Exceptional Learning in Exceptional Times
Experienced Faculty
The London Summer School faculty bring real-life, international experience to the classroom. The professors teach at some of the most widely respected law schools: William Mitchell, California Western School of Law, South Texas College of Law and BPP, London.
International Business Transactions: Doing Deals Across the Atlantic
Associate Professor
Gregory M. Duhl
William Mitchell College of Law
Professor Duhl is a leading authority on ethical issues in commercial practice, and has designed cutting-edge classes and materials to teach students transactional skills. Professor Duhl is currently the Executive Editor of The Business Lawyer, the premier journal on business law in the United States. He graduated with a B.A. from Yale College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. in Legal Education from Temple University.
Adjunct Professor
Jim Hilbert
William Mitchell College of Law
Adjunct Professor Jim Hilbert is the Executive Director of the Center for Negotiation and Justice at William Mitchell College of Law and Vice President of Professional Services for Alignor, an international negotiation firm with offices in the United States and India. He is an experienced attorney, negotiator, public speaker and instructor. Mr. Hilbert is an expert in business and legal negotiations and has personally negotiated the resolution of numerous lawsuits and disputes, as well as complex, high stakes business deals. Mr. Hilbert has led and developed negotiation and conflict resolution workshops for business executives, lawyers, and government officials around the world. Mr. Hilbert graduated with a B.A. from Carleton College and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.
Comparative Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure: The Crime, The Confession, the Courtroom
Professor
John Sonsteng
William Mitchell College of Law
Prior to teaching, Professor Sonsteng was an elected prosecuting attorney and served as president of the Minnesota County Attorneys’ Association and on the national board of the National District Attorneys’ Association. He has written numerous books and articles on effective advocacy, criminal law and procedure, and legal education reform. He was a Fulbright scholar, and he has lectured and taught throughout the United States and the world. He received his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.
Professor
Sandra Carnahan
South Texas College of Law
Professor Carnahan holds a J.D. from South Texas College of Law, and an LL.M. from the University of Houston. She teaches constitutional criminal procedure at South Texas College of Law, and she has taught comparative criminal procedure internationally. Professor Carnahan is the author of numerous scholarly publications. She is also a former police officer and a former F.B.I. agent.
Comparative Negotiation and Dispute Resolution: Tackling Cross Cultural Disputes
Professor
Thomas D. Barton
California Western School of Law
Professor Thomas D. Barton is the Louis and Hermione Brown Professor of Law at California Western School of Law, where he teaches courses relating to alternative methods for preventing and resolving legal problems. He also teaches Contracts and Civil Procedure, and has developed many courses for the Law and Society program at the University of California, San Diego. He writes and lectures widely about how law and lawyers approach human problems, reflecting a long-standing interest in how law relates to the larger culture in which it operates. Professor Barton received his J.D. degree from the Cornell Law School and a Ph.D. in Law from Cambridge University, England.
Adjunct Professor
Linda Mealey-Lohmann
William Mitchell College of Law
Mealey-Lohmann is an experienced litigator and ADR practitioner, who has taught ADR for 6 years at William Mitchell. Her private practice specializes in mediating and arbitrating employment and commercial disputes. She is a frequent speaker at regional ADR conferences and is co-author of the new Minnesota ADR Handbook. She received both her J.D. and her M.A. (Chinese language) from the University of Minnesota.
Comparative Property Rights
Associate Professor
Mark Edwards
William Mitchell College of Law
Professor Mark A. Edwards is an Associate Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law. He teaches Comparative Property Rights, Property I, Property II, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure. His research and writing has focused on behavior that is formally illegal but socially acceptable, particularly with regard to property rights; dispossession and restitution, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe; and social science and the law.
Associate Professor
Mehmet Konar-Steenberg
William Mitchell College of Law
Professor Konar-Steenberg teaches and writes about comparative constitutional law, United States constitutional law, administrative law, and legal skills. Before joining the William Mitchell faculty, he represented state and local governments in environmental and constitutional land use disputes, first as an assistant attorney general for the State of Minnesota and later as an associate at the litigation firm Greene Espel PLLP. Professor Konar-Steenberg is the Director of International Programs at William Mitchell.
London Program Summer School Director
Professor Christine Ver Ploeg
William Mitchell College of Law
Professor Ver Ploeg received her J.D. with honors from Drake University Law School and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining the William Mitchell faculty, she was a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She has arbitrated and mediated labor and employment disputes throughout the United States and has been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1988. In 1993 she helped found an international charitable organization, Mono A Mono, which has now become the largest and most influential N.G.O. in Bolivia, building clinics, schools, housing, airstrips, roads and reservoirs to improve the lives of the rural poor.