Yan Slavinskiy is a Lecturer at UCLA School of Law teaching Legal Research and Writing. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor at Loyola Law School, where he teaches Legal Research and Writing, Ethical Lawyering, and Generative AI in Legal Practice. Before joining the Loyola faculty, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office’s Appellate Division and clerked for the Honorable Frank Maas of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for the Honorable Jean P. Rosenbluth of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Professor Slavinskiy graduated summa cum laude from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  He was an editor on the Cardozo Law Review and received the faculty’s Felix Frankfurter Award for outstanding academic achievement, maturity, responsibility, diligence, and judgment.  His note, Protecting the Family Home by Re-understanding United States v. Bajakajian, 35 Cardozo L. Rev. 1619 (2014), was published in the Cardozo Law Review.

Professor Slavinskiy has presented at national and international conferences on generative AI in legal practice, addressing systemic inequality through legal writing, and generational learning differences. He is a co-author of Legal Method and Writing (10th ed., Aspen, forthcoming Feb. 2026).