2012 Galway Faculty

Visiting Professor Jeffrey P. Minear is counselor to the chief justice of the United States. His duties include serving as the Supreme Court’s chief of staff and assisting the chief justice in his administrative responsibilities as head of the federal judiciary. Mr. Minear is the former senior litigation counsel in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he argued 56 cases before the Supreme Court. He is also the executive director of the Supreme Court Fellows Program and a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society. Mr. Minear has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and as a visiting professor at Washington and Lee Law School and the University of Utah College of Law. He holds B.S. and Ch.E. degrees from the University of Utah and M.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh is a lecturer of international law in the Irish Centre for Human Rights. She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Connecticut, an LL.M. from the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a Ph.D. in comparative politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has held visiting positions at Hebrew University, Boston University, and Oxford University. From 2004–2010, she was chair of the Executive Committee of Amnesty International (Ireland), and she has been a member of the International Policy Committee of Amnesty International. She has undertaken numerous missions on behalf of Amnesty International, including to Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and, more recently, to Iraq. She has conducted trainings for governmental as well as nongovernmental organizations throughout the Middle East (Egypt, Israel/Occupied Territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen), India, and the Republic of Ireland.

Dr. Shane Darcy is a lecturer in international human rights law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. He holds a B.A. in law and accounting from the University of Limerick, and LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Prior to joining the academic staff of the centre, he was a lecturer at the University of Ulster, a Government of Ireland scholar, and a doctoral fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. In 2007, he was awarded the Eda Sagarra Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is director of the Ph.D. program at the centre. Dr. Darcy has participated in training, workshops, and research projects in Cambodia, China, India, Iran, South Africa and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. An associate editor of Criminal Law Forum, he is currently conducting research projects that explore the judicial development of international criminal law and humanitarian law.

Professor Philip K. Hamilton is a professor of law at New England Law | Boston and currently teaches Evidence, Civil Procedure, Legal Ethics, and Legal History. He has also served as associate dean and as director of New England Law’s clinical program. Before joining the New England Law faculty, he was a legal services lawyer for eight years. He received an A.B. in history from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to law school, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil. In 2005, while on sabbatical in England, he was a reader in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, studying ancient Celtic law.

Professor Ray Murphy is the interim director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway. He received a B.A. and an LL.B. from the National University of Ireland, Galway; a B.L. from King’s Inns, Dublin; an M. Litt. in international law from Dublin University, Trinity College; and a Ph.D. in international law from the University of Nottingham, England. He is a former practicing barrister and captain in the Irish Defense Forces, and he served with UN forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 1981 to 1982 and in 1989. He has worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union, Amnesty International, and the Irish government in human rights and election monitoring in Africa and Europe. His main teaching and research interests include international peace operations and international humanitarian law.

Professor Eileen A. Scallen has been on the faculty of William Mitchell College of Law since 2000. Prior to attending law school, she received an M.A. in communication studies from the University of Minnesota, focusing on legal argumentation and persuasion. She received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Law Review. After law school, she clerked for a federal judge in Los Angeles, worked in the litigation department of a large firm, and then began her teaching career at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, where she received tenure. Her teaching and research interests include evidence, civil and criminal procedure, communication in legal organizations, and argumentation and persuasion theory, and she has published articles in several of those fields. She often speaks to audiences of lawyers and judges, as well as to other academics.

Professor Monica Teixeira de Sousa joined the faculty of New England Law | Boston in 2007. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, she grew up in Rhode Island. She received a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from Georgetown University. She began practicing law in 2002 as a Skadden Fellow at Rhode Island Legal Services, where she specialized in representing children and parents in education law cases and created a multi-site, school-based legal clinic. She is the former chair of the Rhode Island Education Justice Council. She speaks and writes on education law and school reform topics, and was recently featured in the documentary, The Class Slipper: Middle Class Warfare in America. She teaches Education and the Law, Education and Class Mobility, Family Law, and Property.