Six new faculty and visitors join University of Richmond School of Law
August 16, 2007
The University of Richmond School of Law is pleased to announce the arrival of three new faculty and three visiting faculty for the 2007-08 academic year. Continuing a tradition of scholarship, public service and exceptional teaching, these professors bring skills and talents that will enrich the law school's curriculum and its role as a civic partner in Richmond.
Tara Louise Casey is director of pro bono services, where she will promote and coordinate pro bono activities by law students in connection with area lawyers, legal service agencies and nonprofits. Casey also will work in conjunction with the Center for Civic Engagement in a coordinated program called the Richmond Families Initiative, which will include pro bono legal services by law students and related service learning opportunities for undergraduates.
Casey is a 1994 graduate of University of Virginia and received her J.D. in 1999 from Washington University in St. Louis. Since 2002, she has served as assistant United States attorney in Richmond and has taught in the Law Skills I-II program since 2003. She won the Richmond Bar Association's Pro Bono Award in 2005 for leadership in a broad range of pro bono activities in the Richmond community. In 2007, Casey was selected as the Richmond YWCA's Outstanding Women of Achievement in Law.
Jessica Morrell Erickson joins the faculty as an assistant professor of law. She has been an associate at Hunton & Williams since 2003, focusing on corporate governance and securities litigation, appellate litigation, commercial contract disputes and business torts. She will teach Corporations, Contracts and advanced courses in the corporate and business areas.
Erickson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. She also taught Legal Research and Analysis as a 2L and 3L as a member of the Board of Student Advisers. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College with a dual degree in economics and law, jurisprudence, and social thought. Following law school, she clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Melanie Holloway is director of the Intellectual Property Institute. The institute promotes the study of contemporary intellectual property issues and increases curricular and other learning opportunities for law students. She will teach Computer Law.
Holloway was a senior associate in the Intellectual Property, Data and Privacy Group at McGuireWoods in Richmond. Her practice focused on intellectual property development, protection, licensing and enforcement, with particular emphasis on trademark and copyright law. She also served as co-chair of the Women's Leadership Forum for the Richmond office of McGuireWoods. Holloway is a 2000 graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law, where she was annual survey editor of Richmond Law Review. She is past president of the Greater Richmond Intellectual Property Law Association and is a member of the Board of Governors for the Intellectual Property Section of the Virginia State Bar. In 2007, Holloway was named a Virginia Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine.
VISITING FACULTY
Iris J. Goodwin will teach Wills and Trusts and Property in fall 2007. Goodwin is visiting from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she joined the law faculty in 2005. She brings a rich background in political theory to both her teaching and scholarship. Before attending New York University School of Law, Goodwin earned a doctorate in political science from Columbia University, where she was a Chamberlain Fellow and a member of the Columbia College faculty. Her scholarship locates the field of Trusts and Estates within various traditional conceptions of the public good. Goodwin began her legal career as an associate in Sullivan & Cromwell's Estates Group and later was senior vice president and associate fiduciary counsel at Bessemer Trust Company.
Lisa H. Nicholson will teach Corporations and Mergers and Acquisitions in spring 2008. She is visiting from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Nicholson joined the Brandeis faculty in 2000, following seven years of combined experience working in private practice in New York City and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in New York. Her research and teaching interests are in securities regulation and corporate law. She has a B.S. from Virginia Tech and a J.D. from the College of William and Mary School of Law where she was assistant business editor of William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal and vice president of the Black Law Student Association.
Sean A. Pager will teach Intellectual Property Fundamentals and Cultural Protection and Intellectual Property in fall 2007. He is visiting from Seattle University School of Law and previously was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Indiana-Bloomington School of Law, where he taught Intellectual Property and International IP. He was also a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Law & Society and a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Pager received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University, his J.D. from UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, Order of the Coif, and an LL.M. in International Law from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.