RALEIGH — Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced Assistant Professor of Law Shawn Fields and Visiting Professor Christopher Ogolla joined Campbell Law School effective July 1, 2018.
Fields teaches Immigration Law, Criminal Procedure and Trial Advocacy. Prior to joining Campbell Law, Fields taught at the University of San Diego School of Law. He also spent several years as a civil litigator in California, taking several high-profile securities and fiduciary duties litigations to trial. He has represented numerous asylum seekers in immigration courts in San Francisco and spent a year as the Country Director for a refugee rights legal aid nonprofit in rural Tanzania.
Fields’s scholarly interests include evolving conceptions of immigrants’ rights, the extraterritorial application of the U.S. Constitution, the federal immigration power, the evolving conception of “reasonable suspicion” in a world of concealed carry laws and drug decriminalization, the “maximum police state,” and the intersection of the First and Second Amendments. His writings have been published or are forthcoming in several top law journals, including the Washington Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and University of Richmond Law Review.
Ogolla taught at Savannah Law School from 2013-18 leading courses in civil and criminal procedure, evidence, health law, immigration law and torts. At Savannah Law he was named professor of the year in 2015-16 and again in 2017-18. Prior to joining Savannah Law, he was an academic support instructor at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University from 2010-13.
Professor Ogolla’s scholarly interests cover the intersection of public health, policy, bioethics, and law. He explores various ways in which public health activities are constrained by statutes and the U.S. Constitution, and how courts have traditionally handled public health disputes. Prior to joining the legal academy, Professor Ogolla worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as an Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) research fellow. Additionally, he served as a public health specialist for the New York State Department of Health in New Rochelle, New York.
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