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Faculty

International corporate experience and work on national business law reform characterize our business law faculty.

Members of our faculty have:

  • Twenty-five years of practice experience in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Brussels - and have negotiated deals throughout Europe and Asia.
  • Spent 4 years consulting on pre- and post-merger issues in Boston
  • Been listed among the top 20 U.S. banking lawyers (National Law Journal)
  • Been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court as the authority in U.S. v O'Hagan, the major 1990s insider trading case

Commercial and real estate

Steven W. Bender
James and Ilene Hershner Professor
Business associations
Commercial law survey
Consumer law
Land use law
Portland in-house counsel externship
Real estate transactional practice lab
Secured land transactions
Andrea Coles Bjerre
Assistant professor
Bankruptcy
Business bankruptcy
Federal judicial internship/Bankruptcy
Office of the United States Trustee Permanent Externship Program
Carl S. Bjerre
Professor
Advanced commercial law
Commercial law
Contracts
Transactions in securities
Ibrahim J. Gassama
Professor
International business transactions
International trade and investment regulation
William Kabeiseman
Garvey Schubert Barer (Portland)
Land use law
Ralph James Mooney
Wallace and Ellen Kaapcke Professor
Advanced contracts seminar
Contracts

Corporate and securities

Barbara Bader Aldave
Director, Center for Law and Entrepreneurship
Loran L. Stewart professor of business law
Accounting for lawyers
Business associations
Securities regulation
Chris Cardani
Assistant U.S. attorney
White collar crime
Robert C. Illig
Assistant professor
Advanced business law
Business associations
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers & acquisitions transactional practice lab
Private equity and venture capital
Jennifer Martin
Visiting faculty
Business associations
Contracts
Tim Nord
Senior Assistant Attorney General, DOJ
Antitrust
Ted McAniff
O'Melveny & Myers (Los Angeles)
Ethical issues and corporations
The language of corporate finance
U.S. regulation of financial institutions
Roger Saydack
Arnold, Gallagher, Saydack, Percell, Roberts & Potter
Business planning

Deal making skills

Jill Fetherstonhaugh
Director, Small Business Clinic
Small Business Clinic
Jamie Moffitt
Associate Dean for Finance and Operations
Negotiation
Accounting for lawyers
Michael Moffitt
Associate professor
Associate Director, Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program
Negotiation
Katherine Moyer
Supervising attorney, Small Business Clinic
Small Business Clinic

Green Business Courses

Howard Cummins
Administrative law judge (Washington D.C.)
Federal energy policy and the congress
Jason Eisdorfer
Bonneville Power Administration (Portland)
Climate change law and policy
Jennifer Gleason
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Energy and the law
William Holmes
Stoel Rives LLP (Portland)
Renewable energy
Caroline MacLaren
Black Helterline LLP (Portland)
Green building and construction law

Intellectual property

Justin Beck
Beck, Ross, Bismonte & Finley (San Jose, CA)
Patent litigation
John M. McCormack
Kolisch Hartwell Dickinson,
McCormack & Heuser
Licensing of intellectual property & other information assets
Patent law and policy
Eric Priest
Assistant Professor
Property
Trademark law
Elizabeth Tedesco
Kolisch Hartwell PC
Patent law
Michael M. Ratoza
Bullivant Houser Bailey (Portland)
Copyrights
Ryan Vacca
Visiting Professor
(St. Louis, MO)
Intellectual property survey
Trademark law

Labor and employment

Credence Sol
University of Oregon School of Law
Director of Communications
Employment discrimination
Michael J. Tedesco
Attorney at law (Salem)
Arbitration
Labor law

Tax

Susan Gary
Professor
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Nonprofit organizations
Roberta Mann
Widener Law (Delaware Campus)
Federal income tax I
Federal income tax II
Property
Tax policy seminar
Valerie H. Sasaki
KPMG LLP (Portland)
State and local tax
Nancy Shurtz
Professor
Federal income tax I
Federal income tax II
Sustainable tax and business practices
Tax planning and drafting
Tax policy
Professor Ibrahim Gassama has assessed the effects of global trade on Caribbean nations and trained and recruited election observers in Haiti and South Africa. He teaches international business transactions and international law.