Temple University Beasley School of Law Presents: Supreme Court Roundup

Prior to joining Temple University Beasley School of Law, Professor Purvis was a professor at Penn State Law and visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Law. A former editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, she clerked for The Hon. Gerard E. Lynch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and The Hon. Raymond C. Fisher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

Her publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, and the UC Irvine Law Review. Her work investigates intersectional subordination and its various iterations, particularly how the system of immigration law and enforcement produces racialized outcomes for mixed-status families and communities, especially for U. S. citizens of color. Additionally, her research examines employment discrimination and explores ways to improve access to justice for working people. Professor Rangel-Medina is the first person in her family to attend college in the United States. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she served as an Associate Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law and as Co-Chair of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion. She also co-founded the Building Latinx/e Pipelines Mentorship Program for the La Raza Law Students Association. After graduation, she was named an inaugural University of California Presidential Public Interest Law Fellow and received the Francine Marie Diaz Social Justice Memorial Award. Before law school, Professor Rangel-Medina graduated magna cum laude from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, earning three Bachelor of Arts degrees in English Literature, Women’s Studies, and Political Science with a specialization in Public Policy & International Relations. While in college, she co-founded several organizations, including the United Coalition for Immigration Rights (UCIR), the Alliance of Student Organizations of Color (ASOC), and the UNLV Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Additionally, she graduated with high honors from the Community College of Southern Nevada with an Associate of Arts degree in English. She served as Student Body President of the Associated Students of the College of Southern Nevada. Upon graduation, she was named a Regents’ Scholar by the University and Community College System of Nevada.  

Before joining the Temple Law faculty, Professor Rangel-Medina was appointed as the inaugural Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Racial and Economic Justice at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She also held the positions of Managing Director at United for Respect and Chief of Staff at Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United). Additionally, she was formerly the Policy Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and a Sustainable Development Fellow at the Greenlining Institute. 

Professor Heath previously practiced international law and arbitration at the U.S. State Department, and at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. He has represented governments and state-owned enterprises before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, other international arbitral tribunals, and the federal courts. His work at the State Department also included bilateral claims negotiations with the Republic of Cuba, matters relating to embargoes and economic sanctions, and U.S. court cases brought against foreign governments by victims of terrorism. He also served as a clerk to Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Professor Heath’s research has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Harvard International Law Journal, and the American Journal of International Law, among others. He holds a J.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. (Philosophy) from the University of Texas at Austin. From 2018 to 2020, Professor Heath was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU School of Law.

Dunoff has served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, Law and Public Affairs Fellow and Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s School for Public and International Affairs, a Professeur Invité, Faculté de Droit at the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Visiting Professor at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Senior Fellow at Humboldt University, Visiting Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Professor at Central European University, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University. Among other activities, he serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law, as an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Professor Dunoff’s publications include International Legal Theory: Foundations and Frontiers (coeditor, with Mark A. Pollack, Cambridge University Press 2022), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations : The State of the Art (coeditor, with Mark A. Pollack, Cambridge University Press 2013); Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance (coeditor, with Joel P. Trachtman, Cambridge University Press 2009); and International Law: Norms, Actors, Process (with Monica Hakimi and Steven Ratner, Wolters Kluwer 2025), a leading textbook. Among other scholarly activities, he serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, and as a general editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement.

Before joining the Temple faculty, Professor Dunoff clerked for a federal court judge and practiced law in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in the representation of developing state governments in international and domestic litigations and arbitrations. Professor Dunoff received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Haverford College; his J.D., cum laude, from NYU School of Law; and his LL.M., with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he has served as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law and received the Thomas Chetwood Prize for distinguished academic performance.

More information regarding Professor Dunoff’s scholarship and activities can be found here.