Thomas Jefferson School of Law's Faculty Fellowship Program was launched in July 2010. The Fellowship Program is designed to provide support for highly qualified, diverse practitioners to make the transition to academia. The Faculty Fellows will teach Legal Writing I and other courses while devoting a substantial amount of time to pursue scholarship.
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Faculty Fellows for 2012-13
Beth Caldwell has worked as a public defender in Los Angeles County and has practiced appellate law, representing juveniles in delinquency appeals. She graduated from UCLA with a Juris Doctor as well as a Master’s in Social Welfare. Professor Caldwell’s research focuses on criminal law, with an emphasis on its intersection with race, class, gender, and age. As a Fulbright scholar, she recently conducted research in Mexico regarding the country’s criminal justice system.
Albert Monroe has a law degree from Yale Law School and a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. Professor Monroe’s research focuses on both environmental law and criminal law. His environmental law research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to climate change mitigation. Professor Monroe’s criminal law research focuses on the interactions between criminal law, criminal procedure and social science.
B. Starkey has a worked as a Judge Constance Baker Motley Fellow at Equal Justice Society and more recently was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Villanova Law School where he taught Race and the Law and History and Analysis of the Equal Protection Clause Seminar. He earned his law degree from Harvard Law School and completed his undergraduate work at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on race and social norms as well as the Equal Protection Clause. He has published several law review articles for both research areas.
Past Faculty Fellows
JD Columbia Law School 2000; BA Stanford University 1997.
Research and Teaching Interests: Employment law and race, age, gender, sexuality, disability and class; torts; evidence; professional responsibility.
Legal Experience: Associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Counsel, O’Melveny & Myers; Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell; Clerk, Honorable Napoleon Jones, Southern District of California.
Academic Placement: Assistant Professor (tenure track, 2012-13), University of Arkansas – Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law.
JD University of Pennsylvania Law School 2005; BA University of Pennsylvania 1999.
Research and Teaching Interests: Health law, civil justice, and jurisprudence; civil procedure.
Legal Experience: Associate, Drinker Biddle & Reath.
Academic Placement: Assistant Professor (tenure track, 2012-13), University of Toledo College of Law.
