Six new faculty members have joined the University of Dayton School of Law this year.
Eric Chaffee has joined us as a visiting assistant professor. During the fall semester, he will teach Advanced Criminal Law and Business Organizations. Previously, Prof. Chaffee worked as an associate at Jones Day in Cleveland in the areas of corporate litigation, securities regulation, bankruptcy, intellectual property, and criminal law. His clients included LTV Steel, Procter & Gamble, Sherwin-Williams, Textron, and Yahoo. He also has experience with custody, child support, and domestic violence issues through his work with the Custody and Support Assistance Clinic in Philadelphia and the Western Ohio Legal Services Association.
Prof. Chaffee currently serves on the boards of the Law Academy at the Martin Luther King Jr. School for Law and Municipal Careers, the Domestic Violence Center, and the Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa. He also has worked extensively with United Way Services and Harvest for Hunger in Cleveland. Prof. Chaffee earned his B.A. summa cum laude from The Ohio State University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as the managing editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and was instrumental in founding the Penn Law Immigration Clinic.
Jeannette Cox has joined the faculty to teach and write in the areas of civil procedure, employment law, and disability law. She comes to us from Portland, Oregon, where she served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
Prof. Cox earned her J.D. summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, where she received the Dean Joseph O’Meara Award for outstanding academic achievement, served on the editorial board of the Notre Dame Law Review, and volunteered her time with Indiana Legal Services. Prof. Cox also worked in the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic, where she represented clients in Medicaid appeals, Social Security Disability appeals, and land partition actions. Prof. Cox also spent a summer with the School of Government for the University of North Carolina, where she researched, wrote, and taught in the areas of employment discrimination and animal control legislation.
Prof. Cox earned her B.A. summa cum laude from Hanover College, where she clerked for Jefferson County Circuit Judge Ted R. Todd. She later served as an AmeriCorps member in Richmond, Indiana, where she directed a children’s literacy program based at Earlham College.
Pamela Laufer-Ukeles has joined the School of Law faculty this fall, teaching Family Law and Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation. Her research interests include family law, feminist theory, issues of religion and state, Jewish law, and international law. Before joining the faculty, Prof. Laufer-Ukeles was a litigator focusing on international arbitration, securities arbitration, and general litigation at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City and Meitar, Liquornik, Geva & Leshem, Brandwein in Israel. She clerked for the Honorable Judge Victor Marrero of the U. S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Prof. Laufer-Ukeles graduated from Columbia College magna cum laude with a degree in Philosophy and Economics and received her law degree from Harvard Law School. During law school, she was an Equal Justice Fellow at the Hale & Dorr Family Law Clinic and was also a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College in political philosophy. From 1999 to 2000, Prof. Laufer-Ukeles received a Fulbright Fellowship and Harvard Kennedy Fellowship to perform research at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
Tracy Reilly, who will teach Real Property and Intellectual Property courses, was most recently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, where she worked in the areas of intellectual property, entertainment, advertising, Internet, and e-commerce law. Previously, she was an associate at Garfinkle & Associates, practicing entertainment, intellectual property, marketing, and promotional law. Her clients have included Kraft, Sara Lee, Kellogg, Honeywell, Madison Dearborn Partners, United Airlines, the Chicago Sun -Times, Rand McNally, and the estates of gospel star Mahalia Jackson and Charles Stepney, producer for Earth, Wind & Fire.
Prof. Reilly also has experience as an adjunct professor at the Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana, the University of Chicago Graham School of Business, and Lewis University in Illinois. She clerked for the Honorable Wayne R. Andersen in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for the Honorable Anne M. Burke in the Appellate Court of Illinois. Prof. Reilly graduated cum laude from Northern Illinois University, where she majored in English and Media Communications. She earned her law degree, summa cum laude, from Valparaiso University School of Law.
Prof. Reilly serves on the board of the Theatre Museum in New York, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of Broadway. She has also served as Vice-Chair of the Entertainment Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. Her scholarship is focused in the areas of copyright and trademark law.
Kristen Safier has joined the faculty and will teach courses in the Legal Profession Program. She worked as a litigation associate at Taft, Stettinus & Hollister LLP in Cincinnati and taught courses on gender and law in the women’s studies program at Miami University.
Prof. Safier earned a bachelor’s degree from Miami University and a law degree from the University of Cincinnati, graduating Order of the Coif. During law school, Prof. Safier was on the editorial boards of the University of Cincinnati Law Review and the Human Rights Quarterly. She has published on education law issues in the University of Cincinnati Law Review and on diversity in the legal profession in the Federal Lawyer. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in educational policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and her doctoral research focuses on school finance.
Julie Zink, a 1999 graduate of the University of Dayton School of Law, has joined the faculty to teach Legal Profession courses, with a particular interest in the intellectual property, cyberlaw and creativity curriculum track. Most recently, she was an associate attorney at Faruki Ireland & Cox PLL in Dayton, specializing in intellectual property litigation. Previously, she was an associate at Oliff & Berridge PLC in Alexandria, Virginia, where she worked exclusively on patent cases.
Prof. Zink has an associate's degree in legal assisting from Sinclair Community College and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wright State University. While attending the University of Dayton School of Law, she was champion of the Walter H. Rice Moot Court Competition and participated on the school's moot court team. Prof. Zink has been an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton School of Law since 2004. She is admitted to practice law in Ohio and Virginia and is an officer of the Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association.