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Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Service Learning
Carrie Hempel is the founding associate dean for clinical education and service learning and a clinical professor of law at UC Irvine School of Law.
Professor Hempel previously taught at the University of Southern California School of Law, where she was a directing attorney for the Post-Conviction Justice Project, a clinical program that provides legal assistance to indigent prisoners at state and federal correctional institutions in habeas corpus, parole and civil rights cases.
Expertise: Clinical Legal Education, post-conviction practice, criminal law, and gender and the law
Current Courses: Community and Economic Development Clinic, Alternative Field Placement
Prior Courses Taught: Community and Economic Development Clinic, Lawyering Skills I & II, Externship Seminar, Post-Conviction Justice Project Seminar and Clinic, Criminal Law, Gender, Crime and Justice Seminar, Trial Advocacy, Advanced Community and Economic Developement Clinic
In the News
- Criminal Justice, Winter 2011: "Battered and Convicted: One State's Efforts to Provide Effective Relief" (PDF)
- Book chapter: "An Innovative Approach to Legal Education and the Founding of the University of California, Irvine School of Law," in The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice (Scott L. Cummings ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011) (with Caroll Seron).
- Lawrence and Shaputis and Their Impact on Parole Decisions in California, 22 FED. SENT. R. 176 (2010).