Faculty
Law School Professors
Janet E. Kerr is the Founder and Executive Director of the
Palmer Center. She is a Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of
Law, where she teaches Corporations, Securities Regulations, and Advanced
Securities Regulations.
In addition to her current positions at Pepperdine, Ms. Kerr has been a
consultant to various companies on Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance since 2002 and
has been a securities laws lecturer and consultant to several countries,
including China and Thailand. Ms. Kerr has been appointed to numerous state bar
committees dealing with corporation issues, and has been an expert in numerous
high profile business lawsuits. View Full Bio.
Thomas G. Bost has served as a
professor at Lipscomb University and as an adjunct professor at the School of
Law and at Seaver College. He is an elected member of the American Law
Institute, a member of the American Bar Association, the American College of
Tax Counsel, the State Bar of California, and the Los Angeles County Bar
Association. View Full Bio.
Jack J. Coe, Jr. is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a fellow
of the American Bar Foundation, admitted to practice in California and
Washington, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. He
is co-chair of the International Commercial Dispute Resolution Committee of the
ABA International Law Section, and chairs the Academic Council of the Institute
for Transnational Arbitration. Professor Coe has argued international arbitral
claims under NAFTA, and served as an expert in investor-state arbitrations. Coe
is also an arbitrator listed on the panel of the International Centre for
Dispute resolution (AAA). View Full Bio.
Melanie Howard is a graduate
of Williams College and Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she was President
of the Harvard Mediation Program and an editor for the Harvard Negotiation Law
Review.
Prior to joining the Pepperdine community, Professor Howard was an associate
at the law firm of Loeb & Loeb LLP, where she specialized in intellectual
property law. Each year since 2004, she has been named a Rising Star by the
Southern California Super Lawyers. View Full Bio.
Barry P. McDonald has published several
articles on the law governing freedom of expression in such prominent journals
as the Emory Law Journal, the Notre Dame Law Review and the Ohio State Law
Journal. In law school, Professor McDonald received the Order of the Coif, the
Arlyn Miner Legal Writing Award, and was an associate editor of the
Northwestern Law Review. Upon graduation he clerked for the Honorable James K.
Logan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and then served as a
law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist during the 1989-90 term of the
Supreme Court of the United States. View Full Bio.
James M. McGoldrick, Jr. began his career as a trial attorney for the U.S.
Department of Justice in the attorney general's Program for Honor Law
Graduates, Antitrust Division. He is a member of the California state bar and
the American Bar Association. Professor McGoldrick is admitted to practice in
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. View Full Bio.
Antonio Mendoza is a specialist in international business transactions. He
teaches International Commercial Dispute Resolution, International Business
Transactions, Cross- Cultural Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, International
Income Taxation, and Federal Income Taxation. He is frequently invited to
present lectures and short courses in the United States and abroad on a variety
of international business and dispute resolution topics. Recent venues include
the University of Houston School of Law, Hamline School of Law (Modena, Italy),
St. Mary's University School of Law, the Universidad Panamericana in
Guadalajara and Mexico City, the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City, and the
Colegio de Notarios in Guadalajara, Mexico. View Full Bio.
Grant Nelson teaches Real Estate Finance, Advanced Real Estate
Transactions, Property, Land Use Regulation, and Remedies. Previously, at UCLA he received the School of Law's Rutter Award for
Excellence in Teaching in 2000 and the UCLA University's Distinguished Teaching
Award in 2002. He was the co-reporter for the American Law Institute's
Restatement of Property (Third)--Mortgages (1997), serves on the Law School
Editorial Advisory Board of the West Publishing Company, and as a commissioner
of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. View Full Bio.
Grant L. Ogden is a cum laude graduate of University of California at Los
Angeles, and his J.D. is from the University of California at Davis School of
Law. He was the senior research editor for the UC Davis Law Review. Following
law school, he was awarded the Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship, and worked for
the San Mateo Legal Aid Society, representing clients in numerous
administrative hearings, and other civil cases. He then worked for a small law
firm representing clients in many administrative hearings, as well as civil and
criminal litigation. In 1976, he returned to the academic world as a law and
humanities teaching fellow at Temple University School of Law. He earned an
LL.M. degree with a concentration in legal education from Temple in 1978. He
joined the Pepperdine law faculty in 1978, as an associate professor of law. He
became a professor of law in 1982. He was awarded the Chambership Fellowship in
Legislation at Columbia School of Law, and received an LL.M. with a
concentration in administrative law from Columbia in 1981. View Full Bio.
Mark S. Scarberry decided during his first year at UCLA Law School that he
wanted to teach law. He graduated first in his class and then joined the
Pepperdine law faculty in 1982 after four years' practice experience with
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Los Angeles. His major academic interests are
bankruptcy (particularly Chapter 11 business reorganization), contracts, legal
philosophy, and constitutional law. View Full Bio.
Adjunct Professors
John Allen, Dan Bishop, Brent Lawson Caslin,
Scott Chaplan, Marc P. Goodman, Eric Halvorson, Curt Hessler, Eric E. Johnson,
Rosemarie F. Jones, Nicolas M. Kublicki, Matthew Neco, James D. Prendergast,
Rob Rader, Charles B. Rosenberg, Mark G. Sellers, Gia Honnen Weisdorn, Bertram
R. Zweig.
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