Faculty & Research
Shaping future leaders
WashULaw professors are nationally- and internationally-recognized experts in a broad array of disciplinary backgrounds, both as educators and practitioners. Their scholarship and expertise enable our students to go beyond textbooks and bring real-world perspectives to cutting-edge legal issues.
Faculty Spotlight
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Explore our faculty’s scholarship and expertise for yourself
WashULaw’s distinguished and gifted faculty come from diverse practice and disciplinary backgrounds, and their scholarship encompasses a wide range of legal topics.
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Center for Empirical Research in the Law
The center promotes empirical research on law and legal institutions and creates tools to gather and analyze data and to share the results with the world.
Learn MoreThe Cordell Institute for Policy in Law & Medicine
A first-of-its-kind collaboration, this institute combines world-leading expertise in the science of human genomics with legal expertise in privacy and the ethical management of human information.
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The institute increases global knowledge and understanding, promotes the rule of law, and addresses problems requiring international cooperation and solutions.
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Explore the WashULaw Library
Our extensive library includes comprehensive legal materials on our shelves as well as access to digital libraries to give students access to virtually limitless information.
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