Experts
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Want to find an expert? Scroll through our alphabetized list below.
Can't find what you're looking for? Contact the media relations staff one of the following ways:
• mediarelations@udayton.edu
• Cara Zinski-Neace, executive director of news and communications, at 937-229-3257 or czinskineace1@udayton.edu.
• Shawn Robinson, associate director of news and communications, at 937-229-3391 or srobinson1@udayton.edu
• Meagan Pant, associate director of news and communications, at 937-229-3256 or mpant1@udayton.edu.
For University of Dayton Research Institute experts, contact Pamela Gregg at 937-229-3268 or pgregg1@udayton.edu.
Areas of expertise: disability and employment discrimination, statutory interpretation and civil procedure. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: immigration and human rights law, including representation of detained immigrants, immigrant children, immigrant survivors of violent crime and human trafficking victims. She also oversees the School of Law's Immigration Law Clinic. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: criminal procedure, the death penalty, civil liberties and criminal law. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: laws regarding roadside memorials, Internet use (especially social media), white separatism and supremacy, social movements, and corporate and white-collar crime. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: Leske's areas of expertise are environmental law (including air and water pollution, the Clean Air Act, climate change and land use), civil procedure, administrative law, constitutional law, U.S. Supreme Court practice,and appellate advocacy. Before academia, Leske served as an assistant attorney general of Vermont, where he focused primarily on national air pollution and global warming cases. His work also included arguing Vermont Supreme Court appeals in land-use cases and environmental enforcement actions. He also served as a U.S. Supreme Court fFellow for the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C., where he helped prepare state attorneys for upcoming oral arguments, edited Supreme Court briefs and prepared an Amicus Brief in a pending case. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.
View ProfileArea's of expertise: Constitutional law and comparative law with a focus on the intersection between constitutional law, democracy, and private law, be it torts, contracts, property, or the law of remedies. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: legal issues in education. Russo has been an author or co-author of more than 325 articles in peer-reviewed journals; an author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 73 books; and has more than 1,100 publications focusing on issues in education law. He is widely sought as a guest speaker on related topics and has delivered talks in 29 countries on six continents. He also edits two journals and serves on more than a dozen editorial boards. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: issues of state power within our federal system; the extraterritoriality principle, which prohibits states from regulation conduct beyond their borders; constitutional limitations on a state's choice of law and personal jurisdiction; criminal and civil procedure, and contracts. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: community lawyering, federal Indian law and tribal court jurisprudence, civil procedure and federal jurisdiction. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: death penalty, grand juries and criminal law. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.
View ProfileAreas of expertise: government contracting, technology transfer and commercialization of federal technologies; U.S. Department of Defense technology transfer, commercialization and intellectual property processes; and government ethics including gifts from non-federal entities and conflicts of interest. She oversees the University of Dayton School of Law's government contracting and procurement master's degree and certificate program.
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