FACULTY FOCUS :: NEW APPOINTMENTS & VISITING PROFESSORS
FACULTY :: NEW TENURE-TRACK FACULTY APPOINTMENT
FACULTY :: INTERIM ASSISTANT DEAN
KRISTEN EICHENSEHR
SUSAN CORDELL GILLIG
Assistant Professor of Law
Interim Assistant Dean for Clinical Education, Experiential Learning and Public Service
Kristen Eichensehr is Assistant Professor of Law. Her primary research and teaching interests center on international, foreign relations, and national security law issues, including cybersecurity. Eichensehr is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and Yale Law School. During law school, Eichensehr served as Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Before joining the UCLA faculty, Eichensehr clerked for Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States. Eichensehr also served as Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State and practiced at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in appellate litigation, international and national security law, and cybersecurity issues. Eichensehr is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a member of the International Law Association’s Study Group on Cybersecurity, Terrorism, and International Law. She is a frequent contributor to and member of the editorial board of the national security blog, Just Security. Eichensehr’s recent scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Texas Law Review, and the American Journal of International Law.
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Susan Gillig has returned to UCLA School of Law on a recall basis to serve as Interim Assistant Dean for Clinical Education, Experiential Learning and Public Service. Gillig previously served as Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs, a position in which she oversaw development of the clinical program and administered the externship program. She has taught Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation. She received her B.A. from Bristol University, an M.A. in Government from Southern Illinois University and her J.D. from the University of Southern California. During law school, Gillig was editor-inchief of the Southern California Law Review. She then clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson ’53 of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was an associate at the firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in the litigation and labor departments.
FACULTY :: NEW FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS JOSEPH BERRA
Clinical and Experiential Project Director Joseph Berra is Clinical and Experiential Project Director at the UCLA School of Law. Previously he served as an attorney for the Texas Civil Project in Austin, where he was coordinator of the Disability Rights Program and the Austin Independent School District Equity Project. He also served as executive director of the Caribbean Central American Research Council; a staff attorney at Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF); and an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Ayuda in Washington, D.C. He has represented Honduran Garifuna communities in land rights claims before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Berra holds a J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law; an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin; an M.Div. from Universidad Centroamericana in San Salvador, El Salvador; and a B.A. from St. Louis University.