The University of California,Irvine is a public land-grant research university in Irvine,California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system,UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees,and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students were enrolled at UCI as of Fall 2019. The university is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity" and had $523.7 million in research and development expenditures in 2021. UCI became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996.
The University of California,Irvine School of Law is the law school at the University of California,Irvine,a public research university in Irvine,California. Founded in 2007,it is the fifth and newest law school in the University of California system. At the time of its founding,it was the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years.
Victoria Frances Nourse is the Ralph V. Whitworth Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the executive director of its Center on Congressional Studies. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights as an appointee of President Joe Biden. She previously served as General Counsel to the Vice President under the Obama Administration. A nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit,her nomination was returned to the president on December 17,2011,after the Senate adjourned for more than 30 days.
Gregory Shaffer is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of International Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. From 2022-2024 he served as President of the American Society of International Law. He is known for his work on international law,with a specialization on international trade law,and law and globalization.
Joan Marie Biskupic is an American journalist,biographer,and lawyer who has covered the United States Supreme Court since 1989.
Asifa Bano Quraishi is an American educator and legal scholar. She is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,where she teaches courses in Islamic law and U.S. constitutional law. She has served as a law clerk in United States federal courts. Her recent publications address issues of Islamic constitutionalism,in the context of separation of legal authority as well as methodologies of textual interpretation. Quraishi has also written articles for news outlets like The Washington Post and Middle East Eye addressing myths and issues associated with Islam.
Constance Steinkuehler (Squire) is an American professor of Informatics at the University of California,Irvine. She previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before taking public service leave,from 2011-2012,to work as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House Executive Office,where she advised on policy matters about video games and digital media. After returning to academics,she and her partner Dr. Kurt Squire moved to University of California,Irvine where they continue to co-direct the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Center today.
Jennifer L. Mnookin is an American legal scholar and academic serving as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 2022. She previously served as dean of the UCLA School of Law,where she was David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law. While at UCLA Law,she co-founded and co-directed the Program on Understanding Law,Science and Evidence.
Cindi Duchow is an American retail manager,buyer and politician,currently serving in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Carolyn J. Heinrich is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy,Education and Economics at Vanderbilt University.
Dr. June E. Osborn has served as an expert advisor on numerous urgent medical and health issues that include infectious diseases and their vaccines,virology,and public health policy as well as publishing research on these subjects. Osborn currently works on public health policy with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,The World Health Organization,The National Institutes of Health,and The Food and Drug Administration.
Katherine Moore Porter is an American politician and lawyer who has been the U.S. representative from California's 47th congressional district since 2023,previously representing the 45th congressional district from 2019 to 2023. She was elected as part of a Democratic wave in Orange County flipping the 45th district,covering much of south-central Orange County,including Irvine,Tustin,and Lake Forest along with large portions of Anaheim and Laguna Niguel. In 2022,she was reelected in the 47th congressional district following redistricting. In 2023,Porter announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate,forgoing reelection to the House of Representatives. She was defeated after failing to advance from the nonpartisan primary won by Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow is an American lawyer and scholar of dispute resolution. In 2018,she was the recipient of the Outstanding Scholar Award by the American Bar Foundation. The University of Chicago Law Review listed Menkel-Meadow as one of the most cited scholars of Critical Race Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence.
Leah Song Richardson is an American lawyer,legal scholar,and higher education administrator who was formerly president of Colorado College. Before becoming president of Colorado College,she was dean and a chancellor's professor of law of the University of California,Irvine School of Law. After leaving her role as president of Colorado College,she returned to being a professor of law at the University of California,Irvine School of Law.
Robyn Leigh Tanguay is an American researcher,academic and educator. She is a distinguished professor in the department of environmental and molecular toxicology at Oregon State University. She is the director of Superfund Research Program,the director of Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research and the director of Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory at OSU.
Sora Park Tanjasiri is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of California,Irvine,and Associate Director for Cancer Health Disparities and Community Engagement at the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research focuses on community health in diverse populations,in particular Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans.
Sara Wallace Goodman is an American political scientist. She is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of California,Irvine.
Julia Reinhard Lupton is an American scholar of William Shakespeare and renaissance literature. She is a professor of English at the University of California,Irvine and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her scholarship.
Pamela Herd is an American sociologist. As a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy,Herd's research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health,aging,and policy.
Carla Marie Pugh is an American surgeon. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021 for "pioneering sensor technology research that helped to define,characterize and inspire new and innovative performance metrics and data analysis strategies for the emerging field of digital health care."
