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UC Irvine Law faculty are some of the nation’s leading scholars and teachers, representing a broad range of expertise, including antitrust; biotechnology; business law; civil procedure; civil rights; constitutional law; consumer law; criminal law; diversity, education and law; equality and discrimination; election law; environmental law; gender and law; government regulation and policy; health law; immigration law; intellectual property and cyberlaw; international dispute resolution; international law and securities; labor and employment law; law and pop culture; law and psychology; law and social sciences; legal ethics and professional responsibility; tax law; and urban planning. A 2021 study of Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties ranks UC Irvine Law No. 14 in the U.S.

Full-Time Faculty

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    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

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    Sameer Ashar

    Clinical Professor of Law
    sashar@law.uci.edu 

    Expertise: Clinical Legal Education; Law and Social Movements; Labor Law; Immigration Law; Legal Profession

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Courtney Cahill

    Chancellor's Professor of Law

    Expertise: Constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, reproductive rights, sex equality, LGBTQ equality

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    Alejandro Camacho

    Chancellor's Professor of Law
    UCI 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

    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

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    Linda Cohen

    Professor of Economics and Law
    linda.cohen@uci.edu / (949) 824-5189

    Expertise: Political Economy; Government Regulation and Policy; Economics and Law

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    Adam Cowing

    Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
    acowing@law.uci.edu/ (949) 824-3897

    Expertise: Community and Economic Development, Affordable Housing Law and Policy

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    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

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    Joe DiMento

    Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
    jdimento@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3034

    Expertise: Environmental Law; International Public Law; Urban Planning

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    Veena Dubal

    Professor of Law
    vdubal@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4794

    Expertise: Critical Race Theory, Employment and Labor Law

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    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

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    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

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    Howard Gillman

    UCI Chancellor
    Professor of Law, Political Science and Criminology, Law & Society
    chancellor@uci.edu / (949) 824-5011

    Expertise: American Constitutionalism; Judicial Politics

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    Andrew Gold

    Professor of Law and Philosophy 
    agold@law.uci.edu

    Expertise: Private Law Theory; Fiduciary Law; Law of Corporations

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    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

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    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)

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Annie Lai

    Co-Associate Dean for Experiential Education
    Clinical Professor of Law
    Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic
    alai@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9894

    Expertise: Immigration Law; Civil Rights; Workers’ Rights; Clinical Legal Education

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    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

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    Stephen Lee

    Professor of Law
    slee@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3731

    Expertise: Administrative Law; Immigration Law

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    Jack Lerner

    Clinical Professor of Law
    Director, Intellectual Property, Arts and Technology Clinic
    jlerner@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7684

    Expertise: Intellectual Property; Technology

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Omri Marian

    Professor of Law
    omarian@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-6493

    Expertise: International Taxation; Comparative Taxation; Taxation of Financial Instruments

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    Susan McMahon

    Professor of Lawyering Skills
    smcmahon@law.uci.edu

    Expertise: Legal Analysis and Communication; Legal Education; Criminal Law; Mental Health

  • Prof. Menkel-Meadow portrait

    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

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    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

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    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

  • Dean Austen Parrish

    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

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    Katherine Porter

    Professor of Law (On Leave)

    Expertise: Bankruptcy; Commercial Law; Consumer Law

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    Tony Reese

    Chancellor's Professor of Law
    treese@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4745

    Expertise: Copyright Law; Trademark Law

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    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

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    Michael Robinson-Dorn

    Co-Associate Dean for Experiential Education
    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

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    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

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    Ezra Ross

    Professor of Lawyering Skills
    eross@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9743

    Expertise: Lawyering Skills; Legal Profession

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    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

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    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

  • Prof. Song portrait

    Ji Seon Song

    Assistant Professor of Law
    jsong@law.uci.edu 

    Expertise: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Policing, Race and the Law; Juvenile Law

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    Ann Southworth

    Professor of 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

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    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

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    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

  • Prof. Taylor Poppe portrait

    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

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    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

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    Katharine Tinto

    Clinical Professor of Law
    Director, Criminal Justice Clinic
    ktinto@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9247

    Expertise: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Defense

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    Grace Tonner

    Distinguished Professor of Lawyering Skills
    gtonner@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4037

    Expertise: Lawyering Skills

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    Kerry Vandell

    Dean's Professor Emeritus of Real Estate and Law
    kvandell@uci.edu / (949) 824-1985

    Expertise: Real Estate Law; Business Law

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    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

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    Henry Weinstein

    Professor Emeritus of Lawyering Skills
    hweinstein@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3642

    Expertise: Media Law; Lawyering Skills

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    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

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