Faculty

Meet our fabulous faculty for the Summer 2012 program!

Professor Robert Butkin

 Professor Butkin is a Professor of Law and former Dean of the College of Law of the University of Tulsa College of Law. In 2010, Professor Butkin was named by the students as the Outstanding First Year Professor in the College of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Corporate Law, Administrative Law, State Administrative Law, and Selling and Leasing of Goods. Professor Butkin also currently serves as one of Oklahoma’s representatives on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

Prior to joining the faculty of the College of Law as Dean in 2005, Professor Butkin also served for ten years as the State Treasurer of Oklahoma. He has the distinction of being re-elected twice to that office without opposition. During his tenure as State Treasurer, his principle accomplishments include drafting and later administering Oklahoma’s 529 College Savings Plan, co-chairing the successful effort to secure constitutional amendments that now permit state colleges and universities to partner with the private sector on research initiatives, and co-chairing the effort to secure additional constitutional amendments that placed Oklahoma’s share of its tobacco settlement moneys in a permanent trust fund to support healthcare and education.

Professor Butkin is a graduate of Yale College, magna cum laude with distinction in History, and of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 1978 to 1979, Professor Butkin served as a Henry Luce Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the University of the Philippines Law Center. As an Assistant Attorney General, he represented the State of Oklahoma in Arkansas v. Oklahoma, a landmark Clean Water Act case, which he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991. He also represented the State in a number of important utility and worker’s compensation cases before state courts and administrative agencies during his many years of service in the Attorney General’s Office. More recently, he has also served on the Tulsa Mayoral Advisory Committee on Municipal Finance.

Professor Bruce Carolan

 Professor Carolan has taught in the TU Dublin program since 2000, and during the mid-2000s he served as co-director of the program. Professor Carolan is the Head of the Department of Law at the Dublin Institute of Technology, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1997. In addition, Professor Carolan has taught European Union and international trade and business courses as a visiting professor at Stetson University College of Law, Washburn University College of Law, and at the University of Florida, and he has lectured on these topics in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, England, and Argentina. He is a past president of the Irish Association of Law Teachers (1999-2000), a former Chair of the Section on International Legal Exchange of the Association of American Law Schools (2007), and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars in the U.K (1999-2003).

Professor Carolan is the author of EU Law for Students in Ireland, 2d ed. (Gill & Macmillan 2009) and series editor of Nutshell Series in Irish Law (Round Hall Press Sweet & Maxwell), including Irish Constitutional Law (2002); Irish Land Law (2001); Irish Company Law (2001); Contract Law (2005); Evidence Law (2005); and European Union Law (2005). He has published a chapter in L. Backer (ed)., Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization: Convergence, Divergence, and Resistance (Carolina Academic Press 2007) and numerous articles in European and U.S. law journals.

Professor Carolan earned his B.A. from the University of Arizona and his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami, where he graduated cum laude and served as Articles and Comments Editor of the University of Miami Law Review. He earned an LL.M in European Law, with distinction, from the National University of Ireland, School of Law, in Dublin.

Professor Seamus Clarke

Seamus Professor Clarke has taught International Intellectual Property for the TU Dublin program since 2000, and he also serves as Assistant Director of the Legal Internship program, assisting Dr. Ryan in the recruitment of intern supervisors.

Professor Clarke is a Barrister-at-law currently in private practice in Dublin, specializing in the areas of criminal law, judicial review, employment law, intellectual property law, and planning law. Prof. Clarke taught for several years as a Lecturer in the Department of Law at the Dublin Institute of Technology and at Griffith College School of Law in Dublin. He has also lectured at The Honorable Society of King’s Inns in Dublin, where Irish barristers receive their training.

Professor Clarke was counsel in the 2007 landmark decision of Dillon v. DPP, Ireland and Attorney General, a decision which struck down the Vagrancy Act, 1847 as a vague statute and an unconstitutional violation of free speech. He was also Counsel for Anthony Gorman in the 2010 decision of Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform v. Gorman, in which the High Court refused to extradite Mr. Gorman to the United Kingdom for trial on the basis that the Applicant’s right to family life (under the facts of that particular case) trumped the Irish State’s obligation to surrender Mr. Gorman. He regularly appears before the Superior Courts in Ireland for An Post, the Irish Postal Service, banking institutions, and local planning authorities, and he was appointed to the panel representing the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2006.

Professor Clarke received his Bachelor of Civil Law (International Degree) from University College Dublin in 1995. As part of his training for the International Degree, he attended DePaul University College of Law during the 1993-94 academic year and clerked for two Chicago law firms. He subsequently earned a Magister Juris Degree in European and Comparative Law in 1996 from the University of Oxford, where he was a Parker Scholar at Lady Margaret Hall. He also holds a Barrister-at-Law degree from The Honorable Society of King's Inns. Professor Clarke has published numerous articles on topics ranging from judicial review and pharmacy law to electronic commerce, and in 2000 he served as Editor of the Irish Student Law Review.

Professor Lyn Entzeroth

 Professor Enzeroth is a Professor of Law and former Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of Tulsa College of Law, where she teaches in the areas of Capital Punishment, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and formerly in Federal Courts and Civil Procedure. Since joining the faculty in 2002, Prof. Enzeroth has received student-selected teaching awards as the Outstanding Professor in either the First Year Professor category or Upper Class Professor category for seven academic years out of the past nine years, an unparalleled accomplishment. In addition, she received the University of Tulsa Outstanding Professor Award, given to only three professors University-wide, in 2005.

Professor Enzeroth is co-author of the first published casebook in the field of capital punishment, Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process, now in its third edition. She is also a nationally recognized expert who has published numerous articles on capital punishment, prisoners rights, and criminal law in journals such as Indiana Law Review, Tennessee Law Review, and Alabama Law Review and presented at symposia and colloquies across the country. Prof. Enzeroth is currently co-editor, and since 2008 has served on the editorial board, of Amicus Journal, a London-based journal focusing on global issues related to the death penalty. From 2005 to 2008, she served as a member of the American Bar Association’s Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project. In 2002, she also consulted with the Utah legislature on a proposal to ban imposition of the death penalty on mentally retarded defendants, as a Death Penalty Legislative Resource Counsel.

Professor Enzeroth is a graduate of University of Wisconsin and Tulane University School of Law, where she served as Note and Comment Editor on Tulane Law Review. Upon graduation, she worked for several years in Washington D.C. as an associate for the firms of Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts and Wiley, Rein & Fielding, before moving to Oklahoma and serving as an Assistant Appellate Public Defender for the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, as Law Clerk to Magistrate Judge Bana Roberts for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, and as Senior Law Clerk to Judge Charles Chapel of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

Dr. Suzanne Kingston

 Dr. Kingston has taught European Union Law in our Dublin program since 2009. Since 2007 she has been a member of the faculty of the School of Law at University College Dublin, where she teaches courses as a Lecturer in EU Law, EU Competition Law, and EU Environmental Law in the graduate and undergraduate programs. She is also a practicing Barrister-at-Law, specializing in EU and Competition Law, and she appears, inter alia, on behalf of the Republic of Ireland and the European Commission before the EU courts.

Dr. Kingston formerly served as a référendaire (law clerk) in the cabinet of Advocate General Geelhoed at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg (2004-06) and as a stagiaire at the European Commission (DG Competition)(2001-2002). From 2002-2004, she practiced EU law in the Brussels office of the US law firm, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She has been an affiliated lecturer in law teaching EU Environmental Law at Cambridge University, a visiting lecturer at University of Leiden and Queen's University, Belfast, and in March 2011 she was Visiting EUCE Research Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. She is frequently invited to speak on EU-related issues at international and domestic conferences.

Dr. Kingston has recently published two books, Manual on European Union Law (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration 2010) and Greening EU Competition Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press 2011), and she has contributed chapters to Kapteyn & Verloren van Themaat, The Law of the European Union and the European Communities (The Netherlands: Kluwer 2008) and Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (Cambridge University Press 2007), in addition to publishing widely in a variety of fields of EU law, including EU competition law, EU environmental law, EU taxation law and EU human rights law. Dr. Kingston received a Ph.D. in Competition and Environmental Law at the Univ. of Leiden, where she also earned an LL.M in European Community Law, cum laude. She received her B.A. in Law from Oxford University.

Professor Mary Catherine Lucey

 mary lucey Professor Lucey serves as an on-site Administrative Coordinator for the TU Dublin program, and she has taught a course in EU Competition Law in the program for many years. Professor Lucey has been a Lecturer on the faculty in the School of Law at University College Dublin since 1996, where she teaches EU Competition Law, EU Economic Law, and Competition Law. She served as Academic Director of the LL.M program at UCD in Commercial Law from 2006 to 2008, and she is currently the Programme Coordinator for the UCD Bachelor of Civil Law Program. She has published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and other publications related to Irish, UK, and EC Competition Law, EU Law, and Contract Law, and she is co-author of the book, Irish Perspectives on EC Law (Round Hall Sweet and Maxwell, 2003). In 2006, Professor Lucey was a visiting professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York, and she was honored as an Irish Canadian University Foundation Scholar in 2005.

Professor Lucey earned her Bachelor of Civil Law and LL.M, degrees at National University of Ireland (Cork), where she graduated with First Honors, and in 1993 she was awarded the Barrister-at-Law degree from The Honorable Society of King's Inn.

Dr. Fergus Ryan

fergusDr. Ryan has served as the Director of our Legal Internship program since its inception in 2001. Dr. Ryan is a Lecturer in law at the Dublin Institute of Technology, a school with over 400 undergraduate and postgraduate law students, where he served as Acting Head of the Department of Law from 2003 to 2009. From 2002-5, Dr. Ryan also served as a visiting lecturer at the School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, teaching Family Law. He has also served as a visiting lecturer at the Law Society of Ireland and at the Centre for Equality Studies at UCD, and he is an external examiner at WIT and Dublin Business School.

A former President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, Dr. Ryan is a prolific scholar and has published numerous articles and book chapters in the fields of family, immigration, criminal, and constitutional law, in addition to several books, including Contract Law, Round Hall Nutshells (Dublin: Thomson Round Hall 2006); Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Law in Ireland, Cases and Materials (with Dug Cubie) (Thomson Round Hall, 2004); and Constitutional Law, Round Hall Nutshells, 2nd ed. (Dublin: Round Hall, 2008). In 2009, he published Civil Partnership: Your Questions Answered (GLEN, 2009), an analysis of the then pending Civil Partnership Bill 2009. He has co-authored two reports for the Irish Human Rights Commission and has served as consultant to the Northern Ireland Law Reform Advisory Committee and to the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network. From 2005-07, he served as Chairperson of One Family, a national charity providing support to one-parent families. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and a regular guest contributor on Irish radio and television. Dr. Ryan is a graduate and former scholar at Trinity College, Dublin, where he earned his Ph.D.

Professor Paul Ward

 Professor Ward has lectured or taught in the TU Dublin program since its inception in 1999. Professor Ward is a Senior Lecturer on the faculty in the School of Law at University College Dublin, where he teaches in the areas of Family Law, Child Law, Torts, and Advanced Torts. He is also a Barrister-at-Law with the Honorable Society of King's Inn and has practiced in the field of family law for a number of years. Professor Ward was a visiting professor at De Paul University College of Law in Chicago in 2002 and 2004, and he lectured at the University of Hanover in 1996. Professor Ward has also served as a consultant to the Inspector of Prisons in Ireland, Mr. Justice Kinlen.

Professor Ward earned his Bachelor of Civil Law from University College Dublin and his Barrister-at-Law degree from the Honorable Society of King's Inns. He earned an L.L.M. from the London School of Economics. He is widely respected internationally as a family law scholar and has published numerous articles in French, British, and U.S. academic journals, as well as many articles on Irish family law issues for the International Survey of Family Law. He is also the author of three books, Child Care Acts Consolidated, 2d ed. (Roundhall Sweet and Maxwell 2005); Family Law and Succession, International Encyclopaedia of Laws (Kluwer Law International 2006); and Tort Law, International Encyclopaedia of Laws (Kluwer Law International 2009). In 2008, Professor Ward completed a report for the EU Commission on the enforcement of family law judgments and return orders under the Hague Convention.