• John G. Clarkson, M.D., Dean Emeritus and Professor, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine (Chair)
• Caroline Bradley, Professor of Law
• Preston J. Clark, President, Student Bar Association
• Ben W. F. Depoorter, Associate Professor of Law
• Zanita Fenton, Professor of Law
• Patrick O. Gudridge, Professor of Law
• Lili Levi, Professor of Law
• Bernard H. Oxman, Richard A. Hausler Professor of Law
• Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean, School of Education
• Aileen M. Ugalde, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the University

John G. Clarkson, M.D. Dean Emeritus and Professor, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Dr. Clarkson was director of UM’s nationally acclaimed Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology before becoming dean in November 1995. During his tenure as dean he recruited significant research and academic talent to the University and presided over hefty annual growth in the research enterprise.

He transformed the medical campus, creating the Schoninger Research Quadrangle and guiding the completion of the Batchelor Children’s Research Institute and the Lois Pope LIFE Center for neuroscience research. Construction of a clinical research building and wellness center is well under way, and the School is moving forward on development of a multispecialty practice building and hospital, and a laboratory building.

Dr. Clarkson led the planning, development and implementation of the School’s largest capital campaign ever, highlighted by the December 2004 announcement of a historic $100 million gift from the family of the late Miami developer Leonard M. Miller. The medical school was named in Miller’s honor.

In addition to Bascom Palmer, internationally known centers of excellence that grew significantly under Clarkson’s leadership include the Diabetes Research Institute, the UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and the Center for Research in Medical Education. In recent years he directed the creation of the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Center for Medical Genetics and the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Center for Patient Safety.

The faculty medical practice, University of Miami Medical Group, became a consolidated, competitive clinical operation under Dr. Clarkson’s leadership, with new focus on improved access and customer service. He was also responsible for strengthening the School’s critical relationship with its primary hospital partner, Jackson Memorial, which provides world-class care to all who need it in Miami-Dade County. Dr. Clarkson served as a member of the county’s Public Health Trust, which governs Jackson.

The dean worked in many other ways to raise the School’s profile as a community partner, as a leader of the Mayor’s Healthcare Task Force and several community boards. Clarkson also presided over the redesign of the medical curriculum, a growing emphasis on the recruitment of out-of-state medical students to raise the School’s national stature, and the new partnership with Florida Atlantic University. Through that partnership, a group of UM medical students is taking the first two years of classes at FAU’s Boca Raton campus.

In his new role Dr. Clarkson will lead the American Board of Ophthalmology, a certifying agency of the American Board of Medical Specialists that ensures that ophthalmologists maintain top professional skills.

A graduate of Princeton University, Dr. Clarkson earned his medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1968. He completed his internship training at University Hospital in Boston and returned to the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center for residency training in ophthalmology. He also completed fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University in both ophthalmic pathology and retinal and vitreous surgery.

Originally from Grove City, Pennsylvania, Dr. Clarkson moved to West Palm Beach in 1954. He and his wife, the former Diana Teasdale, both graduated from Palm Beach High School. The Clarksons have two children, Paige and David, and four grandchildren, Kate, Tyler, Dean, and Matthew.

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Caroline Bradley Professor of Law

Caroline Bradley, Professor of Law, studied law at Jesus College at the University of Cambridge, and after working for Freshfields she began her academic career in 1986 as a lecturer in law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1992 she joined the University of Miami Law School faculty. At UM she teaches courses in European Community law, international finance, business associations, and law and online games. Her research focuses on the ways in which technological, political and economic developments challenge business and financial law.

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Preston J. Clark President, Student Bar Association

Preston Clark is the President of the Student Bar Association at the University of Miami School of Law. Mr. Clark earned a B.A. in Philosophy (Cum Laude) from Loyola Marymount University in 2000 and is a 2008 J.D. candidate at the University of Miami. Mr. Clark is a member of the Immigration Law Society, Student Organization for Human Rights, Bar & Gavel Honor Society and is a Florida Bar Summer Fellow. Mr. Clark is also the 2007-2008 Elected Student Trustee on the University of Miami Board of Trustees. Prior to law school Mr. Clark served as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador from 2001-2004.

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Ben W. F. Depoorter Associate Professor of Law

Professor Depoorter's research focus is on the political economy of law, the role of litigation and settlements in society, and the impact of technological developments on legal change and intellectual property law. He has authored over twenty scholarly publications, including recent articles in Duke Law Journal, Oregon Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review, International Review of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. His recent essays include an analysis of the political supply of and demand for disaster management before and after hurricane Katrina, settlements and legal change, and an empirical assessment of social norm complications in copyright litigation.

Professor Depoorter has been teaching at the University of Ghent and as a Visiting Professor at George Mason Law School in 2005-2006. Professor Depoorter teaches courses in Intellectual Property Law, Property Law and Law & Economics.

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Zanita Fenton Professor of Law

Professor Fenton received an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal. She practiced briefly in the New York firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton before she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edward R. Korman, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She began her career in academia at the Wayne State University School of Law.

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Patrick O. Gudridge Professor of Law

Patrick O. Gudridge, Professor of Law, received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1972 and a J.D. in 1976 from Harvard Law School. Professor Gudridge served as law clerk to Justice Mathew O. Tobriner of the California Supreme Court. He joined the faculty in 1977, holding the office of Associate Dean at the Law School from 1990 to 1994. He has published widely, exploring structures of legal interpretation and analysis, chiefly in the context of constitutional law. His teaching interests have included courses in federal jurisdiction, U.S. and Florida constitutional law, jurisprudence, business associations, torts, contracts, and agency. He has taught as a visiting professor at Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Lili Levi Professor of Law

Lili Levi, Professor of Law, earned an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1977 and a J.D. in 1981 from Harvard Law School. She then worked as an attorney with the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and as Broadcast Counsel with CBS, Inc., before joining the faculty in 1987. Her scholarship focuses primarily on communications and media law. Professor Levi teaches business associations, communications law, copyright law, and international copyright law, and has taught defamation and privacy law. She is a member of the American Law Institute.

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Bernard H. Oxman Richard A. Hausler Professor of Law

At the University of Miami, he regularly teaches conflict of laws, international law, law of the sea, and torts. He served as associate dean of the Law School from 1987 to 1990, and currently is the Faculty Chair of the Law School's Master of Laws Program in Ocean and Coastal Law. He has been a member of the University's Faculty Senate since 1996, received the Provost’s award for scholarly merit, and was appointed to the Richard A. Hausler chair in 2007.

Professor Oxman is Co-Editor in Chief of the American Journal of International Law, Vice President of the American Society of International Law, and a member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the only American lawyer ever appointed to serve as judge ad hoc on both the International Court of Justice (where he currently serving in the Black Sea Maritime Delimitation case between Romania and Ukraine) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (where he served in 2003 in the Land Reclamation case between Malaysia and Singapore and subsequently in 2003-2005 as a member of the arbitral tribunal appointed in that case).

Professor Oxman has published numerous books and articles on the law of the sea and other international law subjects. His centennial essay entitled The Territorial Temptation: A Siren Song at Sea appears in Volume 100 of the American Journal of International Law (October 2006).

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Isaac Prilleltensky Dean, School of Education

Born in Argentina, Prilleltensky received his M.A. in clinical child psychology from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Manitoba. While working as a school psychologist, he discovered the social origins of child and family problems and soon became a community psychologist. He has written or co-edited seven books on community psychology and mental health.

From 2000 to 2002, Prilleltensky served as research chair in psychology at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, and prior to that, he directed the community psychology program at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.

He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Community Research and Action. In 2002, he was invited to be a fellow of the British Psychological Society.

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Aileen M. Ugalde Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the University

She received an A.B. in Latin American Studies and International Relations from Harvard University in 1988 and a J.D. in 1991 from the University of Miami. Ugalde is a member of the Florida Bar, the Cuban American Bar Association, the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys.

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