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)
Hannah Garry
Executive Director
Professor from Practice
Catherine Sweetser
Deputy Director
Director, Human Rights Litigation Clinic
Joseph Berra
Director, Human Rights in the Americas Project
Gabriela Pedroza
Program Coordinator
Natalie Monsanto
Communications and Development Director
Law School Affiliated Faculty
Richard L. Abel
Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
Distinguished Research Professor
Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law
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
Devon W. Carbado
The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law
Ann E. Carlson
Formerly the Faculty Co-Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law
LaToya Baldwin Clark
Assistant Professor of Law
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Distinguished Professor of Law
Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights
Ingrid Eagly
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Criminal Justice Program
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
Cara Horowitz
Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Co-Director, Director of the 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 Europe
Former Executive Director of The Promise Institute for Human Rights
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
Sunita Patel
Assistant Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic
Jess Peake
Director, International and Comparative Law Program
Nina Rabin
Director of the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic
Kal Raustiala
Faculty Director
The Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law
Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations
Peter L. Reich
Lecturer in Law
Academic Director, Law & Communication Intensive
Angela R. Riley
Professor of Law
Director, MA/JD Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies
Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center
James Salzman
Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law
Robert Bradley Sears
Associate Dean of Public Interest Law
David Sanders 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
Katherine Stone
Distinguished Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Professor Emerita
Sherod Thaxton
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy
Lauren van Schilfgaarde
Assistant Professor of Law
Alex Wang
Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Karin H. Wang
Executive Director, David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy
Professor from Practice
Noah Zatz
Professor of Law
Eric M. Zolt
Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law
Visiting Faculty
James Gathii
Visiting Professor
James Hathaway
Visiting Professor
Christina Hioureas
Visiting Faculty
UCLA Affiliated Faculty
Hitoshi Abe
Director, Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center of Japanese Studies
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Terasaki Chair for Contemporary Japanese Study
Leisy J. Abrego
Professor and Chair of Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Hannah Appel
Associated Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies
Associated Director of the Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy
Andrew Apter
Professor of History and Anthropology
Interim Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Amada Armenta
Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Sebouh Aslanian
Professor of History
Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History
Ali Behdad
John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Michael Berry
Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures/Film, Television and Digital Media
Verónica Cortínez
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Center for Southern Cone Studies
George Dutton
Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Anne Gilliand
Professor and Associate Dean for Information Studies
Director, Center for Information as Evidence
Akhil Gupta
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Center for India and South Asia (CISA)
Laurie Kain Hart
Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies
Director, Center for European and Russian Studies
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Professor of History and Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair of History
Rubén Hernández-León
Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Mexican Studies
Domenico Ingenito
Assistant Professor of Persian Literature
Director, Program on Central Asia
Ann Karagozian
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Inaugural Director, The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA
Gail Kligman
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Alexandra Lieben
Deputy Director, UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations
Lecturer, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Katherine M. Marino
Associate Professor of History
Affiliated Faculty of Latin American Studies
Glen Sproul dit MacDonald
Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Geography of California and the American West
Chair, UCLA Canadian Studies Program
David Myers
Distinguished Professor & Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, UCLA History Department
Director, UCLA Initiative to Study Hate
Safiya Noble
Professor, Department of African American Studies and Department of Information Studies; Founder of UCLA’s Center on Race & Digital Justice
Jemima Pierre
Professor, Department of African American Studies and Department of Anthropology
Sherene Razack
Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, Department of Gender Studies
Sarah Roberts
Associate Professor of Information Studies
Codirector, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
Geoffrey Robinson
Professor of History
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
Professor of History
E. Bradford Burns Chair of Latin American Studies
Director, Latin American Institute
Abel Valenzuela Jr.
Interim Dean, Social Sciences Division;
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
Professor and Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies
Director, UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
Min Zhou
Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies
Walter & Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications
Director, Asia Pacific Center
Maite Zubiaurre
Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Department of Spanish and Portugese