The Promise Institute for Human Rights

Who We Are

• Directors and Executive Staff
  Máximo Langer

  David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law
  Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
  Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
  Faculty Director, Promise Institute Europe

  Hannah R. Garry

  Professor from Practice
  Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights

  Catherine Sweetser

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

  Jessica Peake

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

  Joseph Berra

  Human Rights in the Americas Project Director

  S. Priya Morley

  Racial Justice Policy Counsel
  Director, International Human Rights Clinic

  Sherry Yuan

  Program Manager, Promise Institute for Human Rights

  Natalie Monsanto

  Communications and Development Director

  Gabriela Pedroza

  Program Coordinator
• Law School 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

  E. Tendayi Achiume

  Professor of Law
  Alicia Miñana Chair in 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

  Devon W. Carbado

  The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law

  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

  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
  Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
  Faculty Director, Promise Institute Europe

  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

  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
  Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

  Karin H. Wang

  Executive Director, David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy
  Professor from Practice

  Noah D. Zatz

  Professor of Law and Labor Studies

  Eric M. Zolt

  Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law
• Visiting Faculty, Fellows and Affiliates
  James Cavallaro

  Visiting Professor

  Richard Dicker

  Lecturer in Law

  Suraj Girijashanker

  Distinguished Graduate Fellow

  Yuvraj Joshi

  Faculty Affiliate

  Sara Kendall

  Research Affiliate

  Petra Molnar

  Research Fellow

  Serap Ruken Sengul

  Distinguished Research Fellow

  Joseph Weiler

  Visiting Professor

  Ralph Wilde

  Visiting Professor
• UCLA Wide Affiliated Faculty
  Hitoshi Abe

  Director, Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies; Professor of Architecture and Urban Design; Terasaki Chair for Contemporary Japanese Study

  Leisy J. Abrego

  Professor and Chair of Chicana/o and Central American Studies

  Hannah Appel

  Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies; Associate Director of the Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy

  Andrew Apter

  Professor of History and Anthropology; Interim Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center

  Amada Armenta

  Associate Professor of Urban Planning

  Sebouh Aslanian

  Professor of History and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History

  Ali Behdad

  John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature; Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies

  Michael Berry

  Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures/Film, Television and Digital Media

  Kathy Carbone

  Postdoctoral Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Information Studies

  Verónica Cortínez

  Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Director, Center for Southern Cone Studies

  George Dutton

  Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures

  Anne Gilliland

  Professor and Associate Dean for Information Studies; Director, Center for Information as Evidence

  Akhil Gupta

  Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for India and South Asia (CISA)

  Laurie Kain Hart

  Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies; Director, Center for European and Russian Studies

  Rubén Hernández-León

  Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Mexican Studies

  Jody Heymann

  Founding Director, WORLD Policy Analysis Center; Distinguished Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine

  Domenico Ingenito

  Assistant Professor of Persian Literature; Director, Program on Central Asia

  Ann Karagozian

  Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Inaugural Director, The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA

  David Kim

  Associate Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies

  Gail Kligman

  Distinguished Professor of Sociology

  Alexandra Lieben

  Deputy Director, UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations; Lecturer, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

  Kelly Lytle Hernandez

  Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair of History

  Glen Sproul dit MacDonald

  Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Geography of California and the American West; Chair, UCLA Canadian Studies Program

  Katherine M. Marino

  Associate Professor of History; Affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies

  David Myers

  Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History; Director, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy

  Safiya Noble

  Associate Professor of Information Studies and African American Studies; Co-Founder and Co-Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2)

  Margaret Peters

  Associate Professor of Political Science

  Jemima Pierre

  Associate Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology

  Sherene Razack

  Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women's Studies, Department of Gender Studies

  Sarah Roberts

  Associate Professor of Information Studies; Co-Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2)

  Geoffrey Robinson

  Professor of History

  Michael Rothberg

  1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

  Shannon Speed

  Director, American Indian Studies Center; Professor of Gender Studies & Anthropology

  Kevin Terraciano

  Professor of History; E. Bradford Burns Chair of Latin American Studies; Director, Latin American Institute

  Abel Valenzuela Jr.

  Professor of Labor Studies, Urban Planning and Chicana/o Studies; Director, UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

  Roger Waldinger

  Distinguished Professor of Sociology; Director, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration

  Dov Waxman

  Professor and Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies; Director, UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies

  Min Zhou

  Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies; Walter & Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications; Director, Asia Pacific Center

  Maite Zubiaurre

  Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies; Department of Spanish and Portuguese