Faculty & Staff Notes Faculty Departures
News about Law School Hires and Moves
Litigation, Regulation, and Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Energy. Klass, who joined the Law School in 2006, teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, and natural resources law. Following the conclusion of her public service, she will join the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School.
Ralph Hall, professor of practice, is retiring at the end of the academic year. Hall concentrated his teaching, research, and writing in the area of FDA regulation and health care.
Heidi Kitrosser, Robins Kaplan
Professor of Law, is departing the Law School at the end of the academic year to serve as a professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Kitrosser, who joined the faculty in 2006, focuses on the constitutional law of federal government secrecy and on separation of powers, as well as free speech law more broadly.
Jon J. Lee, professor of practice, is departing the Law School at the end of the academic year to serve as an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Lee, who joined the Law School in 2017, has research interests that include professional ethics and trademark law.
director of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans and taught the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic.
Francis Shen, professor of law and McKnight Presidential Fellow, is leaving the Law School at the end of the academic to join the faculty of Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital and become an affiliate professor at Harvard Law School. Shen, who joined the Law School in 2012, conducts empirical and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law and the brain sciences.
Maria Ponomarenko, associate
professor of law, is leaving the Law School to serve on the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law. Ponomarenko, who joined the Law School in 2019, focuses her work on policing agencies and administrative agencies. Alexandra Klass, Distinguished
McKnight University Professor, has left the Law School to join the Biden-Harris Administration as Deputy General Counsel for
Benjamin Casper Sanchez ’97, associate clinical professor of law, is departing the Law School this summer. Sanchez, who joined the faculty in 2013, served as faculty
Christopher Soper, clinical professor
of law and director of legal writing, is departing the Law School this summer. Soper, who joined the faculty in 2014, helped enhance the reputation of the Law School’s award-winning legal writing and moot court programs.
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