■ FACULTY notes
New faculty
Wayne Law is excited to welcome four new faculty members:
Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Daniel Ellman, Jamila Jefferson-Jones and Hillel Nadler.
Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Daniel Ellman, Jamila Jefferson-Jones and Hillel Nadler.
Nancy Chi Cantalupo
Assistant Professor of Law
Assistant Professor of Law
Cantalupo is a nationally respected voice on Title IX, sexual harassment and gender-based violence. She has contributed significantly to U.S. public policy, including as a member of the 2013-14 Negotiated Rulemaking Committee for the Violence Against Women Act. Her scholarship focuses on using the law to combat discriminatory violence and draws from her more than two decades of work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney and policymaker. Cantalupo joins Wayne Law from California Western School of Law.
Daniel Ellman
Assistant Professor (Clinical) of Law
Director of Externships
Assistant Professor (Clinical) of Law
Director of Externships
Ellman previously worked as a public defense attorney at the Bronx Defenders, the originator of holistic defense practice. In addition to litigating criminal cases, he focused on the intersection of the criminal justice system and other legal fields, including immigration, housing, employment and family law. He was instrumental in launching Wayne Law’s holistic defense partnership with the School of Social Work. Ellman joins the Law School after clerking for Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard H. Bernstein and serving as a part-time faculty member at the University of Michigan.
Jamila Jefferson-Jones
Professor of Law
Associate Director of Property, Equity and Justice, Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights
Professor of Law
Associate Director of Property, Equity and Justice, Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights
Jefferson-Jones is an expert in property and wealth attainment by marginalized communities. She examines the ways members of favored racialized groups exclude minoritized populations from public and private spaces, thus enforcing the racial segregation of space and racist notions of supremacy. Her work harnesses critical race methodologies, focusing in part on the use or threat of police action against members of disfavored groups. Jefferson-Jones joins Wayne Law from the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law.
Hillel Nadler
Assistant Professor of Law
Assistant Professor of Law
Nadler’s research focuses on taxation and financial regulation. Previously, he practiced at Ropes and Gray and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He joins the Law School from the Program on International Financial Systems, where he was a senior research fellow writing on issues that impact the global financial system.