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Our Faculty

UC Irvine Law’s faculty includes nationally renowned scholars and educators whose expertise spans nearly every area of law — antitrust, constitutional and criminal law, environmental and health law, immigration, intellectual property, and more — shaping thought leadership across disciplines and driving innovation in legal education.

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Full-Time Faculty

Cindy Thomas Archer
Associate Dean for Equity
Professor of Lawyering Skills
carcher@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Legal Analysis and Communication; Civil Litigation Practice; Lawyer-Client Relationship; Professional Responsibility; Client Interviewing and Counseling Skills; Cultural Humility in Client Representation; Inclusive Excellence in Legal Education
Sameer Ashar
Clinical Professor of Law
sashar@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Clinical Legal Education; Law and Social Movements; Labor Law; Immigration Law; Legal Profession
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development
Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
sballakrishnen@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7979

Expertise: Legal Profession, Gender, Critical Feminist and Queer Theory, Global Souths, India
Mehrsa Baradaran
Professor of Law
mbaradaran@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Banking Law; Contracts; Property; Housing; Inequality
Mario Barnes
Chancellor's Professor of Law
mbarnes@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Criminal Law; Constitutional Law; National Security Law; Race and the Law
Joshua D. Blank
Professor of Law
Director of the UCI Law in NYC Program
jblank@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4807

Expertise: Tax Administration and Compliance; Taxation of Business Entities; Taxpayer Privacy and Tax Transparency
Courtney Cahill
Chancellor's Professor of Law

Expertise: Constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, reproductive rights, sex equality, LGBTQ equality
Alejandro Camacho
Chancellor's Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UC Irvine Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources
acamacho@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4160

Expertise: Environmental and Natural Resources Law; Land Use Regulation; Government Regulation and Policy
Robert S. Chang
Professor of Law and Sylvia Mendez Presidential Chair for Civil Rights
Executive Director of the UC Irvine School of Law Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality
rchang@law.uci.edu
Linda Cohen
Professor of Economics and Law Emeritus
linda.cohen@uci.edu / (949) 824-5189

Expertise: Political Economy; Government Regulation and Policy; Economics and Law
Adam Cowing
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
acowing@law.uci.edu/ (949) 824-3897

Expertise: Community and Economic Development, Affordable Housing Law and Policy
Rachel Croskery-Roberts
Associate Dean for Lawyering Skills
Professor of Lawyering Skills
rcroskery@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9267

Expertise: Lawyering Skills; Individual Employment Law; Employment Discrimination Law; Persuasion/Rhetoric; Business Drafting
Joe DiMento
Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
jdimento@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Environmental Law; International Public Law; Urban Planning
Veena Dubal
Professor of Law
(949) 824-4794

Expertise: Employment and Labor Law
Victor Fleischer
Professor of Law
vfleischer@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Partnership Tax; Federal Taxation; Tax; Private Equity Law; Tax Policy; Corporate Finance; Business and Corporate Law; Corporate Tax; Financial Market Regulation
Bryant Garth
Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
bgarth@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Globalization; Legal Profession
Howard Gillman
UCI Chancellor
Professor of Law, Political Science and Criminology, Law & Society
chancellor@uci.edu / (949) 824-5011

Expertise: American Constitutionalism; Judicial Politics
Andrew Gold
Professor of Law and Philosophy
agold@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Private Law Theory; Fiduciary Law; Law of Corporations
Kaaryn Gustafson
Professor of Law
Director, Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEaR)
kgustafson@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4029

Expertise: Law and Inequality; Empirical Research; Critical Race Theory
Kevin Haeberle
Professor of Law
khaeberle@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2793

Expertise: Corporate law and securities law (including focuses on insider-trading law as well as financial-instrument trading markets, broker-dealers, exchanges, investment companies, and ETFs and their regulation)
Carrie Hempel
Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law
Co-Director, Community and Economic Development Clinic
chempel@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3575

Expertise: Clinical Education; Community & Economic Development; Post-Conviction Remedies
Dalié Jiménez
Professor of Law
Director, Student Loan Law Initiative
djimenez@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-0066

Expertise: Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Law; Credit and Debt Collection Markets; Credit Reporting; Student Loans; Access to Civil Justice; Randomized Control Trials in Law
David Kaye
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, International Justice Clinic
dkaye@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2427

Expertise: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law; Public International Law; International Criminal Justice; and Freedom of Expression
Sung Eun (Summer) Kim
Professor of Law
Director, Korea Law Center
skim@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4946

Expertise: Private Equity; Corporate Law; Corporate Finance; Financial Regulation; Contracts
Annie Lai
Co-Associate Dean for Experiential Education
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Immigrant & Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic
alai@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9894

Expertise: Immigration Law; Civil Rights; Workers’ Rights; Clinical Legal Education
Dana Lee
Assistant Professor of Law and Mohannad and Rana Malas Scholar in Islamic Legal Studies
dlee@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3892

Expertise: Islamic Law; Intellectual and Social History of the Islamic World; Jurisprudence; Comparative Law; Property
Stephen Lee
Professor of Law
slee@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3731

Expertise: Administrative Law; Immigration Law
Jack Lerner
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Intellectual Property, Arts and Technology Clinic
jlerner@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7684

Expertise: Intellectual Property; Technology
Christopher Leslie
Chancellor's Professor of Law
Director, Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum (CALIF)
cleslie@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-5556

Expertise: Antitrust; Intellectual Property; Class Action Settlements; Sexual Orientation and the Law
Ji Li
John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law
jli@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2750

Expertise: Chinese Law and Politics; International Business Transactions; Comparative Law; Contracts; Empirical Legal Studies
Elizabeth Loftus
Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology, Law & Society; Cognitive Science; and Law
eloftus@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3285

Expertise: Psychology and Law; Human Memory
Omri Marian
Professor of Law
omarian@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-6493

Expertise: International Taxation; Comparative Taxation; Taxation of Financial Instruments
Susan McMahon
Professor of Lawyering Skills
smcmahon@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Legal Analysis and Communication; Legal Education; Criminal Law; Mental Health
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Law
cmeadow@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-1987

Expertise: International and Comparative Law; Dispute Resolution; Legal Profession and Legal Ethics; Civil Procedure; Law and Society; Legal Education; Feminist Legal Theory and Law; Literature and Popular Culture
Alison Mikkor
Professor of Lawyering Skills
amikkor@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-8000

Expertise: Legal Analysis and Communication; Civil Litigation Practice; Appellate Practice; Lawyer-Client Relationship; Client Interviewing and Counseling Skills; Professional Responsibility; Inclusive Excellence in Legal Education
Rachel Moran
Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law Emeritus
rmoran@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9949

Expertise: Civil Rights; Education Law and Policy; Higher Education and Affirmative Action; Latino-Related Law and Policy; Legal Education; Torts
Austen Parrish
Dean and Chancellor's Professor of Law
aparrish@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7722

Expertise: Transnational Law and Litigation, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts
Katherine Porter
Professor of Law

Expertise: Bankruptcy, consumer law, legislation process, statutory interpretation, mortgage foreclosure, debt collection, empirical studies of legal systems
Trevor G. Reed
Professor of Law
treed@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-8956

Expertise: Intellectual Property, Tribal and Federal Indian Law; Copyright Law
Tony Reese
Chancellor's Professor of Law
treese@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4745

Expertise: Copyright Law; Trademark Law
L. Song Richardson
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
srichardson@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Law and Social Science; Race and the Law; Leadership; Policing; Implicit Racial and Gender Bias
Michael Robinson-Dorn
Co-Associate Dean for Experiential Education
Myron and Sonya Glassberg Chair in Environmental Law
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Environmental Law Clinic
mrobinsondorn@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-1043

Expertise: Advice and Counseling; Litigation; Administrative and Policy Advocacy; Administrative Law; Natural Resources Law; Environmental Law
Trilby Robinson-Dorn
Vice Dean
Professor of Lawyering Skills
trobinsondorn@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9638

Expertise: Business Transactions; Contract Drafting; Employment Discrimination; Employment Law; Lawyering Skills; Client Counseling; Trial Advocacy
Ezra Ross
Professor of Lawyering Skills
eross@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9743

Expertise: Lawyering Skills; Legal Profession
Kenneth W. Simons
Chancellor's Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Legal Philosophy
ksimons@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3863

Expertise: Torts; Criminal Law; Moral and Political Philosophy
Robert Solomon
Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus
Co-Director, Community and Economic Development Clinic
Co-Chair, UCI Center for the Study of Cannabis
rsolomon@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9719

Expertise: Community & Economic Development; Housing; Evidence; Trial Advocacy
Ji Seon Song
Assistant Professor of Law
jsong@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Policing, Race and the Law; Juvenile Law
Ann Southworth
Professor of Law
Raymond Pryke Endowed Chair in First Amendment Law
Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
asouthworth@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2917

Expertise: Legal Profession; Professional Responsibility; Cause Lawyers
Jane Stoever
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
Director, Initiative to End Family Violence
jstoever@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3418

Expertise: Clinical Legal Education; Domestic Violence Law; Family Law
Shauhin Talesh
Professor of Law
Director, Law and Graduate Studies Program
stalesh@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9214

Expertise: Civil Procedure; Consumer Law; Insurance; Organizations; Empirical Legal Studies; Law and Society; Law and Inequality; Law and Social Change
Emily Taylor Poppe
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UCI Law Civil Justice Research Initiative
etaylorpoppe@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2986

Expertise: Access to Justice; Wills & Trusts; the Legal Profession; Civil Procedure; Law & Society; Inequality and Law
Beatrice Tice
Professor of the Practice of Law
btice@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7327

Expertise: International Law; Comparative Law; Legal Profession; Legal Research and Writing
Katharine Tinto
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Criminal Justice Clinic
ktinto@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9247

Expertise: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Defense
Grace Tonner
Distinguished Professor of Lawyering Skills
gtonner@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4037

Expertise: Lawyering Skills
Charles Tyler
Assistant Professor of Law
ctyler@law.uci.edu

Expertise: Federal Courts, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure
Kerry Vandell
Dean's Professor Emeritus of Real Estate and Law
kvandell@uci.edu / (949) 824-1985

Expertise: Real Estate Law; Business Law
Ari Waldman
Professor of Law
awaldman@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9949

Expertise: Privacy law, law and technology, sociolegal studies, empirical methods, digital governance, science and technology studies, LGBTQ+/queer studies
Henry Weinstein
Professor Emeritus of Lawyering Skills
hweinstein@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3642

Expertise: Media Law; Lawyering Skills
Christopher Williams
Assistant Professor of Law
cwilliams@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9758

Expertise: Critical Race Theory; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Justice Reform
Christopher Whytock
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center in Law, Society and Culture
cwhytock@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-0496

Expertise: Conflict of Laws; International Law; Transnational Litigation; Empirical Legal Studies

Adjunct Faculty and Directors

Patricia Cyr
Co-Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
pcyr@law.uci.edu
Susan Seager
Adjunct Professor of Law
sseager1.clinic@law.uci.edu

Visiting Faculty

Alisa Blair
Clinical Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
blaira1@uci.edu
Charlie Martel
Visiting Assistant Professor of Lawyering Skills
cmartel@law.uci.edu
Danielle Tully
Visiting Assistant Professor of Lawyering Skills
dtully@law.uci.edu

Librarians

Kathryn Anderson
Research and Instruction Law Librarian
kanderson@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-5370
Amy Atchison
Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library
aatchison@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3203
Ellen Augustiniak
Head of Collection Services
eaugustiniak@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3225
Jessica Pierucci
Research Law Librarian for Foreign, Comparative, and International Law
jpierucci@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-5370
Divya Seth
Research and Instruction Law Librarian
dseth@law.uci.edu / 949-824-7242
Christina Tsou
Head of Public Services
ctsou@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-1430
Kaitlyn Winkle
Research and Instruction Law Librarian
kwinkle@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-6421

Academic Skills

Mary Basick
Assistant Dean of Academic Skills
mbasick@law.uci.edu
Christine Francis
Associate Director of Academic Skills
cfrancis@law.uci.edu
Tina Schindler
Associate Director of Academic Skills
tschindler@law.uci.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Elizabeth Cauffman
Professor of Psychological Science; Education; and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
cauffman@uci.edu / (949) 824-4075
Simon A. Cole
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
scole@uci.edu / (949) 824-1443
Eve Darian-Smith
Department Chair, Global and International Studies
Professor, Global and International Studies and Law
UCI School of Social Sciences
edarian@uci.edu / (949) 824-1072
Jon B. Gould
Dean, School of Social Ecology
Professor, Criminology, Law & Society and Law
jon.gould@uci.edu / (949) 824-5466
Sora Han
Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
sora.han@uci.edu / (949) 824-0050
Jeffrey Helmreich
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law
UCI School of Humanities
jhelmrei@uci.edu / (949) 824-6520
Mona Lynch
Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
Department Chair, Criminology, Law & Society
Co-Director, Center in Law, Society and Culture
UCI School of Social Ecology
lynchm@uci.edu / (949) 824-0047
Nicholas Marantz
Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Public Policy and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
nmarantz@uci.edu / (949) 824-8101
Bill Maurer
Dean, UCI School of Social Sciences
Professor of Anthropology; Criminology, Law & Society; and Law
wmmaurer@uci.edu / (949) 824-1415
Keramet Reiter
Vice Chair, Criminology, Law & Society
Professor, Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
reiterk@uci.edu / (949) 824-9201
Justin Richland
Professor of Anthropology and Law
UCI School of Social Sciences
jbrich@uci.edu / (949) 824-9449
Nicholas Scurich
Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology, Law & Society; and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
nscurich@uci.edu / (949) 824-4046
Christopher Seeds
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
cseeds@uci.edu
Charles Anthony (Tony) Smith
Professor of Political Science and Law
UCI School of Social Sciences
casmith@uci.edu / (949) 824-7948
William C. Thompson
Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law & Society; Psychological Science; and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
william.thompson@uci.edu / (949) 824-6156
Benjamin van Rooij
Global Professor of Law
University of Amsterdam
bvanrooij@law.uci.edu
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Chancellor's Professor of History and Law
UCI School of Humanities
jwassers@uci.edu / (949) 824-6521