FACULTY NEWS
New Appointments James Park Professor of Law James Park, who served as a visiting professor at UCLA Law in fall 2012, joins the law school’s faculty from Brooklyn Law School, where he was an associate professor of law. He teaches securities regulation, corporations and civil procedure. Before joining the Brooklyn Law School faculty in jAmes pArk 2007, he was an assistant attorney general in the Investment Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office and an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City. Professor Park earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Miami University (Ohio) in 1996, and he received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000, where he won the William K.S. Wang Prize for the best examination in business organizations and the Charles G. Albom Prize for excellence in the preparation of a clinic appeal. After law school, he clerked for Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Judge John G. Koeltl in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Park is a widely published and well-regarded scholar in the field of securities regulation and corporate law. His recent publications include: “Securities Class Actions and Bankrupt Companies,” 111 Michigan Law Review 547 (2013); “Rules, Principles, and the Competition to Enforce the Securities Laws,” 100 California Law Review 115 (2012); “Rule 10b-5 and the Rise of the Unjust Enrichment Principle,” 60 Duke Law Journal 345 (2010); and “Shareholder Compensation as Dividend,” 108 Michigan Law Review 323 (2009).
Rebecca Stone Assistant Professor of Law Rebecca Stone joins UCLA School of Law from New York University School of Law, where she spent two years as a Furman Fellow. Her research and teaching interests include law and economics, legal philosophy, contracts and torts. She is rebeCCA stone particularly interested in the intersections between law, philosophy and economics. Professor Stone received her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law in 2009, where she was articles editor of the New York University Law Review and graduated magna cum laude and
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Order of the Coif. She holds a B.A. degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University (1999, First Class Honors) and an M.Phil. (2001) and a D.Phil. (2004) in Economics, also from Oxford University. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to law school, Professor Stone was a post-doctoral research fellow at the ESRC Center of Economic Learning and Social Evolution in the Department of Economics at University College London and an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester. Professor Stone’s forthcoming and recent publications include: “Unconscionability, Exploitation, and Hypocrisy,” Journal of Political Philosophy; “Anticipated Regret as an Explanation of Ambiguity Aversion,” Economic Theory (with Daniel Krahmer); and “Pricing Misperceptions: Explaining Pricing Structure in the Cell-Phone Service Market,” 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 430 (2012) (with Oren Bar-Gill).
SheRod thaxton Assistant Professor of Law Sherod Thaxton joins the UCLA Law faculty after two years as the inaugural Earl B. Dickerson Fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to his fellowship, he was a staff attorney in the Capital Habeas Unit of sherod thAxton the Office of the Federal Defender for the Eastern District of California. His primary research and teaching interests include criminal law and procedure, capital punishment, habeas corpus and the sociology of law. After receiving his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of California, Davis, Professor Thaxton enrolled in the Sociology program at Emory University, earning his master’s and doctoral degrees—specializing in criminology and social psychology. While pursuing his graduate studies, he was the principal investigator of the Death Penalty Tracking Project for the Office of the MultiCounty Public Defender in Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Thaxton received a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, an Academy of Achievement student honoree and a Public Interest Law Prize recipient. He was also an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and the University of Chicago Legal Forum—the only member of his graduating class to serve on multiple journals. Prior to law school, he was a Soros Justice Postgraduate Fellow at the Open
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