Last updated: 6/22/2010 9:15:53 AM California Western -- Visiting Faculty
The following law professors and legal practitioners currently serve full-time as visiting instructors at California Western. Visiting and full-time faculty teaching this trimester hold weekly office hours.
Visiting Professor Walter Schwidetzky 
Teaches Trustes and Estates
Contact Info wds@cwsl.edu 619-515-1555
225 Cedar Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Professor Schwidetzky is a Visiting Professor this year from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He joined the University of Baltimore faculty in 1985 and served as the director of the Graduate Tax Program from 1989 to 2000. Prior to joining the faculty, he practiced law in Denver, Colorado, for six years, concentrating in tax and business law. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law.
Professor Schwidetzky has co-authored two books, Partnership Taxation (LexisNexis) and the Limited Liability Handbook (West). He also wrote the chapter on capital gains for the Matthew Bender Federal Tax Series. He has published several articles in the University of Virginia's Virginia Tax Review, and has also published articles in the ABA Tax Section, The Tax Lawyer, Tulane Law Review, University of Oklahoma Law Review, Southern Methodist University Law Journal, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, American University Journal of International Law and Policy, University of Baltimore Law Review, Taxation for Lawyers, Tax Management Real Estate Journal, Compleat Lawyer and the Colorado Lawyer, among others.
Professor Schwidetzky is a member Partnership and LLC Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, and is active on that committee's LLC Subcommittee. He frequently lectures on tax matters and has lectured for the ABA Tax Section, the ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, the Maryland Institute for the Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL), and other organizations. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Order of St. Ives, and the Colorado Bar.
B.A., 1974; M.B.A., 1978; J.D., 1979
LL.M., 1984, University of Denver
Partnership Taxation
Trust and Estates Fall 2009 Syllabus
Selected Publications
- Integrating Subchapters K and S. Just do It, 62 TAX LAWYER_(forthcoming 2008)
Teaches: Health Law and Policy
Contact Info: edauer@cwsl.edu 619-515-1508
225 Cedar Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Professor Dauer is Dean Emeritus of the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver, where he also taught as Professor of Law from 1985 to 2007. He has held teaching appointments at a number of law schools, including the Yale Law School (from 1974 through 1985) and the University of Southern California (1972 to 1974.) From 1996 through 2006 he also held appointment as Visiting Scholar / Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dauer is the author of five books and numerous articles in the legal and medical literatures. He is a Director of the Colorado Patient Safety Coalition, and serves on a number of other boards and advisory councils of healthcare and health policy organizations. His private practice focuses on conflict management and dispute resolution in medicine and healthcare.
This is his fifth visiting term at CWSL. While here he lives in Coronado with his wife Carol Dauer.
A.B. Brown University
LL.B. Yale University
M.P.H. Harvard University
Visiting Professor Timothy Casey
Teaches: STEPPS
Contact Info: tcasey@cwsl.edu 619-515-1685
225 Cedar Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Professor Casey teaches at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he is a member of the faculty in the clinical program and also works with the CaseArc program, a program similar in many respects to our STEPPS program. Most recently he has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Universidade de San Andres, an emerging law school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has been developing a clinical legal education program.
Professor Casey graduated from Hastings College of Law and received an LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was honored with University's Presidential Teaching Award. His teaching experience at Case and Columbia includes Criminal Justice Clinic, International Human Rights, advanced negotiation, and Legal Research and Writing. His prior practice experience includes extensive work with the criminal division of the Legal Aid Society of New York, where he not only handled trials and appeals, but directed the training of new lawyers in trial practice.
Visiting Professor Denis Binder 
Teaches: Torts, Antitrust, Environmental Law, Toxic Torts
Contact Info: dbinder@cwsl.edu 619-515-1481
225 Cedar Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Professor Binder's career teaching Antitrust, Environmental Law, Torts, and Toxic Torts at law schools nationwide spans 35 years. He has served as a consultant to a variety of organizations, ranging from the Army Corps of Engineers to Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. in September 1996, Professor Binder received the national Award of Merit from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials for his contributions to promoting dam safety over the preceding two decades. He graduated first in his class at the University of San Francisco School of Law and received his LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to returning to California Professor Binder was on the Board of Trustee of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation. Professor Binder's great grandfather came to California as a 49er to pan for gold. Professor Binder served as the President of the Chapman University Faculty Senate during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Full course descriptions are available in PDF format on the J.D. Curriculum page.
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