Carliss Chatman

Carliss Chatman teaches an array of business law, commercial law, and ethics classes including: Contracts and Sales and Leases; Agency and Unincorporated Entities, Corporations, Business Associations, and Securities Regulation; Professional Responsibility; and a Transactional Skills Simulation course with a Mergers and Acquisitions focus that incorporates corporate law and UCC Article 9. Her scholarship interests are […]

Gary S. Lawson

Professor Gary Lawson joined the University of Florida Levin College of Law faculty on July 1, 2024, after twenty-four years at Boston University School of Law and eleven years at Northwestern University School of Law. While at Boston University, he was named a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in 2022 – the highest faculty honor […]

Ben Johnson

Professor Ben Johnson is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. His research on federal appellate jurisdiction has been published in The Yale Law Journal (forthcoming), Columbia Law Review, mainline law reviews at Notre Dame, Alabama, and Connecticut and has won national awards from the American Association of […]

Julian Cook

Professor Julian A. Cook III comes to University of Florida Levin College of Law from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was a J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law. Specializing in criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence, Professor Cook served for several years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Nevada and the […]

Jane Bambauer

Professor Jane Bambauer is the Brechner Eminent Scholar at the Levin College of Law and at the College of Journalism and Communications. She teaches Torts, First Amendment, Media Law, Criminal Procedure, and Privacy Law. Professor Bambauer’s research assesses the social costs and benefits of Big Data, AI, and predictive algorithms. Her work analyzes how the […]

Thomas Haley

Thomas Haley teaches and writes about privacy and data protection, copyright, and other areas where law and technology interact. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Florida Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and the Washington Law Review. Before joining the University of Florida, Haley was Research […]

Zachary D. Kaufman

Professor Zachary D. Kaufman, J.D., Ph.D., is an award-winning scholar and practitioner of Criminal Law, International Law, National Security Law, and Transitional Justice. His full biography is available here. Education J.D., Yale Law School D.Phil. (Ph.D.), Oxford University (Marshall Scholar) M.Phil., Oxford University (Marshall Scholar) B.A., Yale University Teaching and Scholarship Criminal Law, International Law, […]

Matthew Kim

Professor Matthew Kim teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, civil procedure, and empirical research. His work has been published in or is forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal, Texas A&M Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, Florida Law Review, Missouri Law Review, and Tennessee Law Review, among others. Prior […]

Elizabeth D. Katz

Professor Elizabeth D. Katz is an award-winning legal historian. Her research explores the development of family law and criminal law doctrines and institutions, with special attention to the influence of gender, religion, and race. Professor Katz’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Yale […]

Derek Bambauer

Derek Bambauer

Derek Bambauer is the Irving Cypen Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches Internet law, cybersecurity, and intellectual property. A National Science Foundation-funded investigator, Professor Bambauer’s research areas include artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, Internet censorship, and intellectual property. A former principal systems engineer at Lotus Development Corp. (part […]