Admitted Students Weekend

Jordan Carter joined the University of Kansas School of Law as a visiting assistant professor and director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in fall 2021. Prior to joining the KU Law faculty, Carter was a judicial law clerk for Hon. James O'Hara, chief magistrate judge of the United States District Court, District of Kansas. Carter was previously a product liability associate with Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP in Kansas City, Missouri.

Sharon Brett joined the KU Law faculty as an associate professor of law in 2024. Her scholarship focuses on structural, procedural and doctrinal impediments to systemic reform of government institutions, with a specific focus on the criminal legal system and policing. Brett’s work has appeared in the Harvard Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review, the Duke Law Journal Online and the U.C.L.A. Criminal Justice Law Review.

Laura Hines teaches Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and Remedies. Her scholarship examines the intersection of procedure and tort law, with a particular focus on aggregate litigation. Hines’s articles have appeared in the George Washington Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Wake Forest Law Review, Indiana Law Journal and other leading publications. She has consulted or testified as an expert on class certification law in several mass tort class action cases. She currently is the director of the Shook, Hardy & Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy. Prior to joining KU Law, Hines was an associate at the Washington D.C. offices of Arnold & Porter and clerked for the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Richard Levy is a nationally and internationally known teacher and scholar in the field of American public law, including constitutional law, administrative law and legislation. He joined the KU Law faculty in 1985, having received his law degree with honors from the University of Chicago Law School. Before joining the faculty, he served as a clerk for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. As a teacher, Levy emphasizes active learning and strives to integrate the development of analytical and problem-solving skills into the coverage of substantive material using a variety of innovative teaching methods.

Betsy Six joined the KU Law faculty in January 2004 as a professor in the Lawyering Skills Program and became the Director of Academic Resources in 2010. In the 2017-2018 academic year, Six served as president of the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE). Six was awarded the Robert A. Schroeder Teaching Fellowship in 2015, the Immel Award for Teaching Excellence in 2020 and the Bob & Kathie Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award in 2021.

Kyle Velte joined the KU Law faculty as an Associate Professor of Law in 2018 and was promoted to Professor of Law in 2022. Velte assumed the role of Associate Dean for Faculty in August 2022. At the University of Kansas School of Law, she teaches Evidence, Torts, Employment Discrimination, and Sexual Orientation & the Law. She has appeared numerous times on media outlets discussing issues of civil liberties.

Prior to joining the KU Law faculty in 1993, Stephen McAllister clerked for Justices Byron White and Clarence Thomas at the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Richard Posner at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also was in private practice in the Washington, D.C., office of the Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. A respected teacher, scholar and appellate lawyer, he received the Dean Frederick J. Moreau Award in 1997, a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 1999 and the Steeples Award for Service to Kansans in 2008. He served as the first and only Solicitor of the State of Kansas from 1999 to 2003 and was dean of the law school from 2000 to 2005. He also served as the Solicitor General of Kansas, assisting the attorney general's office with constitutional litigation, including briefing, arguing and winning for Kansas the case of Kansas v. Ventris (U.S. 2009). In November 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court appointed McAllister to defend the judgment below in Bond v. United States, No. 09-1227. In that capacity, McAllister filed a merits brief, and he presented oral argument to the court on Feb. 22, 2011. In 2013, McAllister assisted the Kansas Attorney General in Kansas v. Cheever (U.S. 2013), which Kansas won 9-0 in the Supreme Court. In October 2014 McAllister will argue for Kansas in the case of Kansas v. Nebraska and Colorado (U.S.).Also in 2013, McAllister taught a Landmark Supreme Court Cases course with Justice Clarence Thomas through a study abroad program in Innsbruck, Austria. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas.