Faculty
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Dveera Segal Professor of Law
Director, Clinical Program
Director, Civil Justice Clinic |
Professor Segal joined the Villanova faculty in the Fall of 1999. Her legal career has been as an advocate for the poor, as a staff attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, the Delaware County Legal Assistance Association and as a member of the clinical faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Segal is chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Legal Access Task Force, member of the board of directors of HIAS and Council, past member of the PBA Task Force on Loan Forgiveness and Repayment Assistance, and a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Delivery of Legal Services Committee. In 2008, Prof. Segal received a PBA Special Achievement Award for her work as co-chair of the Legal Services to the Public Committee. Her expertise and interests focus on poverty law, public interest practice and civil litigation.
T. Keith Fogg joined the faculty in 2007. Professor Fogg received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, his J.D. from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, and his LL.M. from the College of William and Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty he worked for over 30 years as a lawyer in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, where he has served both in the national office and field offices. He was selected IRS, Chief Counsel Attorney of the Year in 2007. He currently serves as vice chairman of the ABA Tax Section Low Income Taxpayer Committee and co-chair of the procedural section of the Tax Shelf Project. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown, Richmond, and William and Mary, and was a visiting professor at the University of Arizona School of Law. Professor Fogg’s scholarship focuses on issues concerning tax procedure, collection and bankruptcy matters.
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Beth Lyon Professor of Law
Director, Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic |
Before joining the faculty of Villanova Law School in 2001, Professor Lyon was a staff attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in Washington, DC, and a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Washington College of Law, American University. She is a specialist in immigration law and Chair-Elect of the AALS International Human Rights Section.
Professor Pistone is a national authority on immigration law and procedure. Her work has focused on issues impacting asylum seekers and refugees. She is a Board Member of Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC), a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS International Human Rights Section, and as a consultant to American Law Institute-American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, she authored an award-winning training video for lawyers representing asylum seekers. Professor Pistone has been a clinical teacher for several years and directs the Clinical Program. She also serves on the ABA's Committee on Clinical and Skills Education.
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Michael Campbell Visiting Assistant Professor
Civil Justice Clinic, Fall 2012
Interdisciplinary Health Law Clinic, Spring 2013 |
Michael Campbell joins the Faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He comes to Villanova from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project ("PHLP"), an organization that he co-founded in 1993 and which he has served as Executive Director since 2003. A graduate of Villanova University and Temple Law School, Mike has been representing low income Pennsylvanians for his entire career, starting in Bucks County and continuing at the Delaware County Legal Assistance Association as a staff attorney and then as Managing Attorney of the Senior Citizen Unit, followed by his work with PHLP. Mike's prior teaching experience includes co-teaching a seminar in Publicly Financed Health Care Law at Penn law school and co-teaching an interdisciplinary seminar on Emerging Issues in PUblicly Financed Managed Health Care, a course that included students at the University of Pennsylvania in the schools of Law, Medicine, Nursing and Social Work. Michael will be teaching in the Civil Justice Clinic.
Cathryn Miller-Wilson
Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow
Civil Justice Clinic
Cathryn Miller-Wilson is currently a Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow at Villanova University School of Law. In that capacity she co-teaches the Civil Justice Clinic with Clinical Programs Director, Dveera Segal and Visiting Assistant Professor, Michael Campbell. From September, 2008 through May, 2011 she was both the Deputy Managing Attorney at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and an adjunct professor at Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law where she taught a Field Clinic. She has been a Custody and Support Master in Philadelphia’s Family Court, coordinator of the Delivery of Legal Services Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Director of the Parents with HIV/AIDS Project at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and a staff attorney at Community Legal Services, Inc. where she represented parents accused of abuse and neglect. She co-founded, while in law school, the Custody and Support Assistance Clinic (CASAC) and today sits on the board of that organization. She is the primary author of Pennsylvania’s Standby Guardianship Act which became law in December, 1998. With support from the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law, she created a medical/legal partnership between the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and the Jonathan Lax Treatment Center at Philadelphia FIGHT in 2007. She has made numerous presentations on family law, the unique issues in families affected by HIV/AIDS, standby guardianship, confidentiality and consumer rights issues. She recently co-presented a paper at the American Philosopher’s 2012 Symposium with philosopher, Marjorie C. Miller called “Access to Justice and Technology in the Courts: Bridging the Gap or Deepening the Divide?” In 2009, her article, “Becoming Poor: Stories of the Real ‘Safety Net’ And the Consequences for Middle America” was published in the Quinnipiac University School of Law’s Health Law Journal, Volume 13, No. 1. She graduated from Tufts University in 1989 and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1993 and currently sits on the law school’s Board of Managers. In 2004 she was awarded the Penn Law Alumni Society’s Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement.
Jennifer Sperling
Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow
Civil Justice Clinic
Caitlin Barry
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic
Caitlin Barry is currently the Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic, where she co-teaches the clinic seminar and supervises students advocates in immigration and employment matters. From 2011-2012, Caitlin supervised the Temple Immigration Law Clinic at Nationalities Service Center (NSC) as an adjunct professor, where she collaborated with law students to provide pro bono deportation defense services to low-income Philadelphia residents and coordinated a weekly seminar on lawyering skills and local migrant justice issues. Prior to her clinic work, Caitlin served as a staff attorney at NSC, specializing in deportation defense for individuals targeted by the criminal system. From 2007 to 2012 she was also the Immigration Specialist at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, a position she created with a 2007 post-graduate fellowship from the Berkeley Law Foundation. Along with several other attorneys at the Defender Association, she helped establish the first in-house immigration unit, which provided immigration research and legal advice on the immigration consequences of criminal charges to over 1000 individuals each year. Caitlin is an active volunteer with local organizations working on issues of prison abolition, gender self-determination, migrant justice and grassroots empowerment and a frequent presenter on the intersections of the deportation and criminal systems. She is a member of the advisory board of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the legal advisory committee of the Mazzoni Center for LGBT Health and Wellbeing. She is a graduate of the New College of Florida and Temple Law, where she was awarded the Beth Cross Memorial Award for Public Interest Service and the Leonard Sigal Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Criminal Law.
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Linda Love Vines Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow
Assistant Director, Graduate Tax Program |
Linda Love Vines is a Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow for the Federal Tax Clinic. Before coming to Villanova in January 2003, Linda was a Senior Attorney with the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for six years. Prior to that, she was a Tax Consultant with a large, international accounting firm. She received a J.D. and LL.M in Taxation from Villanova University School of Law.
As Clinic Administrator, Ms. Brown manages the day-to-day operations of the Clinical Program's law office. She coordinates the collaboration of the Villanova Law School Clinical Program and the Villanova University Graduate Counseling Program. She recently presented at the North Atlantic Regional Association for Counselor Education and Supervision in Portland, Maine.
Bernadette DiPasquale
Administrative Assistant
Federal Tax Clinic
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JoAnn Viviani Certified Paralegal
Civil Justice Clinic and Interdisciplinary Health Law Clinic |
JoAnn's background is in civil litigation working on cases in five counties. She has been a longtime member of the Chester County Paralegal Association.
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