Meet Our Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Visiting Faculty and Affiliated Faculty

Melina Bell
Henok Gabisa
Wendy Greene
Donald W. Lemons
Tim Lubin
Todd C. Peppers
Joseph R. Slights III

Emeriti Faculty

Denis J. Brion
William S. Geimer
Mark Grunewald
Edward O. Henneman
Margaret Howard
Timothy S. Jost
Frederic Lee Kirgis
Lewis Henry LaRue
Ann MacLean Massie
Andrew W. McThenia, Jr.
David Millon
James M. Phemister
Joseph E. Ulrich
Sarah K. Wiant

Adjunct Faculty

A listing of adjunct faculty can be found here.

Faculty Scholarship Blog

Professor Sam Calhoun’s Article a Top Ten SSRN Download A new article by Washington and Lee law professor Sam Calhoun, published in the Washington and Lee Law Review Online, is a top ten download on SSRN. The article, “If Separation of Church and State Doesn’t Demand Separating Religion from Politics, Does Christian Doctrine Require It?,” is a response to several reactions to Prof. Calhoun’s …

Professor Mark Drumbl Lectures in Cambridge and The Hague Mark Drumbl gave a public lecture at Cambridge University on January 18, 2019. He presented his research on the war crime of intentional destruction of cultural property. Audio of the lecture is available here. Publication of this project is forthcoming in the Journal of International Criminal Justice. Drumbl begins in Timbuktu, Mali, where in 2012 …

Professor Mark Drumbl gives lectures in Australia, Kenya, Czech Republic Mark Drumbl taught an intensive course on ‘Victims, International Law, and Mass Atrocity’ at Monash University in Melbourne Australia in August 2018. While there, he also had a chance to visit Griffith University in Brisbane Australia where he participated in a book launch and also gave a talk on a recent project he has begun …

Professor Michelle Drumbl Presents on Taxpayer Rights Washington and Lee law professor and Tax Clinic director Michelle Drumbl presented at Temple Law School on Oct. 26 as part of the Temple Law Review symposium, “Taxpayer Rights in the United States: All the Angles.” Prof. Drumbl appeared on the panel “Operationalizing Taxpayer Rights: IRS Efforts and Experiences of Lawyers Who Represent Clients Pro …

Professor Chris Seaman Presents Empirical Review of Trade Secret Litigation to Philadelphia IP Law Association Washington and Lee Law Professor Chris Seaman presented an empirical review on trade secret litigation in federal court under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 to the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association (PIPLA) at on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. Professor Seaman’s empirical research on trade secret litigation (with co-author David Levine) was recently published …

Call for Papers: Washington and Lee Law School and ASIL Southeast Interest Group Host International Law Workshop for Junior Scholars The American Society of International Law, the ASIL-Southeast Interest Group and Washington and Lee School of Law invite submissions for the second ASIL-Southeast Junior Scholar Workshop hosted by Washington and Lee School of Law on May 13, 2019. Format: ASIL-SE will invite 6-7 junior scholars to share works-in-progress at the workshop. We will pair each …

Prof. Michelle Drumbl Presents on Tax Credits at Boston College

Prof. Sam Calhoun’s Article on Separation of Church and State is a Top-Ten Download Washington and Lee law professor Sam Calhoun published an article recently in the online edition of the W&L Law Review on the separation of church and state. The article, titled “Separation Of Church And State: Jefferson, Lincoln, And The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Show It Was Never Intended to Separate Religion From Politics,” is …