Our Faculty
UCI Law faculty are some of the nation’s leading scholars and teachers, representing a broad range of expertise, including antitrust; biotechnology; business law; civil procedure; civil rights; constitutional law; consumer law; criminal law; diversity, education and law; equality and discrimination; election law; environmental law; gender and law; government regulation and policy; health law; immigration law; intellectual property and cyberlaw; international dispute resolution; international law and securities; labor and employment law; law and pop culture; law and psychology; law and social sciences; legal ethics and professional responsibility; tax law; and urban planning. A 2021 study of Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties ranks UCI Law No. 14 in the U.S.
Full-Time Faculty
Cindy Thomas Archer
Professor of Lawyering Skills
carcher@law.uci.eduExpertise: Legal Analysis and Communication; Civil Litigation Practice; Lawyer-Client Relationship; Professional Responsibility; Client Interviewing and Counseling Skills; Cultural Humility in Client Representation; Inclusive Excellence in Legal Education
Sameer Ashar
Associate Dean for Equity
Clinical Professor of Law
sashar@law.uci.eduExpertise: Clinical Legal Education; Law and Social Movements; Labor Law; Immigration Law; Legal Profession
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development
Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
sballakrishnen@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7979Expertise: Legal Profession, Gender, Critical Feminist and Queer Theory, Global Souths, India
Mehrsa Baradaran
Professor of Law
mbaradaran@law.uci.eduExpertise: Banking Law; Contracts; Property; Housing; Inequality
Mario Barnes
Professor of Law
mbarnes@law.uci.eduExpertise: Criminal Law; Constitutional Law; National Security Law; Race and the Law
Joshua D. Blank
Professor of Law
Director of the UCI Law in NYC Program
jblank@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4807Expertise: Tax Administration and Compliance; Taxation of Business Entities; Taxpayer Privacy and Tax Transparency
Dan Burk
Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Law
Faculty Director, AI Global Public Policy Institute
dburk@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9325Expertise: Intellectual Property Law; Patent Law; Cyber Law
Courtney Cahill
Professor of Law
Expertise: Constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, reproductive rights, sex equality, LGBTQ equality
Alejandro Camacho
Chancellor's Professor of Law
UCI Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources
acamacho@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4160Expertise: Environmental and Natural Resources Law; Land Use Regulation; Government Regulation and Policy
Linda Cohen
Professor of Economics and Law
linda.cohen@uci.edu / (949) 824-5189Expertise: Political Economy; Government Regulation and Policy; Economics and Law
Adam Cowing
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
acowing@law.uci.edu/ (949) 824-3897Expertise: Community and Economic Development, Affordable Housing Law and Policy
Rachel Croskery-Roberts
Associate Dean for Lawyering Skills
Professor of Lawyering Skills
rcroskery@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9267Expertise: Lawyering Skills; Individual Employment Law; Employment Discrimination Law; Persuasion/Rhetoric; Business Drafting
Joe DiMento
Distinguished Professor of Law
jdimento@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3034Expertise: Environmental Law; International Public Law; Urban Planning
Veena Dubal
Professor of Law
vdubal@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4794Expertise: Critical Race Theory, Employment and Labor Law
Victor Fleischer
Professor of Law
vfleischer@law.uci.eduExpertise: Partnership Tax; Federal Taxation; Tax; Private Equity Law; Tax Policy; Corporate Finance; Business and Corporate Law; Corporate Tax; Financial Market Regulation
Bryant Garth
Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
bgarth@law.uci.eduExpertise: Globalization; Legal Profession
Howard Gillman
UCI Chancellor
Professor of Law, Political Science, History and Criminology, Law & Society
chancellor@uci.edu / (949) 824-5011Expertise: American Constitutionalism; Judicial Politics
Kaaryn Gustafson
Professor of Law
Director, Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEaR)
kgustafson@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4029Expertise: Law and Inequality; Empirical Research; Critical Race Theory
Kevin Haeberle
Professor of Law
khaeberle@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2793Expertise: Corporate law and securities law (including focuses on insider-trading law as well as financial-instrument trading markets, broker-dealers, exchanges, investment companies, and ETFs and their regulation)
Carrie Hempel
Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law
Co-Director, Community and Economic Development Clinic
chempel@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3575Expertise: Clinical Education; Community & Economic Development; Post-Conviction Remedies
Dalié Jiménez
Professor of Law
Director, Student Loan Law Initiative
djimenez@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-0066Expertise: Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Law; Credit and Debt Collection Markets; Credit Reporting; Student Loans; Access to Civil Justice; Randomized Control Trials in Law
David Kaye
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, International Justice Clinic
dkaye@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2427Expertise: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law; Public International Law; International Criminal Justice; and Freedom of Expression
Sung Eun (Summer) Kim
Professor of Law
Director, Korea Law Center
skim@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4946Expertise: Private Equity; Corporate Law; Corporate Finance; Financial Regulation; Contracts
Annie Lai
Co-Associate Dean for Experiential Education
Clinical Professor of Law
Co-Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic
alai@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9894Expertise: Immigration Law; Civil Rights; Workers’ Rights; Clinical Legal Education
Dana Lee
Assistant Professor of Law and Mohannad and Rana Malas Scholar in Islamic Legal Studies
dlee@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3892Expertise: Islamic Law; Intellectual and Social History of the Islamic World; Jurisprudence; Comparative Law; Property
Stephen Lee
Professor of Law
slee@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3731Expertise: Administrative Law; Immigration Law
Jack Lerner
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Intellectual Property, Arts and Technology Clinic
jlerner@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7684Expertise: Intellectual Property; Technology
Christopher Leslie
Chancellor's Professor of Law
Director, Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum (CALIF)
cleslie@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-5556Expertise: Antitrust; Intellectual Property; Class Action Settlements; Sexual Orientation and the Law
Ji Li
John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law
jli@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2750Expertise: Chinese Law and Politics; International Business Transactions; Comparative Law; Contracts; Empirical Legal Studies
Elizabeth Loftus
Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology, Law & Society; Cognitive Science; and Law
eloftus@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3285Expertise: Psychology and Law; Human Memory
Omri Marian
Professor of Law
omarian@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-6493Expertise: International Taxation; Comparative Taxation; Taxation of Financial Instruments
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Law
cmeadow@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-1987Expertise: 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
Alison Mikkor
Professor of Lawyering Skills
amikkor@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-8000Expertise: Legal Analysis and Communication; Civil Litigation Practice; Appellate Practice; Lawyer-Client Relationship; Client Interviewing and Counseling Skills; Professional Responsibility; Inclusive Excellence in Legal Education
Rachel Moran
Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law Emeritus
rmoran@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9949Expertise: Civil Rights; Education Law and Policy; Higher Education and Affirmative Action; Latino-Related Law and Policy; Legal Education; Torts
Austen Parrish
Dean and Chancellor's Professor of Law
aparrish@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7722Expertise: Transnational Law and Litigation, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts
Katherine Porter
Expertise: Bankruptcy; Commercial Law; Consumer Law
Tony Reese
Chancellor's Professor of Law
treese@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4745Expertise: Copyright Law; Trademark Law
Michael Robinson-Dorn
Co-Associate Dean for Experiential Education
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Environmental Law Clinic
mrobinsondorn@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-1043Expertise: Advice and Counseling; Litigation; Administrative and Policy Advocacy; Administrative Law; Natural Resources Law; Environmental Law
Trilby Robinson-Dorn
Vice Dean
Professor of Lawyering Skills
trobinsondorn@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9638Expertise: Business Transactions; Contract Drafting; Employment Discrimination; Employment Law; Lawyering Skills; Client Counseling; Trial Advocacy
Ezra Ross
Professor of Lawyering Skills
eross@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9743Expertise: Lawyering Skills; Legal Profession
Kenneth W. Simons
Chancellor's Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Legal Philosophy
ksimons@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3863Expertise: Torts; Criminal Law; Moral and Political Philosophy
Robert Solomon
Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law
Co-Director, Community and Economic Development Clinic
Co-Chair, UCI Center for the Study of Cannabis
rsolomon@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9719Expertise: Community & Economic Development; Housing; Evidence; Trial Advocacy
Ji Seon Song
Assistant Professor of Law
jsong@law.uci.eduExpertise: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Policing, Race and the Law; Juvenile Law
Ann Southworth
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
asouthworth@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2917Expertise: Legal Profession; Professional Responsibility; Cause Lawyers
Jane Stoever
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
Director, Initiative to End Family Violence
jstoever@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3418Expertise: Clinical Legal Education; Domestic Violence Law; Family Law
Shauhin Talesh
Professor of Law
Director, Law and Graduate Studies Program
stalesh@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9214Expertise: Civil Procedure; Consumer Law; Insurance; Organizations; Empirical Legal Studies; Law and Society; Law and Inequality; Law and Social Change
Emily Taylor Poppe
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UCI Law Civil Justice Research Initiative
etaylorpoppe@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-2986Expertise: Access to Justice; Wills & Trusts; the Legal Profession; Civil Procedure; Law & Society; Inequality and Law
Beatrice Tice
Professor of the Practice of Law
btice@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7327Expertise: International Law; Comparative Law; Legal Profession; Legal Research and Writing
Katharine Tinto
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Criminal Justice Clinic
ktinto@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-9247Expertise: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Defense
Grace Tonner
Distinguished Professor of Lawyering Skills
gtonner@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-4037Expertise: Lawyering Skills
Kerry Vandell
Dean's Professor Emeritus of Real Estate and Law
kvandell@uci.edu / (949) 824-1985Expertise: Real Estate Law; Business Law
Ari Waldman
Professor of Law
ari.waldman@uci.edu / (949) 824-9949Expertise: Privacy law, law and technology, sociolegal studies, empirical methods, digital governance, science and technology studies, LGBTQ+/queer studies
Henry Weinstein
Professor Emeritus of Lawyering Skills
hweinstein@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3642Expertise: Media Law; Lawyering Skills
Christopher Whytock
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center in Law, Society and Culture
cwhytock@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-0496Expertise: Conflict of Laws; International Law; Transnational Litigation; Empirical Legal Studies
Jessica Whytock
Research Professor of Law
Associate Dean of the Law Library and Strategic Planning
jwhytock@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7293Expertise: Legal Research; Administration
Adjunct Faculty and Directors
Patricia Cyr
Co-Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
pcyr@law.uci.eduPaul Hoffman
Director, Civil Rights Clinic
Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic
Partner, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP
phoffman@law.uci.eduMark Rosenbaum
Adjunct Professor of Law
mrosenbaum@law.uci.eduSusan Seager
Adjunct Professor of Law
sseager1.clinic@law.uci.edu
Librarians
Amy Atchison
Deputy Director of the Law Library
aatchison@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3203Ellen Augustiniak
Head of Collection Services
eaugustiniak@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3225Jessica Pierucci
Research Law Librarian for Foreign, Comparative, and International Law
jpierucci@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-5370Christina Tsou
Head of Public Services
ctsou@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-1430Jessica Whytock
Associate Dean of the Law Library and Strategic Planning, Research Professor of Law
jwhytock@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-7293Kaitlyn Winkle
Research and Instruction Law Librarian
kwinkle@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-6421
Academic Skills
Mary Basick
Assistant Dean of Academic Skills
mbasick@law.uci.eduChristine Francis
Associate Director of Academic Skills
cfrancis@law.uci.eduQueena Mewers
Associate Director of Academic Skills
qmewers@law.uci.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Elizabeth Cauffman
Professor of Psychological Science; Education; and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
cauffman@uci.edu / (949) 824-4075Simon A. Cole
Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
scole@uci.edu / (949) 824-1443Eve Darian-Smith
Department Chair, Global and International Studies
Professor, Global and International Studies and Law
UCI School of Social Sciences
edarian@uci.edu / (949) 824-1072Michael R. Gottfredson
Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
gottfred@uci.edu / (949) 824-9390Jon B. Gould
Dean, School of Social Ecology
Professor, Criminology, Law & Society and Law
jon.gould@uci.edu / (949) 824-5466Sora Han
Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
sora.han@uci.edu / (949) 824-0050Jeffrey Helmreich
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law
UCI School of Humanities
jhelmrei@uci.edu / (949) 824-6520Mona Lynch
Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
Department Chair, Criminology, Law & Society
Co-Director, Center in Law, Society and Culture
UCI School of Social Ecology
lynchm@uci.edu / (949) 824-0047Nicholas Marantz
Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Public Policy and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
nmarantz@uci.edu / (949) 824-8101Bill Maurer
Dean, UCI School of Social Sciences
Professor of Anthropology; Criminology, Law & Society; and Law
wmmaurer@uci.edu / (949) 824-1415Keramet Reiter
Vice Chair, Criminology, Law & Society
Professor, Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
reiterk@uci.edu / (949) 824-9201Justin Richland
Professor of Anthropology and Law
UCI School of Social Sciences
jbrich@uci.edu / (949) 824-9449Nicholas Scurich
Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology, Law & Society; and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
nscurich@uci.edu / (949) 824-4046Christopher Seeds
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
cseeds@uci.eduCharles Anthony (Tony) Smith
Professor of Political Science and Law
UCI School of Social Sciences
casmith@uci.edu / (949) 824-7948William C. Thompson
Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Law & Society; Psychological Science; and Law
UCI School of Social Ecology
william.thompson@uci.edu / (949) 824-6156Benjamin van Rooij
Global Professor of Law
University of Amsterdam
bvanrooij@law.uci.eduJeffrey Wasserstrom
Chancellor's Professor of History and Law
UCI School of Humanities
jwassers@uci.edu / (949) 824-6521
Visiting Faculty
Danielle Kie Hart
Visiting Professor of Law
dhart@law.uci.eduMaureen Johnson
Visiting Professor of Law
mjohnson@law.uci.eduJessica Rofé
Visiting Professor of LawTodd Stafford
Visiting Professor of Law
tstafford@law.uci.eduHeather Tanana
Visiting Professor of Law
htanana@law.uci.edu / (949) 824-3072Kyung Sin Park
Visiting Professor of Law
kyungsip@uci.edu
Lecturers
Peter Afrasiabi
Co-Director, Appellate Litigation Clinic
Partner, One LLPDaniel J. Alexander II
Sole Shareholder, Daniel J. Alexander II, A Professional CorporationAmelia Alvarez
Associate, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Nicole Bershon
Judge, Los Angeles Superior CourtAlisa Blair
Policy and Special Projects Director, Community Based Public Safety CollectiveWendy Blanco
CEO/Founder, Blanco Behavioral Health Consulting, LLC
Director of Counseling Services and Trauma Recovery, Peace Over ViolenceDavid Bronner
Senior Of Counsel, K&L Gates LLP
Nikki Buffa
Partner, Latham & Watkins
Rachel Capoccia
Partner, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
Kevin Coy
Senior Counsel (Small Business/Self-Employed Division), Office of Chief Counsel (IRS)The Honorable Justice Dhanidina Halim (Ret.)
Kathryn Davis
Co-Director, Appellate Litigation Clinic
Law Office of Kathryn Davis, Certified Appellate Law Specialist
9th Circuit Pro Bono Appeals, Appointed CounselAna Marie Del Rio
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel, Steadfast Companies
Kathryn Eidmann
Staff Attorney, Opportunity Under Law, Public CounselPeter Elias
Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Tax Group
Hans Famularo
Associate Area Counsel (Small Business/Self-Employed), IRS Office of Chief Counsel
Cori Ferrentino
Founding and managing attorney at Ferrentino Law, A Professional Law CorporationDavid Finley
President, Esquire One Research Services, Inc., Tustin
Christine Francis
Associate Director of Academic Skills, UCI Law
Christina Gagnier
Partner
Intellectual Property, Internet & Technology, Gagnier Margossian LLPElizabeth Hercules-Paez
Angela Howe
Legal Director, Surfrider Foundation
Ron Irick
Deputy General Counsel, Panasonic Avionics Corporation
Bryan Jarrett
Senior Corporate Counsel, Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Michiyuki Kono
Partner Physician, Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Sophie Laing
Student Loan & Consumer Attorney, Pine Tree Legal Assistance
Amy Lally
Partner, Sidley
Rob Lindquist
Compliance Consultant
Laura Lively
Associate in the Litigation Department of Morrison Foerster’s Los Angeles officeJessica Lujan
Trial Attorney, Gomez Trial Attorneys
The Honorable Elizabeth Macias
Orange County Superior Court JudgeSamrah Mahmoud
Partner, Troutman Pepper
Brian McCall
Associate, Latham & Watkins
Steven Nataupsky
Managing Partner, with Knobbe Martens
Lawrence O'Neill
Senior United States District Judge (Inactive)
Diana Palacios
Counsel
Davis Wright Tremaine LLPGrace Parrish
Visiting Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Field Placement Department,Loyola Law School a
Melanie Partow
Senior Associate Attorney, Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo
Kim Phan
Executive Director, International Law Institute
Orly Rachmilovitz
Legal Consultant
Jennifer Reisch
Principal Attorney, Reisch Law
Robert Russell
Senior Tax Counsel, Rutan & Tucker
Douglas Schaaf
Partner and Former Chair of the Global Tax Practice of Paul Hastings
Tam Schumann
Judge, Superior Court of Orange County, California (Ret.)
Michael Seplow
Partner, Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, LLPMatthew Swanlund
Founder and Principal, AESTHETIC LEGAL
Robert Tauler
Managing Partner, Tauler Smith LLP
James Wald
Special Counsel, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Steven Wrappe
Technical Leader, Transfer Pricing
Grant Thornton LLPNicholas Wu
International Tax Manager, Gilead Sciences
Research/Clinical Fellows
Hashmat Nadirpor
Director of the Afghanistan Human Rights Project
Visiting Associate Project Scientist
hnadirpor@law.uci.eduHinako Sugiyama
Digital Rights Fellow
hinakos@uci.eduAllen Sumrall
Postdoctoral Scholar
asumrall@uci.edu