The University of Wisconsin Law School will welcome two new accomplished scholars to its faculty when the doors open for classes in September 2006: Stephanie Tai and Lisa Alexander.
UW Law School Dean Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., comments, “I am delighted that these two outstanding young scholars have chosen to teach at Wisconsin. Professors Tai and Alexander come to us with superlative recommendations and impressive expertise in cutting-edge areas of law. They will make tremendous contributions to our students and our community in general.”
Assistant Professor Lisa T. Alexander focuses her scholarly interests on the study of transactional legal strategies to foster equitable urban community development that minimizes displacement, mitigates poverty and promotes racial and social justice. She will teach Contracts I, Business Organizations I, and Community Economic Development Law.
Prior to joining the faculty, Alexander practiced in the Chicago Office of Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., where she focused on community economic development, non-profit organizations, affordable and fair housing, and residential and commercial real estate. She was also awarded a competitive Equal Justice Works Fellowship (formerly NAPIL), and with it worked as a staff attorney at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. (2002-2004).
A native New Yorker, Alexander received her B.A. with Honors from Wesleyan University in 1994 and her J.D. from Columbia University Law School in 2002. At Columbia, she served as a Teaching Assistant in Constitutional Law, Co-Chair of the Civil Rights Law Society, Articles Editor for the National Black Law Journal, and a staff member of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. She was identified as an “Emerging Leader” by the National Congress for Community and Economic Development (NCCED) and received an Earl Warren Civil Rights Scholarship from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Through Spring 2007, she is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, a publication of the American Bar Association (ABA).
Assistant Professor Stephanie Tai received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Tufts University and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She was raised in the South by two chemists, and decided to combine her chemistry background with a legal education to improve the use of science in environmental protection. At Georgetown, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and was a member of the Georgetown Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Team.
After graduating from Georgetown, Tai served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then worked as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she briefed and argued cases involving a range of issues, from the protection of endangered cave species in Texas to the issuance of dredge and fill permits under the Clean Water Act.
Tai has written on the consideration of scientific studies and environmental justice concerns by administrative agencies, and is currently studying the role of scientific dialogues before the judicial system. She was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown from 2002-2005 and a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law during the 2005-06 academic year. Her teaching interests include administrative law, environmental law, property, environmental justice, risk regulation, and comparative Asian environmental law.
Submitted by on September 13, 2006
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