Colorado Law Welcomes New Faculty and Visiting Professors

Colorado Law School welcomes five new faculty members and three returning visiting professors this fall. Three of the new resident faculty specialize in international law and will head up the new, comprehensive international law curriculum this fall. Colorado Law also welcomes a new clinical professor and professor of American Indian Law.

New  Full-Time Faculty

• Kristen Carpenter has comes to our law school as a seasoned professor, having taught law for six years before joining Colorado Law. She earned her JD at Harvard Law School before going on to practice at Hill & Barlow, PC, in Boston. Her areas of expertise are property law and American Indian law.
• Violeta Chapin is joining Colorado Law as an Associate Clinical Professor teaching the Criminal Defense Clinic. Since 2002, Professor Chapin was a trial attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. She received her JD from New York University School of Law.
• Justin Desautels-Stein will be teaching public international law and legal theory. He comes to Colorado from Washington, DC where he practiced for three years in the Antitrust and Competition Group at Latham & Watkins. He received his JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law and his LLM from Harvard Law School.
• Alexia Brunet Marks will be teaching Torts, national security, and international business and trade courses. She taught law at Northwestern University School of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor and was Special Counsel to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She received her JD from Northwestern University School of Law.
• Anna Spain will be teaching public international law, international dispute settlement, human rights and mediation. She previously taught at UCLA Law School and served as the Deputy Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Law. Professor Spain practiced international law as an Attorney-Adviser at the U.S. Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School.   

Visiting Professors

• Naomi Gale is returning to Colorado Law after being a Schusterman Visiting Professor for the 2008-09 academic year. She obtained her LLB from the Herzliya Interdisciplinary College of Law, specializing in criminal, family, and small claims and is a member of the Israeli Bar. She will be teaching a course in Jewish/Israeli law.
• Hannah Garry joins Colorado law for her third year as a visiting professor, teaching International Criminal Law. She obtained her JD at UC Berkeley School of Law and has practiced as a Legal Officer in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal and as an Associate in the international law firm, Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer LLP, in its New York office.  
• Robert Nichols joins Colorado Law as a Teaching Fellow for the fourth academic year. He began teaching ethics and administrative law at the school in 2006.