Faculty / Experts
Core Team
Máximo Langer
Faculty Director,
David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law,
Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
Hannah Garry
Executive Director, Professor from Practice
Catherine Sweetser
Deputy Director;
Director, Human Rights Litigation Clinic
Jess Peake
Assistant Director;
Director, International and Comparative Law Program
Joseph Berra
Director, Human Rights in the Americas Project
S. Priya Morley
Director, International Human Rights Clinic;
Racial Justice Policy Counsel
Tessa Baizer
Human Rights Litigation Clinic Fellow
Sherry Yuan
Project Manager, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Conference
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
E. Tendayi Achiume
United Nations Special Rapporteur
Alicia E. Miñana Chair in Law
Former Faculty Director
Ahilan Arulanantham
Professor from Practice
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law & Policy
Anna Spain Bradley
Professor of Law
Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
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
Laura E. Gómez
Professor of Law
Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in 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
Michael Karanicolas
Executive Director, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy
Jasleen Kohli
Executive Director, Critical Race Studies Program
Kate Mackintosh
Former Executive Director
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
Nina Rabin
Director of the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic
Kal Raustiala
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
Alicia Virani
The Gilbert Foundation Director, Criminal Justice Program
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 Cavallaro
Visiting Professor
Richard Dicker
Lecturer
Rosalind Dixon
Visiting Professor
Chile Eboe-Osuji
Visiting Professor
Nadejda Marques
Lecturer
Gregory Townsend
Lecturer
Daniel Vannucchi
Lecturer
Mila Versteeg
Visiting Professor
Fellows
Mohammad Ali Soroosh
Research Fellow
Tessa Baizer
Human Rights Litigation Clinic Fellow
Suraj Girijashanker
Distinguished Graduate Fellow
Katherine M. Marino
Distinguished Research Fellow
Serap Ruken Sengul
Distinguished Research Fellow
Research Affiliates
Aslı Ü. Bâli
Promise Institute Inaugural Faculty Director
Distinguished Research Affiliate
Yuvraj Joshi
Research Affiliate
Sara Kendall
Research Affiliate
Petra Molnar
Research Affiliate
Amanda Pinheiro
Research Affiliate
UCLA Affiliated Faculty
Maite Zubiaurre
Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Department of Spanish and Portugese
Min Zhou
Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies
Walter & Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications
Director, Asia Pacific Center
Dov Waxman
Professor and Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies
Director, UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
Roger Waldinger
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Director, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
Abel Valenzuela Jr.
Interim Dean, Social Sciences Division;
Professor of Labor Studies, Urban Planning and Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Kevin Terraciano
Professor of History
E. Bradford Burns Chair of Latin American Studies
Director, Latin American Institute
Shannon Speed
Director, American Indian Studies Center
Professor of Gender Studies & Anthropology
Michael Rothberg
1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Geoffrey Robinson
Professor of History
Sarah Roberts
Associate Professor of Information Studies
Codirector, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
Sherene Razack
Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, Department of Gender Studies
Jemima Pierre
Professor, Department of African American Studies and Department of Anthropology
Safiya Noble
Professor, Department of African American Studies and Department of Information Studies; Founder of UCLA’s Center on Race & Digital Justice
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
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Professor of History and Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair of History
Alexandra Lieben
Deputy Director, UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations
Lecturer, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Gail Kligman
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Ann Karagozian
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Inaugural Director, The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA
Domenico Ingenito
Assistant Professor of Persian Literature
Director, Program on Central Asia
Rubén Hernández-León
Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for Mexican Studies
Laurie Kain Hart
Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies
Director, Center for European and Russian Studies
Akhil Gupta
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Center for India and South Asia (CISA)
Anne Gilliand
Professor and Associate Dean for Information Studies
Director, Center for Information as Evidence
George Dutton
Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Verónica Cortínez
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Center for Southern Cone Studies
Kathy Carbone
Postdoctoral Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Information Studies
Michael Berry
Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures/Film, Television and Digital Media
Ali Behdad
John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Sebouh Aslanian
Professor of History
Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History
Amada Armenta
Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Andrew Apter
Professor of History and Anthropology
Interim Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Hannah Appel
Associated Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies
Associated Director of the Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy
Leisy J. Abrego
Professor and Chair of Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Hitoshi Abe
Director, Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center of Japanese Studies
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Terasaki Chair for Contemporary Japanese Study