VISITING PROFESSORS

Visiting Assistant Professor & Director of the Tax Clinic

Amy Feinberg is a tax controversy lawyer with particular expertise in the effects of procedural rules on low-income taxpayers.  She is the 2025-26 visiting assistant professor directing the Tax Clinic, where she teaches the clinic seminar. Feinberg supervises students in their work on behalf of low-income taxpayers across all stages of tax controversies, from administrative proceedings to litigation. The Tax Clinic assists taxpayers with many issues, including tax credit matters, IRS collections and obtaining tax refunds for incarcerated individuals.

In Feinberg's previous work, she litigated tax disputes in the US Tax Court, Federal Appellate Courts and the US Supreme Court. She worked extensively with academic tax clinics and the Center for Taxpayer Rights to achieve major changes for low-income taxpayers in Tax Court procedure.

Visiting Professor

Paul Figley is professor of legal rhetoric emeritus at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL), where he taught from 2006-2024. During his tenure at AUWCL, the Student Bar Association voted him Professor of the Year in 2012-13 and Faculty Member of the Year for 2014-15.

Figley has published articles in scholarly journals and a book, A Guide to the Federal Tort Claims Act (ABA, 2d ed. 2018). He has testified before Congressional committees on matters pertaining to government liability and appropriations. He has presented at scholarly symposia and conferences, international organizations, and government agencies. In 2017, he won Washington College of Law’s Emalee C. Godsey Scholar Award.

Figley was a US Department of Justice litigator for three decades. During his last fifteen years at Justice, he served as Deputy Director in the Torts Branch of the Civil Division. At Justice, Figley represented the United States and its agencies in appellate and district court litigation involving torts, national security and information law. He headed defense teams for Agent Orange, Katrina Flood and Nuclear Radiation Litigation.

Figley is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he was leading articles editor for the Journal of Air Law & Commerce.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law & Director of the Health Law Clinic

Jacqueline Penrod joins Villanova as a visiting assistant professor and director of the Health Law Clinic. Penrod is particularly focused on the ways in which public health and education policies play a role in perpetuating health and income inequity. She brings a decade professional experience in the healthcare industry in addition to nearly fifteen years of legal practice in managed healthcare, healthcare compliance, and the legal issues surrounding healthcare data interchange. Penrod is a graduate of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, and holds an MBA from Temple University.  Her legal professional experience includes two years of service as a law clerk in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with the Honorable Gene E.K. Pratter, private practice at Duane Morris, LLP and Reed Smith, LLP, in-house practice as Senior Counsel for the AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies, as well as eight years of teaching undergraduate students health policy and law at an open-access undergraduate institution. Her experiences in the healthcare industry span perspectives of patients, doctors, facilities, and insurers. In addition to advocacy and teaching, she is pursuing an M.Ed. focused on adult learning and global change in an international cohort program at the University of British Columbia.