Courses

• Immigration Law
• Administrative Law
• Gender Issues
• Civil Procedures
• Education Law
• International Gender Issues Seminar
• Refugee & Asylum Law Seminar
   

Appointments

• Associate Clinical Professor in Minnesota, 1986
• Assistant Professor of Law, 1989
• Associate Professor of Law, 1995
• Professor of Law, 2004
• Endowed Chair 2008
• Associate Dean 2008
   

Education

• J.D., cum laude, 1976, University of Minnesota
• M.S., Business, 1973, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.S., 1967, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio
   

Recent Articles

• Katrina’s Children: Revealing the Broken Promise of Education, 31 T. Marshall L. Rev. 499 (2006)
• “The Invisible Others and Immigrant Rights: A Commentary.” 45 Hous. L. Rev. 99 (2008)
• Book Chapter: “Providing an Adequate and Equitable Education for the Children of Katrina and Other Victims of Disaster” published in CHILDREN, LAW, AND DISASTERS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THE HURRICANES OF 2005? (2008)

Professor Shavers joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1989. She received her B.S. degree from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio and her M.S. in Business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society. She received her J.D. degree (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota where she served as Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. She was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1979 and the Nebraska bar in 1989. Other positions include: Associate, Faegre & Benson Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN 1979-83; Director of University Student Legal Services, University of Minnesota, 1983-86; Associate Clinical Professor, University of Minnesota, 1986-89. While at the University of Minnesota, Professor Shavers established that law school's first immigration clinic. She has also served as a mediator and arbitrator and has a strong interest in alternative forms of dispute resolution. Professor Shavers teaches Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Gender Issues and Civil Procedure and is faculty co-advisor to the Multi-Cultural Legal Society and BALSA.

Professor Shavers believes that she has found the position for which she is ideally suited. She thoroughly enjoys the interaction with students. She also enjoys having the time to devote to reading and questioning various aspects of our legal system. Her primary interest is the area of immigration and its intersection with gender issues. This area appeals to her because of her appreciation of the differences of people from various cultures.

She currently serves as a Board Member of the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Inc., Liaison for the ABA Administrative Law Section to the ABA Commission on Immigration and Secretary and Publication Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section. She has previously served as Chair of the AALS Section on Immigration Law, a Council Member and Immigration Committee Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section, member of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging and member of the ABA Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law. She is a frequent national and international presenter on immigration and administrative law issues.

Courses

• Contracts
• Copyright Law
• Trademarks & Unfair Competition

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1976
• Associate Professor of Law, 1979
• Professor of Law, 1982
• Margaret R. Larson Professor of Intellectual Property, 1988
• Acting Dean, 1994-96
• Cline Williams Research Chair, 2004-05

Books

• Restatement of the Law (Third), Unfair Competition, (with H. Perlman), American Law Institute (1995)
• Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Related Topics, Foundation Press (1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2009)
• Supplements to Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Related Topics, Foundation Press

Articles

• The Restatements, the Uniform Act, and the Status of American Trade Secret Law, in The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy, Edward Elgar Press, UK (2010)   
• Access Controls, Rights Protection, and Circumvention: Interpreting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Preserve Noninfringing Use, 31 Columbia J. of Law and Arts 209 (2008)
• Copyright and Open Access: Reconsidering University Ownership of Faculty Research, 85 Nebraska Law Review 351 (2006)
• Fair’s Fair: An Argument for Mandatory Disclosure of Technological Protection Measures, 11 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 1 (2004)
• Mostly Dead? Copyright Law in the New Millennium, 47 Journal of the Copyright Society 193 (2000)
• Freedom to Copy, 108 Yale Law Journal 1661 (1999)
• Some Thoughts on the Dynamics of Federal Trademark Legislation and the Trademark Dilution Act of 1995, 59 Law and Contemporary Problems 75 (1997)
• Foreword to the Symposium on the Restatement of Unfair Competition, 47 South Carolina Law Review i (1996)
• Institutional Publicity Rights: An Analysis of the Merchandising of Famous Trade Symbols, 62 North Carolina Law Review 603 (1984)
• Applied Art and Industrial Design: A Suggested Approach to Copyright in Useful Articles, 67 Minnesota Law Review 707 (1983)
• Trademarks as Speech: Constitutional Implications of the Emerging Rationales for the Protection of Trade Symbols, 1982 Wisconsin Law Review 158 (1982)
• Copyright in Collections of Fact: A Theory for the Protection of Nonfiction Literary Works, 81 Columbia Law Review 516 (1981)
• Copyright and Free Speech: Constitutional Limitations on the Protection of Expression, 67 California Law Review 283 (1979)
• The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act: Making Consumer Product Warranty a Federal Case, 44 Fordham Law Review 273 (1975)

Education

• L.L.M., magna cum laude, 1976 Harvard University
• J.D., magna cum laude, 1974 Harvard University
• B.S.E., magna cum laude, 1971 Princeton University

Professor Denicola joined the Law College faculty in 1976. He received a B.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 197l and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1974. He also received an LL.M. degree from Harvard in 1976. Professor Denicola worked with a Boston law firm before coming to Nebraska. He has also been a visiting professor at Cornell University and the University of Alabama, and was Acting Dean of the Law College from 1994-96. Professor Denicola teaches courses in Contracts, Copyright, and Unfair Competition. He has written a casebook on copyright law published by Foundation Press and was the Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law of Unfair Competition.

Ms. Pierce joined the College of Law in 1990, and is the Associate Dean, responsible for student services and administration. She received her B.A. degree in English (with distinction) in 1973 from the University of Nebraska and her J.D. degree (with high distinction, Order of the Coif) in 1982 from the University of Nebraska College of Law. While a student at the College of Law, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Nebraska Law Review.

Ms. Pierce is active in the Nebraska State Bar Association and the Lincoln Bar Association. She is a past Chair of the State Bar House of Delegates and Judiciary Committee. She is past president of the Lincoln Bar Association and a Fellow of the Nebraska State Bar Foundation. She is past chair of the Law-Related Education Committee and the Women and the Law Section of the state bar. She currently serves on the state bar annual meeting committe and Barristeis Ball committee.

She was in private practice in Omaha from 1982-1990, concentrating in Civil Litigation. In addition to serving as Associate Dean, Ms. Pierce teaches Trial Advocacy and the voluntary first-year skills class.

Ms. Pierce is married to Jeff Kirkpatrick, and they have two children, Ryan, and Anthony.

Ms. Everman joined the College of Law in 2005 as the Assistant Dean and Director of Career Services. She received her B.A. degree in English from Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1988 and her J.D. degree (with distinction) in 2002 from the University of Nebraska College of Law. While at the College of Law, she was president of the Woman's Law Caucus, and was named the College of Law's "Outstanding Woman Law Graduate" by the National Association of Woman Lawyers. Following law school, Ms. Everman clerked for Justice Kenneth Stephan of the Nebraska Supreme Court and Judge Frankie Moore of the Nebraska Court of Appeals.

Ms. Everman brings to her position as Director of Career Services almost a decade of experience working with students both in the United States and abroad. She lives in Lincoln with her husband Brian and her two children, Maggie and Charlie. She is actively involved with the Lincoln Literacy Council as a member of the board of directors and is acting Treasurer of the Women and The Law section of the Nebraska State Bar Association.

Sarah Gloden was named Assistant Dean of Admissions and Director of Communications of the College of Law in January, 2007. She received her B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of South Dakota, where she was a Neuharth Scholar.

While in law school, she held leadership positions in the Native American Law Students Association and the American Bar Association's Law Student Division. She was also the research assistant to the South Dakota Board of Regents' General Counsel.

Previously, she worked for the Freedom Forum and then as the attorney for Ho-Chunk, Inc., an economic development corporation wholly-owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Most recently, she worked at the University of South Dakota and again for the Freedom Forum where she was the Assistant Dean of the College of Fine Arts, taught in the Department of Contemporary Media and Journalism and advised the student newspaper.

In addition to her responsibilities at the College of Law, she regularly teaches an undergraduate writing course for the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. She also teaches an undergraduate course at the Law College for students in the UNL Honors Program who are interested in attending law school. She is the advisor for the Nebraska Press Women's group and the Native American Law Students Association.

Originally from Omaha, Ms. Gloden is happy to be calling Nebraska home again. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Nebraska State Bar.

Angie is the Director of Development for the College of Law in conjunction with the University of Nebraska Foundation.

She serves as a resource through which you can explore your philanthropic options, organize your contributions effectively and enable you to donate your resources of time or money to that which gives the most impact and personal satisfaction.

Angie received her degree in Journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1991. She then held a position as an Advertising Representative for the Kansas City Star before moving back to Nebraska to become the Director of Marketing for Nebraska Educational Telecommunications. She was in private banking at Union Bank before joining the College of Law.

She is married with two children.

She is committed to being a trustworthy steward of your charitable gifts and will help you to advance your desires to sustain the College of Law as a leader in legal education.