VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (July 5, 2022) – Today, Regent University School of Law announced the appointment of two new members of its faculty, Erin Morrow Hawley and David D. Velloney. Both Hawley and Velloney are graduates of Yale Law School.
Professor Hawley will teach constitutional law and serve as
a senior fellow at the Robertson Center for Constitutional Law. Professor
Velloney will focus on criminal law, military law, and constitutional criminal
procedure. Professors Hawley and Velloney are the third and fourth
professors added to the Regent Law faculty in the past year.
“We are incredibly fortunate to attract such exceptional
teachers, mentors, and scholars to our faculty,” said Brad Lingo, dean of
Regent University School of Law. “Our students will love learning from
professors Hawley and Velloney and benefit from the depth of experience and
Christian perspectives they bring.”
New Faculty Appointments:
Erin Morrow Hawley: Associate Professor of Constitutional
Law
- J.D.,
Yale Law School
- Law
clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Judge J.
Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit.
- Counsel
to Attorney General Michael Mukasey at U.S. Department of Justice
- Associate
professor of law at the University of Missouri
- Taught
constitutional law as a senior fellow at the Kinder Institute for
Constitutional Democracy
- Extensive
experience litigating matters at U.S. Supreme Court, including as counsel
to Mississippi in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
- Frequent
commentator on legal issues in broadcast and print; with features in World
Magazine, USA Today, Fox News, the Washington Examiner, the Legal Times,
and the Hill, among others.
- Author
of Living Beloved: Lessons from My Little Ones About the Heart of
God, published by Focus of the Family, 2018.
David D. Velloney: Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law,
Constitutional Criminal Procedure, and Military Law
- B.S.,
United States Military Academy at West Point
- J.D.,
Yale Law School
- LL.M.,
The Judge Advocate General’s School
- First
joined Regent Law faculty in 2008. Named Professor of the Year
multiple times before leaving to serve as Executive Pastor at River Oak
Church in Chesapeake, Virginia. River Oak averages over 3,000 people
in weekly attendance and was listed by Outreach Magazine as
one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Churches in America in 2013, 2014,
2018, 2019, and 2020.
- Served
20 years of active duty in the U.S. Army, serving initially as Field
Artillery Officer and retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as an
attorney in the Judge Advocate General Corps.
- Primary
areas of expertise include Criminal Law, Constitutional Criminal
Procedure, Military Law, and Trial Practice
About Regent Law
Regent Law’s more
than 3,300 graduates practice law in 49 states and over 20 countries and
include 38 currently sitting judges. The School of Law is currently
ranked 22nd in the nation for obtaining judicial clerkships and
ranked 20th in the nation for Ultimate Bar Passage in
2019. The school offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.) in
three-year and part-time formats, an online M.A. in Law, an
online M.A. in
Financial Planning & Law, an on-campus and online LL.M. in Human Rights, and
an on-campus and online LL.M. in
American Legal Studies.
About Regent University
Founded in 1978, Regent
University is America’s premier Christian university with more than
11,000 students studying on its 70-acre campus in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and
online around the world. The university offers associate, bachelor’s,
master’s, and doctoral degrees in more than 150 areas of study
including business, communication and the arts, counseling, cybersecurity,
divinity, education, government, law, leadership, nursing, healthcare, and
psychology. Regent University, ranked among top national universities
(U.S. News & World Report, 2020), is one of only 23 universities nationally
to receive an “A” rating for its comprehensive liberal arts core curriculum.
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