LMU Loyola Law School proudly welcomes 10 new scholars and teachers to its faculty ranks. They come from law schools and law practices across the country, from NYU and the University of San Diego to New Line Television and the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking. They have experience working on cutting-edge issues of anti-poverty policy, patent law, workers' rights, entertainment law, and more. Collectively, they expand Loyola as a hub of innovative legal scholarship, clinical teaching, and policy influence.
Proessor Ariel Jurow Kleiman
Professor Ariel Jurow Kleiman is moving to Loyola from University of San Diego School of Law. A prominent tax and poverty law scholar, she has published extensively, including, e.g., Impoverishment by Taxation forthcoming in UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW, Tax Limits and the Future of Local Democracy in HARVARD LAW REVIEW, Low-End Regressivity in the peer-reviewed TAX LAW REVIEW, and Property Taxes During the Pandemic in TAX NOTES (with Andrew Hayashi). She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.S. from the London School of Economics, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She teaches Federal Income Tax, Corporate Tax, International Tax, and Property. Her addition will further strengthen Loyola’s cutting-edge Graduate Tax Programs. Prior to joining the San Diego faculty, Jurow Kleiman led Loyola’s Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, after completing a Skadden Fellowship.
Professor Amy Motomura
Professor Amy Motomura joins Loyola’s leading intellectual property law scholars following stints at Cooley and Morrison & Foerster and as a fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Law & the Biosciences. A published biomedical engineer, Motomura’s interests focus on patent law’s role in innovation and on the design of patent law institutions. Her legal scholarship includes, e.g., Innovation and Own Prior Art in HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL, Federal Circuit Deference: Two Regimes in Conflict in DICKINSON (PENN STATE) LAW REVIEW, and Rethinking Administrative Law's Chenery Doctrine: Lessons from Patent Appeals at the Federal Circuit in SANTA CLARA LAW REVIEW. She holds a B.S.E. from Duke University, an M.S. from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She will teach Property and Intellectual Property courses. Motomura also serves as special counsel to Cooley’s Patent Prosecution & Counseling group.
Professor Jonathan Harris
Professor Jonathan Harris comes to Loyola from New York University School of Law’s Lawyering Program. His latest article, Socioeconomic Duress in Employment Contracting, is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW & POLICY JOURNAL, following Unconscionability in Contracting for Worker Training in ALABAMA LAW REVIEW and Is There a Right to Job Quality? Reenvisioning Workforce Development in CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW ONLINE (with Livia Lam), among others. A graduate of Duke University and City University of New York School of Law, he teaches Employment Law, Contracts, Race & the Law, and Labor Law. Prior to teaching, Harris practiced at the N.Y. City Commission on Human Rights, served as a law clerk to the Hon. James E. Graves, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and was a Skadden Fellow.
Professor Patricia Winograd
Visiting Professor Patricia Winograd brings to Loyola nearly two decades of complex business, employment, and insurance litigation experience, having practiced at some of the nation’s leading law firms (e.g., DLA Piper, K&L Gates, and Glaser Weil). In the process, she was recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyers “Rising Star” for three consecutive years. She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a Master’s from the University of Southern California’s School of Education. Winograd teaches Remedies and Legal Research & Writing; she also counsels students headed for corporate law firm practice. Winograd is developing a new course designed to complement Loyola's already robust curriculum focusing on the relationship of the law to systemic inequality.
Professor Stephanie Richard
Professor Stephanie Richard is the Director of Loyola’s newest clinical offering, Rights in Systems Enforced (RISE). RISE will train and engage students in trauma-informed direct representation of survivors of violent crime who seek to assert their rights in state or federal criminal or immigration enforcement systems or who require related legal assistance in the civil justice system. Prior to joining Loyola, Richard served as Policy & Legal Services Director at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking. Her publications include, e.g., State Legislation and Human Trafficking: Helpful or Harmful? in UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF LAW REFORM and Expanding Protections for Guest Workers Benefits Businesses in the peer-reviewed BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNAL. Richard regularly provides guidance to state and federal authorities (e.g., U.S. Departments of Labor, Justice, and Homeland Security; state legislatures and attorneys general offices; the Judicial Council of California; and the Uniform Law Commission).
Professor Julie Shapiro
Professor Julie Shapiro has been appointed Director of Loyola’s Entertainment and Media Law Institute, bringing expertise that she acquired as a successful business and legal affairs executive over the two decades following her graduation from Loyola. Her experience includes structuring and negotiating entertainment and media deals and navigating legal issues regarding new media platforms, international transactions, licensing, intellectual property, and all aspects of production. Her many credits include serving as General Counsel for APA Talent Agency, Senior Vice President and Head of Business Affairs for Freeform Network/Disney Television, and Executive Vice President for New Line Cinema’s television division. She also launched the business/legal affairs department for the Oprah Winfrey Network. Most recently, Shapiro served as Vice President and Legal & Business Affairs Counsel for Endeavor Content, a company that creates entertainment programming with and for multi-platform networks world-wide.
Professor Stephanie Der
Professor Stephanie Der spent a decade honing her litigation skills at Hunton Andrews Kurth and at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. She also served as adjunct faculty at Loyola, where she focused on innovative programming to prepare students for legal research in practice. She developed and taught Loyola’s Legal Research Fundamentals for the Litigator course and Loyola’s Prepare to Practice workshop series. Der now joins Loyola full time to teach across the research and writing curriculum. She received her B.A., J.D., and M.L.I.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a contributing author in the forthcoming HENKE'S CALIFORNIA LAW GUIDE, 9th ed.
Professor David King
Professor David King, a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and LMU Loyola Law School, has returned to Loyola to teach. An expert in municipal law, he has represented cities throughout southern California. King has served on the Executive Committee of the State Bar of California’s Public Law Section and as an editor of THE PUBLIC LAW JOURNAL and the CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL LAW HANDBOOK. His publications include Chen v. Secretary of State: Expanding the Residency Rights of Non-Nationals in the EU and Zhu and Chen Revisited: The ECJ's Jurisprudence on the Derivative Rights of Third-Party Nationals, both in the LOYOLA OF L.A. INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW REVIEW.
Professor Jazzirelle Hill
Jazzirelle Hill brings her diverse experience in the Washington D.C. and Los Angeles area to teach Legal Research & Writing at Loyola. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Howard Law School, she clerked for the Hon. Raymond A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She then practiced at Covington & Burling, where in addition to representing global corporate clients in federal, state, and international litigation and arbitration, she performed significant pro bono work including a six month rotation at the Children’s Law Center, which she discusses in From Corporate to Custody Battles: Being a Loaned BigLaw Associate at a Nonprofit, VSB Docket Call (Aug. 2018). Professor Hill also worked for the IRS Office of the Chief Counsel, the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia during law school.
Professor Yan Slavinskiy
Fresh off his second federal clerkship, Professor Yan Slavinskiy adds to Loyola’s wealth of criminal law experts, having argued more than 40 cases in appellate courts for the N.Y. County D.A.’s Office. After receiving his B.A. from G.W., he graduated first in his class from Cardozo School of Law. During law school, he interned at the N.Y. Attorney General’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for S.D.N.Y. and E.D.N.Y. Slavinskiy clerked for the Hon. Frank Maas, Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for S.D.N.Y. and the Hon. Jean Rosenbluth, Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. His note, Protecting the Family Home by Reunderstanding U.S. v. Bajakajian, appeared in CARDOZO LAW REVIEW. He will teach Legal Research & Writing at Loyola.