Notre Dame Law School Welcomes New Faculty Members for 2026–27 Academic Year

Notre Dame Law School is pleased to welcome six new faculty members for the 2026–27 academic year. Collectively, they bring extensive scholarly, teaching, and practical experience across a wide range of legal fields.

“Our new faculty bring extraordinary breadth to Notre Dame Law School, with expertise spanning business law and entrepreneurship, legal philosophy, federal courts, and legal writing, while sharing a deep commitment to excellence in scholarship and teaching,” said G. Marcus Cole, the Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law. “I am excited for the contributions they will make to our intellectual community, the students they will teach, and our mission to educate lawyers and leaders who will become forces for good.”

New Faculty Members

Ahson Azmat has joined the Law School as an associate professor of law. He specializes in business law and private law theory, with specific interests in securities and antitrust litigation, corporate disclosure, and fiduciary duties. Azmat has practiced as a commercial litigator in New York after clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, with extensive stand-up trial, discovery, and appellate experience. At Notre Dame, he will be teaching Contracts, Business Associations, and other courses. Azmat’s scholarship has been published in the Harvard Law Review, Oxford University Press, and the Journal of Tort Law. His current research interests include corporate fraud, causation, and analytic jurisprudence.

Azmat earned an A.B. from Princeton University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has also served as a non-resident Research Fellow at Georgetown University.

Anne Choike has joined the faculty as a clinical professor of law and founding director of the Notre Dame Entrepreneurship Law and Policy Clinic. She has founded, directed, and taught in transactional law clinics at multiple law schools, supervising student attorneys in advising clients ranging from mission-driven startups and nonprofits to small businesses. Choike’s current scholarship interests include clinical pedagogy; the intersection of corporate and securities law with local government law; and feminist legal theory and methods.

Among her other prior faculty appointments, Choike previously visited the Law School in 2025, where she co-taught the Community Development Clinic with Professor Jim Kelly. Prior to her career in academia, she practiced as an associate at Jenner & Block and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City, where she represented Fortune 50 companies, financial institutions, and private equity-backed companies in capital markets and strategic transactions. She also serves as Of Counsel at Peak Legal, a Warsaw-based law firm specializing in complex technology projects.

She earned a B.A. from Cornell University, a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a M.U.P. from the University of Michigan.

“I am thrilled to return to Notre Dame Law School and contribute to the impressive recent growth of the clinical law program, and offer more transactional law opportunities for the school’s students. Serving entrepreneurs—locally, nationally, and internationally—whose legal needs are unmet, and preparing the next generation of lawyers to do so, is at the heart of my teaching, research, and service," said Choike. "I believe deeply that business law can be a means of advancing human flourishing: that ventures are inherently human, deals are inherently relational, and lawyers can help entrepreneurs build businesses that reflect their values and contribute to their communities. Notre Dame Law School’s distinctive commitment to educating a different kind of lawyer makes it an unparalleled place to bring together rigorous business-law training and an authentic orientation toward service.”

Will Kamin has joined the full-time faculty as an associate professor of law after serving as a visiting associate professor of law at the Law School during the 2025-2026 academic year. He teaches and writes in the areas of habeas corpus, federal courts, civil procedure, and legal history. His scholarship on habeas corpus has been published or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the University of California, Davis Law Review. Before entering academia, Kamin clerked for Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He earned a B.A. from Amherst College and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

“Teaching (and writing) at Notre Dame Law School has long been a dream for me, and I feel profoundly blessed to be joining the regular faculty here. As a visitor at Notre Dame last year, I was consistently blown away by both the brilliance and the kindness of my colleagues and students alike. I was especially excited to see how many students are now coming to NDLS with an interest in pursuing vocations in legal academia, and I relish the opportunity to help such students find their voices as young scholars," said Kamin.

Margaret Martin has joined the Law School faculty as a professor of law after serving as a visiting associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School during the 2025-2026 academic year. She previously served as an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, where she researched and taught legal philosophy, international criminal law, criminal theory, Canadian constitutional law, and the history of political thought. She is on the board of the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. Martin has also held fellowships at the University of Toronto and Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge and was a visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil in 2024.

She is the author of Judging Positivism (Hart Publishing, 2014) which is a contribution to the modern debate about legal positivism.

She earned a B.A. in Philosophy and English Literature and a M.A. in Philosophy, both from McMaster University. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, and a Master of Studies of Law from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.

"Notre Dame is a very special place. The faculty and the students I have met here are exceptional in every way. It is exciting to join a community that is committed to academic excellence and to the pursuit of the common good," said Martin.

Sarah Pojanowski has joined the faculty as an assistant teaching professor. She previously taught Legal Writing at the Law School in an adjunct capacity. She began her legal career at Heller Ehrman LLP, where she practiced general litigation, antitrust, and trade regulation law, and later continued her antitrust practice at Paul Hastings LLP. She then served for 16 years as general counsel of Selected Independent Funeral Homes. Her teaching and research interests include clear written communication, small business law, death care law, and consumer protection law.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Concord College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Micah Quigley has joined the faculty as an associate professor of law. He teaches or writes about remedies, habeas corpus, federal courts, and jurisprudence. His scholarship has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the George Mason Law Review, among others. He is also a non-resident research fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Before joining the Law School faculty, he was a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and practiced law in Washington, D.C. Quigley clerked for Judge Andrew Oldham on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Judge Neomi Rao on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Justice Neil Gorsuch on the U.S. Supreme Court.

He studied political science and philosophy at Grove City College, and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.