Pinchas Huberman
Assistant Professor
B.H.L., Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical College Miami
J.D., University of Toronto
LL.M., University of Toronto
LL.M., Yale Law School
Pinchas Huberman is an Assistant Professor at NIU Law. He teaches courses in tort law and First Amendment. Before joining NIU, Huberman was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory, a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and a Doctoral Fellow with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His current research is in First Amendment, free speech theory, torts, and private law theory. Huberman’s previous work, exploring theories of tort liability for harms caused by emergent technologies, has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Law &
Jurisprudence and Osgoode Hall Law Journal.
Huberman earned his J.S.D. from Yale Law School, and his J.D. from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
Fernando Mendoza Lopez
Assistant Professor
B.A., Tec de Monterrey
M.A., Yonsei University
M.A., University of Texas at Austin
J.D./Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fernando Mendoza Lopez teaches Contracts, Government Contracts, Antitrust, and Business Associations. His scholarship focuses on law and economics, business law, and administrative law, with particular attention to public procurement and promoting efficiency, accountability, and fairness. His work has appeared in law and economics journals, including the Marquette Law Review, American University Law Review, Economics Letters, and Contemporary Economic Policy.
Before joining NIU, Professor Mendoza Lopez taught at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and served as Director of Economic Studies for Mexico’s federal government contracting authority, advising on public procurement strategy and reforms.
He holds degrees in economics and international trade and finance, as well as a J.D. and Ph.D. in Law and Economics from Vanderbilt University.
Miles Malbrough
Assistant Professor
A.B., Harvard College
J.D., Vanderbilt Law School
Miles Malbrough joined the NIU Law faculty in 2026. He teaches courses in property and trusts and estates. Professor Malbrough’s research investigates how state and federal laws affect cash poor and racial minority families’ ability to preserve real property and execute intergenerational wealth transfers.
Prior to joining NIU Law, Professor Malbrough was a Law Fellow in the Environmental Law & Policy Clinic and Co-Director of the Heirs Property Project at Wake Forest University School of Law. Before that, Professor Malbrough was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, where he represented clients at risk of losing real property in probate, partition, and estate planning matters.
Professor Malbrough holds an B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard College and a J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School
