 Newark, NJ, March 26, 2008 --
Five new faculty members -- some already celebrated academics,
others young scholars -- will begin teaching at Rutgers School of Law-Newark
during the 2008-09 academic year. "Our well-known commitment to teaching,
scholarship, and service together with our reputation as an incubator for faculty
talent made Rutgers-Newark stand out in a very competitive climate and attract
these impressive new hires," said Dean Stuart L. Deutsch.Rutgers-Newark law faculty have
recently won some of the most prestigious accolades in the legal academy,
including the ABA's Silver Gavel Award, the American Society of International
Law's Francis Deak Prize, and the Association of American Law School' Derrick
A. Bell, Jr. Award. Others have received notable recognition from the legal
community for their public service accomplishments. Joining the faculty in the next
academic year are: Stuart
P. Green, Louis B. Porterie Professor of Law at Louisiana State
University Law Center, where he has
taught criminal law and philosophy since 1995. Green's work on topics such as corporate and white collar crime, criminal
law codification, comparative criminal law, victims' rights, strict liability,
justified homicide, plagiarism, and the criminal law's Special Part has
appeared in numerous books and journals. His works-in-progress include the
books "Property, Crime, and Morals: Theft Law in the Information Age" (under
contract with Harvard University Press) and "Oxford
Handbook of Criminal Law Theory" (with co-editor R.A. Duff) (in development
with Oxford University Press). He is a member of the editorial boards of Criminal
Law and Philosophy and the New Criminal Law Review. Green received his J.D. from Yale Law
School.Carlos A. Ball, Weiss Family Distinguished Faculty
Scholar and Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Penn State
University, where he has taught since 2003. Before that he was a member of the
faculty at the University of Illinois College of Law. Ball teaches property,
land use, theory of property rights, and sexual orientation and the law and writes
in the areas of gay rights, disability law, and property law. He is the author
of "The Morality of Gay Rights: An Exploration in Political Philosophy"
(Routledge, 2003) and co-editor of "Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation
and the Law" (West, 2007). His forthcoming book is entitled "Invisible No More: The Gay Rights Movement
and Its Lawyers." In 2004 he received a Dukeminier Award for excellence in
scholarship. Ball received his J.D. from Columbia Law School and his LL.M. from
Cambridge University.Joshua
D. Blank, Acting Assistant
Professor of Tax Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches
corporate tax, tax policy, survey of tax procedure, and timing issues and the
income tax. Blank's scholarship focuses on tax policy, taxpayer compliance, individual
and corporate taxation, and tax and social norms. "What's Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse" is forthcoming in
Tax Law Review. He has authored several other articles that have
appeared in journals such as Columbia Business Law Review, Penn State
Law Review, and Tax Notes. Blank was previously an associate in the
tax department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He received his J.D.
cum laude from Harvard Law School and his LL.M. (Taxation)
from NYU School of Law.Adil Ahmad Haque, most recently an
associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he focused on white-collar
criminal investigations and prisoners' rights litigation. His teaching and
research interests are criminal law, criminal procedure, international criminal
law, sentencing law and policy, torts, First Amendment, federal jurisdiction,
and Islamic legal theory. Recent publications include "Lawrence
v. Texas and the Limits of the Criminal Law" in the Harvard
Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2007) and "A Duty to Do Wrong?
Torture, Terror, and the Inversion of Moral Principle" in the
New Criminal Law Review (2007). He
received his J.D. from Yale Law School.Brandon L. Paradise, currently a
litigation associate in the office of Sidley Austin LLP. Previously, he
was a litigation associate with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. His primary
teaching interests are civil procedure, contracts, business associations, and
professional responsibility. His research interests are the relationship
between legal and personal ethics, legal education, law and religion, race and
the law, and the relationship between the legal profession and democracy when
law becomes business. His work-in-progress is entitled "Cultural Racism in the
Private Sector & Coerced Biculturalism." Paradise received his J.D. from Yale Law
School.
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