Professor Southworth is Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Criminology, Law & Society. She teaches and writes on the legal profession and lawyers who serve causes, with an emphasis on lawyers’ norms, professional identities, practices, organizations, and networks. As a founding faculty member, she was instrumental in designing UC Irvine School of Law’s required first year course on the American legal profession, and is the co-author of an interdisciplinary textbook, The Legal Profession. Her current research interests include the discourse, resources, strategies and networks of public interest law organizations and their lawyers.
Professor Southworth received her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Stanford University. Prior to joining UC Irvine School of Law, she was a law professor at Case Western Reserve and an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation. She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard and UCLA. She clerked for Judge Stanley A. Weigel and practiced at Morrison & Foerster, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
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