Jessica A. Shoemaker
Barbara Wittmann Schaefer Chair of Law
Jessica Shoemaker is the Barbara Wittmann Schaefer Chair of Law at the University of Nebraska and the director of the Rural Reconciliation Project, an interdisciplinary research and engagement project that she co-founded. A prolific scholar, Shoemaker teaches and writes about land, property, and the changing contours of the American countryside.
Colleen E. Medill
Barbara Wittmann Schaefer Endowed Chair in Law Emeritus
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.
Richard F. Duncan
Sherman S. Welpton, Jr. Professor of Law and Warren R. Wise Professor of Law Emeritus
Professor Duncan joined the faculty in 1979. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1973. In 1976, he received his J.D. degree from the Cornell Law School, where he served on the Board of Editors of the Cornell Law Review. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1977. From 1976-79, he was associated with White & Case, a New York City law firm. Professor Duncan teaches Property, Constitutional Law, and First Amendment. He is a passionate and enthusiastic classroom teacher, whose style is not so much Socratic Dialogue as Socratic Performance Art.