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Visiting Assistant Professor & Director of the Tax Clinic

Amy Feinberg is a tax controversy lawyer with particular expertise in the effects of procedural rules on low-income taxpayers.�� She is the 2025-26 visiting assistant professor directing the Tax Clinic, where she teaches the clinic seminar. Feinberg supervises students in their work on behalf of low-income taxpayers across all stages of tax controversies, from administrative proceedings to litigation. The Tax Clinic assists taxpayers with many issues, including tax credit matters, IRS collections and obtaining tax refunds for incarcerated individuals.

In Feinberg's previous work, she litigated tax disputes in the US Tax Court, Federal Appellate Courts and the US Supreme Court. She worked extensively with academic tax clinics and the Center for Taxpayer Rights to achieve major changes for low-income taxpayers in Tax Court procedure.

Visiting Professor

Paul Figley is professor of legal rhetoric emeritus at American University Washington��College of Law (AUWCL), where he taught from 2006-2024. During his tenure at AUWCL, the Student Bar Association voted him Professor of the Year in 2012-13 and Faculty Member of the Year for 2014-15.

Figley has published articles in scholarly journals and a book,��A Guide to the Federal Tort Claims Act��(ABA, 2d ed. 2018). He has testified before Congressional committees on matters pertaining to government liability and appropriations. He has presented at scholarly symposia and conferences, international organizations, and government agencies. In 2017, he won Washington College of Law’s Emalee C. Godsey Scholar Award.

Figley was a US Department of Justice litigator for three decades. During his last fifteen years at Justice, he served as Deputy Director in the Torts Branch of the Civil Division. At Justice, Figley represented the United States and its agencies in appellate and district court litigation involving torts, national security and information law.��He headed defense teams for Agent Orange, Katrina Flood and Nuclear Radiation Litigation.

Figley is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he was leading articles editor for the��Journal of Air Law & Commerce.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Nikola Hajdin is a visiting assistant professor. He is also a research fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and an Affiliate at the Program in Law, Science & Technology at Stanford Law School. His research lies at the intersection of criminal law, the First Amendment and international law. Currently, he is working on two projects. The first, “Freedom of Speech and Criminal Solicitation,” explores the boundaries between constitutionally protected subversive advocacy and the solicitation of unlawful conduct. The second, “Who Should We Blame for Aggressive Wars?” develops a new theory of individual criminal responsibility for the crime of aggression and examines its broader implications for international law. He has a forthcoming book, “Criminal Responsibility for Aggression under International Law,” to be published by Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing (Oxford).

Prior to coming to the United States, Hajdin was a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law and Christ Church, Oxford University. He has taught law at various universities, including Georgetown University Law Center, Oxford University and Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in international law from Stockholm University (2021) and has received legal training at Harvard Law School and Cambridge University. Before entering academia, he practiced law for nearly five years in France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Serbia. In 2016, he clerked for Judge Helena Jäderblom at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and in 2015, he worked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

Since 2014, Hajdin has published academic articles in leading law journals, book chapters for Cambridge University Press, and case notes for Oxford University Press. His work has appeared in, among others, the American Journal of International Law, the Michigan Journal of International Law and the Leiden Journal of International Law. His primary teaching interests include criminal law, torts, criminal procedure, international law, comparative criminal law, the First Amendment and national security.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law & Director of the Health Law Clinic

Jacqueline Penrod joins TikTok���˰� as a visiting assistant professor and director of the Health Law Clinic. Penrod is particularly focused on the ways in which public health and education policies play a role in perpetuating health and income inequity. She brings a decade professional experience in the healthcare industry in addition to nearly fifteen years of legal practice in managed healthcare, healthcare compliance, and the legal issues surrounding healthcare data interchange. Penrod is a graduate of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, and holds an MBA from Temple University.�� Her legal professional experience includes two years of service as a law clerk in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with the Honorable Gene E.K. Pratter, private practice at Duane Morris, LLP and Reed Smith, LLP, in-house practice as Senior Counsel for the AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies, as well as eight years of teaching undergraduate students health policy and law at an open-access undergraduate institution. Her experiences in the healthcare industry span perspectives of patients, doctors, facilities, and insurers. In addition to advocacy and teaching, she is pursuing an M.Ed. focused on adult learning and global change in an international cohort program at the University of British Columbia.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Jean Sbarge is a visiting professor teaching Legal Research, Analysis, Writing & Communication in the first-year legal writing program. Sbarge has more than two decades of experience teaching legal writing. She is an associate professor at Widener University Delaware Law School, where she teaches first-year and upper-level legal writing and research, and has taught Advanced Appellate Advocacy, Wills and Trusts and Essential Legal Concepts. Prior to becoming a law professor, Sbarge was a litigation associate at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, Philadelphia, where she practiced commercial litigation, media law, and white collar criminal law. Sbarge held a two-year clerkship with the Honorable John R. Padova of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. After graduating from law school, Sbarge was an associate attorney at Clifford Chance, New York, New York, practicing First Amendment and media law, and commercial litigation. While teaching, for several years, Sbarge also served as a Legal Writing Consultant to the Summer Associates Program at Ballard Spahr, LLP, Philadelphia.

Sbarge is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as a legal writing and research instructor, as a research assistant to Professor Lani Guinier and held the editor-in-chief position of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

Sbarge engages in scholarly presentations, including, among others, at the American Association of Law School Annual Meeting and at Legal Writing Institute (LWI) conferences.�� She has served on several LWI committees and as an assistant editor of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.��

Prior to attending law school, Sbarge worked as a certified secondary education English and science teacher.