Mercer Law School welcomes new school members

Mercer University School of Law is very pleased to welcome a few new professors to its school: Bonnie Carlson, Ishaq Kundawala and Latisha Nixon-Jones. Their combined skills and observe will strengthen Mercer Legislation School’s popularity of giving a difficult and practical lawful instruction. 

“We are thrilled for Professors Carlson, Kundawala and Nixon-Jones to be part of the Mercer School of Regulation school as we carry on to enrich our legal curriculum,” reported Dean Cathy Cox. “The wide expertise, creative imagination and devotion that these professors bring to the classroom will verify invaluable to our instruction and planning of students for all aspects of legislation practice.” 

Bonnie Carlson, Assistant Professor of Law 

B.A., College of Virginia
J.D., The George Washington College Legislation Faculty

Carlson joins the college with substantial abilities in advocating for domestic violence victims. As a medical instructing fellow in the Domestic Violence Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Centre, she co-taught the clinic seminar and supervised clinic college students in their illustration of domestic violence victims in civil protection purchase litigation. 

Prior to working at Georgetown, Carlson was a training and technological guidance workers attorney with the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and a household regulation staff members legal professional symbolizing victims of domestic violence. She was awarded the Nationwide Association of Women Lawyers Superb Law Graduate Award for her perform with domestic violence victims throughout law college.

At Mercer Faculty of Law, Carlson will train courses which include Regulation of Lawyering and Family Law. She will also coordinate and start a domestic violence clinic in tumble 2022. 

Ishaq Kundawala, Professor of Law and as the Southeastern Individual bankruptcy Law Institute and W. Homer Drake Jr. Endowed Chair in Individual bankruptcy Law  

B.A., Austin Higher education
J.D., Tulane Legislation School 

Kundawala joins Mercer Faculty of Law as a tenured professor of regulation. Prior to Mercer, he taught at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Wide Faculty of Regulation for 13 yrs. He produced a client individual bankruptcy externship method permitting students to acquire fingers-on practical experience symbolizing customer debtors in personal bankruptcy proceedings on a professional bono foundation. He intends to start a similar method for Mercer Legislation pupils. 

Prior to his educating profession, Kundawala was in personal practice in Dallas, Texas. As an associate at the intercontinental regulation business of Baker Botts LLP, he dealt with the estimation and supreme resolution of somewhere around $1.5 billion of harmful tort relevant bankruptcy statements versus a person of the nation’s largest copper producers. He also clerked for the main individual bankruptcy judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas.  

Kundawala’s study pursuits contain bankruptcy reform and legal ethics. He has also talked about bankruptcy and contract-linked challenges on nationwide and area radio and television stations. He enjoys composing and speaking about parts of the law that will enable students and practitioners to much better understand some of the extra advanced parts of individual bankruptcy law.

Kundawala is accredited to exercise law in both Texas and Georgia. At Mercer Law, he will instruct programs which include Contracts and Personal bankruptcy.  

Latisha Nixon-Jones, Assistant Professor of Law 

B.S.M., Tulane University 
J.D., Southern University Legislation Center

Nixon-Jones is an rising voice in the developing discipline of disaster legislation. Prior to signing up for Oregon College Faculty of Law’s Lawful Analysis and Creating school, she was assistant scientific professor of the Catastrophe Law Clinic at Southern University Legislation Centre (SULC). She was the receiver of the University of Oregon’s 2020 COVID-19 Study Innovation Award. Her exploration on COVID-19 and its disparaging results on vulnerable populations was offered in The Discussion and several other nationwide publications. 

A 2017 AmeriCorps Equal Justice Is effective Fellow, Nixon-Jones was responsible for creating, coordinating and expanding SULC’s Disaster Regulation Clinic. The clinic assisted reduced-earnings men and women who have been affected by pure or gentleman-designed disasters with civil legal difficulties. 

Nixon-Jones is a member of the Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition and is a accredited business enterprise coach and a countrywide Rating mentor. She also serves on the Association of Authorized Writing Directors’ members committee and the Legal Producing Institute’s variety committee.

Nixon-Jones will instruct a first-calendar year class on Torts, Lawful Producing and Catastrophe Legislation at Mercer.