Tina Wescott Cafaro
Clinical Professor of Law
B.A., University of Massachusetts
J.D., Western New England College School of Law

Professor Cafaro was an Assistant District Attorney in the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office. Prior to that, she served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Kent B. Smith of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. She has worked for the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council teaching criminal law and procedure. She began her law teaching career in 1999 as an Adjunct Professor in the Criminal Law Clinic at Western New England College School of Law.

Email: tcafaro@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-782-1444
Office: 310

Lauren J. Carasik
Professor of Law
B.A., Earlham College
J.D., Northeastern University School of Law

Professor Carasik practiced law in the elder unit at Merrimack Valley Legal Services in Lowell, MA, before opening her solo practice concentrating in disability rights and mental health law. She then joined the staff of the Center for Public Representation (CPR) in Northampton, MA, where she served as a supervisor for the Disability Law Clinic at Western New England College School of Law. After leaving CPR, Professor Carasik joined the faculty as the Director of the Discrimination Law Clinic. Her areas of interest include poverty law, ethics, and public interest lawyering. Currently, Professor Carasik directs the Public Interest Externship Program and the Legal Services Clinic.

Email: lcarasik@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-782-1504
Office: 306

Matthew H. Charity
Assistant Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton University
J.D., Columbia Law School

Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Charity spent seven years at the New York law firms of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson and Baker Hostetler LLP, where he worked in commercial litigation, antitrust, and business crimes and corporate investigations. His pro bono work included refugee asylum and prisoners' rights litigation. While at Columbia Law School, Professor Charity was a member of the Human Rights Law Review, and worked with Human Rights Watch in Ethiopia, and at the Office of the Secretariat of the United Nations. In addition to commercial law areas, Professor Charity has teaching experience in Federal Criminal Law and Professional Responsibility and research interests in human rights and humanitarian law.

Email: mcharity@law.wnec.edu

William G. Childs
Associate Dean for External Affairs and Professor of Law
B.A., Macalester College
J.D., University of Texas School of Law

Amy B. Cohen
Professor of Law
B.A., Connecticut College
J.D., Harvard Law School

Beth D. Cohen
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law
Director, Legal Research and Writing Program
B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook
J.D., Suffolk University Law School

Dean Cohen has taught at Western New England College School of Law since 1990. Prior to teaching at Western New England College, she taught Legal Practice Skills at Suffolk University Law School, where as a student she served on their Law Review. In addition, she has also earned a Diploma in Advanced International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria, from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge Law School. She has served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael A. Ponsor of the United States District Court in Springfield, MA, and was an Associate at a small general practice law firm in Boston. She serves as the Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program.

Email: bcohen@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-782-1622
Office: 141

Richard P. Cole
Professor of Law
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
J.D., University of Michigan Law School

Before joining the faculty in 1976, Professor Cole taught at Detroit College of Law. In 1985, he was a visitor at the Oxford University Law School. Professor Cole teaches in the areas of tort law, legislation, health law, and legal history. His published works consider American legal history in the period from the Revolution to the Civil War. He is active in the American Society of Legal History. His most recent works have been published in the Legal Studies Forum, the Law and History Review, and the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal.

Email: rcole@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-782-1433
Office: 213

Jocelyn M. Cuffee
Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing
B.A., Tufts University
J.D., Western New England College School of Law

John D. Egnal
Professor of Law
B.A., Lehigh University
J.D., Temple University School of Law
LL.M., Temple University School of Law

Professor Egnal practiced law for six years as a partner in Egnal and Egnal in Pennsylvania, specializing in litigation. Before coming to Western New England College in 1976, he served for two years as a Teaching Fellow at Temple University School of Law. Previously, he was a Judicial Law Clerk for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. His areas of professional interest include the conflict of laws, in which he has published, and the development of teaching materials. He has written a casebook for use by his Civil Procedure students. He regularly serves as advisor to the trial moot court competition.

Email: jegnal@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-782-1440
Office: 216