About the Faculty
Prof. Geoffrey Corn
South Texas College of Law Houston
Geoffrey S. Corn is the Presidential Research Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law in Houston Texas, and senior advisor to the Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy, Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs.
Prior to joining the South Texas faculty in 2005, Professor Corn served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an officer, and a final year as s civilian legal advisor, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Professor Corn’s teaching and scholarship focuses on the law of armed conflict, national security law, criminal law and procedure, and prosecutorial ethics.
He has appeared an expert witness at the Military Commission in Guantanamo, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and in federal court. He is the lead author of The Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Perspective, and The Laws of War and the War on Terror, and National Security Law and Policy: a Student Treatise. He is also the co-author of Principles of Counter-Terrorism Law.
His Army career included service as the Army's senior law of war expert advisor, tactical intelligence officer in Panama; supervisory defense counsel for the Western United States; Chief of International Law for US Army Europe; Professor of International and National Security Law at the US Army Judge Advocate General’s School; and Chief Prosecutor for the 101st Airborne Division. He earned is Bachelor of Arts degree from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, his Juris Doctor with highest honors from George Washington University, his LL.M. degree as the distinguished graduate from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School. He is also a distinguished military graduate of U.S. Army Officer Candidate School, and a graduate of U.S. Army Command and General Staff Course.
Professor Corn appears regularly in the media as an expert on military law, the war on terrorism and national security. Please see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/world/asia/navy-seal-team-2-afghanistan-beating-death.html?_r=0
Prof. Kenneth Williams
Sout Texas College of Law Houston
Professor of Law
B.A., University of San Francisco
J.D., University of Virgina Law School
Areas of Expertise
Capital Punishment
Criminal Law
International Criminal Law
ARTICLES
The Ultimate Dilemma: Conceding a Client’s Guilt to Avoid a Death Sentence, 51 Connecticut L Rev. ____ (forthcoming)
The Pros and Cons of Texas’s Michael Morton Act, 60 S. Tex. L. Rev. 267 (2019).
Why the Death Penalty is Slowly Dying, 46 Sw. L. Rev. 253 (2017).
Why and How the Supreme Court Should End the Death Penalty, 51 U. S.F. L. Rev. 271 (2017).
Justice or Peace? a Proposal for Resolving the Dilemma, 26 Pace Int’l L. Rev. 132 (2014)
Does Strickland Prejudice Defendants On Death Row? 43 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1459 (2009).
Why It is So Difficult to Prove Innocence in Capital Cases, 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 241 (2006). (solicited)
Does the ICJ’s Decision in Avena Mean Anything to Mexicans On Death Row, 55 Cath. U.L. Rev. 351 (2006), reprinted in 27 Immigr. & Nat’lity L. Rev. 19 (2006).
Texas: Tough On Murderers or Fairness?, 53 Drake L. Rev. 631 (2005). (solicited)
Ensuring the Capital Defendant’s Right to Competent Counsel: It’s Time for Some Standards!, 51 Wayne L. Rev. 129 (2005) (cited in Congressional Testimony, available at http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Bright090922.pdf at 5 n.9 (Sept. 22, 2009).
Should Judges Who Oppose Capital Punishment Resign? a Reply to Justice Scalia, 10 Va. J. Soc Pol’y & L. 317 (2003).
The Death Penalty: Can It Be Fixed?, 51 Cath. U. L. Rev. 1177 (2002).
The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act: What’s Wrong with it and How to Fix It, 33 Conn. L. Rev. 919 (2001).
The Deregulation of the Death Penalty, 40 Santa Clara L. Rev. 677 (2000).
Do We Really Need the Federal Rules of Evidence?, 74 N. Dak. L. Rev. 1 (1998).
BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review, 59 J. Legal Educ. 668 (2010) (reviewing John Temple, The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates (2009).
BOOKS
Examples & Explanations for Criminal Procedure II: From Bail to Jail. 4th Ed. (New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2018). (with Richard G. Singer)
Most Deserving of Death? An Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Jurisprudence. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012). Reprinted in 2016 by Routledge.
CHAPTERS
An Examination of the District Attorney’s Alleged Unethical Conduct, in Race to Injustice: Lessons Learned from the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2009).
Mandatory Death Sentences Unconstitutional; Proportionality Reviews; Lockett v. Ohio; Profitt v. Florida; Pulley v. Harris, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (New York: Routledge 2006).
PRESENTATIONS & PROCEEDINGS
Presenter, Avoiding Land Mines: An Overview for Attorneys for Texas Death Row Prisoners in State and Federal Habeas Corpus Proceedings, at South Texas Law Review’s 17th Annual Ethics Symposium.
Panelist, The Role of the Prosecution and Defense in Causing and Correcting Wrongful Convictions, at the Wrongful Convictions and Cures Symposium Sponsored By Southwestern Law School.
Commentator, Author Meets Reader – The Theoretics of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Review of Race, Sex, and Suspicion: The Myth of the Black Male at the International Conference on Law and Society in the 21st Century, at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Discussant, Race & the Death Penalty, Twenty Years After McClesky, University of Miami School of Law, Mar. 19, 2007.
Presenter, “Gays in the Military” at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Issues and the Civil Rights Agenda Symposium Sponsored By the Southwestern University Law Review.
Presenter, “The Death Penalty: Can It Be Fixed?” at the Urban Health & Race Law Weekend hosted by the DePaul College of Law and the Loyola Law School.
Presenter, Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement, University of Wyoming’s Symposium for the Eradication of Social Inequality, Feb. 8-10, 2000.
Presenter, The Deregulation of the Death Penalty, National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference at John Marshall Law School, Mar. 1999.
Faculty Lecture Series, The Death Penalty: A Discriminatory, Costly Process, at the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law, Feb. 1996.
Prof. Elizabeth A. Dennis
Sout Texas College of Law Houston
Assistant Dean, Director of Academic Interships, and Associate Professor of Clinical StudiesB.A., Hollins College
J.D., South Texas College of Law Houston
Areas of Expertise
Introduction to Law
Legal Method
Legal Research & Writing
ARTICLES
Leading Into The Future: Securing The Public Trust In Texas Courts , 51 S. Tex. L. Rev. 839 (2010).Foreword: Judge & Jury Symposium , 47 S. Tex. L. Rev. 157 (2005). (with Thomas R. Phillips)
PRESENTATIONS & PROCEEDINGS
ADR Pedagogy and the Growth of Clinical Teaching in the United States Law School Curriculum, 1 National Center for ADR Journal (2013).
ADR Pedagogy and the Growth of Clinical Teaching in the United States Law School Curriculum, Current Trends in Mediation Development, Tblisi State University, Republic of Georgia. 2013.
Negotiation Ethics , with R. Hanson Lawton at Matagorda County Bar Association, April 1999.
Clear Understanding: How and Why Plain Language Can Restore Respect for Legal Writing and Lawyers , Matagorda County Bar Association, June 1998.
Prof. Mark Edwards
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Mark A. Edwards is the Baillon Professor of Real Estate Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. He teaches Property, Comparative Property Rights, Real Estate Transactions, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure. He has been chosen as Professor of the Year by the Mitchell Hamline student body 4 times. He researches the critical role of property rights in different societies, and in particular attempts at restitution of property rights in post-conflict and transitioning societies.
Prior to beginning his teaching career 11 years ago, Edwards was a lawyer for the Wisconsin Innocence Project, an attorney in a large law firm, and a federal judicial law clerk.
Jeffrey P. Minear
Counselor to the Chief Justice of the United States
Counselor Jeffrey P. Minear was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Utah in 1977, and he worked as a petrochemical engineer from 1977 to 1979.
He received both a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and an M.S. from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources in 1982.
Mr. Minear served as a law clerk for Judge Monroe G. McKay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 1982-1983. He was employed at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1983-2006, as a trial lawyer in the Environment and Natural Resources Division, as an Assistant to the Solicitor General, and as Senior Litigation Counsel for the Solicitor General. He has argued 56 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice appointed Mr. Minear to his current position in 2006.
Among other activities, he is the Executive Director of the Supreme Court Fellows Commission, a Member of the Executive Board of the Supreme Court Historical Society, and a Master of the Coke American Inn of Court.
Mr. Minear has held appointments as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and as a visiting professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and the University of Utah School of Law.