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Susan Heyman joined the Roger Williams University School of Law faculty in the fall of 2011. She had previously been at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Cardozo, where she was executive editor of Cardozo Law Review and the recipient of the Felix Frankfurter Award. She clerked for the Honorable Robert E. Cowen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for…, Articles, "Digital Realty Trust v. Somers: Whistleblowers and Corporate Retaliation," 24, Roger Williams University Law Review, 78 (2019), ", Corporate Privilege and an Individual’s Right to Defend," 85, George Washington Law Review, 1112 (2017), ", Rethinking Regulation Fair Disclosure and Corporate Free Speech," 36, Cardozo Law Review, 1099 (2015), ", The Quiet Period in a Noisy World: Rethinking Securities Regulations and Corporate Free Speech," 74, Ohio State Law Journal, 189 (2013) Book Review, "Contracts in the Real World: Stories of Popular Contracts and Why They Matter by Larry Cunningham,", Concurring Opinions, (October 17, 2012), , ", The Missing Elements of Contract Damages," 84, Temple Law Review, 119 (2011), ", Bottoms-Up: An Alternative Approach for Investigating Corporate Malfeasance," 37, American Journal of Criminal Law, 163 (2010), ", Bringing Down the Bar: Accountants Challenge Meaning of Unauthorized Practice," 21, Cardozo Law Review, 1425 (2000)
Type: Faculty & Staff Profile
As an instructor of Dispute Resolution, Professor Bruce Kogan and his students work with the Rhode Island court system by providing alternatives to litigation. In addition to Dispute Resolution, Professor Kogan teaches Property and Trusts and Estates. Active in the Rhode Island legal community, Professor Kogan serves as one of the co-founders for the first non-profit organization for mediators…, cum laude, from Dickinson School of Law, and his LL.M. from Georgetown University. , Books, “Disciplinary Issues and Ethics for Divorce and Family Lawyers,” in , A Practical Guide to Divorce in Rhode Island, , edited by Sandra H. Smith and Deborah Miller Tate (Boston: MCLE New England, 2009), Articles, ", Chief Justice Joseph R. Weisberger's Page of History,, ", 6, Roger Williams University Law Review, 501 (2001) (with Cheryl L. Robertson), ", The Asthmatic Worker and the Americans with Disabilities Act," 82, Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 259 (1999) "The Taxation of Prizes and Awards ‑ Tax Policy Winners and Losers," 63, Washington Law Review, 257 (1988) "The Price Is Right ‑ Or Else: Congress' Efforts To Eliminate Tax Cheating In Appraisals Of Value," 5, Virginia Tax Review, 59 (1985)
Type: Faculty & Staff Profile
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)
Type: Faculty & Staff Profile
Victoria Grace Litman M.Div., J.D., LL.M. is a visiting professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where she teaches Torts, Cannabis Law, and Psychedelics Law. She is also a Fellow in Psychedelic Law and Spirituality at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Her scholarly work focuses on the intersections of tax law, religious…, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, , Penn’s, Regulatory Review,, , Petrie-Flom Bill of Health, , and the Cato Institute’s, Regulation Magazine, . An accomplished presenter, Litman regularly speaks at major academic and policy conferences in the United States and abroad. Her recent presentations have addressed topics like psychedelic chaplaincy, cannabis tax law reform, and psychedelic religion and law. In addition to her teaching and research, Litman is a nonprofit tax lawyer specializing in tax-exempt organizations within the cannabis…, Articles, “ Facilitating the Sacred: The Role of Chaplains in Psychedelic Law and Policy ,” In , Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology, February 2025, " Psychedelic Policy, Religious Freedom, and Public Safety: An Overview ,", Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, September 2024, " What You Need to Know About Marijuana Rescheduling - Petrie-Flom Center ,", Harvard Bill of Health, May 2024, " Why We Need To Talk About Psychedelic Dispensaries ,", The Regulatory Review; Penn Regulatory Review, April 2024, ", Limiting Federal Regulation of Cannabis, ," Cato Institute, the Cato Institute, Regulation Magazine,
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David A. Logan became Dean of Roger Williams School of Law in 2003, after two decades on the faculty of Wake Forest University School of Law, where he won awards for his teaching of Torts, Media Law, and Professional Responsibility. At the end of his deanship in 2014, he was one of the nation's longest-serving deans. He has also been a visiting professor at UNC, UT-Austin, Florida State, and the…, Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman, , 455 U.S. 363 (1982), a major Supreme Court decision interpreting the Fair Housing Act. Professor Logan's publications, primarily focusing on the intersection of tort law and the First Amendment, have appeared in major journals, including the, Michigan Law Review, , the, Iowa Law Review, , and the, Virginia Law Review, . His most recent piece, “Rescuing our Democracy by Revisiting, New York Times v. Sullivan, ,” published in the, Ohio State Law Journal, in late 2020, was cited sixteen times by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch in his 2021 opinion in, Berisha v. Lawson, . Professor Logan has served as an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts, most recently on the ALI’s Defamation and Privacy Law Project; he has also served the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools in various leadership capacities. He has won awards for his “dedication and commitment to equal justice in the law” (Rhode Island Legal…, Wall Street Journal, ,, New York Times, ,, Washington Post, , and the, Economist, ). He was born in New York City and grew up in Northern Virginia, where he excelled as a violinist and started for the first racially integrated team to win the state AAA basketball championship. He earned his BA from Bucknell, his MA from Wisconsin-Madison, and his JD from Virginia. In college, he was a varsity basketball player, head deejay on the campus radio station, and a music critic for, Rolling Stone, magazine., Books, , "Protection of Personality Rights against Invasions by the Mass Media in the United States of America,” in, The Protection of Personality Rights Against Invasions by the Mass Media, , edited by, , Helmut Kozel & Alexander Warzilek (Vienna: Springer, 2005) (with Michael D. Green), North Carolina Torts, , 2d ed. (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2004) (with Wayne A. Logan), Selected Articles, , ", Rescuing our Democracy by Revisiting, New York Times v. Sullivan,", 81, Ohio State Law Journal, 759 (2020), ", Still Standing After All These Years: Five Decades of Litigation Under the Fair Housing Act and the Supreme Court Still Can't Say for Sure Who is Protected,", 23, Roger Williams U. L. Rev., 169 (2018), ", Juries, Judges, and the Politics of Tort Reform," 83, University of Cincinnati Law Review, 903 (2015), ", When the Restatement is Not a Restatement: The Curious Case of the Flagrant Trespasser," 37, William Mitchell Law Review, 1448 (2011) (symposium on the , Restatement (3d) Torts, ), ", The Perils of Glasnost," 38, University of Toledo Law Review, 565 (2007), ", Teaching Through Tragedy," 34, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 181 (2002) "Libel Law in the Trenches: Reflections on Current Data on Libel Litigation," 86, Virginia Law Review, 503 (2001), ", All Monica, All of the Time, The 24-Hour News Cycle and the Proof of Culpability in Libel Actions," 23, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 201 (2000), ", Upping the Ante: Curricular and Bar Exam Reform in Professional Responsibility," 56, Washington and Lee Law Review, 1023 (1999), ", Masked Media: Judges, Juries, and the Law of Surreptitious Newsgathering," 83, Iowa Law Review, 161 (1997), ", Of "Sloppy Journalism", "Corporate Tyranny", and "Mea Culpas": The Curious Case of, Moldea v. New York Times,", 37, William and Mary Law Review, 161 (1995) "The Man in the Mirror," 90, Mich L. Rev, . 1739 (1992).
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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)
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Professor Sarah McConnell teaches Legal Practice I, II, and III; Civil Procedure; Professional Responsibility; and a seminar on Judicial Clerkships. Professor McConnell joined Roger Williams University School of Law bringing extensive experience in legal research and writing. She has served as both an attorney and a law clerk in the Rhode Island state and federal courts, at the trial and…, Articles, ", Educating Judges & Advancing Inclusion: The Evolution of Gendered Language in the U.S. Courts,, ", 29, Roger Williams U. L. Rev., 86 (Fall 2023).
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Professor Colleen Murphy has been honored for her teaching, scholarship, and pro bono legal services. She has served at RWU as the Distinguished Teaching Professor for her excellence in teaching and as the Distinguished Research Professor for her creation and advancement of scholarship. The Rhode Island Bar Association honored her with its Pro Bono Publico Award for the free and extensive legal…, Northwestern University Law Review, , , Virginia Law Review, , and , Texas Law Review, , and she was a member of the American Law Institute’s Members’ Consultative Group for the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment., Articles, "Removing Statistical Discrimination in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Compensation in Rhode Island," 29, Roger Williams University Law Review, 555 (co-authored with student Natalie DeAngelis) (2024) "Note-Taking Mode and Academic Performance in Two Law School Courses," 68, Journal of Legal Education, 207 (2019) (co-authored with C.J. Ryan & Yajni Warnapala) "Recognizing Restitutionary Causes of Action and Remedies Under Rhode Island Law," 20, Roger Williams University Law Review, 429 (2015) "Reviewing Congressionally Created Remedies for Excessiveness," 73, Ohio State Law Journal, 651 (2012) "What is Specific about "Specific Restitution?," 60, Hastings Law Journal, 853 (2009) "Money as a Specific Remedy," 58, Alabama Law Review, 119 (2006) "The Use of Prior Convictions after Apprendi," 37, U.C. Davis Law Review, 973 (2004) "Misclassifying Monetary Restitution," 55, Southern Methodist University Law Review, 1577 (2002) "Judgment as a Matter of Law on Punitive Damages," 75, Tulane Law Review, 459 (2000) "Judicial Assessment of Legal Remedies," 94, Northwestern University Law Review, 153 (1999) "The Narrowing of the Entitlement to Criminal Jury Trial," 1997, Wisconsin Law Review, 33 "Context and the Allocation of Decisionmaking: Reflections on United States v. Gaudin," 82, Virginia Law Review, 961 (1996) "Determining Compensation: The Tension between Legislative Power and Jury Authority," 74, Texas Law Review, 345 (1995) "Integrating the Constitutional Authority of Civil and Criminal Juries," 61, George Washington Law Review, 723 (1993)
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Joining the RWU Law faculty in 2001, Professor Emily Sack has become a nationally recognized expert on domestic violence and reform of the court system. As the Deputy Director for the Center for Court Innovation, Professor Sack helped develop and implement the first domestic violence courts in New York, as well as the first felony domestic violence court in the United States. U.S. Supreme Court…, The Struggle for the Future of Domestic Violence Policy, in his opinion in the domestic violence case , Castle Rock v. Gonzales, . Active in the community, Professor Sack is a member of the Elder Abuse Working group, assists the National District Attorney’s Association with developing elder abuse training curriculum for prosecutors, and serves as Member of the Board and Chair of EMERGE, a batterers’ intervention and parenting skills programs for men who abuse intimate partners. Prior to joining RWU, Professor Sack worked…, Books, “Varieties of Public Policy Toward Domestic Violence,” in, The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over The Life Course, (Oxford Univ. Press 2023), Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice, , 3rd ed., , (Eagan, MN: Foundation Press, 2012) (with Elizabeth Schneider, Cheryl Hanna & Judith G. Greenberg). “The Crime of Domestic Violence,” in, Criminal Law Conversations, , edited by Paul Robinson, Stephen Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009)., Articles, ", Illegal Stops and the Exclusionary Rule: The Consequences of Utah v. Strieff," 22, Roger Williams University Law Review, 263 (2017) "United States v. Castleman: The Meaning of Domestic Violence,, ", 20, Roger Williams University Law Review, 128 (2015), ", Is Domestic Violence a Crime?: Intimate Partner Rape as Allegory," 24, St. John’s Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, 535 (2010), ", Judicial Selection in Rhode Island: Assessing the Experience with Merit Selection, Response,, ", 15, Roger Williams University Law Review, 793 (2010) "From the Right of Chastisement to the Criminalization of Domestic Violence: A Study in Resistance to Effective Policy Reform," 32, Thomas Jefferson Law Review, 31 (2009), ", The Burial of Family Law," 61, Southern Methodist University Law Review, 459 (2008), ", The Domestic Relations Exception, Domestic Violence, and Equal Access to Federal Courts," 84, Washington University Law Review, 1441 (2006), ", Civil Unions and the Meaning of the Public Policy Exception at the Boundaries of Domestic Relations Law," 3, Ave Maria Law Review, 497 (2005), ", The Retreat from DOMA: The Public Policy of Same-Sex Marriage and a Theory of Congressional Power Under the Full Faith and Credit Clause," 38, Creighton Law Review, 507 (2005), ", Battered Women and the State: The Struggle for the Future of Domestic Violence Policy," 2004, Wisconsin Law Review, 1657 "Domestic Violence Across State Lines: The Full Faith and Credit Clause, Congressional Power, and Interstate Enforcement of Protection Orders," 98, Northwestern University Law Review, 827 (2004)
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