Visiting Professors 2008/2009

Miriam Aziz

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.

Jean-Francois Epoko

John O. Haley

John O. Haley is the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law at the Washington University School of Law in Saint Louis. He teaches contracts, transnational litigation and comparative law. He holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B., 1964), Yale Law School (LL.B. 1969) and the University of Washington (LL.M. in Asian Law, 1971) Considered a leading American authority on Japanese and comparative law including the award-winning Authority without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox (Oxford University Press, 1991), The Spirit of Japanese Law (University of Georgia Press, 1998) and, most recently, Antitrust in Germany and Japan: The First Fifty Years, 1947-1998 (University of Washington Press, 2001). He is also the co-author with John Henry Merryman and David S. Clark of The Civil Law Tradition: Europe, Latin America and East Asia (Lexis/Nexis). He is currently researching various aspects of restorative justice as well as completing a manuscript for a book on the evolution of modes of law enforcement.

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.

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.

Judge Michael Wolff

Judge Michael Wolff was appointed to the Supreme Court of Missouri in August 1998 and served as chief justice for the term of July 1, 2005, through June 30, 2007. His term as judge runs until 2012. In addition to his judicial duties, Judge Wolff serves as chair of the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission. He received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, and has served, since 1975, as assistant, associate and full professor at Saint Louis University School of Law, as well as held faculty appointments in Saint Louis University’s Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. Wolff served as chief counsel to Governor Mel Carnahan January 1993 to August 1994 and prior to that, as his transition director. He was special counsel to the Governor 1994-1998. He’s been a visiting professor at Sichuan University, Peoples Republic of China, and served in private practice in St. Louis from 1981 to 1982 working primarily on cases involving health care law, constitutional issues and employment law. He served as the director of the Black Hills Legal Services, Rapid City, South Dakota from 1973 to 1975 and was an attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver from 1972 to 1973. Judge Wolff is a member of The Missouri Bar, the American Bar Association, the Lawyers Association of St. Louis, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and The American Law Institute. He is a 2004 recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award, from Saint Louis University School of Law.