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Neal A. Lester is an expert in African American literary, cultural studies, racial bias and discrimination, especially as regards African Americans.

Lester is a Foundation Professor of English at ASU where he is founding director of the award-winning Project Humanities initiative. He鈥檚 also a popular public speaker, radio guest, op-ed contributor, newspaper columnist, blogger, and discussion facilitator. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books and numerous articles in journal and magazines on topics such as children's literature, drama, folklore, the politics of hair, the "n-word," and racialized images in American cinema. The recipient of dozens of honors and awards for public scholarship and professional service, Lester conducts race and privilege training in the community and leads Project Humanities' Service Saturdays, an outreach to those experiencing homelessness, once per month in downtown Phoenix.

Ayesha Bell Hardaway is an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the Director of the Criminal Clinic in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic. As a member of the faculty, Hardaway has taught as a clinician in the areas of health law, civil litigation and criminal justice. Her research and scholarship interests include the intersection of race and the law, constitutional law, criminal law, policing and civil litigation.

Prior to joining the law school faculty, Hardaway practiced in the Litigation Department of Tucker Ellis LLP. Her six years at the firm were devoted to defending major electrical, automotive and pharmaceutical manufacturers during all phases of litigation as trial counsel and National Coordinating Counsel. Hardaway represented those clients in state and federal courts throughout the country.

Before her time at Tucker Ellis, Hardaway was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Cuyahoga County and handled a variety of criminal matters, including juvenile delinquencies and general felonies. Hardaway serves as the Deputy Monitor on the Independent Monitoring Team appointed to evaluate police reforms implemented by the Cleveland Police Department under a federal consent decree.

Education

Arva Rice is President & CEO of the New York Urban League (NYUL) an organization whose mission is to enable African Americans and other underserved communities to secure a first-class education, economic self-reliance, and equal respect of their civil rights through programs, services, and advocacy.   Prior to joining NYUL, she served as the Executive Director of Project Enterprise, an organization that provides business loans, and technical assistance to entrepreneurs. Previously she served as the founding Executive Director of Public Allies New York 鈥� a young adult leadership program dedicated to helping develop the next generation of non-profit leaders. Arva was also Program Director of an Economic Literacy Initiative at Girls Incorporated, a national non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring girls to become strong, smart, and bold.

Arva was selected by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as one of 16 leaders from across the country for its 2013-2014 Children and Family Fellows.  She is a recipient of The Network Journal鈥檚 鈥淔orty Under 40鈥� Black Achiever鈥檚 Award Winners and also received the magazine鈥檚 25 Most Influential Women in Business Award.  Most recently she received The Chancellor鈥檚 Educational Leadership Award from CUNY and an alum award from Northwestern University.

Arva is a graduate of Northwestern University, Commissioner for the NYC Equal Employment Practices Commission, a member of the Women鈥檚 Forum, and the Greater New York Chapter of The Links Incorporated. 

Ava Ayers is an assistant professor of law, and a past Director of the Government Law Center, at Albany Law School.
Before teaching, Ayers worked for nine years in the office of the New York Attorney General, where she was a Senior Assistant Solicitor General. She served both as a supervisor and as lead counsel in various high-profile cases involving immigration law, states’ rights, constitutional rights, environmental law, and other issues. Ayers graduated first in her class from Georgetown Law in 2005. She then clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for the Honorable Gerard Lynch on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ayers is the author of articles on immigration law, federalism, legal ethics, and other subjects, as well as the book A Student’s Guide to Law School, published by the University of Chicago Press. Before her gender transition in 2020, she was known as Andrew Ayers.

Dr Oscar Berglund's research examines civil protests, civil disobedience and activism, and the legal boundaries associated with such forms of public challenge and civil unrest. He is currently examining the Extinction Rebellion movement for a book on Civil Disobedience and Climate Change Activism. Dr Berlund's early work as a political economist included studies of protests against austerity measures in Spain and the impact of austerity on housing. Specifically, his work asks why unlawful protests have become more common, what effects civil disobedience campaigns have on public policy and how policymakers, police and the general public respond to protests. His perspective is global, often with a focus on European and Latin American cases. Dr Berglund is the co-editor of the journal Policy and Politics.

Education
2009 - BA International Relations, University of West England, 2010 - MSc International Security, University of Bristol, 2013 - MSc Social Sciences Research Methods (Politics), University of Bristol, 2016 - PhD Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol.

Affiliations
Dr Berglund is an active member of the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) of the European Sociological Association.

Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor鈥檚 Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is also faculty in the Stem Cell Research Center; Gender and Sexuality Studies Department; Program in Public Health; and the Department of Criminology, Law, & Society. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center. She is an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies. Professor Goodwin has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and University of Virginia law schools.

Professor Goodwin鈥檚 scholarship is hailed as 鈥渆xceptional鈥� in the New England Journal of Medicine. She has been featured in Politico, Salon.com, Forbes, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, NPR, HBO鈥檚 Vice 麻豆传媒, and Ms. Magazine among others. A prolific author, her scholarship is published or forthcoming in The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Cornell Law Review, NYU Law Review, California Law Review, and Northwestern Law Review, among others. Goodwin鈥檚 publications include five books and over 80 articles, essays and book chapters as well as numerous commentaries.

Trained in sociology and anthropology, she has conducted field research in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America, focusing on trafficking in the human body for marriage, sex, organs, and other biologics. In addition to her work on reproductive health, rights, and justice, Professor Goodwin is credited with forging new ways of thinking in organ transplant policy and assisted reproductive technologies, resulting in works such as Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (2006) and Baby Markets: Money and the Politics of Creating Families (2010).

Dr. Mark Malisa is an Associate Professor in the School of Education.

He joined UWF in 2017 after teaching From the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York.

Dr. Malisa teaches Qualitative Research; Research Design; Research Applications, and Doctoral Seminar. He also mentors graduate students.

Dr. Malisa believes freedom and creativity play a vital role in students鈥� learning and their pursuit of innovative research. His research is interdisciplinary, and often international in scope, reflective of his interest in globalization, critical theory, and critical pedagogy.

In addition, Dr. Malisa has published in a variety of journals as well as edited books, on topics ranging from qualitative research; genocide/holocaust; music; civil rights; literacy; philosophy; and literacy.

He has made presentations at national and international conferences on a wide range of topics.

Degrees & Institutions:
Mark Malisa received a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Research:
Qualitative Research
Politics of Education
Education and Cultural Studies

Classes Taught:
Qualitative Research
Advanced Research Methods
Research Design
Doctoral Seminar
Research Applications

Publications:
Malisa, M., Koetting, R. & Radarmacher, K. (2007). Critical theory, globalization, and teacher education in a technocratic era. Milwaukee, WI: Frontiers in Education/IEEE.
Koetting, R. & Malisa, M. (2008). Philosophy, research, and education. In D. Jonassen, (ed). Handbook of research on educational communications and technology. Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates.
Malisa, M. (2009). Out of these Ashes: The quest for Utopia in Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Ubuntu. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag.
Malisa, M. (2010). (Anti)Narcissisms and (Anti)Capitalisms: Education and Human Nature in Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and Jurgen Habermas. Boston & Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Dobbins, C., & Malisa, M. (2012). Complicit in their own marginalization: teacher perceptions of women鈥檚 representation in 11th grade U.S. history textbooks. In S. Pinder (ed.), American Multicultural Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication.
Malisa, M., & N. Malange. (2013). Songs for freedom: Music and the struggle against apartheid. In J. Friedman (Ed.), The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music. New York, NY: Routledge.
McAnuff-Gumbs, M., & Malisa, M. (2013). Educators鈥� evaluation of the quality of the literate environment in Caribbean classrooms. Caribbean Curriculum Vol. 20. 2013, 115-159.
Malisa, M. (2014). Internationalizing Civil Rights: Afro Cubans, African Americans and the Problem of Global Apartheid. In B. Behnken (Ed.), Beyond Civil Rights: African Americans and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth Century United States. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Malisa, M., & McAnuff-Gumbs, M. (2015). Ubuntu is Utopia: The individual and community in African Philosophy. In C. Ellis & C. Jones (Eds.), The Individual and Utopia: A multidisciplinary study of humanity and perfection. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Inc.
Malisa, M. & Lahrizi, M. (2016). Genocide and Empire Building: The slaughter of the Herero of Namibia. In J. Friedman and W. Hewitt (Eds.). The Routledge History of Genocide in Feature Films. New York, NY: Routledge
Malisa, M. (2017). Masakhane, Ubuntu, and Ujamaa: Politics and Education in (post) socialist Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and South Africa. In I. Silova (ed). Reimagining Utopias: Theory and Method for Educational Research in Post-Socialist Contexts. Boston and Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Mema, K., & Malisa, M. (Under Review). Honesty in an age of deceit: Using Educational Board Games to Build Trust. Pedagogies: An International Journal. Taylor & Francis.
Malisa, M., & Urquhart, T. (Under Review). On the Side of the Oppressed: Educator Positionality in Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Taylor and Francis.

Avidan Y. Cover is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law, and Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Cover currently teaches International Law; International Human Rights Law; and a Race, Law and Society seminar. Cover’s scholarship focuses on human rights, civil rights and national security law. He has appeared in numerous news media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, FOX 麻豆传媒 and Court TV.
Cover was a Fulbright Scholar from 2018 to 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya where he taught international criminal law and legal theory at Strathmore Law School and researched refugee and security issues. Prior to his appointment at Case Western Reserve University, Cover taught at the Seton Hall University School of Law, where he supervised the Urban Revitalization Project in Newark, New Jersey. In addition, he was a Gibbons Public Interest and Constitutional Law Fellow from 2007 to 2009 during which time he litigated prisoner’s rights, same-sex marriage, national security and education cases in federal and state court. Cover also served as senior counsel in Human Rights First’s Law and Security Program where he researched and analyzed U.S. military and intelligence agencies’ interrogation and detention policies and practices. 




Teaching Information

Courses Taught

LAWS 1931 Race, Law and Society
LAWS 2002 Constitutional Law
LAWS 4104 International Law
LAWS 4714 Essential Legal Theory
LAWS 5116 International Human Rights
LAWS 5121 International Criminal Law and Procedure
LAWS 6051 Civil Rights, Human Rights and Immigration Clinic




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Juris Doctorate
 
Cornell Law School




Bachelor of Arts
 
Princeton University

Jonathan Entin has taught Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; Courts, Public Policy, and Social Change; the Law and Social Science Seminar; Law, Legislation, and Regulation; Mass Media Law; Property; and the Supreme Court Seminar for nearly four decades. He also served for nearly eight years as the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs. For many years he has been the faculty advisor to the Case Western Reserve Law Review. He also co-edited the Journal of Legal Education for nearly seven years and was a visiting fellow at the Federal Judicial Center.
He has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews. His work has appeared in journals at such law schools as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Northwestern, and Texas, as well as in the Administrative Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Jurimetrics Journal, The Urban Lawyer and a number of social science publications. His 1993 article “Innumeracy and Jurisprudence” received the American Bar Association’s Loevinger Prize for the best work in science and technology law. He also has been a consultant on census issues to the National Research Council and on ethics matters to the Population Association of America.
Entin has received ten teaching awards, including the Distinguished Teacher Award of the Law Alumni Association. Five graduating classes honored him as Teacher of the Year, and two other classes selected him as Administrator of the Year. He also received the Federal Bar Association’s first national award for Excellence in Civics Education.
A graduate of Brown University (AB) and Northwestern University (JD), he was a law clerk to then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she was on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and did appellate litigation at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., where he helped to exonerate an innocent man who came within hours of execution.




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Bachelor of Arts
 
Brown University
 
1969




Juris Doctorate
 
Northwestern University
 
1981

Clare R. Norins is an assistant clinical professor and the inaugural director of the School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic, which represents clients in federal and state court on a range of First Amendment and media law issues. Representative matters include social media blocking by government officials, retaliatory arrest, the right to record, challenges to unconstitutional permit requirements, assertion of the journalist privilege under the Georgia Shield law, and defamation defense.
In 2021, Norins was a co-recipient of the national Clinical Legal Education Association’s award for  in recognition of collaborative advocacy on behalf of noncitizens retaliated against for speaking out about medical abuse they experienced in a Georgia detention center. And in 2022, Norins obtained a 3-year grant from The Legal Clinic Fund for Local 麻豆传媒 to expand the clinic’s support for local journalism in Georgia.
Norins’ scholarship has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and the George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal. 
She is a board member of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation and a member of the bar in the following jurisdictions:
Georgia State Bar
Georgia Supreme Court
Georgia Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Norins joined the law school faculty with 15 years of civil rights experience in private practice, government enforcement, and higher education. At Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, she served as class counsel on behalf of 1,200 political demonstrators, journalists and bystanders arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Norins then moved to the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General, receiving a 2012 Louis J. Lefkowitz Award for outstanding performance. Immediately prior to launching the First Amendment Clinic, Norins was assistant director of UGA’s Equal Opportunity Office.
Norins graduated Order of the Coif from the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She clerked for Judge Michael H. Dolinger in the Southern District of New York.

John Murphy studies the history of American public address and political rhetoric. He is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion, a critique of President Kennedy's greatest speeches and the liberal tradition. He studies the evolution of political languages. He's written on John and Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King. Jr., George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. His scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and American Literary History. His commentary on the presidency and presidential rhetoric regularly appears  in popular media outlets such as The Conversation USA, Washington Post, New York Times, and USA Today. He is currently working on a book project concerning the Civil Rights rhetoric of James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Martin Luther King, Jr.