Center Faculty and Staff

Professor Michael Duff joins the law school faculty for a permanent role after visiting in the fall of 2022. Professor Duff is a world-renowned scholar on labor law, worker’s compensation and evidence. He attended college in his late 20s, while simultaneously employed full-time as a union-represented airline ramp worker. Professor Duff is a graduate of Harvard Law School and joins the SLU law school after serving in a named professorship role at University of Wyoming College of Law.  

Lauren E. Bartlett, J.D.
Assistant professor
lauren.bartlett@slu.edu

Professor Lauren Bartlett is the director of the Human Rights at Home Litigation Clinic. She has experience litigating in state and federal court in Louisiana and Ohio, as well as filing complaints and petitions with U.N. Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A former legal aid attorney, Professor Bartlett has focused her career on providing access to justice for all and protecting the rights of the poorest of the poor in the U.S. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between legal ethics, access to justice and human rights. 

Marcia McCormick, J.D.
Professor
Associate dean for academic affairs
marcia.mccormick@slu.edu

Professor Marcia McCormick's scholarship has explored the areas of employment and labor law, federal courts, as well as gender and the law. A prolific blogger, Professor McCormick is a co-editor and contributor to the Workplace Prof Blog, which provides daily information on developments in the law of the workplace and scholarship about it.

Alex Miller, J.D.
Assistant director, William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law
Instructor of law
alex.miller.1@slu.edu 

Alex joined SLU Law after 10 years of government practice.  In that time, he specialized in fiscal law, employment and labor law, torts and government ethics.

Carol A. Needham, J.D.
Emanuel Myers Professor
carol.needham@slu.edu

Professor Carol Needham's current scholarship centers on the ethics issues faced by in-house counsel and lawyers in transactional practice, cross-border practice and professional licensing issues, including the multijurisdictional practice of law. Prior to joining the SLU LAW faculty in 1992, she practiced law in Los Angeles, where she negotiated employment contracts, licensing agreements, project financing documents, loan workouts, mergers, IPOs, private placements and acquisitions, and participated in commercial litigation.

Kerry A. Ryan, J.D.
Associate professor
kerry.ryan@slu.edu

Professor Kerry Ryan’s recent scholarship explores the interaction between the income tax and financial aid systems and the ethical underpinnings of the gift-tax exclusion for education and healthcare. She teaches Estate Law and Planning, Federal Income Tax, Taxation, and Trusts. Before entering academia as a professor, Professor Ryan practiced at a firm in Indianapolis in estate planning and business succession.

Matthew Bodie
Visiting fellow
matthew.bodie@slu.edu

Visiting Fellow Matthew Bodie earned degrees at New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School and Princeton University. Matthew Bodie has served Saint Louis University School of Law in a variety of positions and has instructed courses such as Labor Law, Employee Benefits Law and Contracts I & II.