Visiting Professors 2007/2008

Oluyemisi Bamgbose

Bachelor of Laws (with honors); LL.B. (with honors), University of Lagos, Nigeria

Professor Bamgbose is a member of the faculty in the Department of Private and Business Law at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria. She was a Visiting Professor at Marquette University School of Law in Fall 2001 and taught Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure. In addition to her academic positions, she is a Fellow of Salzburg Seminar Austria Session 339 (1996). Professor Bamgbose is a member of The Nigerian Bar Association, The Nigerian Association of Law Teachers, and the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA). She currently teaches Criminal Law, Criminology, and Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure. Her research focus is in the areas of Criminal Law and Procedure and Criminology. She has adopted an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to her research.

Professor Bamgbose has a strong interest in women’s and children’s issues and has published a number of times on related topics. She is teaching Juvenile Justice Systems in Nigeria this semester.  Professor Bamgbose earned her LL.B (with Honors) and LL.M from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. She has a B.L (Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria).

Lynn S. Branham

Lynn S. Branham, a national expert on correctional and sentencing law and policy, is a former associate dean and Professor of Law at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School at the Grand Rapids/Western Michigan University. She also was a Visiting Senior Research Scientist for the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. In 1999, she became a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Some of Branham¹s work has included the training of federal appellate, district and magistrate judges on the Prison Litigation Reform Act, serving as the principal drafter of a research-based policy statement, and also accreditation standards, adopted by the American Correctional Association governing the confinement of youthful offenders in adult correctional facilities and serving as chair of the ABA¹s Corrections and Sentencing Committee which drafted a Model Adult Community Corrections Act that has served as a prototype for states across the country. In 1999 Branham received the Walter Dunbar Award for outstanding contributions to the American Correctional Association¹s accreditation process and is a former member of the Task Force on Alternatives to Incarceration of the Michigan House of Representatives. Branham is the author of numerous books, chapters, law review articles and manuals, has delivered presentations on correctional and sentencing topics at many conferences, and has also testified before Congress. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois and her law degree at the University of Chicago Law School.

Deirdre Madden

Dr. Deirdre Madden is a Senior Lecturer in Law in University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests and publications are in the area of medical law and ethics. Her book Medicine, Ethics & the Law, was published by Butterworths in 2002. Dr. Madden was a member of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction which reported to the Irish Government in 2005, and a member of the Research Ethics Committee of the Irish College of General Practitioners from 2002-2005. She has been an expert evaluator on bioethics for the European Commission since 2000 and is currently a partner in national and international research projects in the area of medical law and ethics including topics such as genetic testing of children, non-therapeutic research, and an ethical framework for a good death.

In 2004 Dr. Madden was appointed to the Medical Council which regulates the Irish medical profession, to represent the public interest, and was elected Chairperson of the Ethics Committee of the Council in October 2006. She was appointed by the Government in 2005 to write a report on pediatric post mortem practice and procedure, and subsequently chaired a working group on the implementation of that report in relation to perinatal and adult post mortem practice.

Dr. Madden currently chairs the University Research Ethics Board at UCC, and has recently been invited to become a member of the Council of the College of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. She is also Chairperson of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance in Healthcare established by the Minister for Health in January 2007.

Joël Monéger

Doctorate in Law (Ph.D.) (1976), LL.M. in Private Law (1969), LL.M. in Criminal Law (1970), University of Paris-Sorbonne; Bar Exam, Orléans, Visiting Fellow, King's College, London 1968/69

Professor Monéger is a Professor of Law, Université de Paris-Dauphine, Director of the Institut Droit Dauphine (Law Center). He was a Full Professor at the Université d'Orléans School of Law until Fall, 2002 and was Dean until 2001. He is Doyen honoraire (Honorary Dean) University of Orléans School of Law as well as the Vice-President of The "Société française de législation comparée" (French Association for Comparative Law) and of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) and a member of the board of the Association International de droit Economique (AIDE). Previously, Professor Monéger was Director of the "Institut de droit économique et des affaires" at the university of Orléans. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, South America and the United States. Professor Monéger holds a Jean Monnet Chair from the European Commission for his involvement in European community Law in France and in the United States, particularly in our School of Law. Professor Monéger has published six books and many articles.

Professor Monéger will teach Comparative Contract Law in Spring, 2008.

Kelly Moore

Kelly Moore is the Director of the Graduate Tax Program at Washington University School of Law, where he received his LL.M. in Taxation in 1998. Professor Moore was a Staff Attorney with the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 1996-1997, and was in private practice, focusing on issues related to the estate tax, the gift tax, income taxation and administration of trusts and estates. Professor Moore teaches courses in Estate and gift tax, trusts and estates, fiduciary income tax, and wealth transfer planning. Professor Moore will be teaching a class in Trusts and Estates in the Fall 2007 semester.

Elizabeth A. Pendo

Prior to joining the faculty at the St. Thomas University School of Law, Professor Pendo served as a Pro Se law clerk for the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and practiced as an ERISA litigation specialist in the law department of MetLife in New York. Currently, she teaches courses in civil procedure, health law, and employee benefits law. She has also taught health law and bioethics-related courses in the Masters of Science in Health Law Program at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, and at The Royal College University Escorial Mari Cristina in Spain. She writes in the areas of employer-sponsored health insurance law and policy, the intersection of issues of gender, race and disability with the health insurance and health care systems, and the litigation of insurance, employment and discrimination disputes in the federal courts. She has published in the UC Davis Law Review, the Journal of Legal Medicine and The Harvard Women’s Law Journal, among others. She has served as appointed member and elected Chair of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s Managed Care Ombudsman Committee, investigating and resolving health care consumer complaints regarding services received through managed care programs

Nancy J. Walsh

Nancy Walsh received her B.A. from Duke University, her J.D. from Harvard University Law School and her Master¹s in City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Edward E. Carnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama. She served as an associate at Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP and Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, both in Atlanta, and was later an adjunct professor at Emory University, where she taught a seminar on Affordable Housing and Community Development.

Howard Wasserman

Howard Wasserman has been an Associate Professor of Law at the Florida International University College of Law since 2003. He graduated magna cum laude from the Northwestern University School of Law, where he was an associate articles editor of the Law Review and was named to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he clerked for Chief Judge James T. Giles of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Judge Jane R. Roth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Prior to coming to FIU, he spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University College of Law. Professor Wasserman teaches civil procedure, evidence, federal courts, civil rights, and First Amendment; his scholarship focuses on the freedom of speech and procedure in public-law civil litigation. His recent work has examined the conflation and distinctions between judicial jurisdiction and substantive rights in federal litigation. He also is writing on the intersection between sports and free expression; he has presented on this subject at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Professor Wasserman is a loyal Chicago Cubs fan.