Greg Dickinson joined STU Law as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2021. Prior to joining St. Thomas Law, Professor Dickinson was a Fellow at the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology.

Professor Dickinson’s research focuses on the interaction between private law and technology. One major area of interest is how the common law responds to technological innovation and can be harnessed to complement the more particular statutory and regulatory schemes layered atop it. A second branch of Professor Dickinson’s work explores how the tools of machine learning and artificial intelligence can be brought to bear on traditional legal questions. Through computational analysis of large bodies of case law, his work seeks to provide a more systematic view of our legal system and doctrines and to guide legal reforms and policy decisions. Professor Dickinson’s work has appeared in journals including the Georgia Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Stanford Law & Policy Review, and the Administrative Law Review.

Professor Dickinson graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Computer Science from Houghton College and began his career as a software engineer. He then earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, served as law clerk to Judge Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and practiced for several years as a commercial litigation and privacy law attorney with Ropes & Gray in Boston and two law firms in Rochester, New York.

Professor Pati is the St. John Paul II Distinguished Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law, where she also co-directs the programs of Master of Laws and the Doctorate of the Science of Law in Intercultural Human Rights. She teaches International Law, Human Rights Law, Human Trafficking Law, and Comparative Law. Inspired by her work against human trafficking since the early 1990s, Dr. Pati founded in 2010 the John J. Brunetti Human Trafficking Academy, an institute she continues to direct.

She is Faculty Adviser of the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review and member of the Editorial Board of the international series: Studies in Intercultural Human Rights, published by BRILL/ Martinus Nijhoff.

Formerly a Member of Parliament and a Cabinet Member serving as the Secretary of State for Youth and Women of Albania, Dr. Pati has a wealth of experience in public service and academia. In 2012, Dr. Pati was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to serve as Member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican, and in 2020 she was appointed by the Holy Father Pope Francis to serve as Member of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, The Vatican.

In 2009, her doctoral dissertation was awarded the Wolf Rüdiger Bub Prize for the Promotion of the New Generation of Legal Scholars, by the University of Potsdam School of Law, Potsdam, Germany.

Dr. Pati was the Commencement Speaker at the Luarasi University School of Law, Tirana, Albania (2010), and at Carlos Albizu University, Miami (2014). For several years she was Visiting Professor of Law at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Pati is the recipient of several community awards including the Voice of Freedom Award (2017) from A Voice in the Wilderness and The Woman’s Table, and the inaugural Gillen-Massey Award (2022). In 2005, Professor Pati facilitated the preparation of The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking, a set of law and policy recommendations, and she has made presentations on human trafficking in the capacity of an expert in several national and international symposia, conferences and seminars. Dr. Pati is a prolific scholar who has written extensively in the field of international law, human rights, human trafficking and international criminal law. She is a globally published author of books, book chapters and law review articles in multiple languages and she lectures at academic, governmental and inter-governmental institutions around the world.

Gordon Butler is Professor of Law Emeritus at St. Thomas University College of Law. His experience prior to coming to the law school included ten years of sophisticated corporate, business, and securities law experience with Fortune 500 corporations. At the Law School Professor Butler has taught Business Associations, Family Wealth Management, Wills & Trusts, Federal Income Tax, and the Tax Policy Seminar for over thirty years. He has taught Human Rights and Religion in the LL.M. Program in Intercultural Human Rights since the program’s creation in 2001. His scholarship is in the area of tax law, law school governance, and the interaction of law and religion. His articles have appeared in numerous law reviews including the Journal of Legal Education, the Hastings Law Journal, the Seton Hall Law Review, and the Texas Law Review. He earned a B.E.E. From Georgia Institute of Technology, a J.D. from the University of Texas, an LL.M. (Tax) from the New York University School of Law, and an M.B.A. from the University of Dayton.

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Professor Dr. iur. Siegfried Wiessner is a Professor of Law at St. Thomas University School of Law, Associate Dean for Scholarship and Faculty Development, and the Founder and Director of its LL.M. and J.S.D. Program in Intercultural Human Rights. He passed the First and the Second State Examination in Law in Germany in 1977 and 1981, respectively, and he earned the Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the Yale Law School in 1983 and his Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Tübingen in 1989. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Martinus Nijhoff’s Studies in Intercultural Human Rights. From 1997 to 2000, he was a Lecturer at the UN/UNITAR International Law Fellowship Program. In October 2009 and November 2010, he served as Visiting Professor of Law at the City University of Hong Kong. In fall 2009, he was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. From 2007 to 2010, he was a member of the Executive Council of The American Society of International Law. From 2008 to 2012, he served as the Chair of the International Law Association’s Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.