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	Professor Kenneth D. Agran Visiting Assistant Professor of Law	B.A., Dartmouth College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., Harvard Law School, magna cum laude.

	Professor Michael J. Bazyler Professor of Law	B.A., UCLA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., USC.

	Dean Neil H. Cogan Vice President for Legal Education; Dean of the Law School; Professor of Law	B.A., LL.B., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude.

	Professor Warren H. Cohen Professor of Law	B.A., Yale; J.D., Harvard.

	Professor Debra Cohen-Whelan Professor of Law	B.A., Howard University; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law.

	Professor Judith F. Daar Professor of Law; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California Irvine College of Medicine	B.A., University of Michigan with highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., Georgetown, cum laude.

	Professor Michael Evans Visiting Assistant Professor of Law	B.A., Duke University, magna cum laude; J.D., Stanford Law School.

	Professor Deborah L. Forman Professor of Law	A.B., Brown University, magna cum laude, honors history, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., Stanford.

	Professor Howard W. Foss Professor of Law	A.B., Harvard, cum laude; J.D., UC Berkeley.

	Professor Gail F. Frommer Professor of Law	B.S., Cornell; J.D., UCLA, Order of the Coif.

	Professor Andrea Susnir Funk Associate Dean of Legal Writing & Professional Skills	B.S., CSU-Long Beach, summa cum laude; J.D., UCLA.

	Professor Mary Ellen Gale Professor of Law	A.B., Radcliffe/Harvard, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., Yale.

	Professor Jacquelyn Gentry Program Director of Center for Children's Rights; Professor of Legal Writing	B.A., M.A., Florida State University; J.D., Southwestern University School of Law (S.C.A.L.E. Program).

	Professor Richard S. Gruner Professor of Law	B.S., California Institute of Technology; J.D., USC; LL.M., Columbia University School of Law.

	Professor Elwood B. Hain Jr. Associate Dean of Externships; Professor of Law	B.A., Southern Methodist University, summa cum laude; LL.B., Southern Methodist University, magna cum laude; LL.M. Harvard.

	Professor J. Denny Haythorn Associate Dean of Library & Information Resources;Professor of Law	B.A., Depauw University; M.A., Chapman College; J.D., Seattle University, with distinction; M.L.L., University of Washington.

	Professor John Heilman Distinguished Teacher of Law	B.S., Northwestern University J.D., USC.

	Professor Thomas G. Kelch Professor of Law	B.G.S., University of Michigan, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., University of Michigan, magna cum laude; M.A., University of California Irvine.

	Professor Christine Kelton Professor of Legal Writing	B.A., University of California, Irvine; J.D., Loyola Law School.

	Professor Patricia Leary Distinguished Teacher of Law	B.A., Valdosta State College; J.D., Florida State University; LL.M., Columbia University.

	Professor Kristen Martin Assistant Professor of Legal Writing	B.A., University of California, Davis; J.D., University of Oregon School of Law.

	Professor Mark R. Matthews Visiting Assistant Professor of Law	B.A., Brigham Young University; J.D., J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University

	Professor Jennifer Mertus Assistant Professor of Legal Writing	B.A., B.S., University of North Carolina at Wilmington; J.D., Whittier Law School, summa cum laude.

	Professor Radha Pathak Assistant Professor of Law	B.A., University of California, Berkeley, with honors; J.D., New York University School of Law, cum laude.

	Professor William W. Patton Associate Dean of the Clinical Program; Professor of Law	B.A., CSU-Long Beach, summa cum laude; M.A., J.D., UCLA.

	Professor Marcy Peek Assistant Professor of Law	B.A., Yale University; J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude.

	Professor Calvin D. Peeler Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; Associate Professor of Law	B.A., Univeristy of California, Berkeley, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., University of California, Berkeley; J.S.M., Stanford University; Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University

	Professor William R. Phelps, Jr. Associate Professor of Law	B.A., North Dakota State University; B.A., Universiteit te Leuven, Belgium; M.A., University of Washington; J.D., Yale; M.B.A., USC.

	Professor Kelley B. Poleynard Assistant Professor of Legal Writing	B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of Southern California, Order of the Coif.

	Professor Martin Pritikin Assistant Professor of Law	B.A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, summa cum laude; J.D., Harvard Law School, magna cum laude.

	Professor Peter L. Reich Professor of Law	B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

	Professor I. Nelson Rose Professor of Law	B.A., UCLA, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; J.D., Harvard.

	Professor Jill A. Reza Assistant Professor of Legal Writing	B.A., Vanguard University, summa cum laude; J.D., University of Southern California Law School.

	Professor Robert F. Somers Assistant Professor of Legal Writing	B.A., University of California, Irvine; J.D., Loyola Law School, cum laude, Order of the Coif.

	Professor Peter K. Stris Visiting Assistant Professor of Law	B.A. University of Pennsylvania J.D. Harvard Law School Board of Editors, Harvard Law Review

	Professor David M. Treiman Senior Professor of Law	B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; UCLA; J.D., Harvard, cum laude.
	Professor Nancy Tetreault Legal Writing	B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; Teaching Credential, University of California Berkeley; JD, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, cum laude, Order of the Coif.

	Professor David S. Welkowitz Professor of Law	A.B., Princeton; J.D., New York University

	Professor Seval Yildirim Assistant Professor of Law; Director, Center for International and Comparative Law	B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; M.A. George Washington University; J.D., L.L.M. New York University School of Law.

Adjunct

	Patricia Andel Adjunct Professor of Law	Franz Miller Adjunct Professor of Law

	Nora Asahara Adjunct Professor of Law x310 Class Assignments	Barbara Nichols Adjunct Professor of Law x307

	Andrew Callari Adjunct Professor of Law x725 Class Assignments	Michael O'Neill Adjunct Professor of Law x741

	Mark Edwards Adjunct Professor of Law x141	Thomas Papageorge Adjunct Professor of Law Class Assignments

	April Frisby Adjunct Professor of Law x141	Kyhm Penfil Adjunct Professor of Law x747 Class Assignments

	Meredith Goetz Adjunct Professor of Law x309 Class Assignments	Steve Rochford Adjunct Professor of Law Class Assignments

	Stephanie Haffner Adjunct Professor of Law x460 Class Assignments	Richard Ruben Adjunct Professor of Law

	Amey Hempel Adjunct Professor of Law x251	Robert Sall Adjunct Professor of Law x785 Class Assignments

	William Hernandez Adjunct Professor of Law x764	David Stein Adjunct Professor of Law x786

	Howard Hom Adjunct Professor of Law x464	Brian Thompson Adjunct Professor of Law x436

	Ted Horton-Billard Adjunct Professor of Law x724 Class Assignments	Joseph Re Adjunct Professor of Law x463

	Eric Johnson Adjunct Professor of Law Class Assignments	Dana Wolinsky Adjunct Professor of Law x706

	Lydia Levin Adjunct Professor of Law x418 Class Assignments	Jim Tanizaki Adjunct Professor of Law x727

	Christine Lugo-Rinaldi Adjunct Professor of Law Class Assignments	Paul Virgo Adjunct Professor of Law x723 Class Assignments

	Sonia Martin Adjunct Professor of Law x733	Robert Webster Adjunct Professor of Law x237

	Lillian Meredith Adjunct Professor of Law x305

	Clinic Staff Attorneys

	Nora Asahara	Omar Naime

	Dr. Meredith A. Goetz Class Assignments	Barbara Nicols

	Craig Liu	Jeanne Thomas