Faculty
Visiting
Jessica Feinberg
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Jessica Feinberg joins the College
of Law as a visiting assistant clinical
professor for academic year 2009–
2010. Prior to joining DePaul,
Professor Feinberg was law clerk to
the Hon. Michael R. Murphy, U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
Her most recent publications include
“The Clash between Safety and
Freedom of Association in the Regulation of Prom Dates,”
Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy, and “Friends as
Co-Parents,” University of San Francisco Law Review. She
is currently working on an article titled “The Plus One Policy:
An Autonomous Model of Family Reunification.” Professor
Feinberg earned her BA, magna cum laude, from Boston
University and received her JD, summa cum laude and
Order of the Coif, from Washington University, where she
served as articles editor of the Washington University Law
Review. While at Washington University, Professor Feinberg
taught an undergraduate course exploring the law’s treatment
of women, and prior to attending Washington
University, she served as a fellow in the organizing and training
department of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Shelby Keisman Prusak
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Shelby Keisman Prusak joins the
College of Law this fall as a visiting
clinical professor with the Misdemeanor
Legal Clinic. After graduating from
law school, she served as an assistant
public defender in the Lake County
Office of the Public Defender, where
she handled a variety of criminal
cases including traffic cases, misdemeanors, felonies and
homicides. She later joined the Cook County Public
Defender’s Office, where she worked
in the felony courtroom representing individuals involved in
serious criminal matters. While there, she accepted a position
with the Homicide Task Force and represented individuals
accused of homicide, including those facing the death
penalty. Professor Prusak has worked with both the Cook
County Public Defender’s Office and the Office of the State
Appellate Defender to train young lawyers in all aspects
of trial preparation, and she taught trial advocacy as an
adjunct faculty member at DePaul. Since leaving the Public
Defender’s Office, she has been a partner at Prusak Law
Group, a firm devoted to private representation of those
charged in criminal matters. Professor Prusak earned her
BA from Syracuse University and her JD from Chicago-Kent
College of Law.
Nanette R. Elster
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Nanette Elster continues at DePaul as a visiting professor of
law and director of the Health Law Institute. She teaches
Bioethics, Biotechnology & the Law; Genetics & the Law;
Public Health Law; and Assisted Reproduction & the Law,
among other topics, and is vice president of Spence &
Elster PC,
a Chicago-area law firm focusing on fertility law. Professor
Elster also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and
is an affiliated scholar at the Institute for Biotechnology and
the Human Future. She holds a BA from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a JD from Loyola University
Chicago, and an MPH from Boston University. Professor
Elster currently serves on the board of directors of the
Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders, as a member
of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Embryo Stem
Cell Research Oversight Committee, and as a member of the
American Bar Association Coordinating Group on Bioethics
and the Law. She has extensive experience in legal, public
health and ethical issues related to women’s and children’s
health, particularly in the areas of assisted reproduction and
genetics. Professor Elster also served on the faculty of the
Institute for Health, Law and Policy at the UIC School of
Medicine and Chicago-Kent College of Law. She speaks
nationally and internationally and is the author of numerous
articles on genetic and reproductive health with a particular
focus on the legal and ethical implications. Professor Elster
is currently co-authoring ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN FERTILITY
COUNSELING, which will be published by the American
Psychological Association in 2010.
Jody Raphael
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Jody Raphael joins the faculty as a
visiting professor for 2009–2010 after
five years as senior research fellow
at the DePaul Schiller DuCanto &
Fleck Family Law Center. A nationally
known expert on violence against
women, she undertakes research
and advocacy in the areas of family violence, sexual assault
and prostitution. She is the author of over 20 journal articles,
numerous research reports, and a trilogy on poverty and
violence published by Northeastern University Press:
SAVING BERNICE: BATTERED WOMEN, WELFARE, AND POVERTY
(2000); LISTENING TO OLIVIA: VIOLENCE, POVERTY, AND
PROSTITUTION (2004); and FREEING TAMMY: WOMEN, DRUGS,
AND INCARCERATION (2007). At the Family Law Center, she
has been engaged in a project monitoring the effectiveness
of the Cook County criminal justice system’s response to
family violence, and she is currently undertaking a study
of the Chicago Police Department’s response to the crime
of stalking. Her research with prostituted girls controlled
by pimps, and interviews with ex-pimps in Chicago, have
influenced new legal responses to women and girls in
prostitution in the Chicago metropolitan area. She is a
magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College and
received her JD from the University of Chicago.
Joshua D. Sarnoff
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In spring 2010, Joshua D. Sarnoff
will join DePaul as a visiting professor
of law, teaching patent law. He is a
professor at Washington College of
Law at American University, where he
teaches patent law and supervises
students in the Glushko-Samuelson
Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Professor Sarnoff is a
registered patent attorney, a member of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, and
a member of the advisory boards of various nonprofit
organizations. He has written articles and book chapters
on patent law and has been involved in a wide range of
intellectual property legal and policy disputes. Most recently,
Professor Sarnoff authored “Lessons from the United
States in Regard to the Recent, More Flexible Application
of Injunctive Relief,” which appeared in INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY ENFORCEMENT: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
(Edward Elgar Press 2009), and he co-authored “Recent
Developments Affecting the Enforcement, Procurement, and
Licensing of Research Tool Patents,” 23 BERKELEY TECH.
L.J. 1299 (2008). Professor Sarnoff has submitted testimony
on domestic patent law reform bills, has filed numerous
amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and in the
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on important patent
law issues, has been a pro bono mediator for the Federal
Circuit, and has been a consultant to the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development on international
intellectual property, trade and environmental issues. His
areas of specialization include domestic and international
patent and other intellectual property laws, clinical legal
education, and environmental law and federalism. Professor
Sarnoff received his JD from Stanford Law School and his
BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
John Decker
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Before assuming emeritus status in 2007, John Decker was the founder
and longtime director of the College of Law's highly successful Field
Placement Program. Decker also was instrumental in the development of
DePaul’s criminal law curriculum, leading to the creation of the Criminal
Law Program, which he also directed. Decker has worked extensively as a
faculty member at continuing legal education conferences for Illinois judges, prosecutors
and defense attorneys, and his numerous publications include treatises and books, such
as ILLINOIS CRIMINAL LAW (4th ed., LexisNexis 2006), and law review articles focusing on a
variety of criminal law and procedure issues. Upon his retirement, he was awarded the Via
Sapientiae award, the highest academic award bestowed upon a member of the DePaul
community. Decker currently serves as a special advisor to the Criminal Law Edit, Alignment
and Reform (CLEAR) Initiative, which seeks to create a politically viable process to review
and reform the entire Illinois Criminal Code. Decker earned his JD from Creighton University
and his LL.M. and JSD from New York University. He returns to DePaul in 2008-2009, to
teach a variety of criminal law courses.
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
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Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor of
Intellectual Property and Information
Technology Law at the University of
Oxford, was named a Distinguished
Senior Scholar of the College of
Law’s Center for Intellectual Property
Law & Information Technology. His
initial visit to DePaul will be during spring 2010, when he
will teach the seminar “Advanced Topics in Trademark Law:
Domestic & International.” Professor Dinwoodie was elected
the Oxford Chair in Intellectual Property Law in 2009 and is
also a Professorial Fellow of St. Peter’s College and director
of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. He is
co-author of authoritative casebooks in the areas of international
intellectual property law and policy, and trademarks
and unfair competition law. His articles on various aspects
of intellectual property law have appeared in leading law
reviews. Professor Dinwoodie has served as a consultant to
the World Intellectual Property Organization on matters of
private international law, to the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development on traditional knowledge questions,
and as an advisor to the American Law Institute Project on
Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments in Intellectual
Property Matters. He holds a first-class honors LL.B. in
private law from the University of Glasgow, an LL.M. from
Harvard and a JSD from Columbia.
