Professor

Cathy

Lesser

Mansfield

Cathy Lesser Mansfield is a Professor Emerita at Drake University Law School after serving as a Professor of Law at Drake Law School for many years.  She has also been a a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School and University of Cincinnati, and  served as a Policy Analyst with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.    

Professor Mansfield teaches a variety of consumer, payments and commercial law courses, is a co-author of the National Consumer Law Center’s Consumer Banking and Payments Law manual, and speaks nationally about consumer protection issues.  Professor Mansfield also teaches a course called “Holocaust and the Law.”  She is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Center for National Security and Human Rights Law.  She is the composer and librettist of an opera, entitled The Sparks Fly Upward, that follows three German families in Berlin, two Jewish and one Christian, through the Holocaust, and she is founder and Executive Director of The Sparks Fly Upward Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, genocide and tolerance through presentations of Sparks, and ancillary activities.