Arizona Law Welcomes New Visiting Faculty

Five new visiting faculty will join the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law beginning fall 2016.

The new hires are:

Faisal Chaudhry
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2016-2018
Chaudhry joins Arizona Law for a two-year appointment, during which he will teach Property and an upper-class seminar. Chaudhry, who is currently an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania Department of History and Department of South Asia Studies, earned his JD and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. His research focuses on the emergence of legal and economic modernization in South Asia and the Middle East and on the integration of intellectual property, law, economics, and science.

Joanna Sax
Visiting Professor, fall 2016
Sax, who will teach Contracts at Arizona Law, visits from the California Western School of Law, where she is associate dean for research and faculty development and co-director of the Institute of Health Law Studies. She researches ways to incentivize the advancement of science and protect scientific inquiry, and is widely known for her work on food policy and FDA regulations. Sax has a JD and a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania and was previously an associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

Matthew Fletcher
Visiting Professor, spring 2017
While at Arizona Law, Fletcher will lead the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy (IPLP) program’s Tribal Courts Clinic. He is director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at the Michigan State University College of Law. Fletcher teaches in the areas of federal Indian law, is the author of numerous publications and articles on a wide range of federal Indian law topics, and serves as Chief Justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court. He is also lead editor and author of the leading law blog on American Indian law and policy, Turtle Talk. He earned his JD from the University of Michigan.

Wenona Singel
Visiting Professor, spring 2017
Singel also joins Arizona’s IPLP program in the spring, when she will teach Native American Natural Resources. Singel is associate director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at the Michigan State University College of Law. She teaches in the areas of federal Indian law, tribal governance, and natural resource law. Her research covers topics in tribal law and the development of tribal judicial systems, and she serves as Chief Appellate Justice for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. She earned her JD from Harvard Law School

Roman Hoyos
Visiting Professor, spring 2017
Hoyos comes to Arizona Law from Southwestern Law School and will teach Property. His primary interest is in the relationships between law, democracy, and the state in American history, and he holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Chicago, in addition to a JD from Northwestern University. Hoyos is the book reviews editor of the American Journal of Legal History and a contributing editor for the Legal History Section of the online review journal JOTWeLL (Journal of Things We Like Lots). Following law school, Hoyos practiced law briefly at Rosen, Bien & Asaro (now Rosen, Bien & Galvan), a small civil rights firm in San Francisco that specializes in prisoner rights and attorney fees litigation.