NANCY POLIKOFF
THOMAS S. ULEN
Visiting Professor (Spring 2017)
Visiting Professor (January Term 2017)
Nancy Polikoff is professor of law at American University Washington College of Law, where she teaches Family Law and Sexuality and the Law. She visited UCLA for 2011-12 as the McDonald/Wright Chair in Law and faculty chair of the Williams Institute. Before joining the Washington College of Law faculty in 1987, she co-founded the Washington, D.C. Feminist Law Collective and then supervised family law programs at the Women’s Legal Defense Fund (now the National Partnership on Women and Families). In 1976, she co-authored one of the first law review articles on custody rights of lesbian mothers. Polikoff holds a J.D. from Georgetown and a Masters Degree in Women’s Studies from George Washington University. LAWRENCE G. SAGER
Visiting Professor (Spring 2017) Lawrence Sager, one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars and the Jane Drysdale Sheffield regents chair at the University of Texas, Austin, will return to UCLA School of Law as a distinguished visiting professor in 2017 and 2018. Sager will make a presentation during the January session and return for full semester visits in Spring 2017 and Spring 2018. In January 2016, Sager participated in a public conversation with Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice and Professor of Philosophy Seana Shiffrin. In April 2016, he presented his paper, “Putting Law in Its Place.”
Thomas Ulen will teach Law and Economics in the January 2017 term. He is the Swandlund Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois College of Law. He has recently completed work on two new books, Cognition, Rationality, and the Law (with Russell Korobkin; University of Chicago Press) and Foundations of Environmental Policy (with John B. Braden, Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd.). His book, Law and Economics (with Robert Cooter), now in its fourth edition, has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, French and Russian. Ulen received his B.A. from Dartmouth College; his M.A. from St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford; and his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
FACULTY :: NEW FELLOWS NICHOLAS BRYNER
Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy Nicholas Bryner is an Emmett/ Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2016-2018. He recently served as visiting associate professor and environmental law fellow at George Washington University Law School (August 2014-June 2016) where he co-taught courses on environmental and natural resources law. Bryner received his B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science from the University of Utah, with minors in Latin American Studies and Chemistry. He also earned joint degrees (J.D. / M.A.) in Law and Latin American and Hemispheric Studies from the George Washington University Law School and Elliott School of International Affairs.
LORI SANTIKIAN
CHARLEEN HSUAN
Visiting Professor (Fall 2016)
Health Law Fellow
Lori Santikian will teach Corporate Finance: Securities Markets and Corporate Valuation in Fall 2016. She is currently an associate adjunct professor in the strategy group at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her research focuses in the areas of organizational economics, empirical corporate finance, and financial intermediation. She was previously an assistant professor of finance and business economics at USC Marshall School of Business. Santikian received both her B.A. magna cum laude in Applied Mathematics and her B.A. summa cum laude in Economics from UC Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University.
Charleen Hsuan is a Health Law Fellow. Her work focuses on how laws and the legal structure of the health care system affect access to care. She received her B.S. from Yale University, her Ph.D. from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her J.D. from the Columbia School of Law. During law school, she was executive managing editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. She practiced law at Goodwin Procter, where her clients were primarily pharmaceutical companies and emerging biotechnology companies.
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