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currently pursuing his Ph.D. in digital
media and mass communications at Penn
State University. His dissertation, now in
progress, applies social semiotic theories
to the concept of fair use in intellectual
property law.
Holland will teach courses in Intellectual
Property; Technology & the Law; Civil
Procedure; and Constitutional Law.
ti m o tH y m. mu lvA n e y
Professor Timothy M. Mulvaney joined
Texas Wesleyan School of Law as a
visiting associate professor for the 2009-
10 school year. Prior to joining the Texas
Wesleyan law faculty, Mulvaney worked
at an environmental law research institute
associated with the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Association’s Sea Grant
program at the University of Mississippi
School of Law. At the University of
Timothy M. Mulvaney, visiting associate professor of law
Mississippi, he taught Land Use Law and
select lectures in Constitutional Law.
Before entering academia, Mulvaney
served as a deputy attorney general in
the environmental and land use practice
group of the New Jersey attorney general’s
office. Drawing on that experience,
Mulvaney’s scholarship explores the many
conflicts at the intersection of property,
land use and environmental law, with
a particular focus on constitutional
takings jurisprudence and the public
trust doctrine. His recent articles were
published in the environmental law
journals at UC-Berkeley and Tulane.
Currently, Mulvaney is a co-principal
investigator on a team that recently
has been awarded a federal grant to
conduct a two-year interdisciplinary
and cooperative research project on
regulatory takings, environmental law
and land use issues related to natural
hazard and climate change resiliency.
He is collaborating with researchers at
the University of Florida, the University
of Mississippi, Louisiana State University,
and the Harte Research Institute at Texas
A&M – Corpus Christi.
Mulvaney earned his J.D. from the
Villanova University School of Law,
where he served as an associate editor
of the Villanova Law Review and received
an award for the finest publication in the
law review in 2003. Mulvaney earned
his B.A. in economics from Haverford
College. After Haverford, he spent one
year with the AmeriCorps National
Civilian Community Corps.
Professor Mulvaney will teach Property
and an Environmental Law Seminar.
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Jo H n F. mu r P H y
Professor John F. Murphy joined the fulltime
faculty of Texas Wesleyan School of
Law as a legal writing professor in 2009
after teaching as an adjunct professor
in the legal writing program for four
years. Before joining the faculty, Murphy
engaged in private practice focusing
on civil trials and appeals for 12 years,
including several years as a partner in
Gardner, Aldrich & Murphy, LLP, and
served as Justice Anne Gardner’s staff
attorney at the Second Court of Appeals
for four years.
Murphy earned his J.D. with honors from
the University of Texas School of Law in
1993 and earned his B.A. in history from
the University of Texas in 1989.
Murphy will teach Legal Analysis, Research
& Writing.
John F. Murphy, legal writing professor