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UCLA Law Welcomes New Class of Fellows This fall, the law school welcomed a new roster of 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. These fellows join the law school’s Clinical Teaching Fellows Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe, Sanjukta Paul and Brandon Weiss; Emmett/Frankel Fellows in Environmental Law Megan Herzog and Jesse Leuders; Barbara A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Law Review Fellow Maureen Carroll; Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy Fellows George Georgiev and Alexander Wu; Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy Teaching Fellow Margot Pollans; and Williams Institute Richard Taylor Law Teaching Fellow Jordan Blair Woods.
Law & Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellows Daniela Dover’s research focuses on the ethics of communication about morality and politics. She scrutinizes practices of normative discussion and debate, from everyday interpersonal quarrels to public political deliberation and academic moral philosophy. Dover is currently completing a Ph.D. degree in philosophy at New York DANIELA DOVER University, and she received an undergraduate degree in classics at Yale University. She has been a visitor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Institut Jean Nicod and the MIT Department of Philosophy. She will teach the Philosophy of Law in 2014-2015. Stephen Nayak-Young’s research focuses on labor and employment law and the philosophy of law. Nayak-Young is completing a Ph.D. degree in philosophy at the University of Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy with first-class honors from the University of British Columbia in 1997, followed by a J.D. STEPHEN NAYAK-YOUNG degree from Harvard Law School in 2000 and an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 2008. He will also teach the Philosophy of Law in 2014-2015, as well as a course on the philosophy of work.
Sears Law Teaching Fellow Alexandra Lang Susman has served as counsel at the Williams Institute. She was previously an associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson, where she also served as pro bono general counsel for a Los Angeles area rape crisis and domestic violence center, represented a transgender survivor of domestic violence in obtaining a ALEXANDRA LANG SUSMAN U-Visa and advised undocumented lesbians on their ability to seek asylum. Susman received her A.B. degree with honors in comparative literature from Brown University. She continued her study of comparative literature at Stanford University as a doctoral candidate and lecturer. Susman received her J.D. degree from the University of Southern California, where she graduated Order of the Coif and served as executive articles editor of the Southern California Law Review. After graduating, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is the author of “No Strings Attached: An Analysis of the Eruv Under the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act,” 9 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class 93 (2009).
Environmental Law Faculty Members Honored as Environmentalists of the Year UCLA Law’s environmental faculty members Ann Carlson, Shirley Shapiro professor of environmental law and faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute and Evan Frankel professor of policy and practice, and Cara Horowitz, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation co-executive director of the Emmett Institute, were honored in April as Environmentalists of the Year by the City of Los Angeles and the nonprofit organization Faith2Green. They joined a group of distinguished UCLA faculty members, staff, students and donors, including UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, in being honored for their dedication to sustaining natural resources and caring for the environment, and to fostering environmental education, research and advocacy.
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