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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
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
