Minnesota Law this fall welcomed three new additions to its faculty. Alan Z. Rozenshtein and Caleb Smith, who have been visiting professors at the Law School, have joined the permanent faculty; Professor Maria Ponomarenko comes to Minnesota Law from New York University School of Law.

Ponomarenko is co-founder of and counsel to NYU Law’s Policing Project, a nonprofit that works in tandem with policing agencies and community groups to promote more effective police governance. She teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, and criminal procedure. Her work focuses in particular on government agencies—such as policing agencies or other local regulatory agencies—that operate in domains that fall beyond the reach of traditional administrative law and scholarship. She was recently appointed associate reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law: Policing project.

Rozenshtein joined the Law School as a visiting professor in 2017. He is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network and in 2018-19 was an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. His work focuses on the effects of technology on law and regulation. Courses he has taught include cybercrime and cybersecurity, constitutional law, criminal procedure, and legislation and regulation. Prior to joining the faculty as a visiting professor, Rozenshtein served as an attorney advisor in the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Smith joined the faculty as visiting associate professor of clinical law and director of the Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic in 2017. He also teaches federal tax procedure. Smith previously worked as a clinical fellow at Harvard Law School’s Federal Tax Clinic. Smith has given a number of presentations at national American Bar Association Tax Section conferences on low-income tax issues and co-authored a chapter on the earned income tax credit in the seventh edition of the ABA’s Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS. He is a vice-chair on the ABA Tax Section’s Pro Bono and Tax Clinic Committee.