UCLA School of Law is pleased to welcome to its tenured or tenure-track faculty six leading scholars whose innovative research explores issues involving technology, business law, higher education, taxation and other areas on the cutting edge of legal scholarship.

Meirav Furth-Matzkin, whose cutting-edge scholarship focuses on the intersection of contract law, consumer protection and regulation, and behavioral law and economics, has joined UCLA Law as an assistant professor of law.

She comes from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as the John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow and as a lecturer in law.

Fernán Restrepo, who focuses his research on corporate law in the context of financial and non-financial companies, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

He comes from Stanford University, where he was most recently a research fellow with the Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

Andrew Verstein, an authority in contract law, corporate law, and securities regulation and litigation, has joined UCLA School of Law as a professor of law.

He comes from Wake Forest School of Law, where he served on the faculty since 2013, most recently as associate dean for research and academic programs.

Jonathan Glater, whose innovative scholarship focuses on the intersection of the law and higher education, has joined UCLA School of Law as a professor of law.

Glater comes from UC Irvine School of Law, where he served on the faculty for nearly a decade, earning the school’s distinguished teaching award for first-year teaching in 2015-16, among other honors.

Mario Biagioli, an authority in the intersection of law, science and technology, has joined UCLA as a distinguished professor of law and communications.

Biagioli comes to UCLA School of Law and UCLA’s Department of Communication from UC Davis, where he served as a distinguished professor in the law school, history department and Science and Technology Studies program. He also served as the founding director of UC Davis’ Center for Science and Innovation Studies and as an associate faculty member of the Cultural Studies program and the Critical Theory Program.

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