New Faculty for 2009-2010

The Sturm College of Law welcomes new faculty for the 2009-2010 academic year: Assistant Professor Rebecca Aviel and Assistant Professor Raja Raghunath.


Rebecca received her BA at Yale College, followed by her JD at Harvard Law School. She teaches and writes in the areas of family law and legal ethics. Her most recent scholarship argues that social workers should be immune from suit for their decisions to initiate child protection proceedings.

Raja got his BA at Duke University followed by his JD at the University of Michigan Law School. From 2007-2009, he acted ad the Civil Rights Clinical Fellow of the Student Law Office. Before his work at the University of Denver, Raja practiced as both a commercial litigator and a labor and employment lawyer representing unions and individual workers. His scholarship focuses on the areas of labor law and constitutional law.


The Sturm College of Law also welcomed six visiting faculty for this school year, including:

Kristina Campbell, Michael Chang, Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Christine Klein, Veronica Rossman, and Ryan Vacca. Additionally, Dan Abraham, Rosemary Dillon, and Jeremy Weintraub joined the College of Law as visiting Lawyering Process Faculty. Finally, the College of Law welcomes two Clinical Fellows: Brittany Glidden and Kevin Lynch.


Welcome to the University of Denver!

Written by Kathryn Croco Michaels, Law Librarian Fellow