University of Arizona College of Law

Faculty Liasons: University of Arizona College of Law

Barbara Atwood

Mary Anne Richey Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona

After earning her law degree from the University of Arizona in 1976, Professor Atwood clerked for United States District Judge Mary Anne Richey and then worked as a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She taught for five years at the University of Houston Law Center before joining the Arizona law faculty in 1986. She became the Mary Anne Richey Professor of Law in 1998. She currently teaches Civil Procedure, Family Law, and related seminars. Professor Atwood’s scholarship explores topics at the intersection of civil procedure and family law, including several analyses of jurisdictional issues affecting American Indian children. Her writings emphasize the role of procedure as a vehicle for enhancing the voices of marginalized groups, especially children. She has also published a biography of Judge Richey entitled A COURTROOM OF HER OWN (Carolina Academic Press 1998). Professor Atwood was the Reporter for the Uniform Representation of Children in Abuse, Neglect, and Custody Proceedings Act, and she is an Arizona Commissioner with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She was on the Arizona Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission from 2001-2007, serving as chair in 2006. Professor Atwood received the College of Law Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1998 and the Graduate College Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring Award in 2004.

David A. Gantz

Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law and Director of the International Trade and Business Law Program at the University of Arizona

David A. Gantz is Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law and Director of the International Trade and Business Law Program at the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. He also serves as Associate Director of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade. He has taught courses in international trade law, international environmental law, NAFTA and Other Regional Trade Agreements, public international law, international business transactions, international investment and technology transfer, European Union law and the U.S. legal system. He is faculty adviser to the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Professor Gantz is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B. 1964) and Stanford Law School (J.D. 1967, J.S.M. 1970). After two years with the U.S. Agency for International Development law reform project in Costa Rica and a year as a law clerk with Judge Charles M. Merrill of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, he spent seven years with the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State. At the State Department, he was the chief lawyer responsible for Inter-American affairs. Subsequently, he practiced international trade and corporate law in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Ohio and District of Columbia bars, and is admitted to practice before the Court of International Trade, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Supreme Court, among others. He joined the Rogers College of Law faculty in 1993. He was a visiting professor at the George Washington University Law School during the 2003-2004 academic year.

From 1981-93, Professor Gantz was an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He has served as a binational panelist under the trade dispute resolution provisions of Chapters 19 and 20 of NAFTA, as a NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitrator, and as an expert witness in other trade and investment disputes. He has also served as the U.S. judge on the Administrative Tribunal of the Organization of American States. Professor Gantz has written extensively on NAFTA customs and trade law issues, NAFTA and WTO dispute resolution, foreign bribery and other international trade, investment and environmental law matters, including the textbook FOLSOM, GORDON & GANTZ, NAFTA AND WESTERN HEMISPHERE FREE TRADE (Thomson, 2005).