Civitas ChildLaw Center Faculty
Full-Time Faculty Members
•Bruce A. Boyer
Clinical Professor and Director
Civitas ChildLaw Clinic
•Sacha M. Coupet
Associate Professor and Director of Research
Civitas ChildLaw Center
•Diane Geraghty
A. Kathleen Beazley Chair
Professor of Law and Director
Civitas ChildLaw Center
•Hasti Barahmand
Salisbury Post-Graduate
Clinical Teaching Fellow
•Kathleen Hirsman
Senior Lecturer in Residence
•Miranda Johnson
Associate Director
ChildLaw and Education Institute
•Michael J. Kaufman
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs Director
ChildLaw and Education Institute
•Melina Healey
Post-Graduate ChildLaw Policy and Legislation
Teaching Fellow
•Stacey E. Platt
Clinical Professor and Associate Director
Civitas ChildLaw Clinic
•Anita Weinberg
Clinical Professor and Director
ChildLaw Policy Institute
Staff Attorneys
•Mary Burns
Academic Director, On-line Masters in Jurisprudence Degree
•Lisa Jacobs
Program Manager for the Illinois Models for Change Initiative
Part-Time Faculty
Campus-Based
•Shelley Ballard
Partner at Ballard, Desai & Miller
Attorney
(Adoption Law Seminar)
•Hillary Coustan
Attorney
(Education Law Practicum and Disability Law)
•Corinne Levitz
Circuit Court of Cook County Mediator
(Child and Family Law Mediation and
Mediation Seminar)
•Michael Nathanson
(Child and Family Law Mediation and
Mediation Seminar)
Online M.J. Faculty
•Sara Block
(Child Welfare Law and Policy; Juvenile
Justice)
•Mary Burns
(Family Law)
•Kathleen Hirsman
(Education Law and Policy)
•Diane Geraghty
(International Children’s Rights)
•Art Elster
(Children’s Health Law and Policy)
• Joseph Monahan
(Mental Health Law)
• Helen Kim Skinner
(Introductionn to Children’s Law and Policy)
•Marilyn Stocker
(Leadership Development)
•Cheryl A. Warzynski
(Introduction to the Study of Law and Legal
System)
