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Joint appointment in Law and Political Science
What excites you most about joining the UCI Law faculty?
I am excited to be teaching at a law school dedicated to excellence and innovation not only in research, but also in legal education. As a scholar, I am especially excited to be at a law school that is part of a university that is a leading center of interdisciplinary legal studies. As a teacher, I can’t wait for my first day in the classroom here and to work with the law school’s students.
Why did you go into law teaching?
Teaching seems to run in my family. My sister and I are third-generation teachers, and I am very happy to be able to combine my love of teaching with my excitement about law as a field of study. I hope my students both learn about the practice of law and develop a sense of intellectual excitement about law.
Describe your scholarship.
My research focuses on the legal rules, both domestic and international, that apply to transnational activity. I try to combine traditional legal analysis with social scientific analysis in creative ways that I hope can help us better understand not only what these rules mean, but also how they actually influence — and are influenced by — transnational actors. To borrow Roscoe Pound’s words, I am interested in both transnational law "in books" and "in action."
What inspired you to go to law school?
Ever since my courses on international relations and international law as an undergraduate at UCLA, I have been fascinated by the complicated relationship between law and international relations. I went to law school, and eventually to graduate school in political science, to pursue that interest.
949-824-0496
401 East Peltason Drive, Law 3800-E
Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Faculty Assistant Sara Galloway
sgalloway@law.uci.edu
(949) 824-2370
- Duke University, Ph.D., Political Science, 2007; M.A., Political Science, 2005
- Georgetown University, J.D., 1993; M.S., Foreign Service, 1993; Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law
- University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., Political Science, 1988; Phi Beta Kappa; Institut d'Études Politiques, Université de Grenoble, France, 1986-1987
- University of California, Irvine, 2010-present
- School of Law, Professor of Law (2012-present); Assistant Professor of Law (2010-2012)
- School of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Affiliated Faculty
- University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Associate Professor, 2007-2010
- Duke University, Department of Political Science, graduate instructor, Spring 2007
- University of California, Irvine, Department of Political Science, Visiting Lecturer, 1999-2000
- Transnational litigation, international law, conflict of laws, empirical legal studies
- Prof. Whytock’s scholarship has appeared, or is forthcoming, in journals including Cornell Law Review, New York University Law Review, and the peer-reviewed political science journal International Security.
- University-Wide Student Choice Teaching Award, University of Utah, 2008
- Selected as "New Voices in International Law" presenter, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, 2007
- Member, American Political Science Association, American Society of International Law, Law and Society Association
- Associate, O’Melveny & Myers
- Associate, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
- Consultant, University of Maryland IRIS Center, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
- Visiting Scholar, Development Law Service, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy