Business and Transactional Law Faculty

Faculty members of the Business and Transactional Law Center bring diverse and sophisticated backgrounds to the Center. The combined experience of the faculty make the educational experience of Center students rich, rigorous, and rewarding. Students learn from former government attorneys, big-firm practitioners, investment bankers, in-house counsel, and non-profit executives. The faculty includes MBAs, a CPA, active members of state and national bar associations, leading scholars, and graduates of the country's top educational institutions, all of whom are well-respected teachers.

Photograph: Amy Westbrook.Amy Deen Westbrook
Director, Business and Transactional Law Center & Kurt M. Sager Memorial Distinguished Professor of International and Commercial Law

Professor Westbrook's teaching and research focus on international, financial and transactional subjects. Her current work focuses on whether U.S. securities laws require disclosure of companies' operations in countries that sponsor terrorism. She also continues her long-standing work on legal education for transactional practice. In her previous position at the University of Buffalo Law School, Professor Westbrook was the Director of the University of Buffalo New York City Program in International Finance and Law.

Photograph: Patricia Judd.Clarissa Harvey
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

 

Photograph: Patricia Judd.Patricia L. Judd
Professor of Law

Professor Judd is an experienced international trade attorney with a master of laws in intellectual property law. She has advised U.S. and foreign governments regarding intellectual property protection and international trade policy, and has directed copyright enforcement initiatives worldwide. Professor Judd previously served as executive director of international copyright enforcement and trade policy for the Association of American Publishers in Washington, D.C. and was a trademark attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and an international consultant to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Sydney, Australia.

Photograph: Lori McMillan.Lori A. McMillan
Professor of Law

Professor McMillan received a Master of Laws in International Taxation from New York University School of Law, and she is expected to receive a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto in 2007. Professor McMillan was a visiting professor at Queen's University at Kingston Law School, International Study Centre, where she taught substantive tax law courses. Before that she was an instructor in the Legal Research and Writing Program at Osgoode Hall Law School. She also worked as a legal consultant for five years and was an associate lawyer with the Taxation Group of Fasken Campbell Godfrey/Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, Toronto.

Photograph: Mary Ramirez.Mary Kreiner Ramirez
Professor of Law

Professor Ramirez served as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division for seven years prosecuting Sherman Act, mail and wire fraud and conspiracy. She also assisted the Department of Justice in appellate work before moving on to the United States' Attorney's Office in Kansas. In the U.S. Attorney's Office she handled a wide range of civil matters on behalf of the United States, its agencies and employees and engaged in appellate advocacy before the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.