Visiting Professors 2009/2010

Lynn S. Branham
Visiting Professor of Law
lbranha1@slu.edu

Lynn S. Branham has served as an Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School and been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Illinois and University of Iowa. Professor Branham’s many publications include a casebook on correctional and sentencing law and policy, a study for the American Bar Association on the use of incarceration, and a technical-assistance manual for courts, correctional officials, and attorneys general on pro se inmate litigation. Her most recent Law Review articles, which focus on the Prison Litigation Reform Act, inmate litigation, and faith-based prison units, were published in the Ave Maria, California, Cornell, and Southern California Law Reviews and the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.

Professor Branham has provided training to federal appellate, district, and magistrate judges about the Prison Litigation Reform Act at nineteen workshops sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, and she has testified before Congress on sentencing-related issues. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section Council and has served in a number of other leadership positions in the ABA. She represented the ABA for eleven of her thirteen years as a member of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections and received the American Correctional Association’s Walter Dunbar Award for her efforts to improve the ACA accreditation process.

Adrienne Davis
Visiting Professor of Law, Spring 2010

Albin Eser
Visiting International Professor of Law, Fall 2009
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Dr. Albin Eser studied law at the University of Tübingen, the Free University of Berlin, the Uni­versity of Würzburg (where he received his Dr. iur.), and at New York University (where he earned a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence). In 1970 he became a full professor of Ger­man and comparative criminal law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bielefeld. In 1974 he moved to the University of Tübingen and in 1982 to the University of Freiburg. From 1982 to 2003 he was Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. From 1971 to 1988 he served as an Associate Judge of the Higher Regional Court, first in Hamm/Westphalia and later on in Stuttgart/Baden-Wuerttemberg. From 1977-1983 he was member of the Senate of the German Resarch Foundation and from 1989-1992 one of its Vice-Presidents. From 1994-19997 he chaired the Humanities and Sociall Science Section of the Max-Planck-Society. From 2004 2006 he served as Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. In the summer term of 2008 he lectured as Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University College of Law at Kyoto/Japan. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Crakow/Poland, Peruana Los Andes Hyancayo/Peru, and Waseda Tokyo/Japan. His main areas of research include German, Comparative and International Criminal Law and Procedure, and Medical Law.

Timothy S. Hall
Visting Professor of Law, Fall 2009
thall12@slu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Hall graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1993, and joined the faculty of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 1999. Before joining the Louisville faculty, he practiced law with the corporate law department and health care law practice group of Taft, Stettinius and Hollister in Cincinnati, Ohio, and taught at the Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. Professor Hall served as Associate Dean at the University of Louisville from 2006 to 2009. At Louisville, Professor Hall regularly teaches courses in Contracts, Insurance Law and Mental Health Law. His research interests and publications are primarily in the fields of drug and medical device liability and mental health law. He has presented scholarly work at regional, national and international conferences. Recent articles by Professor Hall have appeared in the Seton Hall Law Review and the South Carolina Law Review, among others. He has served as President of the Central States Law School Association and Chair of the AALS Section on Mental Disability and the Law.

Patrick J. Kelley
Visiting Professor of Law, Fall 2009
kelleypj@slu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Patrick Kelley received his undergraduate degree from Notre Dame University, where he was valedictorian of his class in 1965. He graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1969, valedictorian of his class and editor-in-chief of the Iowa Law Review. He then practiced law with Sidley and Austin in Chicago before accepting a position teaching law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was awarded tenure in 1974. Professor Kelley left Washington University in 1979 to practice in the civil litigation department of the St. Louis law firm of Husch, Eppenberger, Donohue, Elson & Cornfeld. In 1981, Professor Kelley joined the Southern Illinois University School of Law, where he has taught torts, local government law, jurisprudence, statutory interpretation, constitutional law, and legislative and administrative processes. His publications include both chapters and articles on torts, tort theory, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., statutory interpretation, and constitutional law. Professor Kelley has served as a council member on the University City, Missouri, and Carbondale, Illinois city councils, and was the Republican candidate for Congress in the 22nd Congressional District in 1988. He served as the chair of the Illinois State Appellate Defender Commission from 1996 to 2002.

Hughes Kenfack
Visiting International Professor of Law, Fall 2009
hkenfack@slu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Hughes Kenfack is a Professor of Private Law at the University of Toulouse Faculty of Law and is also the Vice-President of Academic Affairs. His areas of expertise include international trade law, international finance and banking law. Professor Kenfack is also the author of a number of books and articles in these fields. Most recently, his book titled “Droit du commerce international” (The Law of International Trade) originally published in 2002, appeared in a second edition in 2006. A third edition of this popular text will appear in 2009. He has two additional books in progress, one in the area of international commercial law and the other in contract law. Professor Kenfack has also just published an article on conflicts of law. This article will be published in the spring of 2009 in the prestigious "Revue De Droit International." In addition to his duties in the law faculty and his role as Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Professor Kenfack is a member of two professional organizations in France and Europe: The French Committee of Private International Law and the Working Group on International Contracts.  The latter is a project sponsored by UNIDROIT (The European Institute for the Unification of Private International Law). Professor Kenfack has been a visiting professor at universities in Poland, Lebanon, Morocco, Chad and La Martinique. He has also visited and researched at Cambridge University, England.

Mark R. Lee
Visiting Professor of Law, Spring 2010
Curriculum Vitae

Joël Monéger
Visiting International Professor of Law, Spring 2010
monegejl@slu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Monéger received his Ph.D in law, LL.M. in Private Law and LL.M in Criminal Law from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He is a Professor of Law at the Université de Paris-Dauphine and also the Director of the Institut Droit Dauphine (Law Center). Professor Monéger 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). He is 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 and was a Visiting Fellow at King's College in London. 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. Professor Monéger has published six books and many articles.

Nancy J. Walsh
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
nwalsh2@slu.edu

Professor 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.

The Honorable Michael Wolff
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law
mwolff3@slu.edu

The Honorable 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.