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Law School Faculty, Administration, and Services
Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Instructors
Evangeline Abriel
Director, LARAW
Evangeline Abriel joined Santa Clara University School of Law as a LARAW instructor in fall 2003. She loves working with students and, in particular, loves teaching Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing.
Prior to coming to Santa Clara, Abriel was a clinical professor of law at Loyola University New Orleans from 1983 until 1999, where she practiced law with her students in the areas of immigration, juvenile, domestic, and federal civil rights law; directed the Street Law program; and directed the Mobile Immigration Law Clinic. She continues to co-direct Loyola’s summer legal studies program in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she teaches immigration law and supervises the judicial externship. In 1999, Abriel spent a year in Perth, Western Australia, where she taught at Notre Dame University School of Law and served as a consultant to the Murdoch University Law School Clinic. Upon returning to the United States, she was a senior attorney with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) in San Francisco, and she continues to work with CLINIC as a consultant. She speaks and writes regularly on immigration law matters, particularly on immigration relief for victims of abuse and crime. A list of her publications appears on her faculty Web page, law.scu.edu/faculty/profile/abriel-evangeline.cfm.
Abriel graduated from Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans and is a member of the Louisiana Bar and an inactive member of the Florida Bar. She is married to Bill Abriel and has three children: Annie, 22; Will, 18; and James, 15.
Ray Bernstein
Ray Bernstein received his B.A. with high honors from Michigan State University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
He was a law clerk for the Honorable Fern W. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and later served as Senior Staff Attorney, Criminal Research Division, for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ray has also practiced civil and criminal law in California and has received numerous awards for his pro bono service, including the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Volunteer of the Month award, May 2007, and Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service awards, in 1996, 1998, and 2006, and the State Bar of California’s Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services in 1997.
Karin Carter
Karin Carter has been in private practice with the firm of Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson LLP, assisting emerging growth companies with corporate deals and securities compliance. She began teaching legal writing courses as a lecturer for Santa Clara in 2005. Ms. Carter is a 2001 magna cum laude graduate of Whittier Law School, where she received the Dean's Outstanding Service Award, merit scholarships and other academic honors.
Prior to law school, Ms. Carter worked as a corporate paralegal in environmental remediation and insurance coverage matters, while volunteering her time as a community organizer, pressing for legislative and policy changes to aid low-income children. She is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, where she served as an intelligence officer specializing in space and missile systems. Ms. Carter earned her bachelor's degree in Modern European History from Scripps College, where her studies included the Year Abroad at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Adriana M. Duffy-Hörling
Adriana M. Duffy-Hörling received her B.A. from Stanford University and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
Prior to coming to Santa Clara, she was a law clerk for the Honorable Juan M. Pérez-Giménez of the U.S. District Court, District of Puerto Rico, then practiced civil litigation from 1998 to 2003 with Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe in San Francisco before becoming the Equal Opportunity Manager at San José State University. She speaks Spanish, French, and some Russian, was the 1987 Puerto Rico National Champion and Most Outstanding Gymnast, and was named one of the Ten Most Distinguished Women of Puerto Rico in 1990.
Yvonne Ekern
Yvonne Ekern was born and raised in Southern California. She graduated from the University of California, Davis, in 1976, with a B.A. in English literature and a California teaching credential. She taught high school English and mathematics for several years. She received her J.D. from the University of Idaho.
Ekern has taught Legal Research and Writing for 18 years. She and co-author Joanne Banker-Hames write legal textbooks. The third edition of their Introduction to Law text was published in July 2005 (the fourth edition will be published in the spring of 2009), and the first edition of their Constitutional Law: Principles and Practices text was published in January 2005. The third edition of their Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing—an Integrated Approach was published in January 2008.
Ekern lives with her husband in San Jose. She enjoys teaching, traveling, writing, and watching rugby.
Moe Jamil
Moe Jamil received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and his J.D. degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, where he served on the Honors Moot Court Board and won honors as a national finalist in the Brand Names Education Foundation Saul Lefkowijtz Trademark Law Moot Court Competition and in Santa Clara’s internal Honors Moot Court competition. During law school, Mr. Jamil also served as an extern for the Honorable Carlos T. Bea of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Following graduation, Moe served as an assistant attorney with the Sacramento County Public Defenders Office and as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General’s Office specializing in criminal appeals. Mr. Jamil brings to Santa Clara considerable teaching experience, having taught Economics and U.S. History and Government and coached speech and debate teams at Leland High School in San Jose. In 2001, he was selected as a participant in the Distinguish Citizens Society International Teacher Cultural Exchange to Taiwan. He speaks basic Cantonese and Mandarin and, while at U.C. Berkeley, spent a year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Jay Messenger
Jay Messenger received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Temple Law School and his LL.M. in Business and Trade Law, cum laude, from Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
Following law school, he was a litigation associate at both Dechert LLP, in Washington, D.C., and Morrison & Foerster LLP, in San Francisco. He also served as a senior attorney in the Department of Enforcement of NASD, a private-sector financial regulator, in Washington, D.C. He is a 2001 recipient of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service Award.
Patty Rauch
Patty Rauch was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from St. Louis University with a B.A. in history. In 1971, she received an M.S. in communication studies from Southern Illinois University, and in 1987, her J.D. from Santa Clara University.
Rauch has taught Legal Research and Writing at SCU law school since 1987. She has also worked as a volunteer attorney at Legal Aid of Santa Clara County, and she has directed the Ethnic Minority High School Program for SCU law school, volunteered at the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, and co-directed the Oxford summer program. She has also worked with the Gray's Inn Moot teams and other Santa Clara moot court teams.
Rauch lives with her husband in San Jose. They have two adult daughters. She enjoys playing soccer and traveling.
John Schunk
John Schunk graduated magna cum laude from Saint Mary’s College of California with a B.A. in government in 1985 and from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1988. While at Hastings, Schunk served as a member of the David E. Snodgrass Moot Court Board.
After graduating from law school, Schunk joined Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz (now known as Carlsmith Ball) in Southern California as an associate attorney in its litigation department. His practice focused on business and real property litigation. In 1991, Schunk opened his own law practice in Santa Clara County. His practice comprised both trial and appellate litigation, and the issues litigated included both civil and criminal appeals and writs, wrongful termination claims, real property issues, and soil and groundwater cost-recovery actions. From 1991-2000, he served as a panel attorney for the Sixth District Appellate Program, accepting appointments to represent indigent criminal defendants before California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal.
Schunk began teaching at Santa Clara University School of Law in 1996. Since then he has taught courses in legal research and writing, appellate advocacy, and remedies. From 2001-2004, he served as the acting director of Santa Clara’s Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing program and as the faculty advisor to its Honors Moot Court Board.
JoLi Schunk
JoLi Schunk graduated cum laude from Santa Clara University in 1985 with a B.S. in political science and graduated cum laude from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1988. While at Hastings, she served as a member of and senior production editor for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
After graduating from law school, Schunk joined the San Jose office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (now known as Bingham McCutchen) as an associate attorney in its litigation department. Her practice focused on products liability and labor litigation, including coordinating a recall of a defective product with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. While employed at McCutchen, she participated on the firm’s recruitment and training committees. From 1993-2000, she served as a panel attorney for the Sixth District Appellate Program, representing indigent criminal defendants before California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal.
Schunk joined Santa Clara University School of Law’s faculty in fall 1993. Since then, she has taught courses in legal research and writing and appellate advocacy. In addition, she advises commercial property owners in connection with landlord-tenant issues, including the negotiation and drafting of lease agreements and affiliated lease documents, and she advises property owners whose land comes under threat of condemnation by public agencies.
Rachel Heather Smith
Rachel Heather Smith received her B.A. with high honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
Prior to joining Santa Clara, she was an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in San Francisco, where her practice focused on complex litigation, with particular emphasis on intellectual property disputes. Despite her busy practice, she provided considerable pro bono service, including service to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Pro Bono Asylum Project, where she successfully represented a South Cameroonian journalist seeking asylum in the United States.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith received his B.A. from Northeastern University and his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
After graduation, he was a law clerk to Hon. Richard A. Enslen of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan and was attorney-advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Administrative Law Judges. Smith was subsequently associated with the law firms Pillsbury Winthrop and Skjerven Morrill.