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Faculty Directory
Full Time Faculty
Director, Family Empowerment and Legal Access Clinic
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
JZA16@pitt.edu
(412) 648-1879
Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Professor
Academic Director, CILE
rbrand@pitt.edu
(412) 648-1307
Vice Dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Associate Professor of Law
jerry.dickinson@pitt.edu
(412) 624-2415
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
John E. Murray Faculty Scholar; Associate Professor of Law.
donley@pitt.edu
(412) 648-1359
Founding Director, Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
Professor of Law
cyber.institute@pitt.edu
Christopher C. Walthour, Sr. Professor of Law
Affiliate Faculty, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Program
infanti@pitt.edu
(412) 648-1244
Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Gloria McDermott Hickton Professor of Elder Law
mmannix@pitt.edu
(412) 648-1390
Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusive Excellence
Professor of Legal Writing
ans24@pitt.edu
(412) 648-1281
Associate Research Professor of Law
Assistant Research Professor of Computing & Information
dbthaw@pitt.edu
Jack & Lovell Olender Professor of Refugee, Asylum, and Immigration Law
siv7@pitt.edu
(412) 383-9897
Emeritus Faculty
Program Directors
Adjunct Professor of Law
Director, Health Care Compliance Online Certificate Program
mncummings@pitt.edu
(412) 383-5061
Adjunct Professor of Law
Director, Human Resources Law Online Certificate Program
jsh18@pitt.edu
(412) 383-3489
Adjunct Professor of Law
Director, International Business Law and Dispute Resolution Online Certificate Program
max.laun@pitt.edu
Jurist Fellows and Professors of Practice
Executive Director, Center for International Legal Education
Affiliate Professor, Pitt Institute of Cyber Law, Policy and Security
Affiliate Professor, Pitt Center for Governance and Markets
Honorary Professor of Law, University of Durham School of Law (UK)
Visiting Professor of Law, Kyiv School of Economics
charles.kotuby@pitt.edu
(202) 378-3362
Professor of Practice
Director of Online Master of Studies in Law Program
Director of the Practical Business Law Certificate
marilynixon@pitt.edu
412-383-4411
Visiting Faculty
Visiting Professor of Law
Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
RHW19@pitt.edu
Adjunct Professor of Law
Adjunct Professor of Law
57th Commissioned Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
judge_cathy_bissoon@pawd.uscourts.gov
412-208-7460
Fax: 412-208-7467
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Adjunct Professor of Law University of Pittsburgh
rozeljs@upmc.edu
(412) 864-5013
Adjunct Professor of Law
Foreign, International, and Comparative Law Librarian
tashbook@pitt.edu
(412) 648-1303
Director of Academic Success and Bar Exam Services
Adjunct Professor of Law
rwible@pitt.edu
(412) 624-3055