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She's also available to discuss administrative law issues, including federal agencies and their interaction with the public. She has taught sports and entertainment law.
Abbott earned a bachelor's degree from Bates College, a master's degree from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and a JD from the University of Bridgeport School of Law. She writes primarily in the area of poverty law, with articles focusing on homelessness, welfare reform and Medicare. Before attending law school she worked in higher education, incorporating educational television into college residential life. She practiced corporate law in Washington D.C., and Hartford, Conn.
To reach Abbott, please call 203-582-3240 or melanie.abbott@quinnipiac.edu
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Barry holds an LL.M. in advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a clinical teaching fellow in the Federal Legislation Clinic. While at Georgetown, Barry was among the team of disability lawyers that met with lawyers from the business community to negotiate draft legislative language amending the Americans with Disabilities Act. On June 25, 2008, the "ADA Amendments Act of 2008" passed the House overwhelmingly by a vote of 402-17.
Barry received his JD from Boston College Law School in 2000, summa cum laude, and his BA in history and philosophy from Boston College in 1997, summa cum laude.
Prior to joining the Quinnipiac faculty, Barry served as law clerk for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Portland, Maine, and as law clerk for the Honorable William E. Smith for the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Prior to clerking, Kevin was a legislative researcher for Americans United for Separation of Church and State; a program assistant for Amnesty International USA's Government Relations Program (Asia Division); and a real estate associate in Boston, Massachusetts.
To reach Barry, please call 203-582-3238 or e-mail him at kevin.barry@quinnipiac.edu.
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Jennifer Gerarda Brown is available to discuss dispute resolution, gay rights and gay and lesbian legal issues.
Brown, director of the Center for Dispute Resolution in the School of Law Center, proposes practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community in her book "Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights."
Co-written with her husband Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School, the book takes aim at the hearts and minds of the general public, focusing on strategies that can change the incentives — and therefore the behavior — of the recalcitrant.
Brown's scholarship has also focussed on gays in the military, marriage for same-sex couples, and employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Brown can be reached at 203-582-3246 or by e-mail at jennifer.brown@quinnipiac.edu.
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Prior to joining the Quinnipiac faculty, he was a principal in the Private Clients Group of the law firm of Cummings & Lockwood, where he was noted for his dedication to the training and development of the firm’s junior attorneys. He also was elected by his peers as a Connecticut “Super Lawyer,” an honor reserved for the top 5% of practicing attorneys statewide.
Cooper received his BA in government, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1990. He also holds a JD from Yale Law School and an LLM in taxation from New York University School of Law.
Cooper served as a vice president and senior estate planner for the United States Trust Company, and as a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School. A frequent lecturer, Cooper also has authored numerous articles on various topics relating to estate planning, probate and taxation.
He is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts, as well as before the United States Tax Court and the Internal Revenue Service.
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Estates and Probate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and previously served as a member of the Greenwich RTM.
Cooper can be reached at 203-582-3731 or jeffrey.cooper@quinnipiac.edu.
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Dunlap received a JD from Yale University, an MPhil from Cambridge University and a BA from the New School for Social Research. He teaches American constitutional law, criminal law and a variety of courses on international law and national security law.
He has written papers on international criminal law, the law of the sea and international humanitarian law, and has published in "Archiv für Rechts- und "Sozialphilosophie," "The Virginia Journal of International Law," "The Boundary and Security Bulletin" and "The International Journal of Maritime and Coastal Law. "
He has published a monograph on the internationalization of the Russian arctic straits and is co-editor of a three-volume collection of essays on the laws of war, humanitarian law and international criminal courts.
He studied at the National Security Law Institute at the University of Virginia. Before teaching, Dunlap practiced international litigation and arbitration and before that was a newspaper editor and public radio host in New York.
To reach Dunlap, please call 203-582-3265 or e-mail him at william.dunlap@quinnipiac.edu
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Feigenson, who received his JD from Harvard Law School, practiced with the firm of Widett, Slater & Goldman, P.C., in Boston. He was a Bigelow fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and senior research instructor and coordinator of the Lawyering Program at New York University Law School before joining the faculty at Quinnipiac. He teaches torts, civil procedure, evidence and visual persuasion in the law.
He is the author of "Legal Blame: How We Think and Talk about Accidents (American Psychological Association Books 2000)" and has published articles in such journals as "Law and Human Behavior;" "Psychology, Public Policy and Law;" "The Journal of Applied Social Psychology;" "The Chicago-Kent Law Review;" and the "Hastings Law Journal."
To reach Feigenson, please call 203-582-3249 or e-mail him at neal.feigenson@quinnipiac.edu.
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Kaas has served as a mediator in family and child protection cases in Connecticut. She is also the author of two articles on custody and a forthcoming article on the representation of children in family court.
She served as a clerk for the Honorable Ellen Bree Burns in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She was also a litigation associate at Wiggin & Dana for four years.
A 1976 graduate of Cornell University, Kaas received her JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1983.
You can reach Kaas at 203-582-3234 or carolyn.kaas@quinnipiac.edu.
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He served in New York City as senior counsel to the Independent Inquiry Committee investigating corruption and mismanagement in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq. He is the author of a book "Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Program and the Threat to the U.N."
He is a former assistant U.S. attorney in New Haven who specialized in environmental, financial and civil rights crimes. Meyer was appeals chief from 2000 to 2004 for the office’s cases on appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
As an assistant U.S. attorney, Meyer twice won the Department of Justice’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance. The first time was in 1999 for U.S. v. Monaco, a money laundering prosecution resulting in verdicts against five defendants after an 11-week jury trial. Meyer received the second award in 2002 for U.S. v. Himes, which resulted in 10 guilty pleas in connection to illegally importing chlorofluorocarbon gases and laundering proceeds through international bank accounts.
Meyer has also been a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and Chief Judge James L. Oakes of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Brattleboro, Vt.
A graduate of Yale Law School, Meyer also earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from Yale College in 1985. He also studied rural development economics as a Fulbright scholar in Ecuador.
To reach Meyer, call 203-582-3202 or e-mail: jeffrey.meyer@quinnipiac.edu.
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She teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, theories of punishment, torts, trusts and estates, jurisprudence and Supreme Court symposium.
She has clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the U.S. Supreme Court, and received her JD and PhD in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
To reach Meyer, call 203-582-3281 or e-mail: linda.meyer@quinnipiac.edu.
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A litigator for seven years, he has worked for the Arizona-based law firm Miller, Pitt and McAnally and the Connecticut-based Wiggin and Dana.
He received his law degree at the University of Arizona and his LLM and MPH at Yale University.
To reach Thomas, call 203-582-3264 or e-mail john.thomas@quinnipiac.edu.