University of Richmond School of Law - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

• Ronald J. Bacigal - Specializes in Criminal Law and Procedure. He also serves as Reporter of Criminal Decisions for the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
• Hon. Harry L. Carrico - Senior Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia; Visiting Professor of Law and Civic Engagement; Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Judge, 1956–1961
• Hon. Donald W. Lemons - Supreme Court of Virginia, Justice, 2000-present; Court of Appeals of Virginia, Judge,1998-2000; Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, Judge, 1995-98; John Marshall Professor of Judicial Studies
• W. Clark Williams, Jr. - Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law; Executive Director, Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys; Reporter, Appellate Rules Advisory Committee, DeNovo Revision Advisory Comm., Supreme Court of Virginia
• W. Hamilton Bryson - Virginia procedure and legal history. He is the Blackstone Professor of Law.
• John G. Douglass - Dean of the Law School, 2008-present; Criminal Law & Procedure; Evidence; He also serves as Director of the lawyering skills program;Assistant United States Attorney, Chief of Criminal Section; Office of Independent Counsel for the Iran/Contra Investigation, 1987-90, Associate Counsel.
• W. Wade Berryhill - Professor Emeritus of Law - Environmental Law; Environmental Law & Policy; Land Use Planning; Ocean and Coastal Law; Real Estate Transactions; Real Property; Secured Creditors.
• Carl Tobias - Torts and Constitutional Law. Professor Tobias is a prolific scholar and has been quoted by numerous newspapers across the country. He serves as the Williams Professor of Law.
• Mary L. Heen - Taxation, Corporate and Federal Tax. Currently serves as general counsel to the American Association of University Professors.
• Kelly H. Bartges - Director of the Delinquency Clinic, teaches Children and the Law.
• John Paul Jones- Administrative Law, Admiralty Law, and Constitutional Law. Associate Editor of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, creator of the Constitution Finder (a collection of the world’s constitutions), and member of the Virginia Code Commission's Administrative Law Advisory Committee. A former Naval Flight Officer, he is twice (1972, 1978) a graduate of TOPGUN,
• Peter N. Swisher - Family, Insurance, and Tort Law, expert witness in insurance cases, Co-Author, Virginia Tort And Personal Injury Law, 1994 and 2002 University of Richmond Distinguished Educator Award
• Henry L. Chambers - Professor Chambers has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2002. He also is an occasional reviewer for the Law and Society Review. During summers, he lectures on constitutional law principles in the We The People program, a civic education program administered by the Center for Civic Education.
• Timothy L. Coggins - Associate Dean for Library & Information Services and Professor of Law Articles Editor, North Carolina Central Law Journal
• Jonathan K. Stubbs - Hon. James T. Giles, U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Pennsylvania Clerk, 1980-81; M.T.S., Harvard University (1990); LL.M., Harvard University (1979); J.D., Yale University (1978); B.A., Oxford University (1976); B.A., Haverford College (1974)
• Paul M. Thompson - Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia Senior Assistant Attorney General, 2002–2004; United States Air Force Judge Advocate & Prosecutor, Kirtland A.F.B., Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1960; National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C.; Adjunct Professor of Law and Director of Special Projects