Ezra Ross
Expertise:
Legal practice, trial advocacy, administrative law
Background:
Professor Ross teaches introductory and advanced skills courses and supervises students in the Appellate Litigation Clinic. He helped develop the Federal Judicial Center's online legal writing program for federal judicial clerks, co-supervised UCLA Law's Trial Advocacy Clinic, and worked with the Legal Aid Society of Orange County to help provide legal services to the homeless. He has also researched and written about federal administrative agencies and regulatory failure (Yale Law & Policy Review article).
After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School, Professor Ross served as a federal judicial clerk, practiced complex commercial litigation, and was named a Super Lawyer-Rising Star four times by Los Angeles magazine.
Current Courses:
Lawyering Skills II, DepositionsPrior Courses:
Depositions, Lawyering Skills I & II, Trial Advocacy, Written Legal Analysis, Appellate Litigation Clinic
- Ezra Ross & Martin Pritikin, The Collection Gap: Underenforcement of Corporate and White-Collar Fines and Penalties, 29 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 453 (2011).
- Sept. 28, 2018:
Speaker, “The Unconventional Sabbatical: Finding Empathy and Inspiration Outside the Legal Academy,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UCI Law, Irvine, CA
- Reuters Breaking Views: "U.S. Flops at Collecting Fines and Paying Them Out" (PDF), cites The Collection Gap
- New York Times: Prof. Ross speaks about The Collection Gap (PDF)
- Daily Journal: Prof. Ross' Collection Gap study discussed in op-ed (PDF)
- Orlando Sentinel: Collection Gap study cited in article about Florida courts' restitution recovery rates
- The New York Times: Collection Gap study cited in article about federal failure to collect billions of dollars in fines