Professor Richardson teaches Torts, American Indian Law, Products Liability and Sports Law, and he speaks and writes frequently in those fields. He also serves as faculty advisor to Willamette’s Sports Law Society. Prior to joining the Willamette faculty, Richardson served as legal counsel to the Rochester, N.Y., Urban Renewal Agency from 1970–1972 and was a partner with Wood, Richardson and O'Bryne from 1973–1974. He joined Willamette University College of Law in 1974.

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Jeffrey Standen specializes in domestic sports law. He also teaches criminal procedure, corporate and white collar crime, remedies, evidence, and economic analysis of law. His scholarship extends economic analysis into the field of criminal and civil remedies. He joined Willamette’s faculty in 1990, having previously served as deputy general counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, as a federal judicial clerk and as litigator with the firm of Hunton & Williams. Standen has served as a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and has been a scholar in residence at the University of Virginia.

James A.R. Nafziger teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international litigation, and conflict of laws. He is chair of the executive committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served on the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law. Nafziger is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, is president of the International Association of Sports Law, and sits on the National Council of the United Nations Association.

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