Professor from Practice
Director of Curricular Administration
Tim Casey joins the UCLA Law as Professor from Practice and Director of Curricular Administration. He will teach Professional Responsibility and provide support for the non-senate law faculty.
Professor Casey started his teaching career at Columbia Law School, where he established a Criminal Practice Clinic and received the Presidential Award for teaching while serving as an Associate-in-Law. Professor Casey held an appointment as a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a Fulbright award for research and teaching in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Most recently, he served as the Director of the STEPPS Program and Professor in Residence at California Western School of Law, where he oversaw an innovative program in legal ethics and lawyering skills. He also held an appointment as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. Before entering legal academia, he practiced law as a public defender in New York City. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Boston College in Economics and Philosophy, and law degrees from the University of California San Francisco and Columbia Law School.
He is an internationally recognized expert in experiential legal education. He has trained law professors and lawyers in Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Czech Republic, England, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, the Philippines, Slovakia, and Spain. His research interests include legal ethics, surveillance and civil liberties, problem solving courts, and experiential pedagogy. He is co-author of a legal ethics textbook, Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law (Carolina Academic Press), and his scholarship has appeared in numerous law reviews, including U.C. Davis Law Review, S.M.U. Law Review and Clinical Law Review. He serves as Chair of the Legal Ethics Committee of the San Diego County Bar Association, as a board member for both local and international non-profit organizations, and as a member of the editorial board for the peer-reviewed Clinical Law Review.