October 11, 2002

Loyola welcomes new faculty, diverse scholars

This issue lists the new scholars to join the College Business Administration, College of Music, City College, University Library, and the School of Law. Last month's issue highlighted new faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences.

College of Business

Nicholas Capaldi is the Legendre-Soule Chair in Business Ethics and Professor of Business Ethics. Capaldi earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published numerous scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Journal; International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion; Journal of Critical Analysis; Social Theory and Practice; and the American Philosophical Quarterly. Capaldi has served on the editorial board of a number of journals. He is the author of many books, including David Hume: The Newtonian Philosopher; Out of Action: Affirmative Action and the Crisis of Doctrinaire Liberalism; Hume's Place in Moral Philosophy; and others. Capaldi has served as the McFarlin Endowed Professor of Philosophy and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa and has held faculty positions at Queens College, City University of New York, the State University College at Potsdam, and the National University of Singapore.

George Mentz is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Law. Mentz earned a juris doctor and a master's in business administration from Loyola and bachelor's degree from LSU.

Chandra Schorg is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting. Schorg earned a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's of business administration degree from Texas Women's University.

College of Music

James Robert Currie, Ph.D., is a professor of music history in the College of Music. He holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Columbia University, a master of arts degree and master of philosophy degree in historical musicology from Columbia, and a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in England. Currie's academic interests include the interaction between musical periods and philosophical thought. Before coming to Loyola, Currie served as a teaching assistant at Columbia University and a private instructor in music theory.

City College

Mark Markuly, Ph.D., is assistant professor of pastoral theology and religious education, and director of the Loyola Institute for Ministry. He holds a Ph.D. in education with an emphasis in curriculum and instruction from Saint Louis University and a master's degree in systematic theology from Aquinas Institute of Theology as well as substantial graduate work in instructional technology. Markuly is published in the area of catechesis and spirituality, and he has served on religious education regional and national boards.

University Library

Christy Rilette is a new reference librarian in the Monroe Library. Rilette graduated from Loyola with a degree in sociology and a minor in women's studies, and obtained a masters in library and information sciences from Rutgers University. Prior to returning to Loyola, she was a senior information specialist at the Association of National Advertisers in New York City.

School of Law

Dominique M. Custos, professor of law, earned her doctoral degree from Panthéon-Sorbonne University after having graduated as the valedictorian of her master's degree class from the same university. She first taught as a "Maîtresse de Conférences" at the University of the (French) Antilles and Guyana and upon successful completion of the "Agrégation de Droit Public" was appointed 'Professeure des Universités' at the University of Caen (France) in 1994. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia Law School (New York) in 1997 - 1998. Custos has taught administrative law, constitutional law, local government law, European law, and comparative law courses. As she joins the Loyola law faculty, she will also add civil law to this list. She is a member of the European Union Studies Association, the Commission pour l'Etude des Communautés Européennes, the Société d'Etudes Nord Américaines, the Société de Législation Comparée, and the Institut Français de Science Administrative.

Robert Garda, assistant professor of law, graduated from Duke Law School where he served as articles editor on the Duke Law Journal. After externing for Justice Zimmerman of the Utah Supreme Court, Garda became a partner at the Salt Lake City firm of Fabian & Clendenin (1994 - 2002), focusing primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, employment law, and education law. Garda's teaching and scholarly interests include contracts and education law, with an emphasis on legal issues relating to educating the disabled.

John A. Lovett, assistant professor of law, received a bachelor's degree in 1988 from Haverford College (Phi Beta Kappa), master's degree in fine arts in creative writing from Indiana University in 1991, and a juris doctor in 1995 from Tulane University (magna cum laude). Lovett served as an articles editor of the Tulane Law Review and was inducted into Order of the Coif. After law school, Lovett was a law clerk to the Hon. F.A. Little, Jr., United States District Court Judge of the Western District of Louisiana, and the Hon. Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., United States Fifth Circuit Judge. He then practiced law for five years with the New Orleans law firm of Liskow & Lewis in the firm's commercial litigation section. His teaching and scholarly interests focus on civil law property, land use law, and Louisiana civil law generally.

Gabriël A Moens, visiting professor of law, is the Garrick Professor of Law and Director of the Australian Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland, Australia. He teaches international business law and European union law at the University of Notre Dame, London Law Centre. In 1999, he won the Australian Award for University Teaching in Law and Legal Studies. He is editor of International Trade and Business Law Annual. He is also a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence and other scholarly journals. In 1995, he was honored by his Majesty, King Albert II of Belgium, with the award of a Knighthood for services to education. During the 1995 - 96 academic year he was a visiting professor of law at J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. In 1997 and 2000 he successfully coached the T.C. Beirne School of Law team to win the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition in Vienna, Austria. He is co-author of The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia Annotated (6th ed, 2001), and International Trade and Business: Law, Policy and Ethics, 1998

Monica Hof Wallace, visiting professor of law, received her bachelor's degree from LSU in 1993 (cum laude), and received a juris doctor from Loyola University in 1998 (summa cum laude). While attending law school, Wallace served on the Law Review and as chair of the Loyola Moot Court program. After graduation, she clerked for the Hon. Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., of the United States Fifth Circuit and the Hon. Barry Ted Moskowitz of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. After her clerkships, she joined the firm of Correro Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley & Casteix where she practiced general commercial litigation. Wallace has served at Loyola as an adjunct faculty member and taught Legal Research and Writing and moot court.