information

Education

  • J.D., (cum laude), Harvard Law School, 2008
  • B.A., University of California with highest honors, 2000
  • B.S., University of California with honors, 2000

License to Practice

  • California

Specialties and Courses

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Property Law
  • Contracts Law
  • Intellectual Property

Mark W. Cochran

Professor of Law

Biography

Professor Cochran was a tax attorney with Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry in Nashville (now Bradley Arant Boult Cummings) from 1981 until 1985, when he joined the St. Mary’s faculty. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Texas, the University of Georgia, and Vermont Law School, and he served for a year as Professor In Residence at the Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C.

During his tenure at St. Mary’s, Professor Cochran has served in various administrative positions, including Director of Evening Studies and Co-Director of the summer program in Innsbruck, Austria. He has chaired the faculty appointments committee for several years.

Professor Cochran and his wife have two adult sons and two grandsons. In his spare time, he enjoys international travel, college football, blues guitar, and single malt Scotch. In the pre-COVID era, his trivia team advanced to the citywide championship, placing fourth.


Highlights

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Order of the Coif
  • Distinguished Faculty Award, 2001
  • Professor-in-Residence, IRS Chief Counsel’s Office, Washington D.C., 1988-89

Publications

Articles in a Periodical

Teaching Materials

  • Transnational Litigation (2004) (Self-published teaching materials.)
  • Federal Income Taxation: Law and Policy (2003). (Self-published teaching materials.)

Others

  • Commentary: Give Tax Collectors Tools to do Their Job, San Antonio Express-News  (May 30, 2021).
  • Comparison of S Corporations and Partnerships: Tax Treatment of Formation, Report to American Bar Association Tax Section, Committee on S Corporations (1985).
  • Unrelated Business Income Problems of Churches and Other Religious Organizations  (coauthor), PRENTICE HALL TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS SERVICE, pg. 3649 et seq (1983).

Mark W. Cochran

Professor of Law

Contact Information

Education

  • LL.M. in Taxation, University of Florida, 1981
  • J.D., Vanderbilt University, 1980
  • A.B.J., University of Georgia, 1977

License to Practice

  • Tennesee
  • United States Tax Court

Specialties and Courses

  • Conflict of laws
  • Federal income taxation
  • Taxation of business entities

Jena Martin

Professor of Law | Katherine A. Ryan Chair for Global and International Law

Biography

Jena Martin is a Katherine A. Ryan Chair for Global and International Law at the St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. Her research is in the field of business and human rights, where she has written extensively on many issues, including: the intersection of human rights with a number of fields including data privacy, AI and securities regulation.

Prof. Martin has emerged as a thought leader on these subjects and her work has been presented in a variety of forums including newspapers (such as The Chicago Tribune and The Houston Chronicle); law journals (including a forthcoming co-authored work in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology and a prior piece in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law); and the United Nations. Professor Martin has also co-edited and co-authored a number of books in the field of securities regulation and business and human rights, including “The Business and Human Rights Landscape: Moving Forward, Looking Back” (Cambridge University Press); “When the Levees Break: Re-visioning Regulation of the Securities Markets” (Lexington Books), and “Dying to be Heard: Businesses’ Impact of Communities” (Anthem Press).

Prior to coming to St. Mary’s Prof. Martin was the Robert L. Shuman Professor of Law and Ethics at West Virginia University.

Prof. Martin also draws heavily on her practice experience as a consultant and advisor for small businesses and her previous position serving as Senior Counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement. She earned her LL.M from the University of Texas, Austin and her J.D. from Howard University School of Law.


Publications

Books

  • INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, POLICY AND PROCESS, 5TH ED., Carolina Academic Press (2021)(with David Weissbrodt)(spearheaded overhaul of the casebook with a new organizational structure and streamlined content. Drafted the casebook’s first Teacher’s Manual)
  • WHEN BUSINESS HARMS HUMAN RIGHTS: AFFECTED COMMUNITIES THAT ARE DYING TO BE HEARD, Anthem Press (2020)(ed., with Karen Bravo and Tara Van Ho)
  • WHEN THE LEVEES BREAK: RE-VISIONING SECURITIES MARKET REGULATION, Lexington Books (2017)(with Karen Kunz)
  • THE BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS LANDSCAPE: MOVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK, Cambridge University Press (2015)(ed., with Karen Bravo)

Articles:

  • Everything New is Old Again: The Veil of Scale, Platforms as Premises and the Coming Metaverse, __ YALE J. OF L. & TECH. __ (forthcoming 2024)(with Lara Putnam)
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission as Human Rights Enforcer?, 18 VA. LAW. & BUS. REV. 93 (2024)(with Rachel Chambers)
  • “A Change is Gonna Come:” Developing a Liability Framework for Social Media Algorithmic Amplification, 13 UC IRVINE L. REV. 155 (2023)(with Amy Cyphert)
  • Reimagining Corporate Accountability: Moving Beyond Human Rights Due Diligence, 18 NYU BUS. L. J. 773 (2022)(with Rachel Chambers)
  • Reckoning: A Dialogue about Racism, Anti-Racists and Business and Human Rights, 30 WASH. I. L. J. 171 (2021)(with Erika George and Tara Van Ho)
  • Data Privacy Issues in West Virginia: An Overview, WV. L. REV. ONLINE (2021)
  • The United Postal Service—The One Word that Makes all the Difference, 99 Texas L. Rev. Online 72 (2020) (with Matthew Titolo).
  • It’s Complicated: The Challenge of Prosecuting TNCs for Criminal Activity under International Law, 29 IND. INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 219 (2019)
  • Easing “the Burden of the Brutalized”: Applying Bystander Intervention Training to Corporate Conduct, 68 CATHOLIC U. L. REV. 1 (2019) (lead article)
  • Parallel Worlds: Comparing Rural Development to Development in Global Communities, WV. L. REV. (with Karon Powell)(2018)(invited symposium piece)
  • Hiding in the Light: The Misuse of Disclosure to Advance the Business and Human Rights Agenda 56 COLUMBIA TRANS’L L. J. 530 (2018)
  • Changing the Rules of the Game: Beyond a Disclosure Framework for Securities Regulation 118 WV. L. REV. 59 (2015)
  • Business and Human Rights, What’s the Board got to do with it?, 2013 ILL. L. REV. 959 (2013)
  • The End of the Beginning?: A Comprehensive Examination of the U.N.’s Business and Human Rights Agenda from a Bystander Perspective, 17 FORDHAM J. CORP. FIN. L. 871 (2012)(lead article)
  • What’s in a Name? Transnational Corporations as Bystanders under International Law, 85 ST. JOHN L. REV. 1 (2011)(lead article)
  • The SEC and Shareholder Empowerment – Analyzing the New Proxy Regime and its Impact on Corporate Governance, BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICES REPORT (2011)
  • In Praise of Process: An Exploration of the SEC, Rule 14a-(8)(i)(8) and AFSCME v. AIG, 5 U.MD. J. BUS. L. & TECH 23 (2010)

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters:

  • “UN Guiding Principle Number 8” in ThE RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE UN GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, Edward Elgar Press (2024)(Barnali Choudhury, ed.)
  • “Commentary, Dodge v. Ford” in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN CORPORATE LAW OPINIONS, Cambridge University Press (2023)(Kelli Alces et. al., eds.)
  • “Corporations 101” in TEACHING BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, Edward Elgar Press (2023)(Anthony Ewing, ed.)
  • “United States: Potential Paths Forward after the Demise of the Alien Tort Statute,” in CIVIL REMEDIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN FLUX, Bloomsbury Publishing (2022)(Ekaterina Aristova & Ugljesa Grusic eds.)
  • “The Use of Disclosure-Based Regulation to Advance the State’s Duty to Protect” in THE RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND BUSINESS, Edward Elgar Press (2020)(Surya Deva ed.)
  • “The Evolving Business and Society Landscape: Can Human Rights Make a Difference,” (with Michael Addo) in THE BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS LANDSCAPE: MOVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK, Cambridge University Press (2015)(Martin & Bravo, eds.)
  • “Transnational Corporations as Bystanders under International Law,” in BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, Sage Publications (2013)(Manoj Sinha, ed).
  • Into the Breach: The Increasing Gap between Algorithmic Trading and Securities Regulation, Vol. 44, JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL SERVICES RESEARCH No. 2 (peer reviewed journal) (co-authored with Karen Kunz)(Oct. 2013)

Awards

  • West Virginia Executive’s Lawyers & Leaders, Class of 2022
  • 2019 Reviewer of the Year Award – Business and Human Rights Journal (Cambridge University Press)
  • Dean’s Award of Distinction in Teaching – Adjunct (College of Business & Economics) 2015
  •  “50 Under 50,” Law Professors of Color, Lawyers of Color
  • WVU ADVANCE Grant Recipient, grant provided to organize a conference on Business and Human Rights (2012 – 2013)
  • Significant Scholarship Award, WVU College of Law, (awarded for “The End of the Beginning?: A Comprehensive Examination of the U.N.’s Business and Human Rights Agenda from a Bystander Perspective”)(2012)
  •  WVU Public Service Grant Recipient, provided to fund an outreach program within the State of West Virginia to help local businesses understand contract pitfalls (2011 – 2012)
  • Shortlist Finalist, Fletcher Fellowship (administered by Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research)(2010).
  • Next Generation Fellow, The Next Generation Fellowship (part of the American Assembly Series, run by Columbia University). Invited participant in three-day conference to discuss the future of U.S. global policy. (2007)
    Recipient, Director’s Award, SEC Division of Enforcement. (2004)

Jena Martin

Professor of Law and Katherine A. Ryan Chair for Global and International Law

Contact Information

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, Howard University School of Law, 1997
  • B.A. McGill University, 1994

License to Practice

  • Maryland
  • District of Columbia
  • West Virginia

Specialties and Courses

  • Business and Human Rights
  • Securities Regulation
  • Business Association
  • Corporate Governance

Match Dawson

Assistant Professor of Law

Biography

Match Dawson (J.D. ’13) began his legal career working for Justice Paul W. Green of the Texas Supreme Court, and later joined the distinguished Austin-based law firm of Giordani, Swanger, Ripp, & Phillips, LLP where he counseled clients on asset protection and estate planning. Prior to joining St. Mary’s University, Dawson formed his own firm, Dawson Law LLP®, and primarily represented high net worth clients with complex estate and asset planning matters.

Dawson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from California State University Sacramento and a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from St. Mary’s University School of Law.  Dawson is a Chartered Trust and Estate Planner®, a distinguished Fellow of the Global Academy of Finance & Management, and he’s been awarded the prestigious Accredited Estate Planner® designation by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. Dawson is a member of the Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law section of State Bar of Texas, the Texas Center for Legal Ethics, and the College of the State Bar of Texas, an honorary organization reserved for attorneys dedicated to high ethical standards and advanced legal training. Dawson is also a member of the Society of Financial Service Professionals, a collaborative organization of professional service providers who have distinguished themselves through advanced education.

Dawson and his wife, a large animal veterinarian, favor quiet country living where they raise three spirited children. Dawson is an avid outdoorsman, a passion he shares with his family, and their RV can often be found at campsites across the great state of Texas.


Awards & Highlights

  • Accredited Estate Planner®, National Association of Estate Planners & Councils
  • Charted Trust and Estate Planner®, GAFM
  • Fellow, GAFM

Match Dawson

Assistant Professor of Law

Contact Information

Education

  • B.A, Economics, California State University, 2006
  • J.D., (cum laude), St. Mary’s University School of Law, 2013

License to Practice

  • Texas

Specialties and Courses

  • Asset Protection
  • Wills, Trusts, & Estates
  • Property

David A. Dittfurth

Professor of Law

Biography

Shortly after graduating from UT Law School in 1967, Dittfurth was drafted into the United States Army and did his basic training in Fort Polk, Louisiana, before doing a tour in Vietnam. Upon his discharge in 1969, he began his legal practice with Brown & Bradshaw, Attorneys at Law in Houston, Texas. In 1972, Dittfurth left practice and enrolled in the LL.M. program at UT Law School. After completing his degree program in 1973, he was hired for a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Indiana School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana. In 1974, he returned to Texas and began working for the Law Research Corporation in Austin, Texas. Beginning in the fall semester of 1975, he was employed as a full-time teacher at St. Mary’s University School of Law where he has remained until the present. From 1989 until 1993, he served as the Associate Dean (academic affairs) for St. Mary’s University School of Law.


Publications

Books

  • CIVIL RESTITUTION IN TEXAS (2016). This book, though currently unpublished, represents the edited cases, notes, and materials I have accumulated for the course I created — Civil Restitution in Texas.
  • LEARNING CIVIL PROCEDURE (2007), published by Carolina Academic Press.
  • THE CONCEPTS AND METHODS OF FEDERAL CIVIL PROCEDURE (1999), published by Carolina Academic Press

Articles

  • The Texas Constructive Trust and its Peculiar Requirements, 50 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 447, (2018)
  • Restitution in Texas: Civil Liability for Unjust Enrichment, 54 S. Tex. L. Rev. 225 (2012).
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  • The Younger Abstention Doctrine: Primary State Jurisdiction Over Law Enforcement, 10 St. Mary’s Law Journal 445 (1979).
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David A. Dittfurth

Professor of Law

Education

  • LL.M., University of Texas, Austin, 1973
  • J.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1967
  • B.A., University of Texas, Austin, 1965

Specialties and Courses

  • Advanced Constitutional Law—Freedom of Speech
  • Civil Restitution in Texas
  • Civil procedure
  • Remedies

Robert F. Eichelbaum

Faculty in Residence

Biography

Eichelbaum (J.D. ’97) has been an Adjunct Professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law since 1997. He currently teaches Mediation, Family Law Mediation, and Law Practice Management.

He is a native of San Antonio. His first legal job was as a partner with his father in the Eichelbaum Law Firm. He has previously worked for Davidson Troilo Ream & Garza, and the Davis Law Firm. His current position is as a full-time mediator for the Workers’ Compensation Administrative Courts. Rob is also the owner of San Antonio Mediation, a company providing both mediation training and conflict resolution services.

He is an active member of the greater San Antonio legal community. He is a former member officer of the San Antonio Bankruptcy Bar Association, and previously served on the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee. He is the immediate Past President of the San Antonio Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution section.

He is a frequent lecturer and presenter in the fields of Conflict Resolution and Ethics. Last year he presented two separate programs for the San Antonio Bar Brown Bag Luncheon program, including an interactive program entitled “Harry Potter and the Grievance Committee – What the Wizarding World can teach us about Legal Ethics.”


Honors and Awards

  • San Antonio Bar Foundation Class of 2021
  • San Antonio Bar Foundation Peacemaker Award – 2021
  • Scene in San Antonio – Best Lawyer’s Survey 2007-2013
  • Texas Super Lawyer 2012
  • College of the State Bar of Texas 1998- 2013

Publications

Presentations

  • Building Blocks of Mediation – A 40 Hour Mediation Training Course
  • Advanced Building Blocks of Mediation – A 24 Hour Mediation Training concentrating on areas of Family Law Disputes
  • Selecting a Mediator in a Guardianship Matter – National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys 2009 Annual Conference
  • Mediation and Bankruptcy – State Bar of Texas Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Conference
  • Not Just Tilting at Windmills – Consumer Litigation on Behalf of the Bankruptcy Debtor.

Robert F. Eichelbaum

Faculty in Residence

Contact Information

Education

  • J.D., St. Mary’s University School of Law, 1997
  • B.A., University of Texas at San Antonio, 1994

License to Practice

  • Texas

Specialties and Courses

  • Negotiations
  • Mediation
  • Family Law Mediation
  • Family Law
  • Creditors Rights and Bankruptcy

Stacy Fowler

Professor | Technical Services Librarian

Biography

Professor Fowler joined the Sarita Kenedy East Law Library in 2005. She has a bachelor of arts in English and master’s degrees in library science and international relations. She has presented at numerous national and regional conferences on diverse subjects such as laws pertaining to women in the U.S. military and the current state of DEI efforts in Hollywood and the population at large.

She is also a writer whose poems have been published in several university journals, including the Pecan Grove Review from St. Mary’s University, The Tau, and the Pomona Valley Review. Professor Fowler is currently under contract for her third book about women in the military on film.


Publications

Presentations

  • What’s Gonna Work? Teaming Up with Your Academic Library for Life, the Universe, and Everything. Southwestern Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 2024.
  • (Mis)sed Representation: DEI in Legal Reels and Reality, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2024.
  • Comedians in Court Getting Censored: No Laughing Matter, Southwestern Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 2023.
  • Life in the Box: Psychological Issues of Drone Pilots in Fiction and Reality, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2022.

Stacy Fowler

Professor | Technical Services Librarian

Contact Information

Education

  • M.A., St. Mary’s University, 2009
  • M.L.S., Texas Woman’s University, 2004
  • B.A., University of Texas at San Antonio, 2003

Annie Bright

Moody Foundation Visiting Professor

Biography

Annie Bright (J.D. ’20) is the Moody Foundation Visiting Professor at the St. Mary’s University School of Law.

Bright studied political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated with her B.A. in Comparative Politics. She later returned to Texas to attend the St. Mary’s University School of Law where she graduated summa cum laude.

In law school, Bright was a board member for the Law Journal. She received the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence in Administrative Law, Federal Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Professional Responsibility, and Torts. She was awarded the Presidential Law Scholarship, the Chief Justice Catherine M. Stone Rock of Justice Award, and the Presidential Award for her demonstrated commitment to leadership, service, and academic excellence. While in law school, she also represented immigration clients in the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic and worked as a law clerk at De Mott, Curtright, Armendáriz, LLP (DMCA). She also clerked for the Travis County Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.

Bright went on to earn a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University where she studied International Law and Humanitarian Action. While at Fletcher, she researched the financial journeys of migrants around the world through the Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security.

Prior to joining St. Mary’s as a visiting faculty member, Bright worked in private practice in San Antonio with DMCA. There she represented both detained and non-detained immigrants in immigration proceedings. Bright’s practice included affirmative processes, defense litigation, and appeals. She litigated cases in the San Antonio and Laredo immigration courts and is admitted to practice in the Western District of Texas.


Annie Bright

Moody Foundation Visiting Professor

Contact Information

Education

  • J.D., (summa cum laude), St. Mary’s University School of Law, 2020
  • M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts, 2022
  • B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013

Specialties and Courses

  • Constitutional Criminal Procedure
  • Constitutional Law
  • Immigration Law
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