Professor Abedian specializes in upper-division and bar support programming. She teaches courses such as Legal Analysis and Early Bar Prep. Both...
JD, Golden Gate University School of Law
Academic Skills, Legal Analysis, Bar Examinations
Legal Analysis
Lara Bazelon is an associate professor of law and the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs at the...
BA, Columbia University | JD, New York University
Advanced Legal Writing, Clinical Education, Criminal Procedure, Ethics, Habeas Corpus, Trial Advocacy, Wrongful Convictions
Jacqueline Brown Scott is an immigration attorney with experience solving a wide array of immigration issues pertaining to asylum, deportation...
JD, University of San Francisco | MA, San Francisco State University | BS, Saint Lawrence University
Immigration Law Clinic, Externship - International
Assistant Professor Brian Budds is a practicing attorney and a nurse practitioner. His clinical background includes extensive work in HIV care,...
BA, Fordham University | BS, Oregon Health Sciences University | MS, UC San Francisco | JD, University of San Francisco
Behavioral Health Informatics, Introduction to Population Health, Applied Epidemiology and Data Analysis, Healthcare Informatics, Applied Data Analysis, Healthcare Informatics, Legal and Risk Management in Administrative Practice, Qualifying Project, NP Qualifying Project: Manuscript Development, Qualifying Project, DNP Project, DNP Project, Practicum I: Micro-System, Practicum I: Micro-System, Practicum II Focus: MicroSystem, Practicum II Focus: MicroSystem, Practicum III: Meso-System, Practicum III: Meso-System, Practicum IV: Macro-System, Practicum IV: Macro-System, Practicum V: Synthesis Integrated and Complex Organizations, Practicum V: Synthesis Integrated and Complex Organizations, DNP Residency, DNP Residency, Special Topics, Directed Study, Writing Requirement, Bioethics, Health Law, Directed Research
Professor Chong specializes in first-year, upper-division, and bar support programming, but also teaches classes on legal analysis, logical reasoning...
BA, University of California, Berkeley | JD, University of California, Berkeley | MFA (IP), Academy of Art University
Academic Skills, Asian American Studies, Bar Examinations, Discrimination, Entertainment Law, Legal Analysis, Logical Reasoning, Race Relations
Cometria Cooper is assistant professor and assistant director of the Academic and Bar Exam Success Program. She specializes in first-year, upper-...
BA, UC Berkeley | JD, University of San Francisco
Professor Joshua Paul Davis was the School of Law's associate dean for academic affairs from 2013-2017, during which he oversaw the law school's...
AB, Brown University | JD, New York University | LLM, Georgetown University
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust, Business - Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Constitutional Law, Ethics, Free Speech, Trial Advocacy
Writing Requirement, Law Review Staff, Law Review Editor, Academic Support Tutor, Directed Research
Professor Connie de la Vega writes extensively on international human rights law and participates in United Nations human rights meetings. She has...
BA, Scripps College | JD, UC Berkeley
Application of International Law in the U.S., Death Penalty Law, Discrimination - Race, Human Rights, International Human Rights Law, International Law, Sentencing Practices
Writing Requirement, American Legal System I, Int'l Human Rights, Int'l Human Rights Law Clinic, Externship - International, Directed Research
Professor Reza Dibadj’s research involves both corporate and securities law as well as administrative law and regulation. His writing focuses on two...
JD, Harvard University | MBA, Harvard Business School | SB, Harvard College
Administrative Law, Antitrust, Business Law, International Law and Arbitration, Regulation, Securities Regulation
Writing Requirement, Corporations, Int'l Business Transactions, Securities Regulation, Directed Research
Assistant Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney Jessica Fajfar works with several law clinics at USF, including the Internet & IP Justice...
BA, Ohio Northern University | JD, Cleveland State University | LLM in Intellectual Property and Technology, University of San Francisco
Assistant Professor Amy Flynn worked as a deputy public defender with the Contra Costa Public Defender's Office until coming to USF to teach.
BA, UC Berkeley | JD, University of San Francisco
Criminal Law, Writing Requirement, Appellate Advocacy, Keta Taylor Colby Project, Competition Teams, Moot Court Board, Teaching Assistant, Directed Research
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor Susan Freiwald joined the USF School of Law faculty in 1997. She publishes and presents widely on...
BA, Harvard University | JD, Harvard University
Cyberlaw, Information Privacy Law, Internet Law, Privacy Law, Criminal Procedure
Criminal Procedure, Writing Requirement, Internet Law, Data Privacy Law, Information Privacy Law, Civil Externship, Law Review Staff, Law Review Editor, Academic Support Tutor, Directed Research
Professor Jack I. Garvey has taught at the law school since 1976, and specializes in public and private international law. His work can be found in...
BA, Harvard University | JD, Harvard University
Business - International, International Law, International Trade and Arbitration
Contracts, Contracts II, Writing Requirement, Int'l Civil Dispute Resolution, Int'l Refugee Law &Euro Crisis, Public International Law, Externship - International, Directed Research
Prior to joining the University of San Francisco School of Law, Assistant Professor Nira Geevargis was a staff attorney at the Lawyers' Committee for...
BA, UC Berkeley | JD, UC Los Angeles
Civil Externship, Criminal Externship, Judicial Externship
Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship Tristin Green specializes in laws affecting inequality, especially employment discrimination law...
BS, UC Los Angeles | MSJ, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University | JD, UC Berkeley
Employment Discrimination, Equality - Race, Sex, Disability, Labor and Employment Law
Civil Procedure, Property, Writing Requirement, Wills and Trusts, Employment Discrimination
Throughout his career, Professor Bill Ong Hing pursued social justice through a combination of community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is the...
AB, UC Berkeley | JD, University of San Francisco
Asian American Legal History, Immigration Law and Policy, Migration Theory, Public Interest Lawyering, Race, Racism and U.S Law, Racial Justice, Affirmative Action and Diversity, Rules of Evidence, Modern Policing
Intro to Migration Studies, Evidence, Immigration Law, Immigration Law Clinic, Externship - International
Professor of Legal Writing Edith Ho received her bachelor of arts from Smith College and her juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania. After...
BA, Smith College | JD, University of Pennsylvania
Legal Research & Writing I, Legal Research & Writing II, Writing Requirement, Legal Drafting, Advocate of the Year Competition, Moot Court Case Counsel
Heidi Ho is an assistant professor and the assistant director of the Academic Support Program. She previously served as the Asian Battered Women’s...
BA, University of California, Irvine | JD, University of San Francisco
Immigration Law, Family Law
Academic Support Tutor
Professor Peter Jan Honigsberg’s current research focuses on the rule of law and human rights violations that occurred in the detention center in...
BA, City University of New York | JD, New York University
Administrative Law, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, National Security, Terrorism
Writing Requirement, Legal Drafting, Administrative Law, Legal Issues of Terrorism, Directed Research
Megan Hutchinson is a legal research, writing, and analysis assistant professor at USF. As an attorney she represents employers in all aspects of...
JD, UC Los Angeles | MA, Stanford University | BA, Stanford University
Legal Research & Writing I, Legal Research & Writing II, Writing Requirement, American Legal System I, Legal Drafting, Negotiation
Professor Tim Iglesias, an expert in housing and property law, has served on the USF law faculty since 2001. He co–edited The Legal Guide to...
BA, Loyola-Marymount University | BA/MA, Oxford University | JD, Stanford University
Housing Law/Affordable Housing, Discrimination - Housing, Humanizing Legal Education, Land Use Law, Legal Education
Property, Writing Requirement, Community Property, Contemplative Lawyering, Eviction Defense, Litigation Skills & Ethics, Academic Support Tutor, Directed Research
Professor Alice Kaswan is an expert on climate change and on environmental justice. She has written and spoken widely about climate federalism,...
BS, UC Berkeley | JD, Harvard University
Administrative Law, Climate Change Policy, Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Regulation
Property, Property II, Writing Requirement, Climate Change Seminar, Environmental Law, Directed Research
Assistant Professor Eugene Kim received his undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University and his law degree from the University of San...
BS, Carnegie Mellon University | JD, University of San Francisco
Advanced Legal Analysis, Legal Research & Writing I, Legal Research & Writing II, Writing Requirement, Legal Analysis, Legal Analys:Prob in Evidence, Legal Drafting, Logic For Lawyers
Professor Daniel Lathrope's teaching and research focus is taxation. He is the co–author of several casebooks on individual, corporate, and...
BSBA, University of Denver | JD, Northwestern University | LLM, New York University
Taxation
Federal Tax Accounting & Tax Timing, Foreign Taxation I, Federal Taxation of Property Dispositions, Writing Requirement, Corporate Taxation, Federal Income Taxation, Teaching Assistant
Richard A. Leo, PhD, JD, is the Hamill Family Chair in Law and Social Psychology and professor and Dean’s Circle Research Scholar at the University San Francisco School of Law, and a Fellow in the Institute for Legal Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
AB, UC Berkeley | MA, University of Chicago | PhD, UC Berkeley | JD, UC Berkeley
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, False Confessions, Investigations, Police Interrogation, Police Investigations, Wrongful Convictions
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Writing Requirement, Wrongful Convictions, Directed Research
Assistant Professor Jiarui Liu focuses his research on intellectual property law, in particular the interactions between intellectual property...
J.S.D., Stanford Law School | Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Intellectual Property (Patent, Copyright and Trademark), Law and Society, Law and Economics, Communications Law, Internet Law
Professor Rhonda V. Magee is a teacher of mindfulness-based stress reduction interventions for lawyers, law students, and for minimizing social-...
BA, University of Virginia | MA, University of Virginia | JD, University of Virginia | Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Practicum and Teacher Development Intensive, Oasis Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Contemplative Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion, Humanizing Legal Education , Identity-Sensitive Pedagogy, Immigration , Legal Education , Mindfulness and Social Justice, Race Law, Race, Racism, and U.S. Law
Torts, Writing Requirement, Contemplative Lawyering, Introduction to Race Law: Policy, Professionalism & Practices, Racism & Justice in American Legal History, Directed Research
Professor Maya Manian’s scholarship investigates the relationship between constitutional law, family law, and health care law, with a particular...
BA, University of Michigan | JD, Harvard University
Abortion, Birth Control, Contraception, Constitutional Law, Community Property , Discrimination - Gender, Family Law, Reproductive Healthcare , U.S. Supreme Court
Constitutional Law, Family Law, Directed Research
Professor Julie A. Nice joined the USF faculty in 2009 as the Herbst Foundation Professor of Law. She has received 12 awards for her law teaching,...
BS, Northwestern University | JD, Northwestern University
Comparative Social Economic Rights, Constitutional Law - Individual Rights, Equality and Liberty, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, Welfare and Poverty Law
Constitutional Law, Writing Requirement, Advanced Constitutional Law, Poverty Law, Sexuality Law, Directed Research
Professor Maria Linda Ontiveros focuses her scholarly work on employment law with an emphasis on immigrant workers' rights. She publishes and...
AB, UC Berkeley | MILR, Cornell University | JD, Harvard University | JSD, Stanford University
Discrimination - Race, Employment Law, Immigration, Labor and Employment Law, Latino Issues
Torts, Writing Requirement, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law Seminar, Labor & Emp Law Seminar, Mediation & ADR Techniques, Negotiation, Course Assistant
Professor Bruce M. Price primarily focuses his research on empirical studies involving consumer bankruptcy issues. During his years of practice,...
BA, Haverford College | PhD, New York University | JD, George Washington University
Contracts, Bankruptcy, Jurisprudence, Law and Society, Commercial Transactions, Secured Transactions
Contracts, Contracts II, Writing Requirement, Bankruptcy, Contracts Drafting, Feminist Legal Theory Seminar, Secured Transactions, Directed Research
Professor Joshua D. Rosenberg has two main areas of expertise: (1) tax law, and (2) psychology of lawyers and laws. Professor Rosenberg is the co–...
BA, Case Western Reserve University | Ed. D, University of San Francisco | JD, New York University | LLM, New York University
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Humanizing Legal Education, Mediation, Negotiation, Taxation, Trial Advocacy
Legal Principles Fed Inc Tax, Writing Requirement, Corporate Taxation, Federal Income Taxation, Interpersonal Dynamics, Partnership Tax, Directed Research
Philip and Muriel Barnett Professor of Trial Advocacy Robert E. Talbot has been creating and directing law clinics at USF for 20 years. The Investor...
BA, Columbia University | JD, Columbia University
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Evidence, Internet Law, Investigations, Mediation, Securities Arbitration, Trial Advocacy, Startups
Internet & IP Justice Clinic, Investor Justice Clinic, Mediation Clinic, Employment Law Clinic, Directed Research
John Trasviña is the 18th dean of the USF School of Law. Dean Trasviña received his AB from Harvard University in 1980 and his JD from Stanford Law...
AB, Harvard University | JD, Stanford University
Affirmative Action, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Employment Law, Housing Law, Immigration Law, Legal Education
Professor Michelle Travis is a Dean’s Circle Scholar and co–director of USF’s Labor and Employment Law Program. She specializes in employment law...
BA, Cornell University | JD, Stanford University
Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Work/Family Law
Torts, Writing Requirement, Remedies, Employment Law, Directed Research
Professor Monalisa Vu received a post-graduate fellowship from Boalt Hall School of Law's Berkeley Law Foundation. She subsequently worked as a staff...
BA, Tufts University | JD, University of San Francisco
Legal Research & Writing I, Legal Research & Writing II, Writing Requirement, American Legal System II, Domestic Violence Litigation and Ethics, Directed Research
Assistant Professor Carol Wilson is co–director of the Academic Support Program (ASP) and has contributed to USF's Center for Law and Global Justice...
BA, University of Oregon | MA, School for International Training | JD, University of San Francisco
Academic Support Tutor
Assistant Professor Amy Wright is Director of the USF School of Law Library. She oversees general library operations, the library budget, and...
BA, Dartmouth College | JD, UC Hastings | MLIS, San Jose State University
Advanced Legal Research
