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Jeff A. Redding
Assistant Professor of Law
Harvard University, B.A.; The University of Chicago Law School, J.D.

Professor Redding's research focuses on the intersection of law and religion, including comparative secularism, the theory of multiculturalism and family law. He teaches Civil Procedure and Comparative Law.

Prior to joining the faculty, Redding was an Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale Law School. He also served as a legal consultant for Lawyers Collective in Mumbai, India, where he designed training and provided expert advice for human rights litigation pertaining to religious and sexual minority rights.

He also taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Islamic law, international human rights law, constitutional law and global political economy as an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

During law school, Redding received several prestigious awards for his work on human rights and gay and lesbian civil rights issues.

Elizabeth Pendo
Professor of Law
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.; Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, J.D.

After a year long visit, Professor Pendo joined the law faculty and the Center for Health Law Studies. Issues and litigation involving gender, race and disability with health insurance law and health policy mark her scholarship.

She teaches Civil Procedure,Disability Discrimination Law, Bioethics and Health Care Ethics. Professor Pendo has published in the UC Davis Law Review, St. John's Law Review, Journal of Health Law, The Journal of Legal Medicine, Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal and The Harvard Women's Law Journal, among others.

Before joining Saint Louis University, she taught at Saint Thomas University School of Law in Miami and also taught health law and bioethics-related courses at the Shepard Broad Law Center at the Nova Southeastern University and at the Royal College University Escorial Maria Cristina in Spain.

Before entering academia, Pendo severed as a pro se law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and also practiced as an ERISA litigation specialist in the law department of MetLife in New York.

Robert Gatter
Professor of Law
Johns Hopkins University, B.A.; Medical College of Wisconsin, M.A.; University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D.

Professor Gatter joined the law faculty and the Center for Health Law Studies in the fall. He writes on a range of health law topics, including informed consent, end-of-life treatment disputes, medical mediation, conflicts of interest in drug development and the role of trust in health regulation. His work has been published in Boston University Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review and Wake Forest Law Review, among others.

His expertise spans the fields of health law, regulatory theory in health law, informed consent law, bioethics and public health law. He teaches Health Care Law, Public Health Law and Administrative Law.

Before joining Saint Louis University, Gatter taught at Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University. He was also a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology and was a fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Gatter is a former chair and current executive committee member of the AALS section for Law, Medicine & Health Care. He is also a member of the Links with Academia Advisory Group for the American Health Lawyers Association.

Yvette Joy Liebesman
Assistant Professor of Law
Georgetown University, B.A.; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, B.A.;
University of California, San Diego, M.S.; Georgetown Law, J.D.

Professor Liebesman's research focuses on copyright and trademark law and their intersection with science and technology. She teaches Intellectual Property Law and the first-year property course.

Prior to joining Saint Louis University, Liebesman practiced in the intellectual property transactional group at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston. After graduating Georgetown Law, she clerked for the Honorable Helen E. Hoens of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
While at Georgetown Law, Liebesman served as executive editor of the The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and also received numerous notable awards, including the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property Law and for her work organizing the Hurricane Katrina Relief Committee.

Karen Petroski
Assistant Professor of Law
Duke University, A.B.; Columbia University, M.A., M.Phil. & Ph.D.; Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, J.D.

Before joining Saint Louis University last year, Karen Petroski was a litigation associate with Morrison & Foerster LLP and at Cooper, White & Cooper LLP, both in San Francisco. After law school, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable William W. Schwarzer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

During law school at the University of California, Berkeley, Petroski served as a supervising editor on the California Law Review and as associate editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. She also received several jurisprudence awards and was elected to Order of the Coif. She earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy and comparative literature from Duke University and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University.

Petroski teaches Civil Procedure and Legislation.