Education:
B.A., California State University, Long Beach, summa cum laude;
M.A., J.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Profile:
Deputy State Public Defender; Lecturer, UCLA School of Law; Assistant and Associate Dean, Whittier Law School; Founding Director, Center for Children’s Rights and Legal Policy Clinic.

Subjects:
Juvenile Justice; Juvenile Law Advocacy; Lawyering Skills; Legal Policy Clinic; Torts; Trial Advocacy.

Author:
Melville’s REDBURN, 23 OKLA. CITY UNIV. L. REV. 911 (1999); Pandora’s Box: Opening Child Protection Cases To The Press and Public, 27 W.S. L. REV. 181 (2000); The Status of Siblings’ Rights, 51 DEPAUL L. REV. 210 (2001); Juveniles in the Criminal Justice System, 1CRIM. DEF. WEEKLY 20 (2002); A History of Juvenile Justice and Child Protective Services, MACMILLAN ENCYLOPOEDIA OF EDUCATION, 2nd Ed. (2002); JUVENILE LAW AND ITS PROCESSES, Lexis Publishing (2003) (with Francis Barry McCarthy and James G. Carr); Interrelationship Between Sibling Custody and Conflicts of Interest, CHILDREN’S LEGAL RIGHTS J. (2003).