Alejandro Camacho
Faculty

Prof. Alejandro Camacho's expertise in environmental law and land-use issues has been in demand. He was quoted in an Orange County Register story about a land-use battle in Huntington Beach, and he has had several papers on the topic of environmental protection published in the Center for Progressive Reform's Blog. He was also one of several UCI Law speakers at the Oct. 9 environmental law and health symposium hosted by UCI's Newkirk Center for Science & Society, "Stopping the Pollution of the Planet: Priorities of Environmental Law & Health."

Joseph DiMento
Founding Faculty

Prof. Joseph DiMento's joint appointment in Planning and Law has kept him busy. As director of the UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society, he spearheaded the Oct. 9 symposium "Stopping the Pollution of the Planet: Priorities of Environmental Law & Health," which combined his expertise in environmental law and urban planning. He talked about the importance of environmental law in this feature and accompanying video, and in August, he wrote a column published in the Daily Journal on "Climate Law Is Hot - But Is it Enough?"

Catherine Fisk
Founding Faculty

Chancellor's Professor of Law Catherine Fisk is a nationally recognized expert in labor relations. In her new book, Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930, Prof. Fisk chronicles the legal and social transformations that led to businesses retaining legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property, and she argues that this was won at the expense of economic democracy. She was appointed in June 2009 to the Service Employees International Union's new independent Ethics Review Board that will review appeals of internal union ethics cases.

Elizabeth Loftus
Founding Faculty

Prof. Elizabeth Loftus is one of the nation's leading experts on memory. Her experiments reveal how a memory can be altered by suggestions and events after it was original formed. In October 2009, she received the 2009 Joseph Priestley Award from Dickinson College for her work, particularly her contributions to the understanding of childhood abuse and traumatic recovered memories. The award, in memory of the scientist who discovered oxygen, is Dickinson's most prestigious for achievement in the sciences. Past recipients include 15 Nobel Laureates. Prof. Loftus also has been interviewed about the unreliability of eyewitness identifications on CBS's 60 Minutes. She testified as an expert at the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector.

Rachel Moran
Founding Faculty

Prof. Rachel Moran was elected in October 2009 to the senate of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's oldest academic honor society. She will serve a three-year term. Prof. Moran also took over as president of the Association of American Law Schools in January 2009 and discussed the role of the citizen lawyer in a National Law Journal op-ed piece.

Her new book, Race Law Stories, is out now.

Ann Southworth
Founding Faculty

Professor Southworth's expertise in the legal profession is frequently tapped in discussions about the need for innovation. She was featured as a legal innovator in the ABA Journal's Legal Rebels project, which published her essay "Students Need to Learn About The Profession They’re Joining." The University of Chicago Press published Professor Southworth's Lawyers of the Right, a timely book that helps deepen our understanding of "cause lawyering." She wrote in a National Law Journal op ed piece that her research indicates "class and cultural conflict inhibit cooperation among lawyers for the various constituencies of the conservative alliance."

Dan Burk
Founding Faculty

Prof. Burk, a leading expert on intellectual property, gave the Law School’s first Chancellor’s Chair lecture on May 13. His latest book, The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It, has just been published by The University of Chicago Press. He and his coauthor have argued in an op-ed in The National Law Journal that the courts rather than Congress should establish a patent policy that is calibrated to the needs of specific industries.

Grace Tonner
Founding Faculty

Prof. Grace C. Tonner was recently a judge in the prestigious Burton Awards for excellence in legal writing, an award program patterned after the Pulitzer Prizes that celebrates its 10th year in June. She is putting the finishing touches on her Lawyering Skills course, an important part of the law school’s innovative first-year curriculum in which students will learn the fundamental skills needed for law practice, including legal writing.

Henry Weinstein
Founding Faculty

Founding Faculty Member Henry Weinstein, an award-winning journalist, has emerged as a public champion for watchdog journalism as his former employer, the Los Angeles Times, is forced into bankruptcy. In interviews with CBS Evening News and other media outlets, Professor Weinstein discusses the ramifications for both journalists and their readers of the bankruptcy that follows the takeover of the Times' parent, the Tribune Co., by Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell. Weinstein is one of six top journalist-plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit alleging illegalities in the takeover.