Dean’s Advisory Council

A key initiative for the law school is the formation of a Dean’s Advisory Council to advise in all aspects of planning. Composed of eminent judges, lawyers and academics, the committee includes:

• Preeta D. Bansal; partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; New York (former New York solicitor general)
• Viet D. Dinh; professor and co-director, Asian Law and Policy Studies Program, Georgetown University Law Center; Washington, D.C.
• Joe Dunn; chief executive officer, California Medical Association; Sacramento, Calif.
• Christopher F. Edley Jr.; dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Berkeley, Calif.
• Harry T. Edwards; judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Washington, D.C.
• Andrew J. Guilford; judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; Santa Ana, Calif.
• John C. Jeffries Jr.; dean, Emerson G. Spies Professor of Law and Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Charlottesville, Va.
• Louis Kaplow; Finn M.W. Caspersen & Household International Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School; Cambridge, Mass.
• Pamela S. Karlan; Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford University School of Law; Stanford, Calif.
• Herma Hill Kay; Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law and former dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Berkeley, Calif.
• Stephen G. Larson; judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; Riverside, Calif.
• Thomas R. Malcolm; partner, Jones Day; Irvine, Calif.
• Carter G. Phillips; managing partner, Sidley & Austin LLP; Washington, D.C.
• Francis E. Quinlan; partner, Kester & Quinlan LLP; Newport Beach, Calif.
• Mark P. Robinson Jr.; senior partner, Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson; Newport Beach, Calif.
• David G. Sills; presiding justice, California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Three; Santa Ana, Calif.
• Gary J. Singer ’74; partner, O’Melveny & Myers LLP; Newport Beach, Calif.
• James Irvine Swinden; owner, A.R.C. Properties; Newport Beach, Calif.
• Deanell Reece Tacha; chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; Denver, Colo.
• Robert Takasugi; judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; Los Angeles