incarceration, commercial sexual exploitation and sites of mass violence or genocide. Among her current writing projects, she is developing an analysis of prospects for challenging systemically unhealthy and disabling dynamics in labor and employment, through several areas of torts and contracts doctrine. Her areas of teaching interest include Torts, Contracts, Health Law, Family Law, Disability Law, Critical Race Theory, Critical Disability Theory and International Human Rights. At UCLA Law, she will teach Disability Law. In 2013-2014, Professor Ribet will also serve as an affiliated scholar at the Center for Mental Health Law & Ethics at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law. In addition, she continues to serve as co-chair of the Collaborative Research Network on Law & Health at the Law & Society Association, as well as an associate editor for Women’s Studies International Forum. Her recent publications include: “Emergent Disability and the Limits of Equality: A Critique on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,” 155 Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal (2011); “Surfacing Disability through a Critical Race Theoretical Paradigm,” 2 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 209 (2010); and “Naming Prison Rape as Disablement: A Critical Analysis of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Imperatives of Survivor-Oriented Advocacy,” 17 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 282 (2010).
thoMaS d. RoWe, JR. Visiting Professor of Law Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., is Elvin R. Latty professor emeritus at Duke University School of Law. Professor Rowe joined the Duke law faculty in 1975; he served there as associate dean from 1981 to 1984 and senior associate dean from 1995 to 1996. He has also taught at Georgetown, Michigan, thomAs d. roWe, jr. Virginia and Pepperdine. His teaching areas include Civil Procedure, Remedies, Complex Civil Litigation and Federal Courts. Professor Rowe earned a B.A. degree from Yale University, summa cum laude, an M.Phil. in Comparative Literature from Oxford University and a J.D. degree from Harvard University, magna cum laude. He was a Rhodes Scholar and commenced his professional career as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been on the staff of a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee, served with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, worked at private law firms in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, and was a visiting scholar at the RAND Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice. Professor Rowe is a life member of the American Law Institute and serves on the editorial board of the Federal Courts Law Review. His recent publications include Civil Procedure (3rd ed. 2012 and Supp. 2013) (with Sherry and Tidmarsh) and “The Twelve-Person Civil Jury in Exile,” 46 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 691 (2013).
guy Scoffoni Visiting Professor of Law Guy Scoffoni, a renowned expert in European and comparative constitutional law, received his education in France, studying law at the Aix-Marseille University and completing his doctorate at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (1986). Presently, he is professor of law at gUy sCoffoni Aix-Marseille University and director of international relations at Sciences Po-Aix. He is a review analyst and editorial consultant of the Revue Française de Droit Constitutionnel (French Constitutional Law Review), an administrator of various European programs and a member of national and local selection committees for the Civil Service. Professor Scoffoni has visited and taught at many international institutions of higher learning, including University College London, University of Oslo, University of Montréal, University of the Western Cape, University of Hong Kong, University of Bologna and University of Chuo, Tokyo. His teaching and research background includes constitutional law, European law, comparative European legal systems and international human rights. WilliaM e. SiMon, JR. Visiting Professor of Law William E. Simon, Jr., is co-chairman of William E. Simon & Sons, LLC, the firm he co-founded with his brother, J. Peter Simon, and his father, William E. Simon, Sr., former United States Treasury Secretary. He is also a senior fellow at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. WiLLiAm e. simon, jr. Professor Simon received his B.A. from Williams College and his J.D. from Boston College Law School, and he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. After law school, he was an associate at Davis, Markel, Dwyer & Edwards and went on to become an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1985-88). He also co-founded a successful municipal bond company, held senior positions on the municipal securities and foreign exchange desk for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and served as vice chairman for the Paxson Communications Corporation. Professor Simon is perhaps best known for entering the political arena in 2001 as a candidate for governor of California, and he came within five points of unseating incumbent governor Gray Davis. In addition, he served as director of policy and speech writing for the Rudy Giuliani 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee. He serves on the board of advisors of the UCLA Medical Center, and as trustee on the boards of St. John's Health Center Foundation in Los Angeles and The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He also serves as a lifetime member of the board of trustees at Williams College. In addition, he is co-chair of several foundations that promote the growth and support of young students and athletes in the Los Angeles area. UCLA LAW MAGAZINE |
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