Linn Freedman practices in data privacy and security law, and complex litigation. She is a member of Robinson+Cole's Business Litigation Group and chairs its Data Privacy + Security Team. Ms. Freedman focuses her practice on compliance with all state and federal privacy and security laws and regulations, as well as emergency data breach response, mitigation, and litigation. She also counsels…
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John McAdams is an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, currently serving as Senior Litigation Counsel (SLC). As SLC, he is responsible for organizing, preparing and directing complex investigations and proceedings leading to litigation and for developing and implementing litigation-oriented training programs. He also serves as the criminal Civil Rights coordinator,…, Americorps, volunteer, serving at-risk youth on the Colville Indian Reservation in the state of Washington, and in inner-city Chicago, IL, where he developed and directed a high-profile organization for at-risk youth.
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Justin Kishbaugh comes to RWU Law with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in English Literature. He has taught both Academic and Creative Writing at the collegiate level for over ten years, and has worked as a Legal Writing Specialist since 2010. Justin has published several articles on Imagist poetics, and his most recent article applies his background in poetry to legal writing. He has…, Lexicon, , and as Associate Editor of the Richard Aldington newsletter and Managing Editor of the Ezra Pound Society newsletter. As the Legal Writing Specialist for RWU Law, Justin is available to help students at any stage of the writing process. He does, however, encourage students to come see him as early and often as possible.
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As an expert in National Security Law, Professor Peter Margulies focuses on the delicate balance between liberty, equality, and security in issues involving law and terrorism. Professor Margulies has written almost a dozen articles discussing the War on Terror. He currently works with RWU Law Professor Jared Goldstein, along with litigators from the law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge,…, New York Times, , the , National Law Journal, and other media outlets., Books, “The Other Side of Autonomous Weapons: Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance IHL Compliance,” in, The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Law of Armed Conflict, , edited by Ronald T.P. Alcala & Eric Talbot Jensen (New York: Oxford University Press 2019), National Security Law: Principles and Policy, , 2d ed. (New York: Aspen Publishers 2019) (with Professors Geoffrey S. Corn, Eric Talbot Jensen & Jimmy Gurule) “Making Autonomous Weapons Accountable: Command Responsibility for Computer-Guided Lethal Force in Armed Conflicts,” in, Handbook on Remote Warfare, , edited by Jens David Ohlin (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press, 2017) Interpretations of IHL in Tribunals of the United States (with Prof. Michael W. Lewis), in, Applying International Humanitarian Law in Judicial and Quasi Judicial Bodies, , edited by Philip Van Tongeren (The Hague, Netherlands: T.M.C. Asser Press 2014) “Valor's Vices: Against a State Duty to Risk Forces in Armed Conflict,” in, Counterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare, , edited by William Banks (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), Law’s Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration , (New York: NYU Press, 2010) “Lawyers' Independence and Collective Illegality in Government and Corporate Misconduct, Terrorism, and Organized Crime,” in, Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos: The Corporate Scandal Reader, , edited by Nancy B. Rapoport, Jeffrey D. Van Niel, Bala G. Dharan (New York: Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press, 2009), Articles, Textualism's Immigration Problem: Stabilizing Interpretive Rules on Noncitizens' Rights and Remedies, 50, Hofstra Law Review, 259 (2022), ", Searching for Accountability Under FISA: Internal Separation of Powers and Surveillance Law" , 103, Marquette Law Review, 1155 (2021) Autonomous Weapons in the Cyber Domain: Balancing Proportionality and the Need for Speed, 96, International Law Studies, 394 (2020), ", The DACA Case: Agencies' "Square Corners" and Reliance Interests in Immigration Law, ", , 2019-2020, Cato Supreme Court Review, 127 "The Boundaries of Habeas: Due Process, the Suspension Clause, and Judicial Review of Expedited Removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act" , 34, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 405 (2020) "Rescinding Inclusion in the Administrative State: Adjudicating DACA, the Census, and the Military's Transgender Policy" , 71, Florida Law Review, 1429 (2019) "Legal Dilemmas Facing White House Counsel in the Trump Administration: The Costs of Public Disclosure of FISA Requests" , 87, Fordham Law Review, 1913 (2019) "The Travel Ban Decision, Administrative Law, and Judicial Method: Taking Statutory Context Seriously" , 33, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 159 (2019) "Deconstructing Sanctuary Cities: The Legality of Federal Grant Conditions That Require State and Local Cooperation on Immigration Enforcement" , 75, Washington and Lee Law Review, 1507 (2018) "Curbing Remedies for Official Wrongs: The Need for Bivens Suits in National Security Cases", ,, 68, Case Western Reserve Law Revie, w 1153 (2018) "Bans, Borders, and Sovereignty: Judicial Review of Immigration Law in the Trump Administration" , 2018, Michigan State Law Review, 1-80 (2018) Global Cybersecurity, Surveillance, and Privacy: The Obama Administration's Conflicted Legacy, 24, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 459 (2017) "Searching for Federal Judicial Power: Article III and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court" , 85, George Washington Law Review, 800 (2017) "Surveillance by Algorithm: The NSA, Computerized Intelligence Collection, and Human Rights" , 68, Florida Law Review, 1045 (2016) "Reauthorizing the FISA Amendments Act: A Blueprint for Enhancing Privacy Protections and Preserving Foreign Intelligence Capabilities" , 12, Journal of Business & Technology Law, 23 (2016) "Justice at War: Military Tribunals and Article III" , 49, U.C. Davis Law Review, 305 (2015) "Defining Foreign Affairs in Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act: The Virtues and Deficits of Post-Snowden Dialogue on U.S. Surveillance Policy" , 72, Washington and Lee Law Review, 1283 (2015) "The Boundaries of Executive Discretion: Deferred Action, Unlawful Presence, and Immigration Law" , 64 A, merican University Law Review, 1183 (2015) "Deferred Action and the Bounds of Agency Discretion: Reconciling Policy and Legality in Immigration Enforcement" , 55, Washburn Law Journal, 143 (2015) "Dynamic Surveillance: Evolving Procedures in Metadata and Foreign Content Collection After Snowden" , 66, Hastings Law Journal, 1 (2014) The NSA in Global Perspective: Surveillance, Human Rights, and International Counterterrorism, 82, Fordham Law Review, 2137 (2014) Taking Care of Immigration Law: Presidential Stewardship, Prosecutorial Discretion, and the Separation of Powers, 94, Boston University Law Review, 105 (2014) Sovereignty and Cyber Attacks: Technology's Challenge to the Law of State Responsibility, 14, Melbourne Journal of International Law, 496 (2013) Constraining Targeting in Noninternational Armed Conflicts: Safe Conduct for Combatants Conducting Informal Dispute Resolution, 46, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1041 (2013) "Networks in Non-international Armed Conflicts: Crossing Borders and Defining “Organized Armed Group", 89, International Law Studies, 54 (2013) "Defining, Punishing, and Membership in the Community of Nations: Material Support and Conspiracy Charges in Military Commissions" , 36, Fordham International Law Journal, 1 (2013) Advocacy as a Race to the Bottom: Rethinking Limits on Lawyers' Free Speech, 43, University of Memphis Law Review, 319 (2012) The Fog of War Reform: Change and Structure in the Law of Armed Conflict After September 11, 95, Marquette Law Review, 1417 (2012) "Advising Terrorism: Material Support, Safe Harbors, and Freedom of Speech" , 63, Hastings Law Journal, 455 (2012) "Reforming Lawyers into Irrelevance?: Reconciling Crisis and Constraint at the Office of Legal Counsel", , , 39, Pepperdine Law Review, 809 (2012), ", The Ivory Tower at Ground Zero: Conflict and Convergence in Legal Education’s Responses to Terrorism" , 60, Journal of Legal Education, 373 (2010) "Judging Myopia in Hindsight: Bivens Actions, National Security Decisions, and the Rule of Law", , , 96, Iowa Law Review, 195 (2010) "The Detainees’ Dilemma: The Virtues and Vices of Advocacy Strategies in the War on Terror" , 57, Buffalo Law Review, 347 (2009) "True Believers at Law: National Security Agendas, the Regulation of Lawyers, and the Separation of Powers" , 68, Maryland Law Review, 1 (2008) "When to Push the Envelope: Legal Ethics, the Rule of Law, and National Security Strategy" , 30, Fordham International Law Journa, l 642 (2007) "Beyond Absolutism: Legal Institutions in the War on Terror" , 60, University of Miami Law Review, 309 (2006) "Judging Terror in the "Zone of Twilight": Exigency, Institutional Equity, and Procedure After September 11' , 84, Boston University Law Review, 383 (2004) "Uncertain Arrivals: Immigration, Terror, and Democracy After September 11" , 2002, Utah Law Revie, w 481 "Democratic Transitions and the Future of Asylum Law" , 71, University of Colorado Law Review, 3 (2000) "Progressive Lawyering and Lost Traditions" , 73, Texas Law Review, 1139 (1995) "Representation of Domestic Violence Survivors as a New Paradigm of Poverty Law: In Search of Access, Connection, and Voice", 63, George Washington Law Review, 1071 (1995)
Type: Faculty & Staff Profile
Type: Faculty & Staff Profile
Michael Donnelly-Boylen brings over two decades of legal education experience to his position as Associate Dean of Enrollment and Strategic Initiatives at Roger Williams University School of Law. He has become a leader on issues relating to the inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population in legal education. Dean Donnelly-Boylen joined RWU Law in 2002, was…
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Nicole P. Dyszlewski currently serves as Assistant Dean of Academic Innovation , for the Law School. She originally joined the staff of the law school as the Research/Access Services Librarian in 2015 having come from a public legislative library before becoming the Head of Reference, Instruction, and Engagement in the law library prior to accepting her current position. She received a B.A. from…, Books, Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Equity and Inclusion Beyond the First Year, (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2024)(with Raquel J. Gabriel, Suzanne Harrington-Steppen, Anna Russell, and Genevieve B. Tung)., Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law School Classroom, (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2021)(with Raquel J. Gabriel, Suzanne Harrington-Steppen, Anna Russell, and Genevieve B. Tung) “Marketing and Outreach,” in, Introduction to Law Librarianship, , edited by Zanada Joyner and Cas Laskowski (Mountain View, CA: Pressbooks, 2021) (with Jessica Almeida) “Rhode Island Women's Bar Association & the History of Women Lawyers in Our State,” in, Raising the Bar: America Celebrates 150 Years of Women Lawyers 1869-2019, , edited by Chuck Oldham and Ana E. Lopez (Tampa, FL: Faircount Media Group, 2019) (with Cassandra L. Feeney and Gina Renzulli Lemay) “Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) Inmates,” in, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identities, and the Law: A Research Bibliography, 2006-2016, , edited by Dana Neacsu and David Brian Holt (Getzville, New York: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2018) (with Alisha Hennen), What Color is Your C.F.R.?, (Chicago, Illinois: CALI, 2016) (with Raquel Ortiz, illustrated by Liz Gotauco), Articles, " Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Social Justice in the Curriculum, in the Classroom, and in the Courtroom ", 29, Roger Williams L. Rev., 6 (2023)(with Diana Hassel)., ", Law Librarians Leading Law Schools Through Transformative Change: Integrating Doctrine and Diversity, ",, 42, Legal Reference Ser, v. Q. 163 (2023). "Integrating Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Social Justice and Law with Intention" ,, Jurist, , April 22, 2022., ", Focus on the Future: An Interview with Koye Idowu",, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , Jan./Feb. 2022, at 32 (with Meghan L. Hopkins)., ", Integrating Diversity into the 1L Curriculum, One Librarian at a Time", 25, UC Davis Social Justice Law Review, 64 (2021)., ", Law Librarians as Access to Justice Allies", 17, Public Services Quarterly, 65 (2021) (with Jessica Almeida)., ", Focus on the Future: An Interview with Justin S. Smith",, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , Nov./Dec. 2021, at 21 (with Meghan L. Hopkins)., ", Focus on the Future: An Interview with Samantha Armstrong",, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , Sept./Oct. 2021, at 21 (with Meghan L. Hopkins)., ", Focus on the Future: An Interview with Emily Heisler",, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , July/August 2021, at 23 (with Meghan L. Hopkins)., ", Focus on the Future: An Interview with Monsurat Ottun",, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , May/June 2021, at 21 (with Meghan L. Hopkins)., ", Focus on the Future: An Interview with Kaylin Pelletier",, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , March/April 2021, at 27 (with Meghan L. Hopkins). "History of the First Women Project" , 25, Roger Williams University Law Review, 307 (2020)., ", Boldly Marching Through Closed Doors: The Experiences of the Earliest Female Attorneys in Their Own Words, ", , 25, Roger Williams University Law Review, 340 (2020)., ", Focus on the Future: An Interview with Michaela Bland",, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , May/June 2020, at 33 (with Meghan L. Hopkins)., ", Focus on the Future: An Interview with Zachary Lyons, ", ,, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , July/August 2020, at 22 (Meghan L. Hopkins)., ", 7 Podcasts for Lawyers Who Love True Crime", Rhode Island Bar Journal, ,, March/April 2020, at 23., ", Continuing the Conversation on Diversity and Inclusion",, AALL Spectrum, , Sept./Oct. 2019, at 30 (with Zanada Joyner and Joshua LaPorte). "Learning from Millennials in the Legal Workspace" ,, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , Mar./Apr. 2019, at 23 (with Suzanne Harrington-Steppen). "Book Review,, Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence, by Ronda Muir", 110, Law Library Journal, 416 (2018)., ", 9 Strategies for Improving the Legal Internship Experience at Your Office",, Rhode Island Bar Journal, , Jan./Feb. 2018, at 21 (with Laura Pickering)., ", Legal Ease: Self-Care for Library Staff" ,, AALL White Paper, (2018), (editor)(with Jessica Randall Panella and Brittany Stronjy). "Bringing Books Behind Bars: Anatomy of a Successful Service Project",, AALL Spectrum, , Nov./Dec. 2016, at 39 (with Jessica Pisano Jones and Joshua LaPorte) "Mass Incarceration: An Annotated Bibliography" , 21, Roger Williams University Law Review, 471 (2016)(with Lucinda Harrison-Cox and Raquel Ortiz)., ", Managing Disruptive Patron Behavior in Law Libraries: A Grey Paper", 107, Law Library Journal, 491 (2015)(with Kristen R. Moore and Genevieve B. Tung)., ", Outreach to Public Libraries: Efforts to Propel Service and Access to Information in New England",, AALL Spectrum, , Dec. 2014, at 13 (with Catherine Biondo, Joshua LaPorte, and Rebecca Martin). "Book Review,, Politics of Parking: Rights, Identity and Property by Sarah Marusek", , 105, Law Library Journal, 235 (2013) "Book Review, Human Rights in Europe: Commentary on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union" , 20, Law and Politics Book Review, 348 (2010),
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After a successful term at Yale Law School (where she served on the Yale Law Journal, the Yale Journal of Law and Policy, and the Yale Journal of International Law), Niki Kuckes won a coveted clerkship with Judge (now Justice) Antonin Scalia. She moved on to develop a sophisticated litigation practice in Washington, D.C, where for almost two decades she focused on white collar criminal matters,…, Books, “Rewriting Grand Jury History,” in, Grand Jury 2.0, , edited by Roger Fairfax (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Press, 2011), Articles, ", Iancu v. Brunetti: Free Speech Meets Immoral and Scandalous Trademarks in the Supreme Court" , 25, Roger Williams University Law Review, 80 (2020), ", Matal v. Tam: Free Speech Meets Disparaging Trademarks in the Supreme Court, ", , 23, Roger Williams University Law Review, 122 (2018), ", Designing Law School Externships That Comply with the FLSA" , 21, Clinical Law Revie, w 79 (2014), ", The State of Rule 3.8: Prosecutorial Ethics Reform Since Ethics 2000" , 22, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, 427 (2009), ", Civil Due Process, Criminal Due Process" , 25, Yale Law and Policy Review, 1 (2006) "The Democratic Prosecutor: Explaining the Constitutional Function of the Federal Grand Jury" ,, , 94, Georgetown Law Journal, 1265 (2006) "The Useful, Dangerous Fiction of Grand Jury Independence", ¸ , 41, American Criminal Law Review, 1 (2004)
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Type: Faculty & Staff Profile
Michael J. Yelnosky became a member of the founding faculty at Roger Williams University School of Law in 1993. He served as associate dean for academic affairs from 2004 to 2008, and as the fifth dean of RWU Law from 2014 to 2020. He has spent thirty years working to help establish and grow Rhode Island’s only law school. As dean, Yelnosky’s stated goal was to make RWU Law “aggressively…
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