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concentrating on federal corporate and international taxation with a particular interest in tax litigation. She also served as a trial attorney for the Internal Revenue Service in San Jose, Calif. Professor Mulholland received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from the University of Illinois both with honors. She is licensed to practice in Missouri, Illinois and California.
KIRST E N NU S SB AUMER Assistant Professor of Law
Stanford University, J.D./M.A./Ph.D. candidate Transylvania University, B.A.
Professor Nussbaumer researches and writes in the areas of constitutional history, American political development, election law, and eighteenth-century AngloAmerican political thought. In her scholarship, she brings together law, history, social science, and empirical political theory. Her Stanford Ph.D. dissertation explores late-eighteenth century conceptions and practices of election reform, particularly at the time of the founding of the United States. Professor Nussbaumer clerked for the Honorable Myron H. Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, and she worked on the drafting and negotiations for the Help America Vote Act of 2002 in Washington, D.C. While a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford, she was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and at Golden Gate Law School, teaching civil procedure, legislation, and election law.
KAR E N S P E IS E R S ANNER Assistant Professor of Legal Writing
University of Missouri—Columbia, J.D.; B.S./B.A.
Professor Sanner is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law where she was the lead articles editor of the Journal of Dispute Resolution. While in law school, Professor Sanner completed internships with Judge John C. Holstein of the Supreme Court of Missouri and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office under former Attorney General and current Missouri Governor Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon. Following her graduation in 1994, Professor Sanner worked as an assistant attorney general for the State of Missouri representing the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, the Second Injury Fund, and the Crime Victims’ Compensation Fund. In 1997, she joined Brinker & Doyen, L.L.P. in St. Louis where she practiced civil litigation and workers’ compensation defense. Her practice included representing insurers, third-party administrators, and health care providers in Missouri state, federal, and administrative courts as well as the Missouri Court of Appeals. In 2008, Professor Sanner joined the pre-law department at Saint Louis University where she served as an adjunct instructor, director of the undergraduate trial advocacy program, and mock trial coach. In addition to her current role teaching first-year Legal Research & Writing, she has been an instructor in the law school’s trial advocacy program.
Spear It
Assistant Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D. Harvard University, M.T.S. University of Houston, B.A.
SpearIt joined the SLU LAW faculty as a recent law school graduate with extensive teaching experience, having served as a teaching fellow at Harvard University; teaching assistant at University of California, Santa Barbara; and graduate student instructor at University of California, Berkeley. In addition, SpearIt taught for several years at the Law & Society Program at UC Santa Barbara, where he earned the Certificate for College and University Teaching. Most recently, he taught inmates for two semesters for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison. SpearIt’s research and scholarship concentrates on criminal justice and corrections. As a law student, his work in this area appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, Seton Hall Law Review, and Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy, and he also published several book reviews in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal. Among other projects, SpearIt is currently working on a book manuscript, Raza Islamica: Prisons, Hip Hop & Converting Converts, and contributing book chapters to The Muslims in U.S. Prisons and Peacemaking: A Comprehensive Theory and Practice. SpearIt earned a B.A. in philosophy, magna cum laude, from the University of Houston; a master’s in theological studies at Harvard Divinity School; a Ph.D. in religious studies at UC Santa Barbara; and J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law, where he also earned the Certificate in Law & Technology and served two years on the Berkeley Journal of Law & Technology.
MARY Z I EGLER
Assistant Professor of Law
Harvard University, J.D., B.A.
Professor Ziegler uses legal history to probe the assumptions underlying current debate about constitutional, reproductive-health and family-law issues. She has written extensively on the history of the eugenic legal reform movement, the abortion debate, divorce reform, and the same-sex marriage debate. Her research challenges the historical premises of contemporary constitutional, family, and reproductive-health law. Professor Ziegler received her B.A. and J.D. from Harvard University, graduating with honors for both. She served as the head of Harvard Law School’s Project on Wrongful Convictions. She joins SLU LAW after clerking for John A. Dooley of the Vermont Supreme Court and completing a term as a Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale Law School. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Law and History Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender, the Brigham Young University Law Review, and the Marquette Law Review. SLB
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