CATALOG 2006-2007 - Syracuse University College of Law

LaVonda N. Reed-Huff
Richard S. Risman
LaVonda N. Reed-Huff
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., University of Virginia
J.D., University of Southern California
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Before joining the Syracuse University faculty,
Professor Reed-Huff was a member of the
faculty of the Brandeis School of Law at the
University of Louisville, where she taught for
five years. While at the University of Louisville,
she taught courses in communications law,
property, and decedents’ estates and trusts.
She previously was a judicial clerk for the
Honorable Donald W. VanArtsdalen of the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania and was an attorney in private
practice with the international law firm of
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in the
firm’s Washington, D.C., and Atlanta offices.
While in practice, she represented businesses
and financial institutions in various aspects of
communications and corporate law. Professor
Reed-Huff’s scholarly interests include the
intersection of communications law and
policy and property law. She has published
articles and spoken on topics such as the
placement of satellite dishes, the economics
of broadcast ownership, minority ownership
of broadcast stations, and broadcast diversity.
Professor Reed-Huff is admitted to practice in
Maryland and the District of Columbia. She is
a member of the Federal Communications Bar
Association and the American Bar Association.
She serves on the executive committee of the
Section on Mass Communication Law of the
Association of American Law Schools, as well
as on a number of other committees.
Richard S. Risman
Legal Writing Professor
B.A., J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Before coming to Syracuse, Professor
Risman served on the faculty of Albany Law
School. There he devoted nearly 10 years to
its Lawyering Skills Program. He was also
active in Albany’s Moot Court, Clinical Legal
Education, and Continuing Legal Education
programs and took part in a variety of other
law school, college, and community-based
legal education and skills training programs.
During this time, and for some years prior,
Professor Risman also practiced in the
areas of commercial law, civil rights, and
art law. He served as director of the College
of Law’s first-year legal skills program
between 1998 and 2001 and revised the
program’s curriculum. He now teaches Legal
Communication and Research and Problems
in Legal Writing, an upper-level course.
Jenny Roberts
Michael A. Schwartz
Jenny Roberts
Assistant Professor of Law
Director, Criminal Law Clinic
B.A., Yale University
J.D., New York University School of Law
Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Roberts
was a Senior Research Fellow at New York
University School of Law’s Center for Research
in Crime & Justice. She was previously a
member of the NYU faculty, where she taught
for three years in the first-year Lawyering
Program. Professor Roberts worked as a trial
trainer and a staff attorney at the Criminal
Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society.
Just before joining Legal Aid, she was a law
clerk for Judge John S. Martin in the Southern
District of New York. Professor Roberts
graduated magna cum laude and Order of the
Coif from NYU School of Law in 1995, where
she was an Arthur Garfield Hays civil rights
and civil liberties fellow and a notes and
comments editor for the NYU Law Review.
Michael A. Schwartz
Assistant Professor of Law
Director, Public Interest Law Firm
B.A., Brandeis University
M.A., Northwestern University
J.D., New York University Law School
LL.M., Columbia University Law School
Ph.D., Syracuse University School of Education
Once an actor with the National Theater
of the Deaf, Professor Schwartz began his
legal career as a law clerk to a Southern
District of New York judge. He then served,
in chronological order, as assistant district
attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s
Office; trial attorney in the Civil Rights
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
in Washington; solo practitioner in the New
York City metro region; and assistant attorney
General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New
York State Department of Law. A member of
the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
bars, Professor Schwartz directs the Disability
Rights Advocacy Law Clinic, where he
supervises students in disability litigation and
teaches disability law. He just successfully
defended his dissertation in education and
disability studies at Syracuse University.