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New Faculty
Visiting Professors
Felix Mormann’s scholarly interests lie at the intersection of environmental, energy, and
corporate law. Prior to joining the Miami Law faculty in August, Associate Professor Mormann
David was a Lecturer in Law and the Energy Policy and Finance Fellow at Stanford Law School. Fagundes Previously, he was Stanford’s Kauffman Legal Fellow and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley
is a professor of law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, and taught copyright and property at Miami Law during the fall 2012 semester. Fagundes went to Harvard for college and law school, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before teaching, he clerked for the D.C. Circuit and worked as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Fagundes’s current research projects include efficient copyright infringement, accession and copyright, the relevance of physical copies in the age of digital media, and the interaction between legal personhood and the regulation of bodies.
Stefanie Kürpick
is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. Her research interests are cybercrime and information technology law. She worked as a legal intern with the Public Defender’s Office in Miami and in two death penalty clinics. Her field of research is in the area of animal rights, cybercrime, internet crimes and jurisdictional problems, and the comparison between American and German criminal systems. Prior to studying for an advanced LL.M. degree in transnational law at Miami Law, Professor Kürpick worked at the firm of Schwankl, Mankartz & Kürpick in Dorsten, Germany, where she advised clients in criminal and information technology law, drafted contracts, and assisted in company incorporations. She is a member of the German Bar Association, based in Berlin.
School of Law. Professor Mormann’s recent articles include “How to Make Renewable Energy Writings Competitive,” with Dan Reicher, in The NewYork Times, June 1, 2012; “Enhancing the Investor Appeal of Renewable Energy,” in the Environmental Law Review (2012); and “Requirements for a Renewables Revolution,” in Ecology Law Quarterly (2011). Professor Mormann is admitted to the practice of law in Germany and New York. His professional experience includes management consulting for high-tech clients and clerking for the Hanseatic Court of Appeals in Hamburg.
Andres Sawicki joined the Miami Law faculty as an Associate Professor in 2012. A
Miami native, he returns after completing a Bigelow Fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. And, like South Florida’s most recent sports hero, LeBron James, Sawicki was delighted to trade the shores of the Great Lakes for Biscayne Bay and South Beach. Sawicki researches and teaches in the area of intellectual property. His interest in the field grew out of his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned degrees in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Science, Technology and Society. After completing his J.D. at the University of Chicago Law School and a clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he worked in the IP group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Sawicki focuses on the effect that the intellectual property system has on innovators and artists. His forthcoming publication, “Better Mistakes in Patent Law,” provides a relative cost analysis of the patent system’s mistakes. His current work, “Teams, Creativity, and the Firm,” explores the impacts of copyright law on people who work together to produce creative goods.
New Faculty for LComm Mary Teresa “Terri” Doud is a Lecturer in Law for Miami Law’s Legal Communication
and Research Skills Program. Professor Doud was formerly Senior Corporate Counsel for Bacardi U.S.A., Inc., where she provided primary legal support for advertising and marketing to the North American region. Prior to Bacardi, Professor Doud was an Associate with Dow Lohnes and Dechert, in Washington, D.C., specializing in intellectual property law. Professor Doud holds a B.A. from Haverford College and an M.A. from Bryn Mawr College. Professor Doud earned her J.D. in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and studied at La Sorbonne and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.
Jennifer Hill is a Lecturer in Law for LComm. She holds a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, an M.A. from George Washington University, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. Professor Hill received a Skadden Fellowship to direct the Workplace Justice Project at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, where she worked to address human trafficking. She was a Leadership Fellow of the Florida Bar Foundation, served on boards of the National Domestic Worker Alliance and the U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project, and has written on guestworker rights and law-and-organizing strategies. MORMANN
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