Hiro Aragaki
Associate Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1406
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail:
hiro.aragaki@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, in Philosophy magna cum laude, Yale University
M.Phil. in Social & Political Theory, University of Cambridge
JD with distinction, Stanford Law School
Hiro Aragaki joined the Loyola faculty in 2011. His scholarly interests cluster around the intersection of contract and procedure. He has written extensively on federal arbitration law and on interest-based dispute resolution in the public sphere. His work has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Online, among others. His most recent work, Equal Opportunity for Arbitration, was selected for presentation in the Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution category at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. In 2011, he traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to train judges and lawyers in mediation and to provide advice on the design of an effective court-connected ADR program.
Before coming to Loyola, Professor Aragaki was an Assistant Professor of Law & Ethics at Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration in New York, where he taught courses on business law. Prior to that, he practiced law with international law firms, served as an arbitrator and mediator, and clerked for the Hon. Fern M. Smith, U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.).
Professor Aragaki graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale College and an M.Phil. in Social and Political Theory from Cambridge University, where he held a Benefactor’s Scholarship at St. John’s College.
Equal Opportunity for Arbitration, 58 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1189 (2011)
- Selected for presentation at the 2011 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
Arbitration’s Suspect Status, 159 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1233 (2011)
The Mess of Manifest Disregard, 119 Yale L.J. Online* 1 (2009) [*formerly the YLJ Pocket Part] (feature essay)
Deliberative Democracy as Dispute Resolution? Conflict, Interests, and Reasons, 24 Ohio State J. on Disp. Resol. 406 (2009)
Communicative Ethics and the Morality of Discourse, 13 Praxis Int’l 154 (1993)
Other Works
Amicus Curiae Brief of Arbitration Professors in Support of Respondents, in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, No. 09-893 (lead author, filed October 6, 2010)
Hall Street Associates v. Mattel: The Right Result The Wrong Way?, JAMS Dispute Resolution Alert, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2008) (available on request)
The Negotiation Process, in A Litigator’s Guide to Effective Use of ADR in California (CEB Press 2007) (2005)
Selected Lectures and Presentations
State Bar of California, the District of Columbia, and New York.
Roll of Solicitors, England & Wales.
Contracts; Advanced Topics in Alternative Dispute Resolution