Eminent scholars Alejandro Camacho and Jamelia Morgan are joining the UCLA School of Law faculty as professors of law, starting in the Spring 2026 semester.

Camacho, a renowned regulatory scholar who will be a core faculty member of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, investigates the processes, institutions, and goals of the law. His work considers the role of expertise and community in government decision-making, the tradeoffs of different allocations of regulatory authority, and how legal goals and institutions can be reshaped to better account for emerging technologies and the dynamic character of natural and human systems. Beyond environmental law, he has produced publications in property, local government, food safety, public health, and tribal law.

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Morgan, an acclaimed scholar and teacher who focuses on issues at the intersections of race, gender, disability, and criminal law and punishment, will be a core faculty member of the Critical Race Studies program. Her work spans issues involving civil rights, race, gender, disability, and criminal law and punishment. She describes her scholarship and teaching as taking a close look at “the development of disability as a legal category in American law, disability and policing, overcriminalization and the regulation of physical and social disorder, and the constitutional dimensions of the criminalization of status.”

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