Having trained as an economist, in mid career Brent McClintock studied law part-time at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. While there he focused on intellectual property law, international law, and constitutional law. He won best oral argument in the Herzog Appellate Moot Court Competition. McClintock is licensed to practice law in Illinois and has been admitted to the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.

In addition to his economics teaching, Mr. McClintock teaches law courses including law and economics, the legal environment of business, and international business law. He is currently developing an introduction to law course. Current legal research interests include the boundary between private property rights and the public domain in intellectual property law, the law of international economic integration, and the law and economics of contracts. Mr. McClintock has been on the Carthage faculty since 1991.

Michael Phegley joined the Carthage faculty in 2004 after serving as an adjunct professor at Carthage and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Mr. Phegley is an attorney with Phegley, Laufenberg & Jensen, a practice that concentrates on family, criminal, labor and employment law, as well as alternative dispute resolution. He also serves as a Judicial Court Commissioner for Racine County, presiding over hearings involving juvenile, criminal, traffic, probate and civil law matters. He is a certified mediator and previously served on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee for the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Mr. Phegley is the faculty advisor for the Carthage Mock Trial Team and the Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity. He teaches Legal Environment of Business, Business Law for Accountants and Mock Trial.

Mr. Phegley is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and a member and past president of the Racine County Bar Association. He is the president of the board of directors for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Alumni Association and the vice-chair of the board of directors for St. Catherine's High School in Racine, Wis., in addition to his involvement with other community service organizations.

Tom Powers teaches Constitutional Law, American Courts, and Religion and Politics at Carthage. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Great Ideas Program. His work related to the legal field explores the interrelationships between political theory and constitutional law in particular. He has published scholarly works on anti-discrimination politics, civil liberties and the war on terror, and the religion clauses of the First Amendment. He is very close to finishing a book on American civil rights politics to be entitled, American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime: The Transformation of Liberal Pluralism. He has been at Carthage since 2008 and before that served for several years as a pre-law advisor and mock trial coach elsewhere. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.

Jonathan Marshall teaches courses in comparative politics, East Asian politics, constitutional law, and law and society. His research focuses on legal mobilization and citizen litigants in Japan, where he lived from 1988 to 1989 and from 1997 to 2000. His publications include "Freedom of Information, Legal Mobilization, and the Taxpayer Suit Boom in Japan" (Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Occasional Paper 04-06) and "Casual Cynics or Disillusioned Democrats? Political Alienation in Japan" (Political Psychology 21 (December 2000) 779-804).

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Jerald Mast primarily teaches and researches in the field of public policy, specializing in the ways in which public values, opinions and participation affect the democratic character of decisions within the lawmaking process. He focuses on American government and also researches the effect of public policy on environmental and natural resource law.

In 2003 he wrote the article Environmental Aesthetics and Law: A Case for Contingent Valuation in Public Policy Making, which is pending review in Harvard Environmental Law Review, and another article, Justifying Contingent Valuation Methods from Democratic and Environmentalist Perspectives, in preparation for submission to Environmental Politics. After receiving a grant for research in 1997-1999, he co-produced two reports on the economic benefits of wildflower viewing in Arizona for the USDI National Park Service. He presented research based on his dissertation, Clarifying Ambiguity: Public Policy, Contingent Valuation Methods, and Environmental Aesthetics, at Northeastern Illinois University in 2003 and has also been a speaker at the 2000 Southwest Rare and Endangered Plant Conference and the 1996 Western Political Science Association Meetings.

He currently is a principal investigator on a pending grant from the White Fund, AAG for the 2004-2005 study, Ecological and Policy Implications of the Preservation Mandate: Effects of Controlled Colorado River Flows in Grand Canyon National Park on Gooding Willow. He spent several semesters teaching political science and political geography as a part-time faculty member at Northern Arizona University before joining the Carthage faculty in 2002. Mr. Mast earned his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ph.D. with distinction from Northern Arizona University.

Jeff Roberg has conducted research in the former Soviet Union and its successor states. More recently, he has been carrying out a cross-national study of human rights in the former Soviet Union and China. His book, "Soviet Science Under Control: The Struggle for Influence," was published in 1998 by Macmillan Press. Mr. Roberg joined the Carthage faculty in 1997, where his teaching responsibilities include courses in comparative politics and international relations. Mr. Roberg was named the Carthage Distinguished Teacher of the Year in 2003. He earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA.