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Faculty Directory

Faculty

World-class Faculty

World-class faculty and administrators provide students with opportunities to gain insights and practical skills needed to address legal challenges locally, nationally, and globally. With over 300 combined years of faculty practice experience, students have access to leading experts on a broad range of topics. Many of our faculty are also practicing attorneys and professionals. This means students have direct access to potential employers and externship opportunities.

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Raymond Anderson

Professor of Practice

Angela Banks
Angela Banks

Vice Dean and Professor

Angela M. Banks serves as the Vice Dean and Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law. She is an immigration and citizenship expert whose research focuses on membership and belonging in democratic societies.

Catherine Barnard
Catherine Barnard

Assistant Teaching Professor

Catherine Barnard teaches various courses in the Masters of Legal Studies program, including Fundamentals of Contract Law, Business Relationships, Employment Law, and Landlord Tenant Law.

Aaron Baumann
Aaron Baumann

Assistant Teaching Professor

Aaron Baumann is the Stanton First Amendment Fellow and Lecturer in the First Amendment Clinic at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.

Derrick Beetso
Derrick Beetso

Professor of Practice

Paul Bender
Paul Bender

Professor of Law

Paul Bender teaches courses on U.S. and Arizona constitutional law. He has written extensively about constitutional law, intellectual property and Indian law.

Jessica Berch
Jessica Berch

Associate Teaching Professor

Khaled Beydoun
Khaled Beydoun

Associate Professor of Law

Professor Beydoun teaches in the areas of constitutional law, critical race theory, national security, law and technology, and their intersections.

Daniel Bodansky
Daniel Bodansky

Regents and Foundation Professor of Law

Bodansky is a leading authority on international environmental law and global climate change law. He teaches courses in public international law and sustainability.

Diana Bowman
Diana Bowman

Associate Dean for Applied Research and Partnerships, Professor of Law

Diana M. Bowman's research analyzes and informs the development of smarter governance and regulation of innovation in order to simultaneously enhance creativity, improve public health and deliberation of emerging tech.

Mary Bowman
Mary Bowman

Clinical Professor of Law

Karen Bradshaw
Karen Bradshaw

Mary Sigler Fellow in Law, Professor of Law

Ellen Bublick
Ellen Bublick

Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice

Bublick, Foundation Professor of Law and Civil Justice at ASU, writes the leading U.S. tort law treatise, THE LAW OF TORTS. Her books and articles have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and 49 states.

Charles Capps
Charles Capps

Associate Professor

Capps teaches and writes about criminal law, jurisprudence and the First Amendment.

Andrew Carter
Andrew Carter

Clinical Professor of Law

Susan Chesler
Susan Chesler

Dean’s Fellow for Innovation (2023-2024), Clinical Professor of Law

Susan Chesler teaches Legal Method and Writing, Legal Advocacy, and Contract Drafting and Negotiating. Her scholarship focuses on transactional drafting and applied legal storytelling. She started teaching at ASU in 2008.

Ann Ching

Clinical Professor of Law

Adam Chodorow
Adam Chodorow

Jack E. Brown Chair, Professor of Law

Chodorow is the Jack E. Brown Professor of Law. His research and teaching interests lie in tax and business law.

Laura Coordes
Laura Coordes

Professor of Law

​Laura Coordes's research focuses on bankruptcy and financial distress, including commercial law, large corporate reorganizations, international and comparative insolvency law, and local government finance and policy.

Evelyn Cruz
Evelyn Cruz

Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Immigration Clinic

Evelyn H. Cruz is a Clinical Law Professor at ASU's Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She directs the immigration Clinic and is working to establish law school clinics for gender violence survivors in Latin America.

Linda Demaine
Linda Demaine

Roslyn O. Silver Professor of Law

Professor Demaine's research interests include the empirical analysis of law, legal procedure, and legal decision making, the application of legal and psychological perspectives to social issues, and advances in technology.

Beth DiFelice
Beth DiFelice

Assistant Dean and Librarian

Alyssa Dragnich
Alyssa Dragnich

Clinical Professor of Law

Sandra Erickson
Sandra Erickson

Assistant Teaching Professor

Michele Feeney
Michele Feeney

Director, Trial Advocacy Program College of Law

Michele M. Feeney has served as Director of Trial Advocacy at the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law since September 2019.

Aaron Fellmeth
Aaron Fellmeth

Dennis S. Karjala Professor of Law, Science and Technology

Aaron Fellmeth is a leading expert in public international law and international business law. He is a Co-Chair of the ABILA International Human Rights Committee and a past Co-Chair of the ASIL Human Rights Interest Group.

Patty Ferguson Bohnee
Patty Ferguson Bohnee

Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, Charles M. Brewer Professor of Trial Advocacy; Faculty Director, Indian Legal Program and Director, Indian Legal Clinic

Patty Ferguson-Bohnee has substantial experience in Indian law, election law and policy matters, voting rights, and status clarification of tribes. She is the director of the Indian Legal Clinic at ASU.

Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff

Associate Clinical Professor of Law

Fordyce-Ruff joins ASU as an associate clinical professor of law.

David Franklyn
David Franklyn

Professor of Practice Rolling Multi-Year

Joel Friedman
Joel Friedman

Professor of Law

Joel Friedman is a leading authority on labor and employment discrimination law. He teaches courses in Labor Law, Employment Discrimination, Civil Procedure and Evidence.