OUR FACULTY

• Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
• Visiting Faculty
• Special Faculty Appointments
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• Adjunct Faculty (Summer 2012)
• Adjunct Faculty (Spring 2012)
• Adjunct Faculty (Fall 2011)
• Emeritus Law Faculty

Adjunct Instructor Jonathan Lawlor litigated commercial cases for 13 years. Beginning in 1991, he practiced in New York, as a litigation associate, first with Cravath, Swaine & Moore and then with Herrick, Feinstein LLP. In 1998, he joined the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC, as a trial attorney with the Civil Division’s Commercial Litigation Branch. At Justice, he was a member of the trial team defending the United States against more than $20 billion in breach-of-contract claims brought by financial institutions and their investors in cases related to United States v. Winstar Corp., 518 U.S. 839 (1996), and he also litigated appeals concerning the constitutionality of the domestic and import provisions of the Harbor Maintenance Tax. Since late 2004, he has been the full-time, primary caretaker for his daughter, and an active community volunteer. Professor Lawlor is a graduate of Harvard University (History) and the University of Virginia School of Law. At Virginia, he was an executive editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law, as well as a quarterfinalist in the Lile Moot Court Competition. He has been an adjunct instructor in Washington College of Law’s Legal Rhetoric Program since 2008.