FACULTY :: NEW APPOINTMENTS Leslie Johns
Joint Appointment – Associate Professor of Political Science and Law
Leslie Johns holds a joint appointment at UCLA School of Law and in the UCLA Department of Political Science, where she is associate professor of political science. She joined the UCLA faculty in 2008, and she was a visiting associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance from 2012 to 2013. Professor Johns’ research and writing focuses on the intersection of international law and international relations. Her recent publications include Strengthening International Courts: The Hidden Costs of Legalization (University of Michigan Press, 2015), “Who Gets to Be In the Room? Manipulating Participation in WTO Disputes,” (with Krzysztof J. Pelc), 68 International Organization 663 (2014), and “Depth versus Rigidity in the Design of International Trade Agreements,” 26 Journal of Theoretical Politics 468 (2014). Her work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution and the Journal of Politics. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. degree from the Department of Politics at New York University, and M.S. and B.F.A. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.
Douglas NeJaime
Professor of Law; Faculty Director, The Williams Institute
Douglas NeJaime was a visiting professor of law at UCLA School of Law for the 2014-15 academic year. Before joining the UCLA Law faculty, he was professor of law at UC Irvine (UCI) School of Law, teaching in the areas of family law, law and sexuality, constitutional law and legal ethics. Previously, he was associate professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and the Sears law teaching fellow at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. 20 UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | FALL 2015
He is the co-author of Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law (with William Rubenstein, Carlos Ball and Jane Schacter) (5th ed. West 2014). His recent scholarship includes “Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics,” 124 Yale Law Journal 2516 (2015), with Reva Siegel; “Before Marriage: The Unexplored History of Nonmarital Recognition and Its Relationship to Marriage,” 102 California Law Review 87 (2014); “Constitutional Change, Courts, and Social Movements,” 113 Michigan Law Review 877 (2013); “Marriage Inequality: Same-Sex Relationships, Religious Exemptions, and the Production of Sexual Orientation Discrimination,” 100 California Law Review 1169 (2012); “Winning Through Losing,” 96 Iowa Law Review 941 (2011); and “Lawyering for Marriage Equality,” 57 UCLA Law Review 1235 (2010), with Scott Cummings. Professor NeJaime is a two-time recipient of the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best sexual orientation legal scholarship published in the previous year. He is also the 2014 recipient of UCI Law’s Professor of the Year Award and the 2011 recipient of Loyola Law School’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Professor NeJaime has provided commentary on issues relating to sexual orientation and same-sex marriage to numerous press outlets, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, NPR and NBC News. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brown University.
James Salzman
Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law
James Salzman joins the UCLA Law faculty from Duke University, where he held joint appointments as the Samuel Fox Mordecai professor of law at the law school and the Nicholas Institute professor of environmental policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment. At UCLA Law, he will have a formal affiliation with the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and a joint appointment as the inaugural Donald Bren professor of environmental law at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. In more than eight books and 80 articles and book chapters, his broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning drinking water, trade and environment conflicts, policy