Issue 73 - Stanford Lawyer - Stanford University

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Joan Petersilia will serve as a visiting professor of
law; she will teach California’s Prison Reform in
the autumn semester and Crime and Punishment
in California: Advocacy and Reform in the spring
term. Petersilia is a professor of criminology, law,
and society at the University of California at
Irvine School of Social Ecology. She received her
MA in sociology from Ohio State University, and
her PhD in criminology, law, and society from the
University of California at Irvine. Before joining
UC Irvine, Petersilia was a corporate fellow and
director of the Criminal Justice Program at the
RAND Corporation. Her research and teaching
interests include policing, sentencing, career
criminals, juvenile justice, corrections, and racial
discrimination. Petersilia’s books include When
Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry
(2003), Reforming Probation and Parole in the 21st
Century (2002), and Crime: Public Policies for Crime
Control, edited with James Q. Wilson (2002).
Jane S. Schacter will serve as The Edwin A.
Heafey, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law. She
will teach Statutory Interpretation and Sexual
Orientation and the Law in the autumn semester,
and Constitutional Law in the spring term.
Schacter is the James E. & Ruth B. Doyle-
Bascom Professor of Law at the University of
Wisconsin Law School, where she has been a
member of the faculty since 1991. She earned her
JD in 1984 from Harvard Law School. Following
graduation, she clerked for Judge Raymond J.
Pettine of the U.S. District Court in Providence,
Rhode Island; was a litigation associate at Hill &
Barlow in Boston; and served as assistant attorney
general in Massachusetts. Schacter’s research
and teaching interests include constitutional law,
legislation, sexual orientation and the law, and
civil procedure. In 1998 she was awarded the
University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor’s
Award for Distinguished Teaching.
PHOTO: MICHELLE LITVIN
Alan O. Sykes will serve as The Herman Phleger
Visiting Professor of Law; he will teach Torts
during the autumn semester and International
Trade Law in the spring term. Sykes, who has
been a member of the University of Chicago Law
School faculty since 1986, was named the Frank
& Bernice Greenberg Professor of Law in 1990
and Faculty Director for Curriculum in 2001.
He received his JD from Yale Law School in
1982. Sykes was a National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellow in Economics from 1976 to 1979
at Yale, and received his PhD in economics from
the university in 1987. Before joining the Chicago
law school faculty, Sykes was an associate with the
Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter.
Sykes’s research and teaching interests include
international trade, torts, contracts, insurance,
antitrust, and economic analysis of law. He serves
as an editor of the Journal of Legal Studies and the
Journal of International Economic Law.
PHOTO: IAN BRADSHAW
Timothy Wu, a visiting associate professor of
law, will teach International Law Theory and
Intellectual Property: Copyright in the autumn
semester. Wu is a professor of law at Columbia
Law School. He received his JD from Harvard
Law School in 1998. Wu clerked for Judge
Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice Stephen
Breyer (BA ’59) of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Before joining the faculty at Columbia Law
School, Wu worked in the telecommunications
industry in international and domestic marketing.
His research and teaching interests include
international law, intellectual property, international
trade, copyright, the Internet, and telecommunications
law. Wu has been a fellow at the
University of Toronto Law School and has taught
at the United Nations Development Program
in Katmandu, Nepal, and at Kyushu University
in Fukuoka, Japan.