Susan Smith brings a wealth of practical experience to teaching, as she has spent more than 20 years litigating environmental and natural resources issues. She focuses her scholarly research on the role of law in achieving sustainability and on environmental criminal enforcement. She first worked as an associate with Holland and Hart as an environmental and natural resources litigator, and then became a senior trial attorney and assistant with the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she received several awards for distinguished service. Since joining the Willamette faculty in 1989, Smith has served as pro bono counsel for various environmental and community groups.

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Steven Green is a widely sought speaker at national conferences and a prolific scholar whose writings have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as lower courts. He frequently serves as a free speech, freedom of religion and Supreme Court expert for national news organizations, including The New York Times and National Public Radio, and he has been a community writer for the Opinion section of The Oregonian (read his columns here). Prior to joining the Willamette faculty, he served for nine years as general counsel and director of policy for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a national public interest organization in Washington, D.C., that concentrates on First Amendment issues. He has extensive litigation and appellate experience in First Amendment law involving issues such as school prayer, public funding of religious institutions, public religious displays, religious discrimination, religious free exercise and freedom of speech.

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Professor Appleman’s scholarship examines the fundamental values and structure of criminal law, sentencing and the legal profession. She earned her law degree from Yale University and served as law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following a year in private law practice, she worked for five years as a criminal appellate public defender at the Center for Appellate Litigation, where she briefed and argued approximately 50 appeals in the New York appellate courts. She also served on the Criminal Advocacy Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York and worked with the Brennan Center for Justice on issues of indigent defense and criminal procedure. Appleman joined the Willamette faculty in 2006. She teaches Criminal Law and Procedure, Sentencing, Legal History, and Law and Race.

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Professor Davidson’s research interests focus on international criminal and human rights law. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Davidson served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She went on to work as a litigation associate at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2008, she prosecuted war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and defended clients in federal court on criminal and habeas corpus matters as an assistant federal public defender in Portland, Ore. She joined the Willamette law faculty in the fall of 2008. She is fluent in Spanish and French; proficient in Portuguese, Italian and German; and has a working knowledge of Bosnian.

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Professor Appleman’s scholarship examines the fundamental values and structure of criminal law, sentencing and the legal profession. She earned her law degree from Yale University and served as law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following a year in private law practice, she worked for five years as a criminal appellate public defender at the Center for Appellate Litigation, where she briefed and argued approximately 50 appeals in the New York appellate courts. She also served on the Criminal Advocacy Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York and worked with the Brennan Center for Justice on issues of indigent defense and criminal procedure. Appleman joined the Willamette faculty in 2006. She teaches Criminal Law and Procedure, Sentencing, Legal History, and Law and Race.

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A widely sought speaker and panelist, Robin Morris Collin was the first law professor to teach sustainability at an American law school. Morris Collin came to Willamette in 2003 after a distinguished 10-year career as a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Oregon School of Law. She began her teaching career in 1984 at Tulane Law School and has taught at Pepperdine University School of Law, McGeorge Law School at the University of the Pacific, and Washington and Lee Law School. She also practiced administrative law at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., criminal law as an assistant county attorney in Maricopa County, Ariz., and private plaintiffs’ antitrust law at Reed, Goldstein and Jenkins-Reed in Phoenix.

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Professor Davidson’s research interests focus on international criminal and human rights law. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Davidson served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She went on to work as a litigation associate at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2008, she prosecuted war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and defended clients in federal court on criminal and habeas corpus matters as an assistant federal public defender in Portland, Ore. She joined the Willamette law faculty in the fall of 2008. She is fluent in Spanish and French; proficient in Portuguese, Italian and German; and has a working knowledge of Bosnian.

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Jeffrey Standen specializes in domestic sports law. He also teaches criminal procedure, corporate and white collar crime, remedies, evidence, and economic analysis of law. His scholarship extends economic analysis into the field of criminal and civil remedies. He joined Willamette’s faculty in 1990, having previously served as deputy general counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, as a federal judicial clerk and as litigator with the firm of Hunton & Williams. Standen has served as a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and has been a scholar in residence at the University of Virginia.

After graduating with dual degrees from Duke University, where he served as articles editor of the Duke Law Journal, Professor Dobbins clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He then served as law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. Dobbins worked for four years in the Commercial Litigation Group of Perkins Coie LLP in Portland, Ore., and for six years in the Appellate Section of the Environment Division at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Throughout his career, he has briefed and argued more than 50 cases in federal and state appellate courts. Dobbins joined the Willamette law faculty in 2006. He teaches Federal Courts, Administrative Law and Appellate Procedure.

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A jury trials expert, Professor Tornquist has written numerous books and articles on evidence, negotiation, trial practice, civil procedure and dispute resolution. He teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Negotiation and Trial Advocacy. He occasionally serves as a pro tem Oregon Circuit Court judge and as an arbitrator for the Employment Relations Board. Prior to joining Willamette, he practiced law with the firm of King, Robin, Gale and Pillinger in Chicago. Tornquist served as dean of Willamette University College of Law from 1978–1987.

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Professor Appleman’s scholarship examines the fundamental values and structure of criminal law, sentencing and the legal profession. She earned her law degree from Yale University and served as law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following a year in private law practice, she worked for five years as a criminal appellate public defender at the Center for Appellate Litigation, where she briefed and argued approximately 50 appeals in the New York appellate courts. She also served on the Criminal Advocacy Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York and worked with the Brennan Center for Justice on issues of indigent defense and criminal procedure. Appleman joined the Willamette faculty in 2006. She teaches Criminal Law and Procedure, Sentencing, Legal History, and Law and Race.

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