New faculty drawn to Duquesne Kline School of Law’s character and momentum

Jacqueline Lipton

Jacqueline Lipton joins Duquesne Kline as an Associate Professor of Law and the incoming Carol Los Mansmann Chair in Faculty Scholarship, She a leading international expert in information law, intellectual property law, and commercial law. She has held faculty positions at major research universities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Lipton has co-authored casebooks on intellectual property law, cyberlaw and legal writing, and has authored many law review articles in her areas of research in leading journals including the Northwestern University Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, UC Hastings Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and the Berkeley Technology Law Review. She is also the author of Our Data Ourselves: A Personal Guide to Digital Privacy.

Prior to joining the law faculty at Duquesne Kline, Lipton held tenured faculty positions at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Houston Law Center, the University of Akron School of Law, the University of Nottingham School of Law (UK), and Monash University. She has also been a visiting Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she joined the legal writing faculty in 2020. At the University of Houston, Lipton held the Baker Botts Chair, and at the University of Akron, she held the David L. Brennan Chair. She also served as a Co-Director of the Law, Technology and the Arts Center at Case Western, and of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Houston Law Center.

Before entering academia, Lipton worked in the banking and finance industry in Australia. She currently works as a consultant within the publishing industry, counseling creative artists on their legal rights and obligations. She is a frequent presenter to writers’ and artists’ organizations on these issues.

Lipton is drawn to the energy at Duquesne Kline, and its upward trajectory, including its increased U.S. News rankings. “It's also an exciting time to join a school like Duquesne Kline which is clearly on the rise with the recent Kline endowment to support innovative programming and high-level teaching and scholarship. Duquesne Kline also clearly prioritizes values that I prize very highly like diversity, equity and inclusion, and social justice,” she said.

Brian Miller

Brian Miller joins Duquesne Kline as an Assistant Professor of Law from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he has served as a visiting assistant professor since 2022. His teaching and scholarship focus primarily on Property and Land Use Law, as well as on State & Local Government and Law & Religion. Miller is particularly interested in how community institutions and cultural practices affect law and policy surrounding housing and land use. His scholarship has been or soon will be published in the Southern California Law Review, Missouri Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review Forward, Mercer Law Review, and the Texas A&M Journal of Property Law.

Before entering academia, Miller worked as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He also previously served as an Associate Attorney General at the North Carolina Department of Justice and as a law clerk on the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A. in political science from North Carolina State University, where he graduated as a valedictorian.

The character of the students at Duquesne Kline and the motto of the law school—salus populi suprema lex, the welfare of the people is the highest law—were important factors that appealed to Miller when deciding to join Duquesne Kline.

“Law students at Duquesne Kline have a reputation for both sharp thinking and an orientation towards service. Law school should be a place of learning and growth, and it works best if that growth encourages not only greater knowledge, but greater compassion for others too. I am excited to teach at a school where learning isn’t only about fulfilling personal goals, but about equipping oneself to help others,” Miller said.

David Nows

David Nows will serve as an Assistant Professor of Law and as the director of the JD/MBA Program and the Business Essentials Micro-Credential Program.  He has served as an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Central Michigan University’s College of Business Administration as a full-time faculty member since 2019.

Nows main research interest is the financing transactions that fuel entrepreneurial ventures at their earliest stages, recently focusing on the topic of equity crowdfunding. He has authored articles published (or forthcoming) in the University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Nebraska Law Review, the Drexel Law Review, and the Indiana Law Journal Supplement. He also recently had an article accepted for publication with the University of Colorado Law Review.

Nows teaches graduate level coursework in the areas of business organizations and securities regulation, as well as an undergraduate course on law and entrepreneurship. In addition to his teaching duties, Nows was active in Central Michigan University’s New Venture Competition ("NVC"), helping to mentor student venture teams.

Nows led CMU’s Entrepreneurship Department for two years as Chairperson and during that time, the department doubled its number of full-time faculty and launched a new graduate certificate in venture financing.