Yxta Maya Murray
Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8169
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: yxta.murray@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, cum laude, University of California Los Angeles
JD, with distinction, Stanford University
After law school, Yxta Murray clerked for the Honorable Harry Hupp in the Central District of California and then for the Honorable Ferdinand Fernandez of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena. She joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 1995.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Presenter, "Latinas: Who are We?," Second Annual Lat-Crit Conference in San Antonio, May 1997
Guest Commentator, "CNN & Company"
Presenter, "American Criminal Law," University of Trier in Germany
Recent Talks
The Pedagogy of Violence, to be delivered at the Law, Literature, and Translation Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, on June 9-10, 2012.
Rape Trauma, the State, and the Art of Tracey Emin, delivered at the Feminist Legal Gathering at George Washington University, January 4, 2012.
Feminist Legal Theory and Nonviolence, talk delivered at the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association annual conference at Brunel University, London, July 7, 2011.
Readings of Scream like a Girl at Track 16 in Santa Monica on January 17, 2011 and Skylight Books on February 26, 2011.
Publications
You’re Creating New Categories:” Anglo-American Radical Feminism’s Constitutionalism in the Streets. Forthcoming from the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal.
Feminist Engagement and the Museum. Forthcoming from the British Journal of American Legal Studies for their Spring 2012 issue.
Rape Trauma, the State, and the Art of Tracey Emin. Forthcoming from California Law Review.
Published
The Pedagogy of Violence, 20 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 537 (2011).
A Jurisprudence of Nonviolence, 9 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 65 (2009)
Books
The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Kidnapped, Razorbill/Penguin (2009).
The King’s Gold, HarperCollins, May 2007.
The Queen Jade, HarperCollins, 2004.
The Conquest, HarperCollins, 2002.
What it Takes to Get to Vegas, Grove/Atlantic 1999.
Locas, Grove/Atlantic 1997.
Administration of Criminal Justice, Feminist Jurisprudence, Sexual Orientation and the Law, Sentencing