Nicholas Almendares received his J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 2009 and his Ph.D. from NYU’s Department of Politics in 2014. Prior to coming to Tulane he clerked for the Honorable Janis Graham Jack in the Southern District of Texas.
Odette Lienau’s research and teaching interests include international economic law, international law and international relations, bankruptcy and debtor-creditor relations, and political and legal theory. Her scholarship seeks to understand the broader norms and principles that underpin international market rules and that impact expectations about appropriate behavior for businesses, governments, and other actors.
Professor Jodi Short graduated from Duke University, BA cum laude (1992); Georgetown Law, JD magna cum laude (1995); and UC Berkeley, PhD in Sociology (2008). Before coming to Hastings, she taught at Georgetown Law and was a Senior Policy Scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, at the McDonough School of Business. Her research and teaching interests are in the regulation of business, in particular, the intersection of public and private regulatory regimes and the theory and practice of regulatory reform.
Tom C.W. Lin is an Associate Professor of Law at Temple Law School. He was on the faculty of the University of Florida Levin College of Law before joining Temple Law School. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of corporations, securities regulation, privacy, and behavioral law and economics. His current research focuses on financial regulation, emerging financial technologies, and executive governance of public corporations. His scholarship has been published and cited by many leading law journals.
Professor Pamela Foohey’s research centers on bankruptcy, commercial law, and consumer law, with a current emphasis on how non-profit entities use and are affected by bankruptcy. Her most recent project is an empirical study of the reorganization of churches and other religious institutions under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Her work spanning individual and business bankruptcy, consumer law, and family law has appeared in leading law and peer-reviewed journals.
Adam Feibelman’s teaching and research focus on bankruptcy law, regulation of financial institutions, legal issues related to sovereign debt and international monetary law.
Tanya Marsh teaches Property, Real Estate Transactions, a Seminar on Law, Business, and the Economy, Funeral and Cemetery Law, and Professional Development. Her scholarship addresses commercial real estate, the regulation of community banks, and the laws regarding the status, treatment, and disposition of human remains.
Professor Kwoka is a graduate of Brown University and Northeastern University School of Law and a former education volunteer with Peace Corps in Burkina Faso. She clerked for Chief Justice Phillip Rapoza, Massachusetts Appeals Court, and Judge Michael Murphy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Denver, Professor Kwoka was an Assistant Professor at John Marshall Law School in Chicago and a Lecturer at George Washington University School of Law.
Shu-Yi Oei teaches and writes in the areas of tax law and policy, bankruptcy law and commercial law. She has taught at Tulane since 2009 and is the inaugural holder of the Hoffman F. Fuller Professorship in Tax Law in 2014. Oei also received the 2014 Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching award, the law school’s highest teaching honor.
A graduate of Yale University, completing dual programs in History and Religious Studies (1999), with her J.D. from Duke University School of Law (2002), her LL.M. from Yale Law School (2008), and J.S.D. from Yale Law School (2011), Dr. Fraley is a legal historian who focuses her research on property and environmental issues. She practiced law for more than six years, working primarily in toxic torts and premises liability.
