Dr. Jimmy Biblarz is a lecturer at UCLA Law and an attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson. His research focuses on constitutional law, stratification and inequality, and the history of school desegregation. His practice focuses on complex litigation. From 2020-2022, he was a candidate for LA City Council District 5.

Dr. Biblarz received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard in 2021. He was executive managing editor of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and worked with Civil Rights Corps, Protect Democracy, and the LA County Public Defender’s Office. He also served as the resident LGBTQ+ tutor at Eliot House, one of Harvard’s twelve residential colleges.

He received his Ph.D. in Sociology & Social policy from Harvard in 2023. His dissertation, “Intangible Factors: Social Capital, Social Networks, and America’s Second Reconstruction,” used computational text methods to track linguistic change in equal protection law, particularly desegregation cases. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Stone Inequality Fellowship, and the Harvard Fellowship in Law & Graduate Studies.

He previously worked for David Gergen at CNN and as the legislative director for LA City Councilmember Mike Bonin. He graduated from Harvard in 2014 with an A.B. in social studies, magna cum laude.