Affiliated Faculty

Swethaa Ballakrishnen

Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development

sballakrishnen@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7979

Expertise: Legal Profession, Gender, Critical Feminist and Queer Theory, Global Souths, India

Mehrsa Baradaran

Professor of Law
mbaradaran@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-0082

Expertise:Banking Law, Contracts, Property, Housing, Inequality

Joshua D. Blank

Professor of Law
Director of the UCI Law in NYC Program
jblank@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4807

Expertise: Tax Administration and Compliance, Taxation of Business Entities, Taxpayer Privacy and Tax Transparency

Alejandro Camacho

Chancellor's Professor of Law
Director, UCI Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources
acamacho@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4160

Expertise: Environmental and Natural Resources Law, Land Use Regulation, Government Regulation and Policy

Joe DiMento

Distinguished Professor of Law
jdimento@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3034

Expertise: Environmental Law, International Public Law, Urban Planning

Kaaryn Gustafson

Professor of Law
Director, Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEaR)
kgustafson@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4029

Expertise:  Law and Inequality, Empirical Research, Critical Race Theory

David Kaye

Clinical Professor of Law
Director, International Justice Clinic
dkaye@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2427

Expertise: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Public International Law, International Criminal Justice

Sung Eun (Summer) Kim

Assistant Professor of Law
Director, Korea Law Center
skim@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4946

Expertise: Private Equity, Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, Financial Regulation, Contracts

Stephen Lee

Professor of Law
slee@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3731

Expertise: Administrative Law, Immigration Law

Jack Lerner

Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Intellectual Property, Arts and Technology Clinic
jlerner@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7684

Expertise: Intellectual Property, Technology

Omri Marian

Professor of Law
omarian@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-6493

Expertise: International Taxation, Comparative Taxation, Taxation of Financial Instruments

Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Distinguished Professor of Law
cmeadow@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-1987

Expertise: International and Comparative Law, Dispute Resolution, Legal Profession and Legal Ethics, Civil Procedure, Law and Society, Legal Education, Feminist Legal Theory and Law, Literature and Popular Culture

R. Anthony Reese

Chancellor's Professor of Law
treese@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4745

Expertise: Copyright Law, Trademark Law

Ezra Ross

Professor of Lawyering Skills
eross@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9743

Expertise: Administrative Law, Trial Advocacy, Lawyering Skills

Kenneth Simons

Chancellor's Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Legal Philosophy
ksimons@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3863

Expertise: Torts, Criminal Law, Moral and Political Philosophy

Jane Stoever

Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
Director, Initiative to End Family Violence
jstoever@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3418

Expertise: Clinical Legal Education, Domestic Violence Law, Family Law

Shauhin Talesh

Professor of Law
Director, Law and Graduate Studies Program
stalesh@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9214

Expertise: Business Law, Insurance Law, Organizations, Empirical Legal Studies, Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution

Emily Taylor Poppe

Professor of Law
etaylorpoppe@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2986

Expertise: Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Law and Society, Empirical Legal Studies

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Ari Waldman

Professor of Law
ari.waldman@uci.edu / (949) 824-9949

Expertise: Privacy law, law and technology, sociolegal studies, empirical methods, digital governance, science and technology studies, LGBTQ+/queer studies

Christopher Whytock

Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center in Law, Society and Culture
cwhytock@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-0496

Expertise: Conflict of Laws, International Law, Transnational Litigation, Empirical Legal Studies