Scott E. Wood
Clinical Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8301
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: scott.wood@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, Loyola Marymount University
MA, California State University San Francisco
JD, cum laude, Southwestern University School of Law
Scott Wood is a Clinical Professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where heserves as Director of the Center for Restorative Justice. Scott is a graduate of Loyola High School ('62), Loyola University of Los Angeles (B.A.'66) and San Francisco State University (M.A. ’72). He taught at St. Ignatius Prep, San Francisco where he served as Chair of the English Department (1971-73).
In 1973, Scott entered Southwestern University School of Law and following graduation cum laude in 1976, he practiced as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles until 1998 when he joined the full time clinical faculty at Loyola Law School. While at Loyola Law School, Scott has taught a variety of courses including Legal Research & Writing, Ethical Lawyering, Introduction to Negotiation, Restorative Justice. Law and Literature, and seminars in Law and the Catholic Tradition, and Religious Lawyering He was recognized with the Student Body’s “Excellence in Teaching” award in 2006 and received the “St. Thomas More Medallion Award” from the LLS Honor Society in 2008.
Ethical Lawyering, Introduction to Negotiation, Law and Catholic Tradition, Law and Literature, Legal Research and Writing