School in 1995, an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 1991 and an LL.B. degree from Tel-Aviv University School of Law in 1989. MaRk gaRMaiSe Visiting Professor of Law Mark Garmaise is an associate professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His primary research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, real estate, entrepreneurship and banking. At UCLA Anderson, he teaches a core corporate finance course and an elective course on venture capital and private equity. mArk gArmAise With his co-author Tobias Moskowitz, Professor Garmaise received the 2004 BGI Brennan Award for the best paper published in the Review of Financial Studies and the 2005 BGI Brennan Runner-up Award. He was awarded the 2005 Dean George W. Robbins Assistant Professor Teaching Award, the 2006 Eric and “E” Juline Excellence in Research Award, the 2007 Citibank Teaching Award for most outstanding MBA teacher and the 2009 Fully Employed MBA Teaching Excellence Award. He has published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Finance and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Professor Garmaise earned a Ph.D. degree in Finance from Stanford University in 1998 and an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, in Mathematics and Philosophy from Harvard College in 1994. He taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business before joining the faculty at UCLA Anderson. RichaRd a. leo Visiting Professor of Law Richard A. Leo, Ph.D., J.D., is a professor and Dean’s Circle Research Scholar at the University of San Francisco School of Law, and a fellow in the Institute for Legal Research at UC Berkeley School of Law. He was previously a tenured professor of psychology and criminology at UC Irvine (1997-2006), and a professor of sociology riChArd A. Leo and adjunct professor of law at the University of Colorado, Boulder (1994-1997). Professor Leo is widely recognized for his pioneering empirical research on police interrogation practices, the impact of Miranda, psychological coercion, false confessions and wrongful convictions. He has authored more than 80 articles in leading legal and social science journals as well as several books, including the multiple award-winning Police Interrogation and American Justice (Harvard University Press, 2008); The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions and the Norfolk Four (The New Press, 2008) (with Tom Wells); and, most recently, Confessions of Guilt: From Torture to Miranda and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2012) (with George C. Thomas, III). He is currently working on a book that is tentatively entitled The Innocence Revolution: A Popular History of the American Discovery of the Wrongly Convicted. Professor Leo has won numerous individual and career achievement awards for research excellence and distinction. These include the William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, the Saleem Shah Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association, the Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology and the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology. Among his many book awards is the prestigious Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society Association. Professor Leo has also received awards from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Psychology-Law Society, the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, the American Sociological Association and the Pacific Sociological Association. Professor Leo has been the recipient of Soros and Guggenheim fellowships, as well as a fellowship from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In 2011 he was elected to the American Law Institute. According to the University of Chicago Leiter rankings, Professor Leo is one of the most cited criminal law and procedure professors in the United States. His publications have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Professor Leo has been featured and/or quoted in hundreds of stories in the national print and electronic media, and his research has been cited by numerous appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court on multiple occasions. He is regularly invited to lecture and present training sessions to lawyers, judges, police, forensic psychologists and other criminal justice professionals. Professor Leo is also often called to advise and assist practicing attorneys and has served as a litigation consultant and/or expert witness in numerous criminal and civil cases, including the cases of Michael Crowe, Earl Washington, Kerry Max Cook, Medell Banks, the Beatrice Six, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., of the West Memphis 3 and two of the Central Park jogger defendants. The extensive work Professor Leo did to help free four innocent prisoners in Virginia (known as the “Norfolk 4”) was the subject of a story in The New Yorker magazine in 2009 and a PBS “Frontline” documentary in 2010. Professor Leo received an A.B. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. degree from the University of Chicago, a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. degree from Boalt Hall School of Law. nancy leong Visiting Professor of Law Nancy Leong is an assistant professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Her scholarship and teaching interests include constitutional rights and remedies, criminal procedure, antidiscrimination, law and culture, and judicial decisionmaking. Professor Leong graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University before nAnCy Leong attending Stanford Law School, where she received her degree with distinction and was a member of the Stanford Law Review. After earning her law degree, Professor Leong clerked for Judge Kermit Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Prior to joining the University of Denver faculty, she was an assistant professor at the William & Mary School of Law, an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., and a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center. She also practiced First Amendment law with Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Professor Leong’s recent scholarship has appeared or will appear in the Boston University Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Irvine Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Stanford Law UCLA LAW MAGAZINE |
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