Westerfield Fellows Program

Westerfield Fellows Program, this program is designed for individuals pursuing a career in law teaching and seeking to gain law teaching experience, while being afforded time to devote to scholarly writing and publication. Fellows are responsible for teaching legal reasoning, legal research, legal writing, and oral advocacy skills to first-year law students in two, two-hour classes each semester. Fellows teach their own classes, but have the benefit of working under the guidance of an experienced director in a program in which the director and fellows coordinate the content and pace of the courses. Fellows also have a student teaching assistant to assist them with their courses.

To foster their development as scholars and teachers, fellows are given faculty mentors who teach and write in the fellows’ areas of interest. Past fellows have gone on to secure tenure-track teaching positions at law schools across the United States.

Westerfield Fellows

Carter Dillard, B.A., Boston College; J.D., Emory University, LL.M. 2009, New York University School of Law.

Derek Fincham, B.A., University of Kansas; J.D., Wake Forest University; Ph.D., University of Aberdeen.

J. Shontavia Jackson, B.S., Clemson University; J.D., University of Arkansas.

Adam Lamparello, B.A., University of Southern California; J.D., Ohio State University; LL.M., New York University.

Carol Pauli, B.A., University of Evansville; M.S., Columbia University; J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

JoAnne Sweeny, PhD 2009, Queen Mary University of London (expected December 2009); J.D. University of Southern California (Order of the Coif); B.A. 1999, University of California, Irvine.

Robert F. Weber, A.B. Duke University; J.D., University of Michigan