Fall 1999, 3

Consistent with its strategy to maintain and build an internationally renowned faculty, Northwestern is pleased to announced that four leading scholars will be joining the faculty on a full-time basis this fall.

David Dana is a leading scholar in the fields of environmental and property law. He holds both his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University and will be joining Northwestern from Boston University School of Law where he has taught since 1993. Before becoming a professor, he was an environmental litigator in both the private (Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering) and public (U.S. Department of Justice) sectors.

Shari Seidman Diamond is both a lawyer and psychologist who is the foremost empirical researcher on the jury process and legal decision-making. She visited at the Law School last fall, teaching Intellectual Property and will be joining Northwestern from the University of Illinois-Chicago's psychology department; Diamond is also a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She obtained her JD from the University of Chicago and her PhD in Social Psychology from Northwestern. She is now conducting a pathbreaking research project on actual jury deliberations in the Arizona state courts. Her other fields of interest include science and the courts, the regulation of trademarks and advertising and field research methodology.

Fred S. McChesney is a leader in doing empirical work from an economics perspective, whose primary scholarly teaching interests are in the area of business and antitrust law and their intersection with economic theory. He will hold the James B. Haddad, Class of 1967 Professorship, at the Law School and will have an appointment in the Management and Strategy Department at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He received his law degree from the University of Miami and his PhD in economics from the University of Virginia, and joins the Law School from Cornell Law School. Prior to commencing his academic career, he served as Associate Director for Policy and Evaluation at the Federal Trade Commission.

James B. Speta is a rising scholar in telecommunications law.His current research interests explore the serious application of economic and regulatory principles to technology. A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law, Speta is a former clerk to Judge Hary Edwards and practiced for five years at a major Chicago law firm. He will teach the first year torts course and a telecommunications course in the spring.