University of California Irvine School of Law announced new faculty and new clinics.
It launched an Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology clinic in order to accommodate the growing demand in this area of law. Additionally, the law school launched three new centers — the Center on Africa and the Law, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and the Center on International, Transnational and Comparative Law.
UC Irvine, which earned full accreditation from the American Bar Association in June 2014, hired six new faculty members bringing the total number of full-time professors to 45.
New faculty members include professors Seth Davis, Michele Goodwin, Kaaryn Gustafon, Jack Lerner, L. Song Richardson and Gregory Shaffer.
“We are privileged to have these brilliant and diverse scholars and teachers join our faculty,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said. “The cutting-edge new Clinic and Centers further broaden our scope into important and developing legal areas.”
Shaffer, Lerner, Gustafon and Goodwin will also serve as directors of various clinics at the law school.