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Faculty

Core Faculty

	Jerry Kang, CRS Faculty Director 2007-2009, founding Co-Director 2000-02 Prof. Kang, elected Professor of the Year in 1998 and winner of the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007, writes on race, communications, and their intersection. On race, he has focused on the Asian American community and on the legal implications of recent discoveries in social cognition. He is a co-author of Race, Rights, and Reparation: The Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen 2001). On communications, he has published interdisciplinary articles on information privacy, pervasive computing, and mass media policy. He is also the author of Communications Law & Policy (2d ed. Foundation 2005). At the nexus of these fields, he has published two groundbreaking articles in the Harvard Law Review about how race is constructed in cyberspace (Cyber-race 2000) and how FCC media policy inadvertently exacerbates implicit bias (Trojan Horses of Race 2005). He teaches Asian American Jurisprudence in the CRS curriculum.
	Khaled Abou el Fadl Prof. Abou el Fadl, a leading international authority in Islamic law, holds the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Endowed Chair in Islamic law. He was named a 2005 Carnegie Scholar in Islamic Studies. In addition to his expertise in Islamic Law, he lectures, testifies, teaches, and writes about immigration law, human rights, and terrorism. His books include, The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (2005); Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam (2001); Rebellion in Islamic Law (2001); Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women (2001); And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourse (2nd ed. revised and expanded, 2001). He teaches Immigration Law, Law and Terrorism, Asylum and Refugee Law, and a seminar on Islamic Law & Human Rights in the CRS curriculum.
	Devon W. Carbado Prof. Carbado, (CRS director 2003-2004) has been elected Professor of the Year twice, recieved the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2007 was bestowed with the University Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest attainment of academic and professional excellence in the UC system. He is the editor of Black Men on Race, Gender and Sexuality (1999) and his current research includes a book manuscript on employment discrimination entitled Acting White. His scholarship appears in law reviews at Yale, Cornell, and Michigan, among other places. In the CRS Curriculum, he teaches Critical Race Theory, Constitutional Criminal Procedure, and advanced seminars in Critical Race Theory, as well as teaching Constitutional Law.
	Kimberlé Crenshaw Prof. Crenshaw, elected Professor of the Year in 1991 and 1994, is recognized as one of the founders of Critical Race Theory, the body of legal scholarship on race that has had enormous influence within and outside the legal academy. An editor of Critical Race Theory: Key Writings That Formed the Movement (1995), she has been the author of many such writings, including Race, Reform, and Retrenchment, published in the Harvard Law Review (1988). She teaches Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, and advanced seminars in Critical Race Theory, Race, Law, and Representation, and Intesectionality.
	Carole Goldberg Prof. Goldberg, a founder and director of the Law School's Joint Degree Program with UCLA's Interdepartmental Program in American Indian Studies, is a renowned Indian law scholar. Experienced as scholar and practitioner of Indian Law for more than 20 years, she is co-author of American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System (2001). In the curriculum, she teaches Federal Indian Law and a Tribal Law Seminar, and has been central in designing the Law School's Tribal Legal Development Clinic. She serves as chairperson of the Faculty Advisory Committee of UCLA School of Law's Native Nations Law and Policy Center and was recently awarded $1.5 million by the National Institute of Justice to study the administration of justice in Indian country.
	Cheryl I. Harris Prof. Harris (CRS Director 2004-2007) is the author of the enormously influential article Whiteness as Property, published in the Harvard Law Review (1993). A nationally-recognized expert in race theory and anti-discrimination law, she teaches Critical Race Theory, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination and a seminar on Race-Conscious Remedies in the CRS curriculum, as well as teaching Consititutional Law. In 2005, she was awarded the Distinguished Professor Award by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.
	Gerald López Prof. López is the nation's leading theorist about lawyering as problem solving. For nearly three decades, he has been among the nation's leading on-the-ground practitioners and advocates for comprehensive and coordinated legal and non-legal problem-solving in low-income, of color, and immigrant communities. He is the author of Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice (revised 1992). He co-founded the Lawyering for Social Change Program at Stanford Law School and the UCLA School of Law's Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, among the nation's first sequenced curricula in public interest work. He teaches Transforming Legal Education?, Community Outreach, Education, and Organizing, a Problem Solving Workshop, and a Seminar in Legal Education.
	Russell Robinson Prof. Robinson is the newest member of the Critical Race Studies faculty. A former Supreme Court clerk, Professor Robinson's scholarship presently focuses on issues of diversity and discrimination in the entertainment industry. More broadly, he is researching other issues related to race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination. In the CRS Curriculum, Professor Robinson teaches Race and Sexuality, the CRS Writing Workshop, and an Entertainment Law Seminar as well as teaching Contracts and Constitutional Law.
	Saul Sarabia, CRS Administrative Director Prof. Sarabia focuses on community-based social justice advocacy, strategizing with community residents to include their voice in law-making and public policy reform. Since graduating from UCLA Law in 1996, his efforts have ranged from documenting human rights violations in Central American countries to community organizing with poor people on welfare and the foster care system in South Los Angeles. He teaches Critical Race Theory and Latinos/as and the Law in the CRS Curriculum, while coordinating the CRS Program's public symposia, panel presentations and collaborations with civil rights and community organizations.