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UCLA Law Welcomes Impressive Class of Fellows thiS fall, the laW School WelcoMed an impressive roster of new fellows, who will spend one or two academic years at the law school, where they will teach, conduct research and write in preparation for careers in law teaching and scholarship. UCLA CLiniCAL TeAChing FeLLows Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe earned her J.D. from Stanford University School of Law (with Pro Bono Distinction), where she was president of the Black Law Students Association and lead articles editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She was awarded the 2004-2005 Graduate Student of the Year by the Black Community Services Center and the 2006 Imelda Rosenthal Scholarship for Public Service by the Foundation of the State Bar of California. Upon graduation, she served as a fellow for the Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, where she represented indigent defendants in capital postconviction litigation. She then clerked for the Honorable Napoleon Jones of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. After clerking, Joe served first as a trial attorney with the Orleans Public Defenders and then became the assistant special litigation counsel. Prior to joining UCLA Law, she served as assistant training director with the Louisiana Public Defender Board. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin with departmental and universitywide honors in 2003, and won the William Jennings Bryan Award for Undergraduate Honors Theses for her thesis, “Was There a Place for Anger? An Analysis of African American Militancy in American Politics Since the Gary Convention.” Sanjukta Paul’s focus has been on workers’ and civil rights, most of it as a litigator in the Los Angeles area. She previously served as an attorney for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy’s Clean and Safe Ports Project, where she worked with port truck drivers facing misclassification as independent contractors. Prior to that, she was in private practice at Hadsell & Stormer and as a solo practitioner. She has served as lead counsel or co-lead counsel on numerous litigation and arbitration matters on behalf of workers and civil Sanjukta Paul rights plaintiffs. Prior to practicing, Paul clerked for the Honorable Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earned her J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where she served as a Coker Fellow, a Yale College Teaching Fellow and co-chair of the Workers’ Rights Project. Prior to law school, Paul earned an M.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, where she was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. She earned a B.A. degree with honors from the University of Iowa, where she received the Gustav Bergmann Prize for Outstanding Senior in Philosophy and the Sanxay Prize, which is awarded to a student who shows the highest promise of achievement in graduate work. Brandon Weiss graduated from Harvard Law School with honors, where he was co-editor in chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, a student advocate with the Harvard Tenant Advocacy Project and was awarded the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership. Upon graduation, he was awarded a Skadden Fellowship and a Maria, Gabriella
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& Robert A. Skirnick Public Interest Fellowship. Concurrently, Weiss earned an M.P.P. degree at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, with a focus on urban policy and housing finance. Weiss received a B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded the Goodman Endowed Fellowship in Government and served as an editor of multiple publications. He most recently practiced law at Bocarsly Emden Cowan Esmail & Arndt LLP, a Brandon Weiss boutique law firm in Los Angeles specializing in the acquisition, financing and development of affordable housing and community development projects. Prior to joining Bocarsly Emden, he designed and implemented a legal project to preserve the affordability of at-risk subsidized housing in Los Angeles as a Skadden Fellow and Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow with the Community Development Project of Public Counsel Law Center. Weiss’s publications include “Preservation of Affordable Housing” (with James Grow) in the Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development (American Bar Association, 2011). In collaboration with the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, Weiss will engage in clinical teaching and research in areas related to community economic development, housing policy and public interest law, and he will assist Adjunct Professor Lance Bocarsly in the Real Estate Transactions Clinic. emmeTT/FrAnkeL FeLLow in environmenTAL LAw And PoLiCy Jesse Lueders ’13 will pursue a scholarly research agenda on issues relating to environmental law and policy, including climate change law and policy, with UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and the Environmental Law Center. While at UCLA Law he served as co-chair of the Animal Law Society and was selected by the environmental law faculty as the annual Donald G. Hagman Scholar for 2013. He served as a legal intern with the Colorado-based nonprofit Jesse Lueders organization WildEarth Guardians, where he focused on air pollution and species protection, and he was a legal extern for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Environmental Justice and Southern California Ecosystems Programs. Lueders received a B.A. degree with distinction in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, where he was awarded the Kemper K. Knapp and William F. Vilas National Merit Scholarships, as well as the Larry Temkin Prize for his essay “What’s Wrong with Factory Farming.” BernArd A. And Lenore s. greenBerg LAw review FeLLow Maureen Carroll ’09 received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and she was ranked number one in her class at UCLA School of Law. While at law school, Carroll was an articles editor for the UCLA Law Review and the Dukeminier Awards
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