VLS Announces 2012 Faculty Appointments
The following 5 VLS faculty members were recently granted tenure and promoted to full professor:
Michelle Dempsey VLS Faculty since 2009
Education: University of Oxford (DPhil); London School of Economics (LLM); University of Michigan Law School (JD); University of Illinois (BA)
Specialty: Criminal Law; Jurisprudence; Feminist Legal Theory
Notable scholarship: University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and
Criminal Law Review.
Dempsey’s professional highlights include testimony before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the chronic failure to report and investigate rape; work as an expert witness and consultant to the Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales on domestic violence prosecutions; and service as a legal consultant to U.N. Special Rapporteur on Trafficking. She also authored,
Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2009), which received 2nd prize in the UK’s Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Award for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. She also serves as the Co-Coordinator of the Criminal Law Theory Program at the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and as an Editor of
Criminal Law & Philosophy.
Michael Moreland, Vice Dean
VLS Faculty since 2006
Education: University of Michigan Law School (JD); Boston College (MA, PhD); University of Notre Dame (BA)
Specialty Areas: Torts; Bioethics; Law and Religion
Notable scholarship: Notre Dame Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Law & Literature, Journal of Health and Life Sciences Law, American Journal of Bioethics, and
Journal of Perinatology.
Moreland was appointed Vice Dean of Villanova University School of Law in June 2012. Prior to joining the Law Faculty, he served as Associate Director for Domestic Policy at the White House, working on a range of legal policy issues, including criminal justice, immigration, civil rights and liability reform. Dean Moreland clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and was an associate at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., representing clients in First Amendment, professional liability and products liability matters. In the 2010 – 11 academic year, he was the Forbes Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
Joy Mullane
VLS Faculty since 2006
Education: University of Florida Levin College of Law (LLM, JD); University of Florida (BA)
Specialty Areas: Federal Tax; Wealth Tax; Executive Compensation
Notable scholarship: American University Business Law Brief, Catholic University Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law Review and
Florida Law Review.
Mullane focuses her scholarship on tax penalties designed to modify corporate and executive pay practices. She teaches in both the JD and Graduate Tax programs at Villanova University and was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at University of Florida Levin College of Law. Mullane was previously a corporate finance associate at the international firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Atlanta; a clerk for the Honorable Susan H. Black of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; and an associate specializing in employee benefits and financial products tax at Davis & Harman in Washington, D.C.
Teressa Ravenell VLS Faculty since 2006
Education: Columbia University School of Law (JD); University of Virginia (BA)
Specialty Areas: Civil Procedure; Civil Rights Litigation; Police Conduct
Notable scholarship: Seton Hall Law Review, Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook, Temple Law Review and
Villanova Law Review.
Ravenell coordinated the Visiting Assistant Professor program at VLS. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary Law School, where she taught products liability and a police conduct seminar. Previously, Ravenell was an associate with Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering in Washington D.C., and a clerk for the Honorable Raymond A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia University School of Law.
Chaim Saiman
VLS Faculty since 2006
Education: Columbia University School of Law (JD); Georgia State University (BBS); Yeshivat Har Etzion (graduate Talmudic and Biblical studies); Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavne (undergraduate Talmudic and Biblical Studies)
Specialty Areas: Private Law Theory; Jewish Law; Comparative Jurisprudence
Notable scholarship: Journal of Law and Religion, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, American Journal of Comparative Law and
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
Saiman teaches courses in Jewish Law, Tradition in Law and Religion, Legislation and Contracts at Villanova. In the 2012 – 13 academic year, he will serve as the Gruss Professor of Talmudic Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and as a Fellow-In-Residence at the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Previously, Saiman was an Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Golieb Fellow in legal history at NYU Law School, and a clerk for the Honorable Michael McConnell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He is currently the Jewish Law Editor for the
Journal of Law and Religion. His book, titled,
Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law, which analyzes the relationship between legal doctrine, philosophy and theology in Jewish law and culture, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
