The DePaul University College of Law has announced that four new professors will join its faculty for the 2009-2010 academic year. Each of the new hires—Craig Boise, Zoë Robinson, Terry Smith and Deborah Tuerkheimer—will bring proven experience and notable skills to the job.

Boise is an expert in federal income tax; federal income taxation of corporations and shareholders; international tax policy, and international business organizations. He will come to DePaul from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 2003. At Case, he is a law professor and associate director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation. Boise has researched such areas as the United States taxation of domestic and international corporate transactions, and the relationship between incentives created by tax rules and corporate compliance with those rules. Prior to joining the faculty at Case, Boise, who earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago in 1994 and an LL.M. from New York University in 1999, practiced for several years at law firms including Cleary Gottlieb and Akin Gump, both in New York. He also clerked for the Honorable Pasco M. Bowman II of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Robinson, who holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Queensland Conservatory, is currently clerking for the Honorable Judge Diane P. Wood of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She also has clerked for the Honorable M.A. Stone of the Federal Court of Australia. Robinson holds a bachelor’s degree from the Australian National University; a Bachelor of Laws degree with first Class honors from the Australian National University, where she was awarded the University Medal in Law, and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School, which she earned in 2008 with high honors and Order of the Coif. An expert in constitutional law, the intersection of law and religion and questions of institutional design, Robinson also has been a researcher and adjunct lecturer at the Australian National University.

Smith is a noted labor and critical race theory scholar with expertise in civil procedure, employment, labor and public sector law, and voting rights. He comes to DePaul after having served as a law professor at Fordham University Law School. Smith earned an undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Brown University in 1986, and a law degree from the New York University School of Law in 1989. While a law student, Smith received the Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow and was awarded of the Leonard M. Henkin Prize, which is awarded for writings on the equal protection portion of the 14th Amendment. Before beginning his career in academia, Smith clerked for the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District, and was an associate at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.

Tuerkheimer is an authority on criminal law and procedure, evidence and domestic violence. Currently a professor of law at the University of Main School of Law, her scholarship focuses on the intersection of criminal law and the lives of women and children. She earned a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1992, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1996, where she served as co-chair of the Yale Law Women and lead editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. Before beginning her teaching career, Tuerkheimer clerked for Justice Jay Rabinowitz of the Alaska Supreme Court. She also practiced law as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where she specialized in domestic violence prosecution and prosecuted child abuse, sex crimes and Internet crimes.

Established in 1912, DePaul’s College of Law enrolled 1,044 students for the 2008-2009 academic year. Its research centers and institutes focus on issues such as health law, international human rights law, intellectual property, law and science, death penalty and misdemeanor defense, animal law, international aviation law, family law, public interest law, international weapons control, and dispute resolution. The College of Law has nearly 12,000 living law alumni. Graduates of the law school include state and federal judges, municipal, county and state leaders and two generations of Chicago mayors.