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Swygert Research, Teaching Fellows named
Friday, May 23, 2008
Two professors at the Valparaiso University School of Law have been recognized for their excellence in teaching and scholarship and received two-year appointments as the law school’s Michael and Dianne Swygert Fellows.
The Swygert Teaching Fellow is David Myers, professor of law, and the Swygert Research Fellow is Laura Dooley, professor of law. Their appointments are effective July 1.
The teaching fellowship is awarded to a faculty member or librarian who exemplifies the highest standards of teaching and service to his or her students.
Myers joined Valparaiso’s law faculty in 1980 and his teaching and research interests include property, land use, entertainment and media law. He co-authored the 2006 edition of a comprehensive casebook that covers areas of law fundamental to the practice of copyright and entertainment litigation, including the right of privacy, defamation, right of publicity and unfair competition.
In 2005, Myers was invited to participate in two summer forums in Europe, one for prominent free speech scholars and casebook authors and the second focused on defamation law. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Drake University and received his law degree from the University of Illinois.
The research fellowship is awarded to a faculty member or librarian who, through lectures, written work and contributions to the advancement of knowledge, exemplifies the highest standards of legal scholarship.
Dooley has written articles on feminist procedure, medical ethics and habeas corpus, and in 1993 co-authored a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association that brought national attention to racial inequality in the system for allocating donor kidneys to transplant patients.
Dooley joined Valparaiso’s law faculty in 1990, served as Swygert Teaching Fellow from 2004 to 2006 and won the law school’s Jack A. Hiller Distinguished Faculty Award in 2007. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Order of the Coif and was previously the Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago School of Law. She earned her law degree at Washington University School of Law.
The Swygert Fellows are selected by a committee of the Valparaiso University School of Law National Council, an advisory board that includes prominent alumni of the school.
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