Professor of Law
James P. Bradley Chair in Constitutional Law
Courses Taught
- Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law
- Originalism
- Second Amendment, Equal Protection, and Religion
- Abortion, Race, Sex, and Gender Identity
- Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Law I: Structure
- Constitutional Law II: Rights & Liberties
- Intelligence, Testing, and the Law
- Principles of Social Justice
- Employment Discrimination Law
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Education
- BA, summa cum laude, Duke University, Phi Beta Kappa
- JD, Yale Law School
Background
Professor Kimberly West-Faulcon holds the honorary endowed James P. Bradley Chair in Constitutional Law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, where she teaches Constitutional Law and three Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law (ATCL) courses—ATCL: Originalism; ATCL: Second Amendment, Equal Protection, & Religion; and ATCL: Abortion, Race, Sex, & Gender Identity. She graduated from Duke University, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, and went on to receive her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, Professor West-Faulcon clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. She began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow and directed the Western Regional Office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF). As an attorney for LDF for close to a decade, Professor West-Faulcon represented racially diverse classes of clients in innovative and multi-million dollar civil rights cases that challenged practices of defendants such as the University of California at Berkeley, the Los Angeles Police Department, and international clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch. She is a pioneer in interdisciplinary research of constitutional and antidiscrimination law, standardized testing, and empirical assessment of employment and educational merit. Professor West-Faulcon’s academic articles have appeared in many top law journals, including the Journal of Constitutional Law, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal.