The Promise Institute Europe

Who We Are

• Directors
  Kate Mackintosh

  Executive Director, UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe
  Professor from Practice
• Affiliated Faculty
  Richard L. Abel

  Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
  Distinguished Research Professor

  Khaled M. Abou El Fadl

  Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law

  Ahilan Arulanantham

  Professor from Practice
  Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law & Policy

  LaToya Baldwin Clark

  Professor of Law

  Joseph Berra

  Human Rights in the Americas Project Director

  William Boyd

  Professor of Law
  Michael J. Klein Chair in Law
  Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

  Ann E. Carlson

  Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law

  Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

  Distinguished Professor of Law
  Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights

  Ingrid Eagly

  Professor of Law
  Faculty Director, Criminal Justice Program

  Stephen Gardbaum

  Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law

  Hannah R. Garry

  Professor from Practice
  Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights

  Carole E. Goldberg

  Distinguished Research Professor
  Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita

  Laura E. Gómez

  Professor of Law
  Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law

  Cara Horowitz

  Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
  Director, Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic

  Michael Karanicolas

  Executive Director, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy

  Jasleen Kohli

  Executive Director, Critical Race Studies Program

  Máximo Langer

  David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law
  Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice

  Kate Mackintosh

  Executive Director, UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe
  Professor from Practice

  Hiroshi Motomura

  Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law
  Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy

  Edward A. Parson

  Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law
  Faculty Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

  Sunita Patel

  Assistant Professor of Law
  Faculty Director, UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic

  Jessica Peake

  Director, International and Comparative Law Program
  Assistant Director, the Promise Institute for Human Rights

  Nina Rabin

  Director of the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic

  Kal Raustiala

  Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law
  Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations

  Peter L. Reich

  Continuing Lecturer in Law
  Director, Law & Communication Intensive

  Angela R. Riley

  ​Professor of Law
  Director, MA/JD Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies
  Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center

  James Salzman

  Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law

  Robert Bradley Sears

  Associate Dean of Public Interest Law
  Roberta A. Conroy Distinguished Scholar of Law & Policy, The Williams Institute
  Founding Executive Director, The Williams Institute

  Anna Spain Bradley

  Professor of Law
  Special Advisor to the EVC/P on Strategic Planning and Values (2023-24)
  Former Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2020-23)

  Richard H. Steinberg

  Professor of Law
  Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Chair in Law
  Professor of Political Science

  Lara Stemple

  Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student Programs

  Katherine Stone

  Distinguished Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Professor Emerita

  Catherine Sweetser

  Deputy Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
  Director, Human Rights Litigation Clinic

  Sherod Thaxton

  Professor of Law
  Professor of African American Studies (by courtesy)
  Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy)
  Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)

  Lauren van Schilfgaarde

  Assistant Professor of Law

  Alicia Virani

  The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Director, Criminal Justice Program

  Alex Wang

  Professor of Law
  Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in U.S.-China Relations and Communications
  Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment

  Noah D. Zatz

  Professor of Law and Labor Studies

  Eric M. Zolt

  Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law
• Fellows
  Lisa Nicole Oldring

  Senior Fellow, Promise Institute Europe | Lisa Oldring is a Senior Fellow with the UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe and a doctoral candidate at the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on the crime of ecocide from a human rights perspective. Oldring is an international human rights lawyer with over twenty years of practice at the global level, primarily with the United Nations Human Rights Office. As a senior advisor on human rights and security based in Geneva, she led the Office’s work on issues including counter-terrorism, global surveillance practices, and the use of force. She has served as legal advisor to UN-mandated commissions of inquiry on Darfur, Sudan and on Lebanon; Special Advisor to Mary Robinson (Chair, GAVI Board) in New York; advisor to the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health; and attaché to the International Committee of the Red Cross. She began her UN work in the post-conflict human rights field operation in Rwanda. Oldring holds a BA in Criminology (1992) and an LLB (1995) from the University of Alberta, and a graduate degree (D.E.S.) in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (1999).