Introducing the Fall 2012
and trademarks. A former associate in the San Francisco office of Cooley Godward, Harris currently serves as an associate law professor at Temple University. He graduated from Loyola Law School Los Angeles, and received his LLM from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Three key names in the legal field have joined the Pepperdine School of Law as visiting professors for the Fall 2012 semester.
“Each school has its own character,” Harris said. “With Pepperdine I am most looking forward to teaching at a school that incorporates faith and religion with the law. This is relatively unique in American law schools and Pepperdine has been doing this successfully for a long time. I also respect the student body, which is on par with any in the country. These two aspects of Pepperdine are very appealing and I look forward to seeing them both up close.”
Visiting Professors Akhil Amar
Akhil Amar has spent nearly a decade serving as a D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor. The Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School. Donald Harris
Ahmed Taha
In addition to teaming with Pepperdine law professor and dean of research Robert Pushaw to teach an intensive two-week course on constitutional law, Amar also presented his latest book, America’s Unwritten Constitution, as the University celebrated the 225th anniversary of the United States Constitution in August.
Ahmed Taha will serve for the first time as a D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor for the 2012-2013 academic year. Focusing on civil procedure and law and economics in the fall, and corporations and accounting in the spring, Taha brings a wealth of experience to Pepperdine.
“I am most looking forward to connecting with the students and reconnecting with old friends,” he said. “I first came to Pepperdine for the beach and stayed for the people.”
A professor of law at Wake Forest University School of Law, Taha is a former trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Department; a former litigation associate for Wilson, Sonsini & Goodrich in Palo Alto, California; and a former corporate finance analyst for McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Donald Harris joins Pepperdine Law for the first time, teaching four courses on intellectual property, patents, sales,
Taha graduated from Stanford Law School, and received his doctorate in economics from Stanford University.
Three Pepperdine Students Selected as Editors for the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium Issue Three Pepperdine law students were selected as members of the editorial board for the next symposium issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Elizabeth Adams, Raija Churchill, and Sean O’Neill will each serve as editors. “Rarely are three students from one law school chosen in one year,” said professor of law Greg McNeal. “This is a real honor.”
Government and the Administrative Coexist?,” which was hosted by Stanford University in March.
cNeal served as an executive editor for the Harvard M Journal in 2005 as a student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Additionally, he served as Case Western’s student chapter president for the Federalist Society, which sponsors the publication of the symposium issue of the Harvard Journal. During his time on the editorial board, McNeal assisted in editing an article contributed by Pepperdine professor of law Doug Kmiec. McNeal noted the irony, saying that at the time he never realized their paths would cross as colleagues.
“The selection to be a part of this unique and prestigious journal is an honor,” Adams said. “Some of the very brightest conservative and libertarian legal minds in the country contribute to this journal, and it is a privilege to be an editor of these scholarly works.” “I am very excited and humbled by the selection,” O’Neill said. “It is always gratifying when another institution or individual recognizes that hard work and rewards you with opportunity. I am very excited to have the opportunity to be associated with the premiere journal on law and public policy, and I can’t wait to get started.” As the next editor-in-chief of the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, and as a member of the Federalist Society and current board member of the Christian Legal Society, Churchill is looking forward to the opportunity to work with the writings of some of the nation’s best legal scholars.
Each year, Harvard University publishes three issues of the journal, all edited by Harvard students, and one additional symposium issue, edited by a select group of students from throughout the country. “It is an extremely prestigious list,” McNeal said, noting that the lineup often includes students from Yale University, University of Notre Dame, Northwestern University, and Duke University.
“The journal is a forum for dialogue among skilled legal scholars, including John Eastman from Chapman Law, Michael McConnell from Stanford Law, and several Supreme Court justices,” she said. “Serving that dialogue is humbling and a delight.”
This year’s symposium issue will focus on writings from the Federalist Society National Student Symposium, titled “Bureaucracy Unbound: Can Limited
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