
Claire Bass
Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Bass joins the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law after practicing law at a major firm in Atlanta. There, she specialized in healthcare-industry mergers and acquisitions and healthcare regulatory and compliance challenges. She dedicated significant time to advising clients on and tracking emerging reproductive health law issues following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Bass holds a J.D. magna cum laude from Georgia State University College of Law with an Honors Certificate in Health Law, and a B.S.

Colleen E. Medill
Barbara Wittmann Schaefer Endowed Chair in Law & Director of Undergraduate Academic Programs
Professor Colleen Medill is nationally recognized as a scholar of Employee Benefits Law and as a teacher of Property and Legal Skills Development. Students who take one of her classes in Real Estate, Property, or Employee Benefits Law will have not only an award-winning teacher, but also a professor who is an elected member of the prestigious American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.

Brian D. Lepard
Harold W. Conroy Distinguished Professor of Law
Professor Lepard is a leading expert in the fields of international law, human rights law, comparative law, and tax law. He joined the faculty in 1995. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1983. At Princeton, he was named a Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and concentrated on the study of international law and organization, receiving a prize from the Woodrow Wilson School for his thesis on the development of the idea of the League of Nations in France during the First World War.

Craig M. Lawson
Professor of Law Emeritus