Four accomplished newly-hired professors are joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School in Fall 2008.

Andrew Coan, Shubha Ghosh, Darian Ibrahim, and Brad Snyder bring expertise in wide-ranging substantive fields including intellectual property, business law, constitutional law, sports law, media law, American legal history, and entrepreneurship.

Following is an introduction of the "entering class" of accomplished new faculty members.

Andrew Coan

Andrew Coan, a 2005 graduate of Stanford Law School, received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he graduated first in his class. His honors included induction into Phi Beta Kappa, the Distinguished English Student Award, and the Mark Mensink Prize for top honors thesis.

At Stanford Law School, he was Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review, research assistant to Professor Lawrence Lessig, recipient of the Beinecke Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (one of 20 awarded nationwide), and Order of the Coif.

Coan worked as a summer associate for three law firms: Bingham McCutchen (San Francisco), Baker & McKenzie (San Francisco), and Faegre & Benson (Minneapolis).

Following Law School, Coan clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

From 2006 to 2008 Coan was a James C. Gaither Fellow & Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. His teaching interests include civil procedure, federal courts, constitutional law, jurisprudence, civil rights, contracts, and remedies.

Coan is a prolific op-ed writer whose work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, San Jose Mercury News, Daily Journal, and Legal Times.

In his first semester at the UW Law School (Fall 2008), Coan will teach Constitutional Law I.

Shubha Ghosh

Shubha Ghosh, who most recently was a Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University, earned a B.A. from Amherst College, a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School in 1994.

Ghosh’s teaching interests include intellectual property, business associations, Internet law, copyrights, patents, torts, and property. His published work has appeared in Tulane Law Review, Case Western Law Review, Houston Law Review, Florida Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Antitrust Law Journal, and other publications, both scholarly and practitioner-oriented.

His books include Intellectual Property: Private Rights, the Public Interest, and the Regulation of Creative Activity, Cases and Materials (co-authored with Gruner, Kesan & Reis 2007) and Intellectual Property and Business Organizations: Cases and Materials (co-authored with Gruner and Kesan 2006).

Among Ghosh’s recent articles are "The Fable of the Commons: Exclusivity and the Construction of Intellectual Property Markets" (UC-Davis Law Review 2007) and "The Market As Instrument" (SMU Law Review 2006).

At the UW Law School, Ghosh will teach two courses in Fall 2008: Introduction to Intellectual Property, and Patent Law.

Darian Ibrahim

Darian Ibrahim comes to the UW Law School from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where he was an Associate Professor from 2005 to 2008. His teaching interests include business organizations (corporations), law and entrepreneurship, contracts, and business planning.

Ibrahim is a 1999 graduate of Cornell Law School (magna cum laude), where he was Articles Editor for the Cornell Law Review, Order of the Coif, and a recipient of the Fredric H. Weisberg Prize for Constitutional Law. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University in 1996 (magna cum laude), and was the recipient of a number of honors, including an internship with Dow Chemical Company.

During law school, Ibrahim was a summer associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and after graduation he was an associate in the Corporate and Securities Group at Troutman Sanders LLP in Atlanta for four years. Following this, he was a law clerk on the Supreme Court of Georgia for Chief Justice Norman S. Fletcher from 2003-05.

Ibrahim’s growing number of articles in the field of corporate law include, most recently, "The (Not So) Puzzling Behavior of Angel Investors" (Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper) at http://ssrn.com/abstract=984899) and "Individual or Collective Liability for Corporate Directors?", Iowa Law Review (Vol. 93, 2008).

In Fall 2008 Ibrahim will teach Securities Regulation and the seminar Business Organizations: Law & Entrepreneurship.

Brad Snyder

Brad Snyder is a 1994 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University and a 1999 graduate of Yale Law School, where he was Notes Editor for the Yale Law Review.

After graduating from Duke, Snyder spent two years as a reporter at the Baltimore Sun, where he covered the Baltimore Orioles for a season and a half, as well as Baltimore city crime, and Capitol Hill. While covering the Orioles, Snyder wrote a fourteen-part series on Cal Ripken Jr. during the season Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games streak. That series was part of a Baltimore Sun book, Cal Touches Home.

Snyder also wrote about the business of sport, including labor issues during the 1994 baseball strike.

Snyder has written law review articles on the death penalty, freedom of the press, and Brown v. Board of Education for the Yale Law Journal, Vermont Law Review, and Rutgers Law Review. After graduating from Yale, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. For nearly three years, he worked as an associate at Williams and Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.

In 2003, Snyder published his first book, Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball, which recounts the story of the Homestead Grays, one of the greatest teams in the history of the Negro Leagues. From 1940 to 1950, the Grays played their home games at Griffith Stadium when the Washington Senators, one of the worst teams in the major leagues, were out of town. The contrast between the two teams made Washington, D.C. the focal point of the black press's campaign to integrate major league baseball.

The New York Times Book Review wrote that Snyder "gives a rich panorama of Washington as it evolved from a Southern provincial town to a large city with a black majority … Snyder's book is not just the history of a team but the tale of one city in all its social complexity."

In 2004, Snyder returned to writing full-time. His most recent book is A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports (Viking 2006), which tells the story behind the Supreme Court’s Flood v. Kuhn decision about baseball’s antitrust exemption. A Well-Paid Slave has received rave reviews from the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; The Washington Post Book World named A Well-Paid Slave one of the best nonfiction books of 2006.

Snyder’s teaching interests include civil procedure, torts, constitutional law, media law, American legal history, antitrust, intellectual property, federal courts, sports law, and professional responsibility.

In Fall 2008, Snyder will teach Civil Procedure I.

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