Adjunct Faculty

Professor Marta Berkley has taught Lawyering Process I and II and Moot Court at the School of Law since 2000. During Professor Christine Jones' absence as a Visiting Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law, Professor Berkley served as Acting Director of the Legal Writing Program.

Professor Berkley earned her B.A. and J.D. at Howard University. She has extensive experience as a trial attorney, beginning with her service at the Civil Service Commission upon graduation from law school where she worked on EEO and age discrimination matters. She then spent seven years as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice where she acted as lead counsel in a school desegregation case and represented other agencies involving statutory interpretation and constitutional challenges. Professor Berkley accepted an appointment as Chief of the Personnel and Labor Relations Section of the Office of Corporation Counsel where she supervised the attorneys representing the District of Columbia in personnel and labor relations matters. She subsequently worked as a senior trial attorney and counsel at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The Honorable Anna Blackburne-Rigsby
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., Duke University; J.D., Howard University School of Law.

Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby was appointed to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in August 2006. Prior to her appointment, Judge Blackburne-Rigsby served as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2000-2006, and served as a Magistrate Judge on the Superior Court from 1995-2000.

Prior to her appointment as a Magistrate Judge, Professor Blackburne-Rigsby was the Deputy Corporation Counsel for the Family Services Division of the Office of the Corporation Counsel (now the Office of the Attorney General) of the District of Columbia, which is responsible for handling child support enforcement, child abuse and neglect, and domestic violence cases. Previously she served as Special Counsel to the Corporation Counsel. From 1987 to 1992, she was a litigation associate at the law firm of Hogan and Hartson.

Professor Blackburne-Rigsby has held offices and been a member of several bar and civic organizations. She was the former Chair of the Washington Bar Association Judicial Council, and the Vice President for District 4 of the National Association of Women Judges. She serves on the Board of Managerial Trustees for the International Association of Women Judges. She has also served as a coach and mentor for the Catholic Youth Organization Girls Basketball Team. She has taught Trial Advocacy at the Harvard Law School and taught Professional Responsibility at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law. She has also taught several continuing Legal Education courses for the District of Columbia Bar.

Professor Blackburne-Rigsby teaches Professional Responsibility.

Spencer Boyer Spencer H. Boyer
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.S., Howard University; J.D., George Washington University Law School; LL.M., Harvard Law School.

Professor Spencer Boyer earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Howard University, an LL.B. at George Washington Law School, and an LL.M. at Harvard Law School. He is the senior most faculty member at the Howard University School of Law where he has taught for thirty-seven years. He was voted Professor of the Year by the law school student body in 1998 and received the Distinguished Faculty Author Award from the President and Provost of the University in 2000 and 2002.

At Harvard Law School, Professor Boyer was the co-founder and co-editor of the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, today one of the most respected civil rights law journals in the country. During his more than three decades of teaching, Professor Boyer has taught Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law II, Entertainment Law, Business Organizations, Contracts, Federal Taxation, Municipal Law, State and Local Tax, Unfair Trade Practices and Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights. Professor Boyer is credited with establishing one of the first courses in Entertainment Law at a major law school, having taught this course since 1972.

Professor Boyer is a founding member of the Silver Forum, an organization founded by the senior members of the Howard University Law School faculty for the purpose of reconnecting the law school to active engagement in the struggle for racial, social, and economic justice.

Professor Boyer teaches Intellectual Property/Entertainment Law and Contracts.

Heather Bupp-Habuda
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., Pennsylvania State University; J.D., Washington College of Law, American University.

Upon her graduation from law school, Professor Bupp-Habuda joined the Office of Solicitor at the U.S. Department of Labor as a litigation attorney where she handled matters of wages, hours, safety, health, ethics, compensation law, freedom of information, government contracts and whistleblower discrimination. From 1997 until 2003, she was in private practice, specializing in a variety of civil litigation matters before federal and state courts.

Professor Bupp-Habuda was appointed Legal Ethics Counsel at the District of Columbia Bar in 2004, and for three years, provided expertise and training on legal ethics and taught continuing legal education classes about legal technology, legal ethics, and practice management. She also spoke at numerous local and national conferences as an expert on the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct. Professor Bupp-Habuda has returned to practicing law and is on the adjunct faculty at the Washington College of Law at American University and at Georgetown University. She teaches Professional Responsibility at UDC-DCSL.

Isaac Campbell
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook; J.D., Howard University School of Law.

Isaac Campbell has been a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice for the past five years. In the Office of Immigration Litigation, he represented the U.S. Attorney General in appellate review petitions by aliens challenging orders of removal, denials of political asylum, and other immigration benefits. While working in the Federal Programs Branch, Professor Campbell was responsible for the defense against constitutional challenges to federal statutes, suits to overturn government policies and programs, and attacks on the legality of government decisions in the areas of discrimination, First Amendment challenges, and regulatory enforcement. Immediately upon graduation from law school, he worked at the firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding in the telecommunications, litigation, and franchise practice areas.

As an attorney volunteer with the Federal Communications Bar Association, Professor Campbell has provided legal assistance at a pro bono community clinic representing low income and indigent residents of Washington, D.C., on a variety of matters including landlord-tenant disputes, domestic abuse and custody hearings, immigration matters and employer-employee conflicts.

Professor Campbell teaches Moot Court.

Colin Dunham Colin M. Dunham
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., Oxford University; J.D., University of Virginia; M.A., Oxford University.

Professor Dunham is in private practice in Washington, D. C. He has handled a variety of cases but specializes in criminal defense litigation. From 1989 to 1991, he served as Assistant General Counsel for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. From 1985 to 1988, he was Of Counsel for the law firm of Zuckert, Scoutt, Rasenberger & Johnson. Professor Dunham was the Editor & Research Fellow for the George Washington papers at the University of Virginia. He served as the Vice President for the Superior Court Trial Lawyers Association of the District of Columbia from 1993 to 1995, and since 1998, has served as the Association's President. In 1998, he received the District of Columbia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' "Lawyer of the Year" award.

Professor Dunham teaches Trial Advocacy.

Karen Evans, photo courtesy Jack Olender and Associates Karen Evans
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.S., East Carolina University; J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Karen Evans was a Captain in the United States Air Force where she practiced medical/surgical and intensive care nursing before receiving her law degree. Prior to joining Jack H. Olender & Associates as a plaintiffs trial attorney, she successfully represented HMO's, doctors and nurses who were defendants in medical malpractice cases. From 1995 to 2000, Professor Evans successfully defended more than 92 percent of all serious medical malpractice cases tried to jury verdict.

A registered nurse, Professor Evans is a member of the American Association of Nurse Attorneys. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Trial Lawyers Association of the District of Columbia and is the Advisory Director of the Virginia Commission on Women and Minorities in the Legal System. She is a volunteer mediator with the Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs of the D.C. Superior Court and the District Court for the District of Columbia. She has lectured on legal and medical issues on many occasions, including programs sponsored by the Virginia Nurses Association, the National Business Institute, the D.C. Bar, The George Washington University Law School, and the Trial Lawyers Association, D.C.

Professor Evans teaches Lawyering Process.

Karen Gray
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.S., Andrews University; J.D., Howard University School of Law.

Professor Gray currently serves as General Counsel to the Government Accountability Project (GAP). Prior to joining GAP she worked as a private attorney in the Metropolitan Washington area. Professor Gray dedicates much of her time and experience to other non-profit and advocacy groups, including the Family Crisis Center of Prince George's County, Maryland, where she served as Director of Legal Services.

Professor Gray is the supervising faculty member for the Government Accountability Project Clinic.

Francesco Isgro
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., Union College; J.D., Antioch School of Law; L.L.M., International Law, Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Isgro has had substantial experience in immigration law matters through work as a trial attorney and then Associate General Counsel at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. He is currently Senior Litigation Counsel in the Office of Immigration Litigation in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Isgro is responsible for appellate litigation involving the rights of refugees under U.S. laws, the constitutional rights of aliens, and questions of statutory interpretation. He conducts settlement negotiations and trials of complex cases, supervises the work of junior lawyers, and directs the office’s training program. Professor Isgro has been Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at Georgetown University Law Center since 1990.

Professor Isgro co-teaches Immigration Law.

Milton Lee The Honorable Milton C. Lee, Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.S. American University; J.D., Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.

Professor Lee was appointed Hearing Commissioner in the D.C. Superior Court in December 1997. Hearing Commissioner Lee was a member of the UDC-DCSL faculty until the fall of 1997, supervising in the Juvenile Justice Clinic and teaching Criminal Law, Evidence, Wills & Estates, and Trial Advocacy. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Lee was a staff attorney with the Public Defender Service from 1985 to 1990 where he served as the Deputy Trial Chief from 1990-1993. During the 1990-91 academic year, Professor Lee was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law serving the Criminal Justice Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Lee currently is a member of the adjunct faculty at Georgetown where he teaches trial advocacy. Professor Lee also teaches in the Harvard Trial Advocacy Program during the spring semester. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Law Students in Court Program.

Professor Lee teaches Evidence and Wills and Estates.

Michael Maggio
Adjunct Professor of Law

J.D., Antioch School of Law.

Professor Maggio is the senior partner at Maggio & Kattar and has been practicing immigration law since 1978. He is a nationally recognized authority on numerous complex areas of immigration law, and a past President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's (AILA) District of Columbia Chapter, as well as the Chief Legal Advisor to the Tahirih Justice Center. He also teaches immigration law at American University's Washington College of Law, lectures widely, and is often consulted by major media when important developments in immigration law occur. Mr. Maggio has served as counsel on many significant immigration cases decided by the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Federal Courts.

Professor Maggio co-teaches Immigration Law with Adjunct Professor Earle Wilson.

Fritz Mulhauser
Adjunct Professor of Law

A.B., Harvard College; M.A., Yale University; M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Mulhauser is Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area, where he represents clients in a variety of areas including police misconduct, public housing tenants' rights and students' rights. He serves also on ACLU legal teams in larger cases, such as the class action filed in 2003 challenging the arrest of 400 protesters in Washington's Pershing Park in September 2002. He authored the ACLU legal manual, Demonstrating in the District of Columbia: A Guide for Exercising Your Right to Free Speech in the Nation's Capital and advises groups on First Amendment freedoms. He received the ACLU's Alan Barth Service Award in 2001.

Professor Mulhauser is active in the D.C. Bar, as a member of the Steering Committee of the Section on Courts, Lawyers and the Administration of Justice, in the Bar Pro Bono program as an advisor in its clinic and as facilitator for Pro Se litigants in D.C. Family Court. He was for a year appointed counsel in Superior Court for misdemeanor defendants through the Georgetown Criminal Justice Clinic while he was in law school.

He earlier served for 11 years as a congressional staff member, first on the House Education and Labor Committee and later as Assistant Director in the Program Evaluation Division of the U.S. General Accounting Office where he investigated and testified on a wide range of legislative policy topics including the war on drugs. He was a member of the staff at the start of the U.S. Department of Education in the 1970s, where for a decade he was a senior official in the research arm, the U.S. National Institute of Education. He began his career writing materials to bring controversial legal issues into high school classrooms and as founder of an alternative high school in Cambridge, Mass., in the 1960s.

Professor Mulhauser teaches Lawyering Process I and II.

Melvin L. Otey
Adjunct Professor of Law

Melvin L. Otey joined the faculty in 2005 as an Adjunct Professor. He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, at Howard University School of Law where he served on the HOWARD LAW JOURNAL and distinguished himself in moot court and trial advocacy activities.

After his graduation from law school, Professor Otey was accepted into the Attorney General's Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice where he served as a trial attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Criminal Division and specialized in white collar crime and appellate matters. In 2003, he joined Temple Law Offices where he litigated dozens of civil actions in state and federal courts in matters including civil rights violations, police misconduct, employment discrimination, toxic torts, negligence and personal injury, and represented criminal defendants in felony and misdemeanor cases in federal and state courts. Professor Otey opened his own law practice in February 2005.

Professor Otey taught basic trial advocacy principles and techniques and coached Georgetown University Law Center students in preparing for and competing in the National Civil Rights Trial Competition at the Frank S. Polestino Trial Advocacy Institute in New York, and has served as guest instructor, judge and coach for Howard University's Trial Advocacy Moot Court Team. He has also taught in the Advanced Advocacy Program for legal practitioners at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy in Washington, D.C.

Professor Otey teaches Lawyering Process I and II.

Judge Peter Panuthos The Honorable Peter J. Panuthos
Adjunct Professor of Law

J.D., Suffolk University Law School; LL.M., Boston University School of Law.

Professor Panuthos serves as the chief special trial judge of the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C.

From 1970 to 1983 he worked in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service in Boston where his responsibilities included representing the Commissioner of the IRS before the Tax Court and supervising a staff of lawyers and support staff.

Since his appointment as a special trial judge in 1983, and later chief special trial judge of the U.S. Tax Court in 1992, Judge Panuthos has authored more than 500 written opinions in the areas of pension plans, exempt organizations, the relationship of the Bankruptcy Court and the Tax Court, collateral estoppel, collection and innocent spouse provisions, and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, among others. As a result of over twenty years of tax litigation, Judge Panuthos has particular expertise in advocacy, taxation, litigation, mediation, and civil procedure.

Judge Panuthos has also had considerable experience teaching. Most recently, he has been a member of the faculty at an intensive trial training program conducted by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Judge Panuthos teaches Tax I.

Omyra Ramsingh Omyra M. Ramsingh
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.S., M.A., University of Florida; J.D., Catholic University of American School of Law.

During her law school career, Professor Ramsingh served as a law clerk in the Families and the Law Litigation Clinic and as a legal intern at the Securities and Exchange Commission. She was Senior Lead Article Editor for the Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy and was awarded a National Hispanic Bar Association Scholarship in her third year.

Since her graduation from law school, Professor Ramsingh has practiced law in the Business Practice Groups of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart in Pittsburgh and Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C., and in the Finance/Private Equity Group of Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C. Professor Ramsingh is currently a Senior Attorney in the Financial Markets and Community Investment section of the U.S. Government Accountability Office's Office of General Counsel where she advises analysts on securities, banking and insurance law issues and is a member of Contract Appeals Board.

Professor Ramsingh teaches Lawyering Process I and II and Moot Court.

Robert Raymond
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., Fordham University; J.D., Quinnipiac University School of Law.

Professor Raymond is Deputy Chief of the Training Division with the Office of Chief Counsel, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Professor Raymond also served as associate counsel on the Adjudications Law Division providing advice to all agency components, including USCIS headquarters and field offices on a wide array of issues relating to immigration benefits. Professor Raymond began his career in immigration with legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in 1997 as an Assistant District Counsel in the New York District Counsel’s office. In that role, he represented the legacy INS in US immigration court on issues of removability, deportation, exclusion and relief and provided legal advice to operating units of the INS New York district. Professor Raymond was also a public defender with the Criminal Defense Division of the New York City Legal Aid Society in the Bronx for nine years. Professor Raymond is a member of the New York Bar.

Professor Raymond teaches the Immigration Law Seminar.

Robert Rigsby The Honorable Robert R. Rigsby
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.S., with distinction, San Jose State University; J.D., University of California, San Francisco, Hastings College of Law.

Robert R. Rigsby was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 2002. Prior to his appointment, he served as Corporation Counsel (now Attorney General) for the District of Columbia, a position for which he was nominated by Mayor Anthony Williams and confirmed by the Council of the District of Columbia in February of 2000. As Corporation Counsel, Professor Rigsby served as the chief law officer of the District of Columbia, responsible for the conduct of all the legal business of the District government. He oversaw a staff of 225 lawyers and 288 support staff, and was directly responsible for an annual operating budget of $48 million.

Prior to his appointment as Corporation Counsel, Professor Rigsby served as Interim Corporation Counsel, Acting Principle Deputy Corporation Counsel, Deputy Corporation Counsel in charge of the Enforcement Division and Deputy Corporation Counsel in charge of the Criminal Division.

In the mid-1980s, Professor Rigsby was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in the Narcotics Division. From 1987 to 1992, he served on active duty in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Professor Rigsby is currently a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserves. In June 2003, the Judge Advocate of the United States Army appointed Judge Rigsby as a Military Judge.

In November 2003, the Chief Judge for the District of Columbia Superior Court appointed Professor Rigsby to serve as chair of the Commission on the Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges. The Commission has final authority to appoint, reappoint, discipline, and remove Administrative Law Judges in the District of Columbia.

As part of the President’s National Capital Revitalization and Self-Improvement Act, Professor Rigsby was selected as one of nine commissioners to recommend modifications to the District of Columbia’s Advisory Commission on sentencing. He was appointed by the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to serve on that Court’s Committee on Grievances. He was appointed Chairman of the District of Columbia Legal Affairs Committee for the 1997 Presidential Inauguration. Professor Rigsby was a member of the District of Columbia Coalition Against Drugs and Violence. He serves as a mentor for the Youth Enhancement Project of Shiloh Baptist Church’s Family Life Center and as a member of its Board of Directors. He is a member of 100 Black Men of Greater Washington, DC, Inc. and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Since 1991, Professor Rigsby has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, University College.

Professor Rigsby co-teaches Professional Responsibility with his wife, the Honorable Anna Blackburne-Rigsby.

W. Sherman Rogers
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., Oakwood College; J.D., Howard University School of Law; L.L.M., George Washington University National Law Center.

Professor W. Sherman Rogers is currently a tenured full Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law School. Professor Rogers received the B.A. degree from Oakwood College in 1973 (summa cum laude), the J.D. degree from Howard University School of Law in 1976 and the LL.M. degree from the George Washington University National Law Center in 1981. While at Howard University School of Law School as a student, the Howard Law Journal invited him to become one of its members which he accepted. In 1982, Professor Rogers completed, as a non-degree candidate, the residency and course requirements for the Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degree at George Washington University National Law Center. Professor Rogers is licensed to practice law in state and federal courts including the United States Supreme Court. He is also a registered stockbroker, general securities principal, and has life and health insurance licenses.

Professor Rogers has taught at Howard University School of Law School as a full time professor since 1986. During his career, Professor Rogers has taught at a total of six law schools: Miles College Law School (1978, adjunct), Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University (1983-1986, full-time), Howard University School of Law (1986-present), Brigham Young University School of Law (1993, visiting professor), David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia (1996-present, adjunct professor), and the University of Baltimore School of Law (2002 and 2004, adjunct professor). Texas Southern's Student Bar Association voted Professor Rogers as Professor of the Year in his first year of full-time teaching (1983-84). Professor Rogers has subsequently received numerous teaching awards from various law schools.

Professor Rogers practiced law in various capacities for nearly seven years before accepting a full-time position as an assistant professor at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 1983. His practice experience includes four years of appellate advocacy on behalf of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Professor Rogers argued numerous employment discrimination cases for the Commission in various United States Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal between 1979 and 1983. He has also been involved in several cases which he presented to the United States Supreme Court on writs of certiorari. Professor Rogers has also handled securities fraud and other types of litigation.

Professor Rogers has published important scholarly articles which have been cited by other authors in their works as well as by the judiciary. A noteworthy example of his scholarship is an article titled The Black Quest for Economic Liberty: Legal, Historical and Related Considerations, 48 How. L.J. 1 (2004). Various universities have requested permission from Professor Rogers to use this article as resource material for courses in their curriculum. Professor Rogers received a contract from the Greenwood Publishing Group on May 14, 2007 to write a book tentatively titled: The African American Entrepreneur: Then and Now. Professor Rogers also has authored five copyrighted unpublished instructional texts/manuals which he uses in conjunction with his classes. The five instructional texts are as follows: Study Materials for Corporations and Business Organizations; Getting a Grip on the Structure of Property Law: An Overview of the Course in Property Law; Property Terms and Concepts; Study Materials for Conflict of Laws; and Study Materials for Federal Courts.

Professor Rogers teaches Business Organizations I and II, Federal Courts, and Property.

Wallace Gene Shipp Wallace E. "Gene" Shipp, Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Law

J.D., American University Washington College of Law.

Professor Shipp joined the District of Columbia Office of Bar Counsel in 1980 and has served as Deputy Bar Counsel since 1984 with two tours as Acting Bar Counsel. A 1972 graduate of Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., he engaged in private practice in the Washington area from 1973 - 1980, handling more than 80 civil and criminal jury trials and now has argued more than 65 cases before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He is a past President of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, a former member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Lawyer Responsibility for Client Protection, a Delegate to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Judicial Conference, and a former Panelist in the Criminal Practice Institute. In 1998, Professor Shipp was elected an ABA Fellow; and in 2002 he received the NOBC Presidential Award for lifetime achievement. Professor Shipp devotes innumerable hours in support of educational and community activities in Howard County, Maryland, and he lectures frequently on ethics for the District of Columbia Bar and local law schools. He has made more than 60 presentations on ethics and disciplinary practice as part of the Mandatory CLE Course for new members of the District of Columbia Bar.

Professor Shipp teaches Professional Responsibility.

Barbara V. Smith
Adjunct Professor of Law

J.D., District of Columbia School of Law; LL.M. in Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center; LL.M. in Securities & Financial Regulation, Georgetown University Law Center.

While in law school Professor Smith clerked at the Public Defender Service and the United States Attorney’s Office, Appellate Division. Upon graduation from law school, Professor Smith worked as an intern for the Honorable Evelyn Queen at the District of Columbia Superior Court. Professor Smith has taught bar review essay writing classes and Legal Writing at the University of Maryland. She is a consultant for the American Bar Association's Council on Legal Education Opporunity (CLEO) where she teaches bar exam preparation to third-year students and lectures to incoming first-year students on Constitutional law and Federalism. Professor Smith clerked for The Honorable Jose M. Lopez, Presiding Judge, Probate and Tax Division, District of Columbia Superior Court.

Professor Smith teaches Lawyering Process I and II, and the Mason Enhancement Program.

Jay Stewart Jay Ashton Stewart
Adjunct Professor of Law

A.B., with honors, Harvard College; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; M.A., Howard University.

At the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Professor Stewart worked on a series of race discrimination class actions against Amtrak and monitored a class action consent decree against Denny's Restaurants for failure to serve black Secret Service officers and others. At the National Urban League, he worked on matters related to voting, federal judicial nominations, hate crimes, violence against women, and the digital divide. Professor Stewart has also worked closely with Professor Edgar Cahn on the Youth Court diversion program and the community service portion of the Law and Justice course. He teaches constitutional history, constitutional law, criminal law, and U.S. History at the University of the District of Columbia Institute for Public Safety and Justice and at the Howard University Department of History.

Professor Stewart teaches Lawyering Process.

Tami Taylor
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., University of South Carolina; J.D., Howard University School of Law.

While in law school, Professor Taylor clerked at the Department of Commerce's Office of Civil Rights on Title VII, equal pay, and age discrimination grievances; as a third-year student, she clerked at Shaw Pittman where she assisted in the government relations and government contracts practice. After graduation, she joined Thompson, O'Donnell, Markham, Norton & Hannon where she litigates diverse and complex civil matters encompassing product safety, professional liability, employment practices, commercial and personal property damage, and commercial and government contracts.

Professor Taylor teaches Lawyering Process I and II.

John Terzano John F. Terzano
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., George Washington University; J.D., UDC David A. Clarke School of Law; LL.M., American University; LL.M., American University Washington College of Law.

John Terzano is President and co-founder of The Justice Project. He has been involved in social justice advocacy for thirty years. Terzano led a five-year campaign to pass the Innocence Protection Act (IPA), the first piece of federal death penalty reform legislation to pass Congress and be signed into law. The IPA allows for DNA testing of individuals who may have been wrongfully convicted and authorizes funding to states to clear their DNA backlogs and improve forensic laboratory capacity and standards across the nation as well as provide assistance to states to improve the quality of legal representation for indigent defendants in State capital cases among other reforms. As president of The Justice Project, John is instrumental in working to reform the criminal justice system through public education, litigation support and legislative reform efforts.

Terzano is also Vice President and co-founder of Veterans for America (formerly known as Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation - VVAF), an advocacy and humanitarian organization that is uniting a new generation of veterans with those from past wars to address the causes, conduct and consequences of war. VVAF’s work on the international campaign to ban landmines was recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Terzano served two tours in Vietnam while in the Navy from 1970-74 and helped to lead the first delegation of American veterans to return to Vietnam after the war ended. Terzano became a leading advocate of reconciliation with America’s former enemies in Vietnam, an experience that ultimately helped lift the economic embargo by the U.S. and normalize relations between the U.S and Vietnam.

Terzano received his undergraduate degree in public affairs from the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University; graduated magna cum laude from the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law (UDC-DCSL); and received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in International Legal Studies from American University's Washington College of Law. Terzano is an Adjunct Professor of Law at UDC-DCSL, is a former Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities Criminal Justice Committee and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Southern Center for Human Rights and Friends of the Law Library of Congress.

Carolyn Waller
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., Bucknell University; M.A., University of Wisconsin; J.D., Antioch School of Law.

Professor Waller is a nationally recognized expert in Immigration Law. For many years she was Director of the Alien Rights Project of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She is now in private practice in Washington, D.C. In 1984, Prof. Waller received a special commendation from the ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants for organizing representation for more than 150 Haitian refugees. In 1991, she received the Human Rights Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In 1991, she was named Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year by the District of Columbia Bar. Professor Waller is also an immigration scholar who has published numerous general readership and law review articles.

W. David Watts
Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., University of Washington; J.D., University of Maryland; L.L.M., The George Washington University.

Professor Watts is the General Counsel and Vice President for Legal Affairs at the University of the District of Columbia. He joined the UDC team on April 17, 2007, after serving as the Executive Director for the President's Initiative on the City in George Washington University's Office of General Counsel. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President for Development and Government Affairs at Trammell Crow Company. He has held a number of high positions with the D.C. government, including Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, Director of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Director of Housing and Community Development and in the D.C. Attorney General's office as legal counsel to Zoning Board, Historic Preservation Board and Board of Zoning Adjustments. He has also been the Zoning Attorney for Howard County, Maryland, Legal Counsel to the Urban Land Institute, and Legal Counsel to the US Endangered Species Office. He has served on the Boards of the DC Chamber of Commerce, Urban League, Board of Trade PAC, Latino Economic Development Corporation and NBC4's Community Advisory Board and on city-wide task forces for the Comprehensive Plan and for Comprehensive Housing Strategy. He is currently an Associate Professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia. His areas of legal concentration include Government Relations; Real Property Development and tax; Consumer and Regulatory Affairs; and Education Law.

Professor Watts teaches Education Law.

Ellen Zavian Ellen M. Zavian
Adjunct Professor of Law

Professor Zavian teaches Intellectual Property: Sports and Entertainment Law.

Professor Zavian's career in sports began when she was a student at the University of Maryland where she worked in the university's intramural sports and recreation department. A law school internship at the National Football League Player's Association led to a job as research assistant and a chance to learn about the NFL. After earning a law degree from American University Law School, she specialized in the practice of sports law. Using her connections in pro football, Professor Zavian became the first female agent to represent NFL players; she has represented more than 40 players since her start.

In 1998, she was invited by the NFL Players Association's office to be the co-coordinator for their Native American Charity program. This national project, with a fund raising budget of $2 million, in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Native American Center, raises funds to help Native American youth through the development of clinics, workshops, and on-going events throughout the year. It has also been recognized by Colin Powell's America's Promise effort.

For a majority of her career, Professor Zavian dedicated much of her time to issues affecting athletes, was a columnist for Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal, Brand Marketing, and Bass Fishing, while regularly contributing to national publications such as SI for Women, Pro Football Weekly, MSNBC.com, USATODAY.com, and Foxsportsbiz.com. She has taught sports and entertainment law at George Washington University, American University Law School, George Mason Law School and Baltimore Law School. In addition, she periodically appeared on "Sports Talk" (Channel 8 DC/VA/MD area news' station) discussing business and legal issues within the world of sports. Lastly, she served as the Commissioner of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (NCAA Div. II) and served as collective representative of extreme skateboard athletes.

She has been an expert in court matters dealing in trademark and contract issues within sports, consults for various sports organizations, and is an appointed steering committee member of the D.C. Bar's Arts, Entertainment, Media and Sports Section, planning committee member within the Sports Lawyers Association, AAA certified arbitrator, and teaches a Women's Entrepreneur Leadership class at George Washington University.