Taylor Flynn
Professor of Law

B.A., Dartmouth College
J.D., Columbia Law School
J.S.M., Stanford Law School

Professor Flynn, formerly on the faculty of Northeastern University School of Law, was a Staff Attorney with the ACLU of Southern California prior to teaching. Her area of specialization, both at the ACLU and in her academic research, focuses on discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Professor Flynn has litigated a wide array of issues, including arguing before the California Supreme Court on behalf of members expelled from the Boy Scouts based on their sexual orientation and religious non-belief, as well as on behalf of a transgender father who faced losing all legal rights to his child solely because of gender identity. Professor Flynn's scholarly work has appeared in journals including the Columbia Law Review, Stanford Law and Policy Review, and Iowa Law Review, as well as in the book Transgender Rights.

Email: tflynn@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-782-1427
Office: 304

Harris Freeman
Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing
B.A., University of Florida
J.D., Western New England College School of Law

Mr. Freeman was the recipient of numerous awards for academic excellence while in law school. After graduation he served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael A. Ponsor of the Massachusetts Federal District Court. Before joining the program in 1999, he was an Associate in a Northampton, MA, law firm focusing on litigation of employment, civil rights and personal injury claims. Mr. Freeman is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches graduate courses in labor and employment law. He is also a Cooperating Attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Western Massachusetts.

Email: hfreeman@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-796-2214
Office: E1

Arthur R. Gaudio
Dean and Professor of Law
B.A., University of Rochester
J.D., Syracuse University College of Law

Arthur Gaudio became Dean of the School of Law in 2001. Prior to that time he was the Deputy Consultant on Legal Education for the American Bar Association for a two year period. He has assisted and chaired many American Bar Association accreditation site visit teams. He also served as the Dean of the University of Wyoming College of Law. Dean Gaudio is the Author of Real Estate Brokerage Law and is the General Editor and Coauthor of the treatise The American Law of Real Property. He has also written chapters on real estate law for Powell on Real Property as well as numerous law review articles on property law topics. He recently served as a Reporter for the Iowa State Bar Association in developing a statewide electronic land records system and legislation.

Anne B. Goldstein
Professor of Law
B.A., Simon Fraser University
J.D., Northeastern University School of Law

Professor Goldstein was a Partner in the Boston firm of Stern and Shapiro before joining the faculty in 1984. During seven years of litigation practice she handled major civil rights, prisoners’ rights, employment discrimination, and product liability trials and appeals as well as divorce and child protection cases. She publishes in the areas of conflict of laws, constitutional law, and law and literature with some of her more recent scholarly work appearing in the law journals of Yale University, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia, and the University of California at Davis.

Email: agoldstein@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-782-1446
Office: 314

James W. Gordon
Professor of Law
B.A., University of Louisville
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
J.D., University of Kentucky College of Law

Professor Gordon joined the Western New England College law faculty in 1981 after earning his Ph.D. in American Legal and Constitutional History. He received his law degree from the University of Kentucky where he was a staff member of the Kentucky Law Journal. He practiced law for two years with the Louisville firm of Lynch, Sherman & Fowler. He is the author of Lawyers in Politics: Mid-Nineteenth Century Kentucky as a Case History (1990). His areas of professional interest include constitutional and legal history and the Uniform Probate Code, concerning which he has published several articles. He is currently conducting research regarding Justice John Marshall Harlan.

Email: jgordon@law.wnec.edu
Phone: 413-782-1425
Office: 205

Eric J. Gouvin
Professor of Law and Director, Law and Business Center for Advancing Entreprenurship
B.A., Cornell University
J.D., LL.M., Boston University School of Law
M.P.A., Harvard University