Biographical information: My high school and college education were at a seminary run by the Redemptorists. My start in law came in 1969 when, after one year of law school, I spent two years as a law clerk for Col. Cutler, the chief military judge at Fort Knox, Ky. After the Army, I was a managing editor of the Journal of Urban Law. There followed positions with Chief Judge T. John Lesinski of the Michigan Court of Appeals, later with Judge William R. Beasley, and, in between, a few years with a corporate law firm in Detroit, MI.

While working at the firm, I served as an Adjunct at University of Detroit Law School. This introduction to teaching started me on the path that led to a position teaching law full time starting in 1978 at another law school.

Teaching in law school, and as a flight instructor, revealed the need for further research on how to help students learn. First came a Masters in Measurement and Evaluation. Then came a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. Much of the resulting research was not published but rather was directed at particular opportunities to help law students at one law school.

In 1996, following the lead of Fr. Jake Foglio at Michigan State's College of Human Medicine, I offered a course in Law and Spirituality. Given the state of both our students and the profession, such a course offers great hope of helping students become true professionals. Therefore it is the current focus of my work.

Throughout all this, my inspiration has been my wife, my three children, and my grandchildren. They, along with many others, have helped in ways that they will never know.