ASL HOMESEARCH SITECONTACT US  SITE MAP
APPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW
Quicklinks »
CALENDARS 

FACULTY

DEAN'S OFFICE / STAFF

ASL PICTURE GALLERY

COMMUNITY WEB LINKS

FUN THINGS TO DO

COMPUTER USE POLICY

CAMPUS SECURITY INFO

Faculty Bios


CLINTON W. (WES) SHINN
Chief Operating Officer and Dean
Email
Scholarship

Dean Shinn received a B.S. (cum laude) in 1969 from McNeese State University and a J.D. in 1972 from Tulane Law School, graduating second in his class and being elected to Order of the Coif. At Tulane, he served as Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Articles Editor of the Tulane Law Review. He received an LL.M. from Harvard Law in 1973, and returned to Tulane as an Assistant Professor of Law from 1973 to 1975 (teaching Contracts, Evidence, Oil and Gas, and Environmental Law). He was in private practice in New Orleans with the firm of Stone Pigman from 1975 through 1998 (as a partner from 1978 on), and in Covington, Louisiana with his own firm during 1998-99, practicing primarily in the areas of commercial real estate transactions and finance, oil and gas, environmental law, probate, and estate planning. In 1999, Professor Shinn returned to teaching full-time, at the Appalachian School of Law until 2002 (teaching Property I and II, Law Office Management, Secured Transactions, Natural Resources, Estates and Trusts, and Property - Selected Policy Foundations, and being named 1L Professor of the Year 1999-2000 and 2000-01), and at the Mississippi College School of Law as Associate Professor from the Fall 2002 semester through the Spring 2006 semester (teaching Property I and II, Evidence, Secured Transactions, and three Louisiana civil law courses). He rejoined the Appalachian Faculty as Professor of Law commencing with the Fall 2006 semester (teaching Property I and II, Secured Transactions, and Will and Estates).

Dean Shinn is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Louisiana Bar Foundation (Charter Fellow), the Charles Clark Inn of Court (Barrister), and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He formerly served as an elected member of the Louisiana Bar Association House of Delegates and as an Assistant Bar Examiner. He is a Public Arbitrator for NASD Disputes Resolution.

SANDRA KEEN MCGLOTHLIN
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Email
Scholarship

A native of Grundy with extensive law practice experience, Professor McGlothlin received her B.A. degree from the University of Virginia and her J.D. degree from the T.C. Williams School of Law of the University of Richmond, where she served on the Moot Court Board. She first practiced law as an associate with a Grundy law firm before forming her own law firm. She also has shown her commitment to community service by serving as a member or officer of numerous community, regional, and state organizations, including as a member of the Law School's Board of Trustees and Dean's Advisory Council, as President of the Buchanan County Bar Association, as a member of the Virginia Coalfield Regional Tourism Development Authority, and as Vice Mayor of Grundy and a member of the Town Council. Professor McGlothlin teaches Family Law, advanced Family Law courses, and Virginia Procedure.

CHARLES J. CONDON
Associate Dean for Information Services and Law Library Director
Associate Professor of Law

Email
Scholarship

Professor Condon earned his B.A. from Florida Atlantic University, his J.D. from Nova Southeastern University, an L.L.M. in Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and his M.L.S. from the University of Southern Mississippi. He was the Computer Services/Reference Librarian and Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University where he taught Legal Research and presented several lectures on specialized legal research in upper level law classes. He also served as the Public Services Librarian at the University of Toledo College of Law where he provided Reference and Interlibrary Loan services to Faculty and students. He currently teaches a Capstone Course, Remedies, to third year students in their final semester at ASL. Professor Condons research interests include Electronic Resources, Technology in the Courtroom and Privacy Law. His latest project involves researching privacy issues in the application of RFID technology in society.

CYNTHIA ALKON
Assistant Professor of Law
Email

Scholarship

Cynthia Alkon joins the Appalachian School of Law after working to promote the development of rule of law in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union and after many years experience as a criminal defense attorney with the Office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender. She earned an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Juris Doctor from the University of California-Hastings, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, magna cum laude, from San Francisco State University. From 1991-1998 she worked as a Deputy Public Defender in Los Angeles handling a full range of criminal cases including a serious felony caseload in the courts in Compton and Downtown Los Angeles. In 1998 she began working in Eastern Europe. She worked in Belarus for the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative promoting rule of law reform in the country. She left Belarus to work as the head of the legal department for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Albania. From 2002-2006 she was the Head of the Rule of Law Unit for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, based in Warsaw, Poland. During those years she worked in countries of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia primarily focusing on providing assistance in criminal justice reform. Her main area of academic interest is dispute resolution including how alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is used in criminal cases, and how ADR might contribute to rule of law development in countries in transition to democracy.

JUDITH M. BARGER
Associate Professor of Law
Email
Scholarship

Judie Barger is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, where she has been on the faculty since Fall 2002. She teaches Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Procedure, Criminal Practice, Advanced Criminal Advocacy and Criminal Law. She is also the faculty advisor to the Moot Court Board and coaches the nationally ranked competitive Moot Court teams, which have won numerous team and individual advocate awards over the past several years. Professor Barger graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center with honors in 1993, after which she clerked for the Circuit Court Judges in Prince William County, Virginia. Professor Barger then joined the Public Defenders Office in Fairfax County, where she practiced for four years, handling felony cases ranging from grand larceny to capital murder. Professor Barger was also an Associate at Piliero, Mazza & Pargament (presently Piliero Mazza, PLLC) for four years where she worked with Native American tribes in forming Tribal Court Systems, developing law enforcement policy manuals and training Native American police officers on criminal procedure issues.

MARK "BUZZ" BELLEVILLE
Assistant Professor of Law
Email

B.A., Philosophy, Miami University, with Departmental and University Honors; J.D. with Honors from the Ohio State University College of Law. Formerly, 12 years as a business litigator and counselor with the well-respected law firms of Woods Rogers PLC in Blacksburg and Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP in Cleveland and Columbus. His litigation practice focused on commercial contract disputes, tort and products liability, environmental litigation, a variety of business torts, labor litigation and premises liability. On behalf of a utility client, Professor Belleville obtained the first summary judgment in Ohio in defense of a premises liability asbestos claims, and participated in the drafting of significant asbestos reform legislation. He has also successfully negotiated and avoided multi-million dollar environmental claims on behalf of municipal and industrial clients. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia. Professor Belleville teaches Contracts and Appellate Advocacy.

M. SCOTT BOONE
Associate Professor of Law
Email
Scholarship

Professor Boone's specialties include technology and the law and related fields. He received his B.S. degree in Neuroscience from Texas Christian University and his J.D. degree from the Franklin Pierce Law Center, where he was an Articles Editor for IDEA: The Journal of Law & Technology and a member of the moot court team. He also holds an LL.M. degree from the Temple University School of Law and has completed two years in the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at Emory University. Before entering law teaching, he practiced with the Jones & Askew firm in Atlanta in the areas of intellectual property and litigation. Professor Boone teaches Property, Intellectual Property, Administrative Law, a Cyberlaw seminar, and Appellate Advocacy. He also serves as Director of the Externship Program.

JOSEPH K. GRANT
Assistant Professor of Law
Email

Professor Grant joined ASL after serving as Lecturer in Law at the West Virginia University College of Law, where he also served as faculty advisor to the West Virginia Law Review, the West Virginia Moot Court Board, and the Black Law Students Association. He is a graduate of Brown University and of the Duke University School of Law, where he was a Duke Merit Scholar and President of the Duke Bar Association. He practiced with the law firms of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey and Thompson Hine & Flory in Cleveland, Ohio, before opening his own law firm in that city. His areas of practice included corporate and commercial law, real estate, trusts, estate planning, employment discrimination, personal injury, and criminal law. He teaches courses in Legal Process, Secured Transactions, and Estate Planning.

DEBRA L. GREEN
Associate Professor of Law

Email
i

Professor Green joined ASL after serving as Director of the Lawyering Process course at the Florida Coastal School of Law. Professor Green earned a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia and her J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin College of Law, where she served as Senior Managing Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. She practiced law in Phoenix, Arizona, with the Lewis & Roca firm, where she represented clients in cases involving AIDS litigation, insurance defense, workers' compensation, constitutional law issues, and products liability, and where her pro bono work included representing indigent and Navajo women on child custody issues. Prior to joining ASL Professor Green gained more than ten years of experience teaching at the University of Alabama School of Law, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Florida Coastal School of Law. She taught courses in Legal Research and Writing, Appellate Advocacy, Media Law, Communications Law, and Commercial Law. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. She teaches Legal Process at ASL.

PRISCILLA NORWOOD HARRIS
Assistant Professor of Law
Email

Scholarship

Professor Harris received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she worked in the Elderly Advocate Program of the Philadelphia office of Community Legal Services and also as a Research Assistant for the City's Commission investigating the MOVE bombings of 1985. She received her B.A. in History from Florida State University. She has practiced civil litigation and estate planning with Reed Smith Shaw & McClay in Philadelphia, and with Bell Boyd & Lloyd in Washington, DC. She has also worked for the Michigan Court of Appeals. Prior to coming to ASL, she operated her own law practice in Orange Park, Florida, where she concentrated on land use and environmental law and civil rights litigation. At ASL, Professor Harris has taught Torts, Advanced Torts, Environmental Law, Conflict of Laws, Legal Process, and Criminal Law.

STEWART L. HARRIS
Associate Professor of Law
Email
Scholarship

Professor Harris teaches Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure. His most recent article, The First Amendment and the End of the World, was published as the lead article in Volume 68 of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and earned him the Faculty Scholarship Award for 2006-07. He has been selected by the 1L or 2L classes as Professor of the Year four times, in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008.

Professor Harris received his A.B. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he studied nuclear weapons policy, U.S. global strategic policy and nuclear nonproliferation. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he won the Law School's Edwin R. Keedy Cup, the Schools highest moot court award. From 1999 to 2001, Professor Harris taught at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law. Professor Harris joined the faculty at ASL in 2001.

JEFFREY KINSLER
Professor of Law
Email
Scholarship

Professor Kinsler assumed the role of Dean in September 2005. Prior to that time, he served as Assistant Dean for Faculty Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law. Professor Kinsler joined ASL with extensive experience in both practice and legal education. Before joining ASL, Professor Kinsler was an Associate Professor at Marquette University Law School. He also has taught at the University of Tennessee College of Law, the University of Denver College of Law, the University of Sydney Law School, Griffith University (Australia) School of Law, and Valparaiso University School of Law. Professor Kinsler received his B.S. degree cum laude from Ball State University and his J.D. degree with highest distinction from Valparaiso University School of Law, graduating first in his class. He later received his LL.M. from Yale Law School, where he was Senior Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Professor Kinsler practiced with the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago for several years, and was recently Of Counsel with the Tennessee law firm of Hunter, Smith & Davis. In 1995, Professor Kinsler was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Queensland. He has co-authored several books, including Federal Civil Discovery and Disclosure (WestGroup 2d ed. 2002); Virginia Practice: Civil Discovery (WestGroup 2005); 10 Illinois Practice: Civil Discovery (WestGroup 2000); 8 Wisconsin Practice: Civil Discovery (WestGroup 1996); and A Practical Guide to Wisconsin Evidence (NITA 1996). Professor Kinsler also has published numerous law review articles in journals at such schools as Vanderbilt, Northwestern, University of Washington, Loyola-Chicago, and Southern Methodist University. He teaches Contracts, Federal Income Taxation, Sales, and Estates & Trusts. Professor Kinsler is licensed to practice law in Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

KIM KINSLER
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Director of Academic Support Programs
Email

Prior to joining ASL's faculty in 2006, Professor Kinsler practiced law at Hunter, Smith & Davis in Kingsport, Tennessee. She has a J.D. from Marquette University Law School, where she was the Note and Comment Editor of the Marquette University Law Review, and a B.S. in Nursing (cum laude) from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and Wisconsin.

JOHN C. KUNICH
Associate Professor of Law
Email
Scholarship

Professor Kunich brings extensive teaching and practice experience to ASL. He served as Associate Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island from 1999 to 2005, where he was voted Professor of the Year in 2000-2001 and taught courses in Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Torts, First Amendment, National Security Law, Trial Advocacy, Scientific Evidence, and Property. Before entering academia, Professor Kunich attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and had an extensive practice career with the United States armed forces, where he served as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney in the JAG Corp, as an instructor at the Judge Advocate General School, as Chief Counsel on Constitutional Torts and Tax for the Headquarters General Litigation Division, as Environmental and Labor Attorney with the Air Force Space Command, and as Senior Legal Counsel for Falcon Air Force Base. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Biological Sciences summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Chicago, his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, and his LL.M. in Environmental Law summa cum laude from George Washington University School of Law. He has authored two books, Ark of the Broken Covenant: Protecting the World's Biodiversity Hotspots and The Naked Clone: How Cloning Bans Threaten Our Personal Rights, has co-authored two other books, and has written numerous law journal articles in the areas of environmental law and First amendment law, with particular emphasis on violent mass-media communications and human cloning. At ASL, he teaches Property I & II, Trial Advocacy, and a First Amendment Seminar.

MICHAEL W. LOUDENSLAGER
Associate Professor of Law
Email
Scholarship

Professor Loudenslager brings substantial teaching and practice experience to ASL. He received his B.A. degree summa cum laude in Economics and Political Science from the Miami University of Ohio, where he was selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. degree cum laude from the Washington & Lee University School of Law, where he served as Notes and Comments Editor of the Washington & Lee Law Review. Professor Loudenslager practiced law with the litigation department of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinatti, Ohio, where his commercial litigation practice included contract, wrongful death, intellectual property, insurance, probate, trust and estate, and landlord-tenant cases. Before joining ASL he served for six years as an Associate Professor of Lawyering Skills at the University of Dayton School of Law. He teaches Legal Process at ASL.

PAUL E. LUND
Associate Professor of Law
Email
Scholarship

Dean Lund taught at a number of prominent law schools before joining ASL's faculty in 1998. He received his B.S. degree with Highest Honors from Florida State University, his J.D. degree with Highest Honors from Florida State University College of Law, and his LL.M. degree from Yale Law School. He graduated first in his law school class at Florida State and was Editor-in-Chief of the Florida State University Law Review. He served as Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Paul H. Roney of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and later practiced with the Carlton Fields law firm in Tampa, Florida. His litigation practice at Carlton Fields included representation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation during the major period of bank and S&L failures in the late 1980s. Before coming to ASL, Dean Lund taught in the law schools at Florida State University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Chicago, and Syracuse University. His writings focus on the role and jurisdiction of federal courts. Dean Lund currently teaches Civil Procedure and Evidence and previously has taught Contracts, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Conflict of Laws, and Legal Writing.

DOUGLAS MCKECHNIE
Assistant Professor Of Law
Email

Professor McKechnie joins the Appalachian School of Law after private practice with Healey & Hornack, P.C. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Professor McKechnies practice focused on labor law, employment law and civil liberties litigation. He represented labor unions in a variety of matters including ERISA claims, collective bargaining enforcement and Unfair Labor Practice charges. He also represented employees in both individual and class action claims under various employment laws including the FLSA, the WARN Act, Pennsylvanias Whistleblower Law and Title VII. As a legal committee member and cooperating attorney with the Pittsburgh chapter of the ACLU, Professor McKechnie also litigated first amendment issues with a focus on free speech. In addition to practicing law, Professor McKechnie was a recurring guest lecturer on civil rights and civil liberties for an American Government course at the University of Pittsburgh. Before entering private practice, Professor McKechnie spent a year as a judicial clerk in the Superior Court of Connecticut. Professor McKechnie graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University where he earned a B.A. degree in political science with a minor in philosophy and received a Scandinavian Studies Certificate from Odense University in Denmark. He received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he received several scholarship awards as well as recognition for his performance in advanced legal writing and alternative dispute resolution courses. As a research assistant, Professor McKechnie conducted research on how police interrogation methods have evolved since the Miranda decision.

JOHN MURREY, III
Visiting Assistant Professor Of Law
Email
Scholarship

Professor Murrey received his B.S. degree for the University of Tennessee and his J.D. degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he a member of the Law Review and of Order of the Coif. After serving for several years as a Judge Advocate in the United States Air Force, Professor Murrey practiced for over 30 years with the law firm of Witt, Gaither & Whitaker in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For much of that time he had a general business practice, including serving as a general counsel for two publicly-owned corporations. In the course of his practice he handled many mergers, business asset acquisition, and tender offers, participated in various business tax-related and antitrust matters, and was responsible for filing of SEC documents. He also has extensive experience in the litigation of business-related controversies. He has served as Director and Chairman of Southeast Tennessee Legal Services and in other civic capacities, and he served as director of three public companies whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ. He teaches Business Associations, Payment Systems, Debtor-Creditor Law and Small Business Entities.

ALAN OXFORD
Assistant Professor of Law

Email

Professor Oxford joins ASL after working in his own private practice and of counsel to Drummond Law, PLLC, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, serving clients in matters of real estate, commercial transactions, probate, wills and trusts, banking, and appeals. He received his B.A. degree from Oklahoma Baptist University and his J.D. degree with honors from the University of Oklahoma where he received several academic achievement awards and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Professor Oxford also served for five years as an Adjunct Professor to the University of Tulsa College of Law where he taught Real Estate Transactions and Agency and Partnership. Prior to entering the law profession Professor Oxford practiced as a Certified Public Accountant.

STEVE PARSONS
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Email

Professor Parsons brings extensive experience in the private practice of law and higher education to ASL where he will perform his second tour as a visiting assistant professor during the 2006-2007 academic year. Parsons received his B.A. degree from David Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tennessee with a double major in Speech and Religion. He received his J.D. from The University of Tennessee College of Law, finishing first in his graduating class, and was selected for inclusion in the Order of the Coif. While a law student he also won the Advocates Prize Moot Court competition and was named Best Oralist in the competition. Professor Parsons was a partner in the Stophel, Caldwell and Heggie law firm in Chattanooga, Tennessee and later in the Wagner, Myers & Sanger firm in Knoxville, Tennessee, specializing in commercial transactions, bankruptcy and tort litigation. He is now the principal in The Parsons Law Firm in Greeneville, Tennessee where he focuses on elder law and employment law. Since 1994, Professor Parsons has also taught law related courses at the undergraduate level at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee and Walters State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee where he is a tenured professor and chair of the Legal Studies Department. He is the author of Interviewing and Investigating: Essential Skills for the Paralegal (Aspen Publishers, 2nd ed. 2004). He has conducted a number of seminars on employment law and labor relations for employers. Parsons was a visiting professor at ASL during 2002-2003 when he taught Debtor-Creditor Law, Civil Trial Practice and Pretrial Civil Litigation. Professor Parsons also teaches Civil Procedure and Appellate Advocacy.

DALE RUBIN
Professor of Law

Email
Scholarship

Professor Rubin received his B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University and his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Rubin practiced law for the law firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in San Francisco, California and with the office of Carl B. Metoyer in Oakland, California. He was in private practice for eighteen years. Professor Rubin was an International Legal Center Fellow in Barbados, West Indies where he drafted a model corporations code and published an article on the development of an antitrust law framework in the English- speaking Caribbean territories. He has published articles in the Journal of World Trade Law, the Anglo-American Law Review, the St. Louis University Public Law Review, the University of Richmond Law Review, the University of Toledo Law Review, the Idaho Law Review, Northern Kentucky Law Review, the Urban Lawyer, the American Bar Association's State and Local Government Section Newsletter and the Oregon State Bar Business Law Digest. Professor Rubin has also authored numerous state-based think-tank papers which have been published by the James Madison Institute (Florida), the Cascade Policy Institute (Oregon), the Calvert Institute for Policy Research (Maryland), the Independence Institute (Colorado), the Washington Institute for Policy Studies (Washington) and the Sutherland Institute (Utah). He has been the editor of the Charles Houston Bar Association Newsletter in Oakland, California, the Oregon State Bar Business Law Digest, the American Bar Association Public Transportation Newsletter, and is presently the editor of the ABA State and Local Government Section Newsletter. Professor Rubin was also a world record holder in the 440-yard relay and an All-Coast football player at Stanford University. He was also the founder of the Stanford Black Alumni Association. Prior to joining the faculty at the Appalachian School of Law, Professor Rubin taught for seven years at the Willamette College of Law in Salem, Oregon. His primary research interest involves the constitutionality of public subsidies to private corporations. Professor Rubin has taught State & Local Government, Torts, Business Associations, Administrative Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, and Evidence.

TOMMY SANGCHOMPUPHEN
Assistant Professor of Law

Email
Scholarship

Professor Sangchompuphen joins the Appalachian School of Law after serving as a bar exam essay-writing instructor and consultant for a national bar review company since 2000. Professor Sangchompuphen received his B.A. from Yale University, where he studied political science and sociology, then received a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He received his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. After law school, he was an associate with the law firm of Bassford, Lockhart, Truesdell & Briggs, P.A. (now Bassford Remele, P.A.). Professor Sangchompuphen has written several books, including the course materials for BAR/BRIs Essay Advantage courses in Alabama, Florida, Michigan and Minnesota, and has been involved with commercial bar preparation courses in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Virginia. He also has written more than a hundred law review, newspaper and magazine articles that have appeared in Hamline Law Review, Minnesota Association of Scholars, The Wall Street Journal, Law.com, The Dallas Morning News, and numerous bar association publications. Professor Sangchompuphen joined the ASL faculty in 2008 to assist students in the Academic Success Program and bar preparation course.

THOMAS R. SCOTT, JR.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and General Counsel

Email

Professor Scott is a partner with the law firm of Street, Street, Street, Scott & Bowman in Grundy. He is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College and of the T.C. William School of Law of the University of Richmond, where he served on the Moot Court Board. He has practiced for over 25 years and has extensive experience in civil and criminal litigation and in the handling of workers' compensation and other disability matters. He has been named one of the Best Lawyers in Virginia by Virginia Business Magazine, is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and an Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocacy, and has received the Bill Geimer Award, an award presented annually to a dedicated capital defender. He has served as a substitute judge for the Twenty Ninth Judicial District, as a member of the Grundy Town Council, as a member of the Virginia State Bar Council, and as a faculty member for the Virginia State Bar Course on the Professionalism. He also has served as a member of the Governor's Advisory Commission on Workers' Compensation. He teaches Trial Advocacy, Insurance Law, and an Eminent Domain seminar at ASL and also serves as the Law School's General Counsel.

CYNTHIA G. SWANN
Assistant Professor of Law
Email

Professor Swann joins the Appalachian School of Law after many years of private practice in Washington, D.C. While in D.C., she practiced as an associate with the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, LLP, focusing on complex insurance defense cases involving asbestos, products, and environmental claims. She most recently was a partner with the firm of Weiner Brodsky Sidman Kider PC, where she concentrated on the defense of national consumer class action lawsuits and handled an array of contract, tort, and regulatory litigation matters in both state and federal courts throughout the United States. Professor Swann received her B.A. degree summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she was selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and then received a Masters Degree in English Education from the University of Maryland at College Park. She received her J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Swann teaches Legal Process and Pretrial Practice at ASL.

PAULA M. YOUNG
Associate Professor of Law
Email
Scholarship

Professor Young has over 1,300 hours of training and experience in alternative dispute resolution. Professor Young received her B.A. degree from Washington University and her J.D. degree from Washington University School of Law, where she served on the staff of the Urban Law Annual and graduated in the top twenty percent of her class at this top-25 ranked school. She recently received her LL.M. degree in Dispute Resolution from the University of Missouri-Columbia, the top ranked program in the U.S. Before joining ASL, Professor Young was a commercial dispute litigator, mediator, and arbitrator specializing in insurance and other commercial disputes. She was general counsel to the largest insurance insolvency in U.S. history, a partner in the law firm of McCarthy, Leonard, Kaemmerer, Owen, Lamkin & McGovern, L.L.C. and the sole proprietor of Pathways Mediation and Arbitration Center. Professor Young also practiced in the energy department of the D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom, one of the largest firms in the world. She has published extensively in the alternative dispute resolution field. She writes a column entitled “From Conflict to Collaboration” for The St. Louis Lawyer, a publication that circulates to 6,800 attorneys. She teaches Dispute Resolution, Legal Process, and skills courses in arbitration, negotiation, mediation, and client interviewing and counseling.


ADJUNCT FACULTY


JUDGE CHARLES J. ARNOLD

Judge Arnold is a U.S. Administrative Law Judge employed by the Social Security Administration Office of Heatings and Appeals, Lexington, Kentucky. He is a life-long resident of rural Harrison County, Kentucky, where he served as Assistant County Attorney (1978-1980), 18th Judicial District Court Judge (1982-1983) and 18th Judicial Circuit Court Judge (1984-1989) prior to his 1989 appointment as a federal Administrative Law Judge. Judge Arnold is a graduate of Transylvania University (1972) and the University of Kentucky School of Law (1975), and he was selected for a clerkship with the Kentucky Supreme Court (1975-1976) prior to entering private practice in Harrison County. He is an active cattleman and tobacco producer and received the USDA "Master Conservationist" award in 2001. Judge Arnold teaches Practice before the Social Security Administration at ASL.

EDWARD J. KELLY

Edward J. Kelly is University Counsel for East Tennessee State University and the Quillen College of Medicine. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and served as Assistant Counsel to the New York State Commission of Correction and as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of College and University Law and the National Employment Law Committee of the Society for Human Resource Management. In 2004 Kelly served as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Ukraine and Belarus. This summer Kelly taught ADR in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Krygystan. Mr. Kelly has taught Employment Law and Rights of the Disabled at Appalachian School of Law.

CLICK HERE FOR LAW SCHOOL AND LIBRARY STAFF >>

Copyright 2003 Appalachian School of Law. All rights reserved.