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Diane M. Juffras

Professor of Public Law and Government
919.843.4926

Areas of Expertise

Employment law; employment discrimination law

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Diane Juffras joined the School of Government in 2001. Prior to that, she was an attorney in private practice in Connecticut, where she specialized in the areas of employment, health care, and business law and litigation. Juffras received an AB from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. Before attending law school, she received an MA and PhD in classics from the University of Michigan, and she taught in the Classics Departments at Princeton University, University of Virginia, and Ohio State University.

Robert P. Joyce

Charles Edwin Hinsdale Professor of Public Law and Government
919.966.6860

Areas of Expertise

School law (especially schools as employers); higher education law; elections law; legislative representation; governmental employer-employee relations; employment discrimination law; news media-government relations

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Bob Joyce joined the School of Government (then the Institute of Government) in 1980. He previously practiced law with Chadbourne & Parke in New York and with Barber & Joyce in Pittsboro, NC. He is a past member of the executive committees of the Education Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association and the North Carolina Council of School Attorneys. He has served as editor of the School of Government's Legislative Reporting Service, School Law Bulletin, and Popular Government. His publications include The Law of Employment in North Carolina's Public SchoolsThe Precinct Manual, and chapters in Education Law in North Carolina. Joyce earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Willow S. Jacobson

Associate Professor of Public Administration and Government and Director, LGFCU Fellows Program
919.966.4760

Areas of Expertise

Human resource management; organizational theory; public management

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Willow Jacobson joined the School of Government faculty in 2003. Prior to that, she taught in the Master of Public Administration program at the University of Connecticut and worked on the Government Performance Project and the New Jersey Initiative at the Alan K. Campbell Institute at The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She has also assisted with strategic planning for community collaboratives in California and Oregon state government. Currently Jacobson teaches in the Master of Public Administration program, and she was integrally involved in the 2005 inaugural session of the Public Executive Leadership Academy. Her research has appeared in Public Administration Review and Public Personnel Management. Jacobson holds a PhD from Syracuse University.

Selected publications

Brenda Bushouse, Willow S. Jacobson, Kristina Lambright, Jared Llorens, Rick Morse, and Ora-Orn Poocharoen. 2011. "Crossing the Divide: Building Bridges between Public Administration Practitioners and Scholars". Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Vol. 21, Supplement 1. pp. 99-112.

Heather Getha-Taylor, Maja Holmes, Willow S. Jacobson, Rick Morse, and Jessica Sowa. 2011. "Focusing the Public Leadership Lens: Research Propositions and Questions in the Minnowbrook Tradition". Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Vol. 21. Supplement 1. pp. 183-197.

Willow S. Jacobson, Ellen Rubin, and Amy Donahue. 2008.  “Integrating Labor Relations and Human Resource Management:  Impacts on State Workforces,” International Review of Public Administration.2008.  Vol. 13, No. 2

Willow S. Jacobson and Donna Warner. 2008. “Leading and Governing: A Model for local Government Education,” Journal of Public Affairs Education. Summer 2008, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2008

Willow S. Jacobson, “Preparing for Tomorrow: A Case Study of Workforce Planning in North Carolina Municipalities,” Public Personnel Management. Forthcoming (Accepted November 2007).

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Public Officials - Local and State Government Roles
Topics - Local and State Government