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Core Team

Anna Spain Bradley

Faculty Director

Professor of Law

Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Values to the EVC/P (2023-24)

Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2020-23)

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Catherine Sweetser

Interim Executive Director

Director, Human Rights Litigation Clinic

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Joseph Berra

Director, Human Rights in the Americas Project

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Amrin Vajifdar

Program Coordinator

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Natalie Monsanto

Communications Director

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Law School Affiliated Faculty

Richard L. Abel

Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
Distinguished Research Professor

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Ahilan Arulanantham

Professor from Practice
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law & Policy

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Anna Spain Bradley

Faculty Director

Professor of Law

Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Values to the EVC/P (2023-24)

Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2020-23)

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William Boyd

Professor of Law

Michael J. Klein Chair in Law

Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

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LaToya Baldwin Clark

Professor of Law

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Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Distinguished Professor of Law

The Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights

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Scott Cummings

Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics

Professor of Law

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Ingrid Eagly

Professor of Law

Faculty Co-Director, Criminal Law & Policy Consortium

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Stephen Gardbaum

Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law

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Carol E. Goldberg

Distinguished Research Professor
Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita

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Ariela Gross

Distinguished Professor of Law and History

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Cara Horowitz

Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Director, Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic

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Jasleen Kohli

Executive Director, Critical Race Studies Program

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Máximo Langer

David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law,
Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice

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Kate Mackintosh

Executive Director of UCLA Law’s The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe)

Former Executive Director of The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Los Angeles)

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Hiroshi Motomura

Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy

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Edward A. Parson

Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law
Faculty Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

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Jess Peake

Director, International and Comparative Law Program

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Nina Rabin

Clinical Professor of Law

Director, Immigrant Family Legal Clinic

Director of Clinical Education

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Kal Raustiala

The Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law

Professor at the UCLA International Institute

Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations

Faculty Director, International and Comparative Law Program

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Peter L. Reich

Continuing Lecturer in Law

Director, Law & Communication Intensive

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Angela R. Riley

Carole Goldberg Endowed Chair of Native American Law

Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs

Director, Native Nations Law & Policy Center

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Robert Bradley Sears

Associate Dean of Public Interest Law

Roberta A. Conroy Distinguished Scholar of Law & Policy, The Williams Institute

Founding Executive Director, The Williams Institute

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Richard H. Steinberg

Professor of Law
Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Chair in Law
Professor of Political Science

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Lara Stemple

Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student Programs

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Sherod Thaxton

Professor of Law

Professor of African American Studies (by courtesy)

Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy)

Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)

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Lauren van Schilfgaarde

Assistant Professor of Law

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Alex Wang

Professor of Law

Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications

Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

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UCLA Affiliated Faculty

Leisy J. Abrego

Professor and Chair Core Faculty of Chicano/a Studies

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Hannah Appel

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Institute on Inequality + Democracy

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Michael Berry

Director of the Center for Chinese Studies

Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Film, TV, and Media

Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies

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Verónica Cortínez

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

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Anne Gilliland

Professor and Associate Dean for Information Studies
Director, Center for Information as Evidence

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Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Professor and Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair of History

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Rubén Hernández-León

Professor of Sociology

Director, Latin American Institute

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Ann Karagozian

Distinguished Professor
UCLA Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science

Inaugural Director,
The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA

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David Kim

Associate Vice Provost, International Institute

Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies

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Alexandra Lieben

Deputy Director, UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

Lecturer, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

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Katherine M. Marino

Associate Professor, Department of History

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David Myers

Director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy

Distinguished Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History

UCLA Initiative to Study Hate

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Safiya Noble

David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences

Professor of African American Studies, Gender Studies, & Information Studies

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Sherene Razack

Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, Department of Gender Studies

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Sarah Roberts

Professor at UCLA (Gender Studies, Information Studies, Labor Studies)

Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2)

Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Technology & Power

Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute

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Michael Rothberg

1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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Shannon Speed

Director, American Indian Studies Center
Professor of Gender Studies & Anthropology

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Kevin Terraciano

Robert N. Burr Endowed History Department Chair

Professor, Department Chair and Professor of History

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Abel Valenzuela Jr.

Professor and Dean, Division of Social Sciences of the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences

Professor of Labor Studies, Urban Planning and Chicana/o and Central American Studies

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Roger Waldinger

Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Director, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration

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Dov Waxman

Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies

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