FACULTY notes

New faculty

Wayne Law welcomes Michael Oswalt, Jalila Jefferson-Bullock, Maya Watson, Rachael Kohl and Lynn Sholander in fall 2022.
Michael Oswalt

Michael Oswalt
Professor of Law

Michael Oswalt joins the Law School as professor of law. He graduated from Duke University School of Law in 2008 and clerked on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Following four years of practice with the Service Employees International Union, Oswalt joined the faculty of Northern Illinois University College of Law in 2013. An expert in labor and employment law, his most recent piece is Liminal Labor Law, forthcoming in the California Law Review.
Jalila Jefferson-Bullock

Jalila Jefferson-Bullock
Associate Professor of Law

Jalila Jefferson-Bullock joins the Law School as associate professor of law. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2001, then worked as an associate at Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles before working as a public defender and in private practice — and also serving as a state representative — in New Orleans. Jefferson-Bullock was most recently associate professor of law at Duquesne University School of Law, specializing in constitutional law and criminal law, with expertise on incarceration and its alternatives. Her most recent piece is Returning to Retribution: A More Dignified Approach to Drug Sentencing, forthcoming in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law.
Maya Watson

Maya Watson
Assistant Professor (Clinical) of Law

Maya Watson joins the Law School as assistant professor (clinical) of law, where she will run the Business and Community Law Clinic. A 2007 graduate of Wayne Law, she practiced law at Miller Canfield before moving to Bodman, where she was a partner. With experience in lending and real estate financing transactions, Watson pursued an LL.M. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, joining the Law School immediately after a clinical fellowship at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was managing attorney and director of the Maywood Medical-Legal Partnership.
Rachael Kohl

Rachael Kohl
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Law

Rachael Kohl joins the Law School as assistant professor (teaching) of law, where she will focus on non-J.D. programs, including master of laws, master of studies in law and the undergraduate minor in law. A 2014 graduate of Wayne Law, Kohl practiced law as a solo practitioner and then at Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers, where she worked primarily in civil rights and employment law. She joins the Law School from the U.S. Department of Labor and, before that, the University of Michigan Law School, where she was director of the Workers’ Rights Clinic.
Lynn Sholander

Lynn Sholander
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Law

Lynn Sholander joins the Law School as assistant professor (teaching) of law, where she will focus on the Legal Research and Writing programs for 1L students. A 2014 graduate of Wayne Law, Sholander clerked for the Hon. Michael J. Riordan at the Michigan Court of Appeals, then practiced law — specializing in appellate litigation — both at Hewson & Van Hellemont and Collins Einhorn Farrell.