Innovative Approach
With a clean slate—and faculty and administrators who bring a broad range of experience from leading institutions as well as a commitment to advancing the profession—the University of California, Irvine School of Law has an unparalleled opportunity to build a top-tier law school that is also truly innovative in the delivery of legal education.
Following are just a few of the characteristics that distinguish the University of California, Irvine School of Law’s approach to legal education from that of most other leading law schools:

“With an impressive group
of founding faculty and a visionary dean, I look forward to an inspiring set of conversations about how to build a law school from the ground up. This is an unprecedented opportunity to be part of a collegial and close-knit community that will lay the foundation for educating generations of law students. Together we can create a healthy climate for learning about law in the 21st century and beyond.”
Rachel Moran (Above),
Founding Faculty (currently Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

“I welcome the opportunity to
work at a school where the dean believes so strongly that there must be an emphasis on experiential and interdisciplinary learning—approaches that definitely were under-emphasized when I was in law school. Although I don’t want to over-emphasize the importance of my own role, it strikes me that Erwin’s decision to hire a journalist as one of his founding faculty members graphically illustrates that he is going to be working out of a new playbook.”
Henry Weinstein (Above)
Founding Faculty, award-winning journalist and legal writer

“We have the opportunity
to create an outstanding school that will serve the needs of Southern California and the nation. There is a need for a new approach to legal education, and the law school at UC Irvine can provide a laboratory and a model.”
Erwin Chemerinsky (Above), Founding Dean