Faculty / Experts
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)
Catherine Sweetser
Interim Executive Director
Director, Human Rights Litigation Clinic
Joseph Berra
Director, Human Rights in the Americas Project
Amrin Vajifdar
Program Coordinator
Natalie Monsanto
Communications Director
Law School Affiliated Faculty
Richard L. Abel
Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
Distinguished Research Professor
Ahilan Arulanantham
Professor from Practice
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law & Policy
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)
William Boyd
Professor of Law
Michael J. Klein Chair in Law
Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
LaToya Baldwin Clark
Professor of Law
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Distinguished Professor of Law
The Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights
Scott Cummings
Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics
Professor of Law
Ingrid Eagly
Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Criminal Law & Policy Consortium
Stephen Gardbaum
Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law
Carol E. Goldberg
Distinguished Research Professor
Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita
Ariela Gross
Distinguished Professor of Law and History
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
Jasleen Kohli
Executive Director, Critical Race Studies Program
Máximo Langer
David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law,
Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
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)
Hiroshi Motomura
Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy
Edward A. Parson
Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law
Faculty Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Jess Peake
Director, International and Comparative Law Program
Nina Rabin
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Immigrant Family Legal Clinic
Director of Clinical Education
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
Peter L. Reich
Continuing Lecturer in Law
Director, Law & Communication Intensive
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
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
Richard H. Steinberg
Professor of Law
Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Chair in Law
Professor of Political Science
Lara Stemple
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student Programs
Sherod Thaxton
Professor of Law
Professor of African American Studies (by courtesy)
Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy)
Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)
Lauren van Schilfgaarde
Assistant Professor of Law
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
UCLA Affiliated Faculty
Leisy J. Abrego
Professor and Chair Core Faculty of Chicano/a Studies
Hannah Appel
Associate Professor and Associate Director, Institute on Inequality + Democracy
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
Verónica Cortínez
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Anne Gilliland
Professor and Associate Dean for Information Studies
Director, Center for Information as Evidence
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Professor and Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair of History
Rubén Hernández-León
Professor of Sociology
Director, Latin American Institute
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
David Kim
Associate Vice Provost, International Institute
Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Alexandra Lieben
Deputy Director, UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations
Lecturer, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Katherine M. Marino
Associate Professor, Department of History
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
Safiya Noble
David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Division of Social Sciences
Professor of African American Studies, Gender Studies, & Information Studies
Sherene Razack
Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, Department of Gender Studies
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
Michael Rothberg
1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Shannon Speed
Director, American Indian Studies Center
Professor of Gender Studies & Anthropology
Kevin Terraciano
Robert N. Burr Endowed History Department Chair
Professor, Department Chair and Professor of History
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
Roger Waldinger
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Director, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
Dov Waxman
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies