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
Andrea Coles Bjerre
Associate professor
Bankruptcy
Business bankruptcy
Federal judicial internship/Bankruptcy
Office of the United States Trustee Permanent Externship Program
Carl S. Bjerre
Wallace & Ellen Kaapcke Professor
Advanced commercial law
Commercial law
Contracts
Transactions in securities
Michael Fakhri
Assistant professor
International business transactions
International trade and investment law
Ibrahim J. Gassama
James O. & Alfred T. Goodwin Senior Faculty Fellow
Professor
International business transactions
International trade and investment regulation
Christopher Hermann
Stoel Rives LLP (Portland)
Seminar on the law of wine
William Kabeiseman
Garvey Schubert Barer (Portland)
Land use law
Ralph James Mooney
Professor Emeritus
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
Associate professor
Advanced business law
Business associations
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers & acquisitions transactional practice lab
Private equity and venture capital
Mohsen Manesh
Assistant professor
Advanced business law
Business associations
Contracts
Roger Saydack
PeaceHealth
Business planning
Deal making skills
Katherine Moyer
Director, Small Business Clinic
Small Business Clinic
Jennifer Reynolds
Assistant professor
Associate Director, Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program Negotiation
Mindy Wittkop
Supervising Attorney, Small Business Clinic Small Business Clinic
Green business
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
Richard Hildreth
Bernard B. Kliks Professor
Climate law and policy
William Holmes
Stoel Rives LLP (Portland)
Renewable energy
Intellectual property
Eric Priest
Assistant Professor
Copyrights
Property
Trademark law
Elizabeth Tedesco Milesnick
Kolisch Hartwell PC
Patent law
Labor and employment
Michael J. Tedesco
Attorney at law (Salem)
Arbitration
Labor law
Tax
Susan Gary
Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor
Nonprofit organizations
Roberta Mann
Frank Nash Professor
Federal income tax I
Federal income tax II
Property
Tax policy seminar
Jonathan Mishkin
Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C. (Portland)
Tax practice and procedure
Nancy Shurtz
B.A. Kliks Professor
Federal income tax I
Federal income tax II
Sustainable tax and business practices
Tax planning and drafting
Tax policy
