Corporate and Commercial Law Program Faculty
Jerome Borison
Associate Professor
Editor and Principal Author, "Effectively Representing Your Client Before the 'New' IRS" - A comprehensive, easy-to-use handbook published by the American Bar Association Section of Taxation for the general tax practitioner. This three-volume/CD-ROM set - including sample correspondence, forms, and hundreds of practice tips - is an excellent resource for attorneys, accountants, and enrolled agents in all stages of representation before the IRS in controversy matters, including exam, appeals, Tax Court, refund actions, and collection matters. Please note that 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book are used by the American Bar Association Section of Taxation to fund low income taxpayer projects; the authors receive no royalties from the sales of the book.
Co-author (with Profs. David Richardson and Steve Johnson) of "Federal Tax Procedure" (2nd Ed. 2008, Lexis-Nexis), one of a dozen casebooks in the Lexis-Nexis Graduate Tax Series for use in graduate tax programs.
J. Robert Brown, Jr.
Professor
Chauncey Wilson Memorial Research Chair
For more than two decades, J. Robert Brown has taught corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on corporate governance. He has authored numerous publications in the area and several of his articles have been cited by the US Supreme Court. Brown has also spent considerable time abroad, particularly in the former Soviet Union, advising governments in these areas. From 2000 - 2004, Brown served the University of Denver Sturm College of Law as an associate dean for academic affairs. He is an arbitrator for the FINRA and, among other outside activities, serves as the chairman of the board of directors of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.
Patience Crowder
Assistant Professor
Professor Patience Crowder joined the DU faculty in 2010 to create and teach the Community Economic Development Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty, she was the Wellspring Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Tulsa College of Law, where she formed and taught a transactional legal clinic. She began her career in the legal academy as a Clinical Fellow in the Community Development Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law after working in Sacramento, California, as the business development manager of a nonprofit corporation that works to revitalize an inner-city neighborhood through economic development and public education. She began her legal career as a bank finance associate with Shearman & Sterling in San Francisco, California. Her scholarship examines the impact of contract, corporate, and local government law in transactional advocacy for the public interest, particularly the revitalization of inner-city and underserved communities. Her articles have been published by the Tennessee Law Review, the Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law (reprint), and the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy. She earned her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law – Newark, where she was an Articles Editor of the Rutgers Law Review. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Georgetown University.
John T. Soma
Professor
John T. Soma is the Executive Director of the University of Denver Privacy Foundation. After completing his PhD in economics in 1975, Soma served from 1976 to 1979 as trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, D.C., where he was primarily assigned to the Department of Justice trial team in the +U.S. v. IBM litigation+. In 1979, he joined the University of Denver Sturm College of Law faculty. In addition to six books on computer law, Professor Soma has authored more than 40 professional articles in the computer law and privacy area.
Michael D. Sousa
Assistant Director, Business and Commercial Law Program and Assistant Professor
Michael Sousa joined the faculty at the Sturm College of Law in 2008, and will teach and pursue scholarship in the areas of bankruptcy law and commercial law. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at the College of Law, Michael was an associate in the Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group at Duane Morris LLP, an AM Law Top 100 law firm. In addition to his private practice experience, Michael served as a judicial law clerk in both state and federal court. He served as a law clerk in federal bankruptcy court to the Honorable Rosemary Gambardella, Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, and to the Honorable Donald H. Steckroth, Bankruptcy Judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. He also served as law clerk to the Honorable William J. Martini in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and to the Honorable John E. Wallace, Jr. in the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court.
Michael received his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, and his LL.M. in Bankruptcy from St. John’s University School of Law, where he was named the American Bankruptcy Institute Scholar. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the LL.M. in Bankruptcy Program at St. John’s University School of Law. Michael was recently appointed to a three-year term to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board for the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review. In addition, Michael is a contributing editor to four national bankruptcy publications, including the _Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice_, the _American Bankruptcy Institute Journal_, the _Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law_, and the multi-volume treatise, _Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 3d_. Moreover, he is a co-author of the one volume treatise, _Consumer Bankruptcy Manual_, published by Thomson-West. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the _Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice_. Michael recently participated, _pro bono_, in the preparation of an amicus curiae brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court in _Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Bailey_, No. 08-295 (2009).
To date, his articles have been cited by several judicial opinions, including _Biltmore Associates, LLC v. Twin City Fire Insurance Co._, 572 F.3d 663 (9th Cir. 2009), _Miller v. Ameriquest Mortgage Co. (In re Laskowski)_, 384 B.R. 518 (Bankr. N.D. Ind. 2008), _In re Xpedior Inc._, 354 B.R. 210 (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 2006), and _Smith v. Butler Associates (In re Smith)_, 2008 WL 4148923 (Bankr. D. Kan. 2008). Another article was cited as authority in an appellate brief to the United States Supreme Court in _Board of Trustees of the Ohio Carpenters Pension Fund v. Bucci_, No. 07-1107 (June 9, 2008).
Celia Taylor
Professor
Celia Taylor came to the University of Denver Sturm College of Law from Columbia University, where she taught a course in legal writing and research while obtaining an LLM in international human rights law. Prior to Columbia, Taylor was in private practice in San Francisco, specializing in corporate and securities law. Taylor currently teaches primarily in the corporate area, but has an abiding interest in human rights law. She is currently working to develop programs to build relationships with law schools in Central and South America.
Mark A. Vogel
Associate Professor
Director, Graduate Program in Taxation
