Stressing innovative teaching and experiential learning, the legal studies faculty take UIS’ mission as a teaching institution seriously. The faculty have a broad base of experience and expertise that allows the department to offer a wide range of courses to meet student needs and to provide a positive learning environment. All faculty members teach and advise students.

Deborah Anthony, J.D. M.A.
Chair, Associate Professor, Legal Studies
Specialties: civil rights; constitutional law; race; gender; and class politics
E-mail: danth2@uis.edu
Telephone: (217) 206-8340
Office: PAC 338

Suzanne Borland, J.D.

Assistant Professor, Legal Studies
E-mail: sborl2@uis.edu

Telephone: (217) 206-8343
Office: PAC 336

Kathryn E. Eisenhart, J.D.
Associate Professor, Legal Studies
Specialties: legal research; legal writing and analysis; first amendment issues
E-mail: eisenhart.kathryn@uis.edu
Telephone: (217) 206-7882
Office: PAC 352

Gwen Jordan, J.D. Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Legal Studies
E-Mail:

gjorda2@uis.edu
Telephone: (217) 206-8520
Office: PAC 334

Maria Elena Pablo Rivera-Beckstrom, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Legal Studies
Specialties: law and society; legal culture; colonialism and law; comparative constitution-making
E-Mail: mrive3@uis.edu
Telephone: (217) 206-6561
Office: PAC 338

Pinky S. Wassenberg, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Legal Studies & Political Science
E-mail: pwass1@uis.edu
Telephone: (217) 206-7892
Office: PAC 420