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New Faculty Hires

Craig Boise

Craig Boise is currently professor and associate director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at Case Western Reserve University Law School. Boise completed his undergraduate work at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and later earned a JD from the University of Chicago and an LL.M. from New York University. Prior to joining Case, Boise practiced for several years at law firms, including Cleary Gottlieb and Akin Gump, in New York. Before entering private practice, Boise clerked for the Hon. Pasco M. Bowman II, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Boise’s research focuses on the U.S. taxation of domestic and international corporate transactions, and the relationship between incentives created by tax rules and corporate compliance with those rules. His recent articles include, "Playing with Monopoly Money: Phony Profits, Fraud Penalties and Equity," University of Minnesota Law Review, and "Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks: Deferral and the Utility of Amnesty," George Mason Law Review. Boise was a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law in the fall of 2006, and has presented papers at Northwestern University School of Law, the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney School of Law and DePaul University College of Law, among others. He also has been a frequent speaker before organizations including the American Bar Association Tax Section, the Association of American Law Schools Tax Section, the Cleveland Tax Institute and the Tax Executives Institute.

Zoë Robinson

Zoë Robinson currently is a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Diane P. Wood, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Robinson holds a Bachelor of Music from the Queensland Conservatorium; a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University; a Bachelor of Laws with first class honors from the Australian National University, where she was awarded the University Medal in Law; and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors and Order of the Coif. Robinson previously clerked for the Honorable M.A. Stone, Federal Court of Australia, and was a researcher and adjunct lecturer at the Australian National University. Robinson's research focuses on constitutional law, the intersection of law and religion, and questions of institutional design. She also is a co-editor of LAW AND RELIGION IN THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT (Cambridge University Press 2008).

Terry Smith

Terry Smith is a professor of law at Fordham University, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Employment Law, Labor Law and Public Sector Labor Law, and Voting Rights. Smith received his undergraduate degree from Brown University, magna cum laude, and later his law degree from New York University School of Law. While a law student, he was a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow, recipient of the Leonard M. Henkin Prize, and articles editor of the Annual Survey of American Law. After law school, Smith clerked for Hon. Nathaniel R. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th District, and was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis. A well known labor and critical race scholar, his most recent publications include, "Speaking against Norms: Public Discourse and the Economy of Racialization in the Workplace," American University Law Review; "White Dollars, Black Candidates: Inequality ad Agency in Campaign Finance Law," South Carolina Law Review; and "Equal Favoritism under the Law and Intelligent Design in Redistricting," Fordham Law Review.

Deborah Tuerkheimer

Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor of law at the University of Maine, where she teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence and a seminar on domestic violence. Tuerkheimer focuses her scholarship on the intersection of criminal law and the lives of women and children. Her recent articles include "Recognizing and Remedying the Harm of Battering: A Call to Criminalize Domestic Violence," Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology; "Conceptualizing Violence against Pregnant Women," Indiana Law Journal; and "Crawford's Triangle: Domestic Violence and the Right of Confrontation," North Carolina Law Review. Tuerkheimer also has publications forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review, Journal of Law & Policy, Texas Law Review (online edition), and Arizona Law Review. Tuerkheimer received her undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Harvard College and her law degree from the Yale Law School, where she served as co-chair of the Yale Law Women and lead editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. Upon graduation from law school, she clerked for Justice Jay Rabinowitz, Alaska Supreme Court. Prior to entering academia, Tuerkheimer practiced law as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in domestic violence prosecution. In addition to handling and supervising domestic violence cases, she prosecuted child abuse, sex crimes and Internet crimes, and she conducted trainings for prosecutors, law enforcement officers, medical personnel and child protective workers.