Master of Legal Studies | Online

Michael W. Carroll is a professor of law and the director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (2009–present). He teaches and writes about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Professor Carroll’s research focuses on the search for balance in intellectual property law over time in the face of challenges posed by new technologies. His research includes projects about the social costs imposed by one-size-fits-all intellectual property rights and about the history of copyright in music.

Lindsay F. Wiley teaches torts, health law, and public health law. Her research focuses on access to health care and healthy living conditions in the U.S. and globally. She is the author of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (with Lawrence O. Gostin). Prior to joining the faculty at AUWCL, Professor Wiley was the Global Health Law Program director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.

Professor Susan D. Carle teaches and writes about civil rights legal history, employment discrimination, labor and employment law, legal ethics, and the history and sociology of the legal profession. She is the author of Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880–1915, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. In 2014, she received the Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy Award for “the author of the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.”