L. Song Richardson
Joint Appointment in Criminology, Law & Society
Joint Appointment in Asian American Studies
Faculty Advisory Board, Center on Law, Equality and Race
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy
Expertise:
Criminal procedure, criminal law, law and social science
Background:
L. Song Richardson is the Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law with joint appointments in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Asian American Studies. She received her AB from Harvard College and her JD from Yale Law School. Her interdisciplinary research uses lessons from cognitive and social psychology to study decision-making and judgment in a variety of contexts. Her scholarship has been published by law journals at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Duke and Northwestern, among others. Her article, “Police Efficiency and the Fourth Amendment” was selected as a “Must Read” by the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. Her co-edited book, The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. She is a co-editor of Criminal Procedure, Cases and Materials published by West Academic Publishing. Currently, she is working on a book that examines the history of race in the U.S. and its implications for law and policy.
Dean Richardson’s legal career has included partnership at a boutique criminal law firm and work as a state and federal public defender in Seattle, Washington. She was also an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Immediately upon graduation from law school, Dean Richardson was a Skadden Arps Public Interest Fellow with the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles and the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Unit in Brooklyn, NY. A leading expert on implicit racial and gender bias, Richardson is frequently invited to speak to law firms, district attorney and public defender offices, police departments, universities, judges, bar associations, and private industry across the nation about the science of implicit bias and its influence on decisions, perceptions, and judgments. She also presents her work at academic symposia and non-academic legal conferences.
She has won numerous awards and recognitions, including the American Association of Law School’s Derrick Bell Award, which recognizes a faculty member’s extraordinary contributions to legal education through mentoring, teaching, and scholarship. She was recently named one of the Top Women Lawyers in California by The Daily Journal, one of the 100 Most Influential business and opinion shapers in Orange County, and one of the two most influential Korean Americans in OC.
Dean Richardson is a member of the American Law Institute. She is also on the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools, an association whose goal is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education, including promoting the core values of excellence in teaching and scholarship, academic freedom, and diversity while seeking to improve the legal profession, to foster justice, and to serve local, national and international communities.
Current Courses:
Community Scholars Program: Experiential Legal Technology
Prior Courses:
Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Procedure, Law and Social Science, Criminal Law, Race and the Criminal Justice System, Prosecutorial Ethics, Statutory Analysis, Fact Investigation, Constitutional Policing
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Devon W. Carbado & L. Song Richardson, The Black Police: Policing Our Own, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 1979 (2018).
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L. Song Richardson, Implicit Racial Bias and Racial Anxiety: Implications for Stops and Frisks, 15 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 73 (2017).
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Catherine Fisk & L. Song Richardson, Police Unions, 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 101 (f2017).
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L. Song Richardson & Rachel Godsil, Racial Anxiety, 102 Iowa L. Rev. 2235 (2017).
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L. Song Richardson, Systemic Triage: Implicit Racial Bias in the Criminal Courtroom, 126 Yale L.J. 862 (2017).
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Tonja Jacobi, L. Song Richardson & Gregory Barr, The Attrition of Rights under Parole, 87 S. Cal. L. Rev. 887 (2014).
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L. Song Richardson & Phillip Atiba Goff, Implicit Racial Bias in Public Defender Triage, 122 Yale L.J. 100 (2013).
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L. Song Richardson & Phillip Atiba Goff, Self-Defense and the Suspicion Heuristic, 98 Iowa L. Rev. 293 (2012).
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L. Song Richardson, Police Efficiency and the Fourth Amendment, 87 Ind. L.J. 1143 (2012).
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L. Song Richardson, Arrest Efficiency and the Fourth Amendment, 95 Minn. L. Rev. 2035 (2011).
- May 28-31, 2019:
Speaker, AI and Bias, AI for Good Global Summit, Geneva, Switzerland - May 25, 2019:
Speaker, 8th Cir. Judicial Conference, Hot Springs, AK - May 17, 2019:
Keynote Speaker, Implicit Bias, California Bankruptcy Court, Rancho Mirage, CA - May 10, 2019:
Keynote Speaker, “Advancing Diversity and Gender Equality in the Workplace,” Voice for Girls 2019, Girl Scouts OC, Newport Beach, CA - May 7, 2019:
Speaker, Implicit Bias, 5th Cir. Judicial Conference, New Orleans, LA - April 17, 2019:
Speaker, “Unconscious Bias and Equity in the Courtroom,” for Federal Judicial Center’s Court Webcast - April 16, 2019:
Fireside Chat, California ChangeLawyers Leadership Summit, Orrick, Herrington, & Sutfcliffe Offices, Irvine, CA - April 10, 2019:
Special Remarks, Korean-American Bar Association Installation Dinner, Los Angeles, CA - April 4, 2019:
Presenter, “Colloquium on Implicit Bias,” UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA - April 1, 2019:
Roundtable Participant, “Program on Race, Gender & Policing,” University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV - March 18, 2019:
Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law L. Song Richardson, Featured Speaker, Faculty Dinner, USC Gould School of Law Intellectual Property Institute, Pacific Palisades, CA - March 7, 2019:
Panelist, “Changing our World through Impactful Research,” UCI Foundation Retreat, The Resort at Pelican Hill, Newport Beach, CA - March 2, 2019:
Dean Participant, Panel moderated by President Napolitano, UCOP Public Interest Conference, Berkeley Law, Berkeley, CA - Feb. 28, 2019:
Speaker, Breakfast Presentation for the Pacific Club Board of Directors, The Pacific Club, Newport Beach, CA - Feb. 18, 2019:
Speaker, CLE Lecture on Unconscious Bias, Federal Bar Council Winter Retreat, Maui, HI - Feb. 12, 2019: Featured Speaker, “Innovation, Creativity and the Brain,” Twilight Seminar Series, Bond University, Queensland, Australia
- Feb. 9, 2019:
Panel Participant, New Leaders of UCI, UCI Reunion Weekend, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA - Jan. 28, 2019:
Speaker,The Enduring Legacy of Racial Bias: Past, Present and Future, 2019 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN - Jan. 24, 2019:
Moderator, Cornel West and Robert George: Civil Discourse Today, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA - Jan. 5, 2019:
Speaker, Plenary Session, 2019 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Jan. 4, 2019:
Facilitator, Small Group Discussion - After "Before the JD" - What to Do with the Report?, 2019 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Jan. 3, 2019:
Speaker, Law and Technology, Live with Kellye & Ken, 2019 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Oct. 19, 2018
Panelist, “Pragmatics: The First 100 Days and Beyond,” the Provost’s Leadership Academy, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA - Oct. 10, 2018
Speaker, “What Matters to Me and Why” series, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA - Sept. 27, 2018
Speaker, “Healing Trauma, Healthy Communities” Conference, SaintA, Milwaukee, WI - Sept. 20, 2018
Keynote Speaker, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics “Excellence in Innovation” Banquet, Huntington Beach, CA - Sept. 15, 2018:
Commentator, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” Brennan Center’s Jorde Symposium, Berkeley Law, Berkeley, CA - Sept. 12, 2018
Guest of Honor and Featured Speaker, Global Women’s Initiative of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Newport Beach, CA - April 30, 2018
Speaker, Greater Washington State Higher Education Recruitment Consortium Annual Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - April 27, 2018
Guest Speaker, Implicit Bias, Heart of American Sentencing Guidelines Conference, Kansas City, KS - March 29, 2018
Speaker, UCI Korean American Leadership, UCI Korean American Alumni Chapter, Buena Park, CA - March 24, 2018
Speaker, "Implicit Bias and the Myth of Color Blind Justice," Innocence Network Conference, Memphis, TN - March 15, 2018
Speaker, "Implicit Bias," 18th Annual Byrne Judicial Clerkship Institute, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - March 6, 2018
Featured Speaker, "Implicit Bias - Habits of the Mind: The Complexities of Managing a Legal Practice," Orange County Association of Legal Administrators Law Firm Leadership Forum March 2018, Newport Beach, CA - Jan. 17, 2018
Presenter, "Implicit Bias in the Legal System: An Assessment and Recommendations," Judge William A. Ingram Memorial Symposium, Santa Clara University, CA - Jan. 16, 2018
Speaker, "Recognition and Elimination of Bias MCLE: Understanding - and Attempting to Address - Implicit Bias in the Workplace," Orange County Coalition for Diversity in the Law 2018 Elimination of Bias MCLE, Newport Beach, CA - Jan. 6, 2018
Speaker, "Terry at Fifty: On the Books and On the Ground," AALS Annual Meeting 2018, San Diego, CA - Jan. 3, 2018
Discussion Group Participant, "Access to Justice in the Age of Technology, Television, and Trump," AALS Annual Meeting 2018, San Diego, CA - July 19, 2017
Welcome speaker, Expanding Perspectives on Gender Equality conference, UCI Newkirk Alumni Center - July 10, 2017
Panelist, “Why We Can’t Breathe: Police Violence Against People of Color in Urban America and the Distorting Prism of Race,” 35th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Charles University, Prague
- Elected to AALS Executive Committee (January 2019)
- Recipient of the "Be The Change" Legal Excellence Award at the 2nd Annual Diversity & Inclusion Unity in Service Celebration
- Named Among Top Women Lawyers in California for 2018 – Daily Journal
- Nominated for Women of the Year award – Orange County Business Journal
- Featured as one of OC Weekly’s "OC People of 2018" – OC Weekly
- Outstanding Achievement Award, UCI BLSA
- 2011 Recipient of the American Association of Law School’s Derrick Bell Award which recognizes a junior faculty member’s extraordinary contribution to legal education through mentoring, teaching, and scholarship
- Member, American Law Institute
- Lawcadia: Dean Richardson discusses UCI Law’s innovative curriculum and academic successes
- UCI Law: Dean Richardson delivers seminar on innovation, creativity and the brain
- Christian Science Monitor: Dean Richardson comments on how ‘intergroup anxiety’ may increase manifestations of discrimination
- Forbes: Dean Richardson discusses bias in AI technology and its impact on the legal profession
- OC Lawyer: Dean Richardson writes on how UCI Law’s Student Loan Law Initiative aims to protect student borrowers
- Christian Science Monitor: WATCH: Dean Richardson discusses implicit bias and ‘intergroup anxiety’
- Live with Kellye & Ken: WATCH: Dean Richardson discusses law and technology
- Korea Daily: Dean Richardson named among most influential in Orange County
- Orange County Register: Dean Richardson, Prof. Porter and Brooke Weitzman ‘14 named among OC’s most influential of 2018
- UCI Law: UCI Law Dean L. Song Richardson honored at diversity & inclusion celebration
- Orange County Register: Dean Richardson op-ed: Looking back on 10 years of UCI Law
- UCI Magazine: Dean Richardson shares how her life experiences have shaped her career path
- UCI Magazine: Dean Richardson quoted on participating in UCI’s Hamlet Trial
- Wall Street Journal: Dean Richardson comments on Starbucks anti-bias training
- OC Weekly: Dean Richardson featured as one of OC Weekly’s OC People of 2018
- KUCI: LISTEN: Dean Richardson discusses her legal career, mentorship, and what makes UCI Law special
- Sisa Journal: Dean Richardson profiled by L.A.-based Korean magazine
- NBC4: Dean Richardson comments on Starbucks move to provide racial bias training
- New University: Dean Richardson successfully defends Hamlet in mock trial of Shakespeare’s play
- Orange County Business Journal: Dean Richardson nominated for Orange County Business Journal Women of the Year award
- ALI Reporter: Dean Richardson, Prof. Hasen and Prof. Menkel-Meadow highlighted in ALI member and colleague notes
- Los Angeles Times: UCI Law Dean Richardson and Berkeley Law Dean Chemerinsky face off in mock trial of Hamlet
- Full Media Coverage: L. Song Richardson appointed dean of UCI Law
- Academy for Justice: Profs. Chacón, Natapoff, Interim Dean Richardson, author chapters in report on Criminal Justice Reform
- Orange Coast: 'A Brilliant Choice:' Meet beloved Interim Dean L. Song Richardson
- On Labor Blog: New law review article by Interim Dean Song Richardson and co-author Prof. Fisk discussed
- George Washington Law Review: Interim Dean Song Richardson and former UCI Law Professor Catherine Fisk's new article, "Police Unions," in the George Washington Law Review
- Yale Law Journal: Prof. Richardson's book review featured
- The Washington Post: Dean Chemerinsky and 17 UCI Law professors among more than 1,200 law school faculty nationwide opposing nomination of Sessions as Attorney General
- Vox: Prof. Richardson quoted on culture of policing: “People are cops first, and they’re their race second”
- ABA Hidden Injustice Video Series: Prof. Richardson speaks about implicit bias in “Hidden Injustice: Toward a Better Defense
- ABA Hidden Injustice Video Series: Prof. Richardson speaks about unconscious bias in “Hidden Injustice: The Prosecutor’s Paradox”