Máximo Langer, Faculty Director, is also director of the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice and co-editor of Prosecutors and Democracy: A Cross-National Study (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He presented his scholarship at gatherings in the U.S., Colombia, Japan, Mexico and Scotland in 2018.

Alicia Virani '11, Associate Director, is a former deputy public defender with a background in juvenile justice, juvenile dependency and representing indigent clients in criminal proceedings. She works closely with faculty and students on bail reform efforts, evaluating diversionary efforts, and co-teaches the Bail Practicum.

Robin Steinberg joined UCLA Law as Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow in 2018. Steinberg is the founder and former executive director of the Bronx Defenders, CEO of the Bail Project and founder of Still She Rises. She is engaging UCLA Law students in a range of bail reform and holistic defense efforts.

Norman Abrams is a Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Acting UCLA Chancellor Emeritus who teaches and writes in the areas of anti-terrorism law, federal criminal law and evidence.

Stuart Banner is the Norman Abrams Professor of Law and leads the UCLA Law Supreme Court Clinic. He and his students wrote three petitions for certiorari as well as amicus briefs in three cases
that the court heard in its 2017-18 term. Banner also presented oral argument before the justices in Murphy v. Smith.

Devon Carbado was named the 2018-19 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation. He is co-author (with UC Irvine Law Dean Song Richardson) of “The Black Police: Policing Our Own,” 131 Harvard Law Review 1979 (2018).

Professor Jennifer Chacón, previously Chancellor’s Professor at UC Irvine School of Law, joined UCLA Law in Fall 2018. She co-authored the 2017 casebook Immigration Law and Social Justice and has written articles and chapters on immigration, border control and human trafficking.

Professor Beth Colgan focuses on economic barriers to justice. Her publications include “The Excessive Fines Clause: Challenging the Modern Debtors’ Prison,” 65 UCLA Law Review 2 (2018) and  “Fines, Fees, and Forfeitures,” in Reforming Criminal Justice — Volume 1. edited by Erik Luna, the Academy for Justice (2017).

Lecturer Julie Cramer ’03 leads UCLA Law’s Legal Research and Writing program, which offers opportunities for students to gain expert feedback in writing projects including motions, appeals and a variety of other pleadings. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Cramer practiced at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher in Los Angeles. 

Professor Sharon Dolovich is the director of the Prison Law and Policy Program at UCLA Law. She is co-editor of The New
Criminal Justice Thinking, which was selected by Choice magazine of the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic
Title of 2017.

Professor Ingrid Eagly was honored by the National Lawyers Guild’s L.A. chapter for her scholarship and advocacy in immigrant rights and indigent criminal defense. Her article "Criminal Justice in an Era of Mass Deportation: Reforms from California," was selected for inclusion in the Immigration and Nationality Law Review. 

Jyoti Nanda is the Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law, was appointed Reporter of the ABA Juvenile Justice Standards Committee to draft national standards for the field. Her upcoming publication is the “Construction and Criminalization of Disability in Juvenile Incarceration.”

Professor Sunita Patel joined UCLA Law in 2017 and leads the Veterans Legal Clinic. In May 2018 she was a presenter on “Creative Clinical Pedagogy in an Era of Mass Incarceration” at the clinical conference of the Association of American Law Schools. 

Professor Richard Re’s scholarship on the interpretation of
Supreme Court decisions where there is no clear majority was at the heart of an amicus brief that he filed in Hughes v. United States. During oral argument in March 2018, several Supreme Court justices and lawyers cited Re a total of 10 times.

Vice Dean Joanna Schwartz’s research on qualified immunity was at the center of a federal judge’s June 2018 decision to deny four N.Y. police officers’ motion to dismiss a civil rights case against them. Her publications included “How Qualified Immunity Fails,” 127 Yale Law Journal 1 (2017). 

Professor Sherod Thaxton received the Earl B. Dickerson Distinguished Leadership Award from the University of Chicago Law School. His forthcoming publications include a study of racial disparities in death penalty charging decisions and the role that parental monitoring plays in children's delinquent behavior. 

Professor Noah Zatz began service on the California Department of Fair Employment & Housing advisory group on local enforcement of state anti-discrimination law. He also received a grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to study the impact of community service when ordered as an alternative to incarceration.