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GLAS is strengthened by the collaboration of a diverse group of faculty rooted in social-legal studies, with expertise in transnational, international and comparative law. The Center Director is Chancellor’s Professor of Law Gregory Shaffer, whose expertise includes international law and international trade and investment law.

Director

Gregory Shaffer

Chancellor's Professor of Law

Affiliated Faculty

Swethaa Ballakrishnen

Assistant Professor of Law
Legal Professions, Gender and the Law, International Migration, Law and Inequality, Feminist and Queer Theory, Global Souths

Eve Darian-Smith

Professor of Anthropology and Law
Director, International Studies
UC Irvine School of Social Sciences

Bryant Garth

Interim Dean
Professor Emeritus of Law
Legal Professions in Transnational Context, Legal Realism

Joseph DiMento

Professor of Law
International Environmental Law

Michele Bratcher Goodwin

Chancellor’s Professor of Law
Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy
Health Law, Women’s and Children’s Rights

David Kaye

Clinical Professor of Law
U.N. Rapporteur, Freedom of Expression and Opinion
Freedom of Expression, Human Rights

Summer Kim

Assistant Professor of Law
Banking, Business Law, Business Transactions, Contract Law, Finance, Organizations

Dana Lee

Assistant Professor of Law and Mohannad and Rana Malas Scholar in Islamic Legal Studies
Islamic Law; Intellectual and Social History of the Islamic World; Jurisprudence; Comparative Law; Property

Ji Li

John & Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China and Business Law
Chinese Law and Politics, International Business Transactions, Comparative Law, Contracts, Empirical Legal Studies

Omri Marian

Professor of Law
Business Law, Tax Law, International & Comparative Law, International Taxation

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Chancellor's Professor of Law
International Conflict Resolution, International and Transnational Legal Education, Globalization Studies, Legal Profession (ethics, regulation and sociology of), Comparative Constitutionalism