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Legislative Process and Procedure
Michael Salerno
Lie Detection
Clark Freshman
Local Government Law
Darien Shanske
Mediation
Clark Freshman (Dispute Resolution)
Carol Izumi
Melissa Nelken
Military Justice
Elizabeth Hillman
Natural Resources Law
John Leshy
Negligence/Personal Injury Law
David Jung
Negotiation
Grande Lum
Melissa Nelken
Patent Law
Jeffrey Leftstin
Political Law
Michael Salerno (Bill Drafting)
Professional Responsibility
Rory Little
John Malone
Frank H. Wu
Property Law
Jo Carrillo
John Leshy (Real Property Law)
Calvin R. Massey
Radhika Rao
Joan C. Williams
Public Law
John Leshy (Public Land Law)
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss (Public Administration and Public Law)
Darien Shanske (Public Finance)
Race and Law
Osagie K. Obasogie
C. Keith Wingate
Refugee Law
Karen Musalo
Remedies
David Jung
David Levine (Damages and Equity)
Reproductive & Genetic Technologies
Jaime S. King (Assisted Reproduction)
Osagie K. Obasogie
Science and Law
David L. Faigman
Lisa Faigman
Robin Feldman (Bioscience)
Securities Law
Frederick Lambert
Sentencing Law
Aaron Rappaport
Social Science and Law
Lois Weithorn
Social Change Lawyering
Ascanio Piomelli
Tax Law
Heather M. Field
Leo Martinez
Susan Morse
Darien Shanske
Telecommunications Law
Aaron Rappaport
Torts
Marsha Cohen
John L. Diamond
David Jung
Jaime S. King
Trademarks
Margreth Barrett
Utilities Regulation
Doris Rubinstein Reiss
Wage and Hour Law
Ascanio Piomelli
Water Law
John Leshy
Welfare Law
Mark N. Aaronson
Wills and Trusts
Calvin R. Massey
D. Kelly Weisberg
Women's Rights
Karen Musalo
Administrative Law
Marsha Cohen
Reuel Schiller
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Carol Izumi
Richard Zitrin
Appellate
Evan Lee
Rory Little
Banking and Finance
Frederick Lambert
Michael Salerno (Budget Process)
Bankruptcy
William S. Dodge (NAFTA Chapter Eleven)
Frederick Lambert (Creditors' Rights, Debtor Creditor)
Bioethics
Osagie K. Obasogie
Lois Weithorn
Johanna K. Weinberg (Bioethics, Biomedicine)
Biolaw
Radhika Rao
Biotechnology
Jeffrey Lefstin
Children and the Law
D. Kelly Weisberg
Chinese Law
Keith Hand
Civil Procedure
Clark Freshman
Geoffrey Hazard
David Levine (Federal and California)
Richard Marcus
Melissa Nelken
C. Keith Wingate
Frank H. Wu
Clinical Law
Mark N. Aaronson
Carol Izumi
Eumi Lee
Shauna Marshall
Ascanio Piomelli
Donna Ryu
Gail Silverstein
Nancy Stuart
Commercial Law
Harry G. Prince
Communications Law
John L. Diamon (Mass Media Law)
Leo Martinez
Community Legal Services
Ascanio Piomelli
Comparative Law
Chimène Keitner
Ugo Mattei
James McCall
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss
Complex Litigation
Chimène Keitner
Conflicts of Law
Kevin Tierney
Constitutional Law
David L. Faigman (Federal)
Elizabeth Hillman
Evan Lee (Federal)
John Leshy (State and Federal)
Rory Little (Federal)
Calvin R. Massey (State and Federal)
Osagie K. Obasogie
Radhika Rao
Carol Izumi
Contracts
Ashutosh Bhagwat
William S. Dodge
Charles L. Knapp
Frederick Lambert
Jeffrey Lefstin
Leo Martinez
Harry G. Prince
Copyright Law
Margreth Barrett
Corporate Law
Frederick Lambert
Calvin R. Massey
William Wang
Courts
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss (Courts and Politics)
Richard Zitrin (Trial Practice)
Criminal Justice System
Hadar Aviram (Theoretical and Critical Criminology)
George Bisharat
Kate Bloch
John L. Diamon (Substantive Criminal Law)
Eumi Lee
Evan Lee
Aaron Rappaport
Lois Weithorn
Criminal Procedure
Hadar Aviram
Lisa Faigman
Rory Little
Defamation
John L. Diamond
Economics and Law
Ugo Mattei
James McCall
Education Law
Lois W. Schwartz
Emergency and Disaster Preparedness
Joanna K. Weinberg
Employment Law
Donna Ryu
Joan C. Williams
Environmental Law
Brian E. Gray
Ethics
Geoffrey Hazard (Professional Ethics)
Aaron Rappaport (Moral Theory)
Richard Zitrin (Legal Ethics)
European Community Law
Ugo Mattei
James McCall
Evidence
David L. Faigman
Richard Marcus
Roger C. Park
Frank H. Wu
Family Law
D. Kelly Weisberg
Lois Weithorn
Joan C. Williams
Federal Jurisdiction
Geoffrey Hazard
Food and Drug Law
Marsha Cohen
Friendship and the Law
Ethan J. Leib
Gender and Sexuality in the Law
Elizabeth Hillman
Health Law and Healthy Policy
Jaime S. King
Joanna K. Weinberg
Housing Issues
Miye Goishi (Affecting low-income clients and communities)
Ascanio Piomelli (Tenant-Landlord Law)
Immigration Law
Richard Boswell
Institutional Reform Litigation
David Levine
Insurance Law
Leo Martinez
Intellectual Property
Margreth Barrett
Robin Feldman
International Law
George Bisharat (Middle East Affairs - legal and political)
William S. Dodge (International Business Transactions, International Litigation)
Chimène Keitner (International Tribunals, U.S. Courts)
Joel Paul (Foreign Relations, International Business Transactions, International Trade Law and the WTO, Presidential powers in foreign relations, Public International Law)
Naomi Roht-Arriaza (International Environmental, International Human Rights)
Jurisprudence
Aaron Rappaport
Darien Shanske
Labor Law
Reuel Schiller
Law and Psychology
Clark Freshman
Melissa Nelken (Psychiatry and Law)
Lois Weithorn (Mental Health Law)
Law and Society
Hadar Aviram
Clark Freshman
Osagie K. Obasogie
Legal History
Elizabeth Hillman
Jenni Parrish (Womens Legal History)
Reuel Schiller (American Legal History)
Frank H. Wu