by Jeff Bendix

The CWRU School of Law has hired three new faculty members. Raymond Shih Ray Ku has been named professor of law and will teach courses in copyright law and cyber law. He also will serve as associate director of the school's Center for Law, Technology and the Arts.

Olufunmilayo B. Arewa has been named assistant professor of law, and Jeffrey D. Dillman has been named associate professor of law. Arewa will teach courses in business law and technology law and Dillman will teach clinical courses through the school's Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center.

A nationally known expert in the field of copyright law, Ku previously was an associate professor of law at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he taught classes in constitutional law, cyberspace law, intellectual property and digital copyright law. He also directed the law school's Institute of Law, Science & Technology. Before that he was an associate professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, where he established and directed the Center for Law, Technology & Communications. Ku was a visiting associate professor of law at Cornell Law School during the 2002-2003 academic year.

Before entering academia Ku clerked for the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Pittsburgh. He has also been an associate with the law firms Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch L.L.P. and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, both in Washington, D.C.

Ku holds a J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law where he was a Leonard Boudin First Amendment Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program and an A.B. with honors in political science from Brown University.

Arewa previously held general counsel and executive positions at several venture capital and startup firms, including most recently JT Venture Partners L.L.C. in Boston, where she was chief financial officer and general counsel. Earlier she was in private practice as an associate at the law firms Gunder Dettmer LLP in Menlo Park, California and Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.

From 1992-1994 Arewa was a teaching fellow in the sociology department of Harvard University. From 1990-1991 she was an economic officer in the U.S. Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, serving as vice consul to the U.S. embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Arewa received a J.D. from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard she was on the staff of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She also received an A.B. magna cum laude in anthropology from Harvard, an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master's degree in applied economics from the University of Michigan.

Dillman joins the law school faculty after serving for a year as a visiting assistant professor in the school's Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center. In addition, he served as a staff attorney for The Housing Advocates Inc. in Cleveland from 2000 to 2002. During the 1999-2000 academic year he was a visiting assistant professor in the law clinic of the University of Dayton School of Law. Earlier he was a supervising attorney in the Asylum and Refugee Law Project at the University of Michigan Law School and an adjunct lecturer at the school.

Dillman received a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a B.A. summa cum laude and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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