As UH Law Center prepares for the new academic year, I am delighted to welcome and introduce seven new distinguished faculty who bring a wealth of expertise that will enrich the educational experience for our students and enhance the scholarly prowess and breadth of the overall faculty. These appointments, promotions, and recognitions reflect the institution's commitment to academic excellence and the professional development of its faculty. I also take this opportunity to recognize and congratulate several long-time faculty members who have been recognized with a named professorship or chair or have been promoted to leadership positions.

New Doctrinal Faculty

Chinonso Anozie 
Assistant Professor of Law
S.J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
LL.M., with honors, University of Oklahoma College of Law
LL.B., University of Nigeria

Chinonso Tansi Anozie is the Presidential Frontier Faculty in Energy Transition and Climate Change. Before joining the University of Houston, Anozie was an Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University.  He has published articles in several law reviews including Texas A&M Law Review and the Wisconsin Law Review.

Leah Fowler
Assistant Professor of Law
M.P.H., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,
J.D., University of Houston Law Center
B.S., cum laude, Georgetown University

Leah Fowler explores topics at the intersection of consumer technology and health, focusing primarily on smartphone applications, wearables, and social media platforms. Previously, Fowler was a Research Assistant Professor and Research Director at the Health Law & Policy Institute. During law school, she was managing editor of the Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy. Her scholarship is published or forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, American Journal of Law & Medicine, Pediatrics, Journal of Adolescent Health, Health Promotion Practice, and American Journal of Bioethics, among others

David Froomkin
Assistant Professor of Law
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
J.D., Yale Law School
M.A. M.Phil., Yale University
B.A., cum laude, Columbia University

David Froomkin studies administrative law, constitutional law, separation of powers, legislation, and election law. He previously served as a teaching fellow at Yale University, where he taught courses on democratic theory and constitutional design. His legal scholarship has appeared in Arizona State Law Journal, Utah Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation

Andrew Lanham 
Assistant Professor of Law
Ph.D. candidate,  
M. St. and M.Litt., University of Oxford  
M.A. & M.Phil., Yale University 
J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School  
B.A., summa cum laude, Haverford College  

Andrew Lanham is a legal historian who studies how social protest movements have reshaped civil rights and civil liberties law in the United States. Before joining the University of Houston Law Center, Andrew was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and the Robert and Jane Beach Interdisciplinary Fellow in Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.  His academic articles and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Journal of Legal History, the Michigan Law Review, the U.C. Irvine Law Review, the Washington Law Review, the Michigan Journal of Law & Society, and Notes & Queries.

Chris Mirasola 
Assistant Professor of Law
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School 
M.P.P., Harvard Kennedy School of Government
B.A., with honors, Johns Hopkins University

Chris Mirasola focuses on emerging questions of national security and international law. Mirasola’s background includes work as a Department of Defense attorney and as a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. Before graduate school, he worked in China designing online teaching modules for criminal defense attorneys and teaching English. His language skills include Mandarin and Italian. His projects have been published, or are forthcoming, in the University of Southern California Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, the Harvard National Security Journal, and the Harvard Negotiation Law Review.

New LSS Faculty

Maleaha Brown 
Clinical Associate Professor  
J.D., Howard University School of Law 
B.A., Baylor University 

Maleaha Brown teaches Lawyering Skills and Strategies and Family Law. Before joining the UHLC, Professor Brown taught Legal Analysis, Writing, and Skills and Family Law at Southwestern Law School. Prior to teaching, Brown was a family law attorney at Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid and Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. She currently serves as a Commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and on the Editorial Board for the ABA Family Law Section’s scholarly journal, Family Law Quarterly.

Christina Crozier 
Clinical Assistant Professor
J.D., University of Houston Law Center
B.S., with highest honors, University of Texas at Austin

Christina Crozier returns to her alma mater to teach Lawyering Skills and Strategies. In her teaching, Crozier draws on nearly two decades of experience in Haynes Boone’s appellate practice group. She is a seasoned legal writer and oral advocate, having argued appeals in the Fifth Circuit, the Texas Supreme Court, and numerous Texas courts of appeals. Prior to joining UHLC, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at South Texas College of Law.

Promotions + Recognitions

I am proud to announce the following faculty have been recognized with named chairs and professorships and/or have been selected for, or promoted, to leadership positions at the UH Law Center, effective September 1, 2024.