Neil P. Cohen Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., Yale University J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law LL.M., Harvard University School of Law Diploma in Criminology, Cambridge University Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure II, Evidence, Seminar on the Trial Jury Professor Cohen is visiting for the 2008–2009 academic year. In the Fall he will be teaching Criminal Law and Sentencing Law Seminar and in the spring he will teach Evidence and Criminal Procedure II. He has been a Visiting Professor at BLS several times in the past. He recently retired from the faculty of the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he was the UTK Distinguished Service Professor of Law, the W.P. Toms Professor of Law, and the University Ombudsperson. His areas of expertise are criminal law and procedure, and evidence. A prolific author, he has written 11 books, and his articles have appeared in numerous law reviews. His most recent books include: The Law of Probation and Parole (West Group 1999); Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process (Lexis 2nd ed. 2000) (co-author) and Tennessee Law of Evidence (Lexis 4th ed. 2000) (co-author); and Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Lawyering Strategies (Lexis 2005) (co-author). Professor Cohen has also drafted the gender-neutral version of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate, Civil, Criminal, and Juvenile Procedure, the revised Rules of Criminal Procedure, and he assisted in drafting the Tennessee Rules of Evidence and the Tennessee Penal Code. He served as the reporter of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Jury Reform Commission and as a member of the American Bar Association’s Jury Project. His background also includes work as a special prosecutor with the Knox County District Attorney General’s Office and as a law clerk to Hon. William Miller of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is also a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Cohen has a long history of public service work and has received numerous honors from the bench, bar and academia. Ronald Colombo Visiting Associate Professor of Law Education: B.S., Cornell University J.D., New York University School of Law Courses: Securities Regulation, Controversies in Corporate Law Seminar Professor Colombo is visiting for the Spring 2008 semester. He will teach Securities Regulation and Controversies in Corporate Law Seminar. He joins BLS from Hofstra University, where he became a faculty member in 2006. Professor Colombo previously served in the Complex Global Litigation Group of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., as vice president and counsel. In this position, he supervised investigations, litigations, and regulatory inquiries affecting Morgan Stanley’s investment banking franchise. Prior to that, he practiced as a litigation associate at the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell, where, among other things, he represented corporate and banking clients in civil and criminal investigations conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Federal Reserve Bank; in matters before state courts, federal courts, and arbitration panels; and in appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the D.C. Circuit. Professor Colombo has also served on the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the New York City Bar. Currently, his research focuses primarily on corporate and securities law and, more specifically, the application of non-economic principles and norms to these fields James Fishman Visiting Professor of Law Education: A.B., A.M.,University of Pennsylvania J.D., Ph.D., New York University Courses: Corporations, Agency, Partnership - LLC, Law of Non-Profit Organizations, Corporate Finance Professor Fishman is visiting for the 2008–2009 academic year. In the fall he will teach Corporations and Agency, Partnership-LLC and in the spring he will teach Corporate Finance and Law of Non-Profit Organizations. He joins BLS from Pace Law School, where he is the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law. He has written in the areas of international securities regulation and non-profit corporation law and on legal issues pertaining to the visual arts. He co-authored New York Nonprofit Law and Practice (1997), and Cases and Materials on Nonprofit Organizations (Foundation Press 2nd ed. 2000), a casebook that has been adopted by more than 60 law schools. He also published The Transformation of Threadneedle Street: The Deregulation and Reregulation of Britain’s Financial Services (1993). Prior to joining Pace, he was the executive director of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. He is a member of the board of directors of the Youth Advocacy Center, an organization that assists teens leaving foster care. Professor Fishman is also a member of the Fulbright Senior Specialists Panel. He frequently serves as a commercial and securities arbitrator. Contact: 250 Joralemon Street Room 929 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: (718) 780-0612 Email: james.fishman@brooklaw.edu John Forrester Hicks Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., J.D., Baylor University LL.M., University of Illinois Courses: Property Professor Hicks is visiting in the Spring 2008 semester and will be teaching Property. He joins BLS from the University of Tulsa College of Law, where he has been on the faculty since 1968 teaching property, decedents’ estates and trusts, land use controls, real estate finance, and real estate transactions. He has been a visiting professor at Stetson University, Brigham Young University, and the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Professor Hicks has served as associate dean for the University of Tulsa College of Law. He has received the Outstanding Professor award for the College of Law as well as the Distinguished Teacher of the University of Tulsa award. He is a former editor of the American Bar Association’s Natural Resources Lawyer and the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Real Property Report. He also authored The History of The University of Tulsa College of Law (Oklahoma Historical Society 2005). Adam J. Kolber Visiting Associate Professor of Law Education: A.B., Princeton University J.D., Stanford University Courses: Criminal Law, Law and the Brain Seminar Professor Kolber is visiting in the Fall 2008 semester and will be teaching Criminal Law, and a seminar titled Law and the Brain. He joins BLS from the University of San Diego where he is an Associate Professor of Law. This past academic year, he was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Professor Kolber writes and teaches in the areas of neuroethics, bioethics and criminal law and is the founder and editor of the Neuroethics & Law Blog. Before joining the faculty of San Diego, he clerked for Hon. Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. Prior to law school, he was a business ethics consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Among his recent publications, Professor Kolber has written “The Subjective Experience of Punishment,” in the Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2008); “Therapeutic Forgetting: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Memory Dampening” in Vanderbilt Law Review (2006); “A Limited Defense of Clinical Placebo Deception” in Yale Law & Policy Review (2007); and “Pain Detection and the Privacy of Subjective Experience” in American Journal of Law & Medicine (2007). Ronald H. Silverman Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., University of Michigan J.D., University of Chicago Courses: Property, Land Use Controls, Real Estate Practice & Finance Professor Silverman is visiting for the 2008–2009 academic year. In the fall will be teaching Land Use Controls and Real Estate Practice & Finance and in the spring he will teach Property. Professor Silverman has been teaching law since 1970, first at Syracuse University College of Law and since 1975 at Hofstra University School of Law, where he is the Peter S. Kalikow Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Law. At Hofstra, he teaches property law, real estate transactions, land use regulation, and state and local government. He has served as staff counsel to the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union, practiced business and corporate law for several years, and has been a member of the research staff of the American Bar Foundation. He has published a number of articles in the University of California, Los Angeles, New York University, and Wisconsin Law Reviews, among others, related to housing, community development, legal services for the poor and legal education. Professor Silverman is especially interested in the connections among law, economics and other social science disciplines. Beth Stephens Visiting Professor of Law Education: B.A., Harvard University J.D., University of California at Berkeley Courses: Civil Procedure, International Law, International Human Rights Advocacy Seminar Professor Stephens is visiting for the 2008–2009 academic year. In the fall she will be teaching Civil Procedure and in the spring she will teach International Law and International Human Rights Advocacy. Professor Stephens has published a variety of articles on the relationship between international and domestic law, focusing on the enforcement of international human rights norms through domestic courts. She co-authored a book analyzing U.S. enforcement of human rights norms, International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2nd ed.) (2007). From 1990-1995, she was in charge of the international human rights docket at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, where she litigated a series of cases addressing human rights violations in countries around the world, including Bosnia, Guatemala, Haiti, East Timor and Ethiopia. In 1995, Professor Stephens received the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in recognition of her work litigating international human rights claims. Earlier in her career she spent six years studying changing the legal system in Nicaragua in the 1980s and she clerked for Chief Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court and. Professor Stephens is a cooperating attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Justice and Accountability.