Dean Thomas Mengler announces the hiring of four distinguished professors to join the University of St. Thomas Law School faculty beginning in Fall 2007:

Michael Stokes Paulsen is currently the McKnight Presidential Professor of Law and Public Policy, Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law, and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship at the University of Minnesota Law School. He was a visiting professor at St. Thomas during the 2003-04 school year. Professor Paulsen is among the nation�s leading scholars of constitutional interpretation, and his publications include articles in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Chicago Law Review, NYU Law Review, Texas Law Review, California Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal, among many others.

Professor Paulsen received his B.A. degree with distinction from Northwestern University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received an M.A. degree in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and a recipient of the Harlan Fiske Stone Prize for appellate advocacy. After graduation from law school, he joined the Department of Justice in the Criminal Division Honors Program, and has also served as staff counsel for the Center for Law & Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. and as an attorney- advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel. At St. Thomas, Professor Paulsen will teach Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure.

Susan Stabile is currently the Dean George W. Matheson Professor of Law at St. John�s University Law School and senior fellow of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society. She is among the nation�s leading scholars on pensions and employee benefits, and on the intersection of Catholic social thought and the law. She is the co-author of the leading casebook, Pension and Employee Benefit Law (Foundation Press) and the treatise ERISA Litigation (BNA). Her publications include articles in the NYU Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Notre Dame Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, and the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, among many others.

Professor Stabile received her B.A. degree from Georgetown University and her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Law Review. After graduation from law school, she was associated in New York and Hong Kong with the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, where she spent her early years practicing corporate and securities law and later specialized in employee benefits and executive compensation matters. At St. Thomas, Professor Stabile will teach Employee Benefits, Employment Law, and Administrative Law.

Joel Nichols is currently an Associate Professor and Rick J. Caruso Research Fellow in Law at Pepperdine Law School. His scholarship has focused on the intersection of theology and religion as they relate to constitutional law, human rights, legal history, and family law. His articles have appeared in NYU Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Journal of Church and State, Emory International Law Review, and Emory Law Journal, among others. He is the director of an ongoing project exploring the concept of �multi-tiered marriage,� and he will edit a forthcoming book on the subject featuring contributors such as Brian Bix, Margaret Brinig, Rick Garnett, Linda McClain, Stephen Presser, John Witte, and Robin Wilson.

Professor Nichols received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Abilene Christian University, and his J.D. degree with highest honors from Emory University Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Emory Law Journal. He also received his M.Div. degree from Emory�s Candler School of Theology, where he received the Award for Academic Excellence. Professor Nichols clerked for Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and was associated with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. At St. Thomas, Professor Nichols will teach Contracts, Family Law, and Human Rights.

Robert Kahn is currently Assistant Professor of Legal Writing at Brooklyn Law School. His scholarship has focused on the law of the Holocaust, and his book, Holocaust Denial and the Law: A Comparative Study, was published by Palgrave-MacMillan. He received his B.A. degree from Columbia University, his J.D. degree from NYU Law School, and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. He practiced law as a staff attorney with Harlem Legal Services. At St. Thomas, Professor Kahn will teach Lawyering Skills.