They are:

Tony B. Derron, who will join the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  He is currently a Bigelow Fellow at the Law School.  He received his J.D. from Yale in 2018, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review, and Lead Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation.  He clerked for Judge William Hood III on the Colorado Supreme Court, and for Chief Judge Philip Brimmer on the District of Colorado.  In the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, he first served as the Natural Resources and Environment Fellow, and then as Assistant Attorney General for Air Quality, before coming to Chicago in 2023.  His primary areas of teaching and research interest are environmental law, administrative law, state and local government law, and constitutional law.  

 

Brian R. Downing ’05, who will join the faculty at the University of Mississippi. He recently stepped down after sixteen years as a Director of Google, LLC, where, among other duties, he led the Search Legal Team, and served as First Head of Compliance for Google’s Platforms & Ecosystems organization and was involved in direct negotiation with U.S. and international regulators, including the European Commission over the Digital Markets Act.  His primary areas of teaching and research interest are law & technology, regulated industries, intellectual property, and European Union law.

 

Jacob Hamburger ’21, who will join the faculty at Marquette University.   He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell Law School, where he is teaching civil procedure and immigration law.  He graduated with Honors from the Law School, where he was a Rubenstein Scholar all three years.  Prior to coming to the Law School, he earned an M.A. in Contemporary Philosophy from the École Normale Supériure in Paris.  Before joining Cornell Law School in 2022 as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Immigration Law & Policy Research Center, he was a Staff Attorney at Legal Aid Chicago, working with the Immigrants’ and Workers’ Rights Practice Group.  His primary areas of teaching and research interest are immigration law, civil procedure, administrative law, constitutional law, state and local government law, and labor and employment law. 

 

Michelle Krech, who will join the faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University.  She is currently a Bigelow Fellow at the Law School.  She received her J.D. from the University of Ottawa, where she received a slew of academic prizes for “highest cumulative GPA” and “highest academic achievement in international law,” among others.  She earned her J.S.D. from NYU with a dissertation on “Gendered Equality and World Athletics, 1912-2022:  Norm Change as Authority Sustenance in Private Global Governance.”  She also holds an M.A. in international affairs from Carleton University.  She clerked for a judge on the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and for justices of the Court of Appeal of Ontario.  Her primary areas of teaching and research interest are international law, international organizations, human rights, and critical legal theories.  

 

Jared I. Mayer ’21, who will join the faculty at Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University. He is currently a Bigelow Fellow at the Law School.  He graduated cum laude from the Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Chicago Journal of International Law and received the Ernst Freund Fellowship in Law & Philosophy.  He clerked for Justice Barry Albin on the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and was a bankruptcy associate at Ropes & Gray in New York City.  His primary areas of teaching and research interest include bankruptcy, contracts, corporate law & securities regulation, and commercial law.  

 

Lucy Msall MLS '23, who will join the faculty at the University of Chicago in 2026.  She will receive her Ph.D. in economics from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.  She is the first graduate of our relatively new Master of Legal Studies program to be hired into a tenure-track job in a law school.    Her primary areas of teaching and research interest include tax law and policy, law & economics, and empirical legal studies.

 

Eileen R. Prescott ’18, who will join the faculty at the University of Georgia.  She is currently Director of the Accountable Prosecutor Project at Wake Forest University School of Law, where she also teaches criminal law and procedure.  She served on the Articles Staff of the Chicago Journal of International Law while at the Law School.  Afterwards, she clerked for Chief Judge James Shadid on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, and spent two years as an Assistant District Attorney in the Federal Litigation Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, before joining Wake Forest in 2021.  Her primary areas of teaching and research interest include criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and constitutional law.

 

Asma T. Uddin ’05, who will join the faculty at Michigan State University.   is currently a Research Associate Professor of Law at Catholic University.  At the Law School, she served on the Law Review, and was a Frank Greenberg Scholar.  She practiced real estate law at Greenberg Traurig in Miami, and litigation with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia, before joining the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty as legal counsel in 2009. After seven years at the Becket Fund, she became Director of Strategy for the Center for Islam and Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C., and then served as a Fellow at the Freedom Form Institute and the Aspen Institute.  She served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Catholic University, 2021-2023, wher she taught international human rights, gender and law, and a religious liberty clinic; she has also taught the latter at Harvard Law School.  Her primary areas of teaching and research interest are constitutional law, First Amendment, law & religion, international human rights, civil procedure and professional responsibility.

 

Lael Weinberger ’18, who will join the faculty at George Mason University.  He is currently a litigation associate at Gibson Dunn in Washington, D.C.  He graduated with High Honors and Order of the Coif from the Law School, where he was a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar, and won multiple prizes for his academic writing.  He also served as Articles Editor of the Law Review.  He earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 2021 with a dissertation on “American Lawyers and International Law from Arbitration to Human Rights, 1900-1954.”    He clerked for Judge Easterbrook on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7^th Circuit, and Justice Gorsuch on the U.S. Supreme Court.  He has also been an Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow and Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow at Harvard Law School from 2019-2022.  His primary areas of teaching and research interest are constitutional law, civil procedure, federal courts, legal history, legal profession, and law & religion.  

You can see a complete list of Chicago law alumni in teaching here.