<h1 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Delaware Law announces faculty and staff changes</strong></h1>
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<p>Widener University Delaware Law School is pleased to announce faculty changes for the new academic year. Classes began Aug. 19 for students in the juris doctor program.</p>
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<p><a href="ipl://20//WyIyMDQiXQ==">Dean Rod Smolla</a> has joined the faculty and assumed the role of the school&rsquo;s top administrator. He previously served as visiting professor of law at the University of Georgia School of Law. He has also been dean of University of Richmond School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law, and served as president of Furman University in Greenville, S.C.</p>
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<p>Smolla has remained an active litigator during his career in academia. He has presented oral arguments in state and federal courts throughout the nation, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He has authored and edited many books for general audiences, legal treatises, law school casebooks, law review articles and pieces for newspapers and magazines. He will teach Constitutional law this semester.</p>
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<p>Smolla graduated first in his class from Duke University School of Law.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="ipl://20//WyIyMDUiXQ==">Amber Baylor</a> </strong>has joined the faculty as assistant visiting professor and director of the Veterans Law Clinic. She comes to the law school after serving as a clinical teaching fellow and supervising attorney at The Community Justice Project at Georgetown University School of Law. She has also worked as a staff attorney at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a community-based public defense office in New York, and as a trial attorney at the Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., where she represented clients in federal criminal cases and at trial.</p>
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<p>Baylor is a graduate of New York University School of Law. She will teach criminal procedure in addition to directing the clinic.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="ipl://20//WyIxMjYiXQ==">Professor Judith L. Ritter</a></strong> has been named director of the Taishoff Advocacy, Technology and Public Service Institute. The institute provides classroom and experiential learning opportunities in advocacy, technology as a tool for advocacy, and the application of those skills to serve the public. It offers a variety of specialized courses and seminars, a nationally recognized Intensive Trial Advocacy Program and opportunities for students to participate in interscholastic advocacy competitions coached by skilled practitioners. It also offers continuing legal education in advocacy skills and theory.</p>
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<p>Ritter is also founder and director of Delaware Law&rsquo;s Criminal Defense Clinic, where students get hands-on legal experience providing defense representation under the supervision of licensed attorneys, including Ritter. She joined the faculty in 1994 and teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure and post-conviction remedies. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center.</p>
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<p>All three appointments became effective July 1.</p>
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<p>Widener University is a metropolitan university that connects curricula to social issues through civic engagement. Dynamic teaching, active scholarship, personal attention, applied leadership, and experiential learning are key components of the Widener experience.&nbsp; Its Delaware Law School is the First State&rsquo;s only law school, providing juris doctor, legal graduate and paralegal degree programs with an emphasis on developing legal professionals who reflect the Delaware Way and its traditions of civility, integrity and mutual respect. The school offers signature programs in corporate and business law, environmental law, family health law and policy, and trial advocacy. Widener University is proud to be tobacco free. Visit delawarelaw.widener.edu for more information.</p>
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