FACULTY UPDATE :: NEW APPOINTMENTS
FACULTY :: NEW TENURETRACK FACULTY JOSEPH FISHKIN Professor of Law
Joseph Fishkin, an expert in election law, constitutional law, and employment discrimination law, joins UCLA Law from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the Marrs McLean Professor in Law. He also served as a visiting professor at Yale Law School. At UCLA Law, he teaches Election Law, Employment Discrimination Law, a seminar on Direct Democracy, and a Law Through Scholarship course on Law and Economic Inequality. A political theorist and legal scholar who works on questions at the intersection of law, distributive justice, and political economy, Fishkin wrote the award-winning book Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity (Oxford University Press, 2014) and, with former UCLA Law professor William Forbath, the forthcoming book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2022). Fishkin’s other writing has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, and the Yale Law Journal. He received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University, D. Phil. in politics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and was a Ruebhausen Fellow at Yale Law School.
CARY FRANKLIN McDonald/Wright Chair in Law Faculty Director, Williams Institute
Cary Franklin is a leading authority on civil rights and contemporary legal protections regarding sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and race. She joins UCLA Law from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was the W.H. Francis, Jr. Professor of Law. She also served as the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. At UCLA Law, she is the faculty director of the Williams Institute and teaches Reproductive Rights and Justice and Law, Gender, and Sexuality. Franklin’s cutting-edge scholarship has been widely published and cited by scholars and courts. The U.S. Supreme Court cited her 2012 Harvard Law Review article, “Inventing the ‘Traditional Concept’ of Sex Discrimination,” in its landmark 2020 Bostock decision. Her work has also appeared in the Michigan Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. 52 UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | FALL 2021
She earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University, J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal, and D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She clerked for Sonia Sotomayor, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Ribicoff Fellow at Yale Law School.
MARK MCKENNA Professor of Law Faculty Co-Director, Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law
Mark McKenna, an esteemed scholar in intellectual property and technology law, joins UCLA Law from Notre Dame Law School, where he taught for more than a decade, served as the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, and was the founding director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center. At UCLA Law, he serves as a faculty co-director of the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law and teaches torts, among other courses. McKenna’s core work has been in trademark law, recently focusing on design and questions relating to the boundaries of various forms of intellectual property. He is also engaged in projects relating to the governance of technology, including one that centers “on the meaning of autonomy in a world of predictive algorithms.” McKenna is the author of more than 40 articles and book chapters, as well as the casebooks The Law of Design: Design Patent, Trademark & Copyright and The Law of Intellectual Property. He earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where current UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin was his evidence professor. He practiced intellectual property law with the Chicago firm Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson.
ANNA SPAIN BRADLEY Professor of Law Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Anna Spain Bradley, a highly regarded scholar of international law, human rights, dispute resolution, and racism, who has served since 2020 as UCLA’s vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion, joined the UCLA Law faculty in early 2021 as a professor of law. She came to UCLA from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was a law professor and the assistant vice provost for faculty development and diversity.
