A Trio of Visiting Professors Add Extra Vigor to Our Robust Faculty

This fall, Brooklyn Law School welcomes three visiting professors who will not only teach a range of classes including Torts, First Amendment Law, Corporate Governance and Technology,  and Federal Courts, but also share their pioneering scholarship in areas such as government transparency, the participation of everyday individuals in corporate decisions and profits, and the institutional relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court and the lower courts. 

One of the guest faculty members is Visiting Professor of Law Mark Fenster, who teaches Torts and First Amendment Law, and joins us from the University of Florida Levin College of Law where he is a professor and Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar Chair in electronic communications and administrative law. As a legal scholar, his research has focused on nondisclosure agreements, government transparency, legal intellectual history, and constitutional limits on government regulation. Fenster is also the author of two books:  The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information (Stanford University Press, 2017), and Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, 2nd ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). His articles and essays have appeared in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and Administrative Law Review, among others.     

Visiting Associate Professor of Law Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, who teaches Corporations and Corporate Governance and Technology, joins us from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law where he is an associate professor. Gramitto Ricci specializes in corporate law, with an emphasis on corporate governance, corporate theory, and legal personhood, and with his main strand of research investigating how models of share ownership and the corporate governance infrastructure determine the ability of average citizens to participate in the corporate sector. hip on retail investors and society-led corporate governance appears or is forthcoming in several law journals such as the Boston University Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, and the Washington University Law Review. His article on the use of artificial intelligence in corporate boardrooms is published in the Cornell Law Review. 

Visiting Professor of Law Ryan Williams, who teaches Federal Courts, joins us from Boston College Law School where he is an associate professor. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, federal courts, civil procedure, and the conflict of laws. His research has explored the background and original public understandings of various constitutional provisions, including the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clauses, the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, the Ninth Amendment, and the Guarantee Clause of Article IV. He has also written articles that address, among other topics, the institutional relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court and the lower courts and the relationship between the Constitution and the civil litigation process.