Chad Dunn is a Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law for the Voting Rights and Law Practicum that proudly equips emerging lawyers to confidently serve as powerful courtroom civil rights advocates in any court in the country. His research lies in civil rights, with a specialization in voting rights. He also serves as the Legal Director of UCLA’s Voting Rights Project a joint project of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, the UCLA School of Law, and the UCLA School of Social Science, where he directs all litigation, appeals, and legal scholarship for the Voting Rights Project. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Dunn co-founded and is a partner of the law firm Brazil & Dunn, LLP, where he continues to try cases and handle appeals in numerous areas of civil rights including redistricting, race discrimination under Title VII, sex discrimination under Title IX, prison conditions, police conduct, and government ethics as well as other civil and criminal legal matters.

Dunn received his B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, his J.D. from South Texas College of Law. He is a nationally recognized trial lawyer and expert in state and federal voting rights and apportionment law. Dunn has tried scores of jury and bench trials to verdict in state and federal courts, including dozens of voting rights cases in single and three-judge federal courts, arguing before federal circuit courts of appeals on more than three dozen occasions, arguing before numerous state supreme courts and courts of appeals.  Dunn routinely handles appeals at the United States Supreme Court. Dunn’s extensive trial and appeal experience has led to his recognition as a member of the highly prestigious trial lawyer associations: the American Board of Trial Advocates, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the American College of Trial Lawyers. Dunn’s accolades include being dubbed a Super Lawyer for almost twenty years, being honored as one of Texas Lawyer’s Top 25 Attorneys Under 40 in 2013, and as one of Texas Lawyer’s Attorneys of the Year in 2016.

Dunn’s publications have appeared in Journal of Political Geography, ScienceDirect, New York University Review of Law & Social Change, UCLA Law Review Discourse, the California Law Review, and Northwestern University Law Review, among others.