Brian Farrell is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Law and Human Rights. He is the director of Iowa Law’s Citizen Lawyer Program, Associate Director of the UI Center for Human Rights, and directs the College of Law’s undergraduate Human Rights Certificate program. He teaches international law, criminal law, and human rights courses. His research focuses on human rights, criminal law, access to justice, and rural practice.

Professor Farrell received his JD from the University of Iowa and his LLM and PhD from the National University of Ireland Galway (now University of Galway). Before joining Iowa Law, he practiced law in Iowa and Georgia. He was a co-founder of the Innocence Project of Iowa in 2007. In 2012 Professor Farrell was selected as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer and taught in the law faculty at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bulgaria. His book, Habeas Corpus in International Law, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. He served as a commissioner on the Iowa Access to Justice Commission from 2016-2022 and taught in Irish Centre for Human Rights’ LLM program at the University of Galway from 2018-2025.

Daria Fisher Page teaches and directs the Community Empowerment Law Project in the legal clinic at Iowa Law.  Her students represent individuals, nonprofits, and organizations working to strengthen their communities, create economic opportunity, and advance social justice in matters ranging from entity formation and strategic planning to coalition building and the design of advocacy plans.  Her research and scholarship currently focus on access to, and experiences of, justice; meaningful community engagement; and legal education reform.

Ryan T. Sakoda is an Assistant Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His research focuses on the empirical analysis of crime and criminal justice policy. Most recently, he has written on the use of solitary confinement and the effects of post-release supervision and probation.

Sakoda joined the Berkeley Law faculty after teaching at the University of Iowa College of Law. Previously, he worked at the Boston public defender’s office as a staff attorney where he represented indigent criminal defendants facing misdemeanor and felony charges from arrest through final disposition. Before his work as a staff attorney, Sakoda was a Liman Public Interest Fellow, also at the Boston public defender’s office, where he advised and represented clients on housing cases that arose from arrests, criminal charges, or past criminal convictions.