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Dustin Marlan, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law B.A., Indiana University • Courses: Business Organizations; Community Development Clinic; Intellectual Property •P rior Position: Fellow, University of Michigan Law School Community Development Clinic •R ecent Publications: “Is the Word ‘Consumer’ Biasing Trademark Law?,” Texas A&M Law Review (2021) “Unmasking the Right of Publicity,” Hastings Law Journal (2020) “ Beyond Cannabis: Psychedelic Decriminalization and Social Justice,” Lewis & Clark L. Rev. (2019)
Elizabeth McCuskey, Professor of Law J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law B.A., University of Pennsylvania • Courses: Civil Procedure; Food & Drug Law; Health Law •P rior Position: Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law •R ecent Publications: “ Subject-Matter Jurisdiction: The Power of Interests and the Interests of Power,” (Coleman, Malveaux, Pedro, & Porter, eds)., A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (2021) “ Federalism, ERISA, and State Single-Payer Health Care” (with Erin C. Fuse Brown), University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2020) “ Social Solidarity in Health Care, American-Style” (with Erin C. Fuse Brown, Matthew Lawrence, & Lindsay Wiley), The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (Fall 2020)
Geoffrey McDonald, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., Emory University School of Law Ph.D., in Religion: Ethics & Society, Emory University M.A.R., in Philosophy of Religion, Yale University B.A., Wesleyan University • Courses: Contracts, Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Jurisprudence • Prior position: Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Services NYC-Bronx •R ecent Publication: Kierkegaard as Antinomian: Ethics, Politics, Law (book manuscript under submission)
Danya Reda, Assistant Professor of Law J.D., Harvard Law School M.St., University of Oxford (Islamic Law and Philosophy) A.B., Brown University • Courses: Civil Procedure; Comparative and Islamic Law; Torts •P rior Position: Associate Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law •R ecent Publications: “ Orientalizing Procedure,” A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, Elizabeth Porter, eds., forthcoming 2021) “What Does it Mean to Say That Procedure is Political?,” Fordham Review (2017)
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