LMU Loyola Law School has added eight accomplished new members to its scholarly and clinical faculty ranks, including a new associate dean for research.
They come from around the country, from the University of Washington and University of Florida to USC and the University of San Francisco, and with a diversity of experiences, from indigent defense networks and civil liberties organizations to Big Law and judicial clerkships. They work on cutting-edge issues of employment discrimination law, administrative law, challenges facing women and racial and ethnic minority business founders, and more.
Collectively, they contribute to Loyola’s West Coast hub of innovative legal scholarship, thoughtful teaching, and wide-ranging policy influence.
Associate Dean for Research and Professor Tristin Green comes to Loyola from the University of San Francisco Law School, where she served as both Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Green specializes in laws affecting inequality in institutions, especially employment discrimination law.
As Associate Dean for Research, Green brings her enthusiasm for cross-boundary thinking and collaboration. “The wide-ranging scholarly impact of the Loyola faculty was a huge draw for me,” she says, “and I am lucky enough to step into Loyola with an official excuse to dig deeply into my colleagues’ work!”
Stephanie Bornstein, professor of law and William M. Rains Fellow, joins the Loyola faculty from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she was the Irving Cypen Professor of Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of employment and labor law, antidiscrimination law, administrative law, and civil procedure.
Bornstein is co-author of a leading casebook, Sullivan, Bornstein & Zimmer’s Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination Law (Aspen), and a recent recipient of the Michael J. Zimmer Memorial Award, which honors a scholar who has made significant contributions to the field of labor and employment law scholarship.
Professor Jennifer Fan will join Loyola in January 2024 as the inaugural Therese Maynard Chair in Business Law, with an affiliate appointment at the LMU College of Business Administration. Professor Fan comes to Loyola from the University of Washington School of Law, where she was the D. Wayne and Anne Gittinger Professor of Law and served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic.
Fan writes in the areas of corporate law and governance, securities regulation, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. Her scholarship focuses on the myriad issues facing start-ups, with a particular emphasis on the challenges facing women and racial and ethnic minority founders. While running the Entrepreneurial Clinic at the University of Washington, Fan received a multi-year grant from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to start the Washington Pro Bono Patent Network, which pairs low-income inventors with pro bono patent attorneys.
Two new faculty will focus on providing academic and lawyering skills support to students. Nadine Shu Rong Tan joins Loyola as a professor of legal research and writing, and former adjunct professor Sonia Yagura joins Loyola as an associate clinical professor of law; both will also serve as advisors to the school’s Academic Success Program.
Loyola also welcomes new clinical faculty directors to lead its clinics and institutes. Roshell Amezcua ’14 returns to Loyola as the newest director and associate professor of its Juvenile Justice Clinic (JJC), the component of the school’s Center for Juvenile Law & Policy in which students represent juvenile clients facing criminal charges in Los Angeles County courts.
Joseph A. Trigilio, a longtime adjunct professor at Loyola, has joined the Loyola Project for the Innocent (LPI) as its Judy and Steve Page Executive Director. Trigilio comes to LPI from the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California, where he represented capital and non‐capital inmates in their federal habeas corpus and ancillary proceedings, including state post-conviction litigation.
Stephen Kong, director of the Transactional Lawyering Institute, joins Loyola from extensive practice in the corporate sector, most recently as a partner in the corporate group at Winston and Strawn in their Los Angeles office, where he specialized in intellectual property and technology transactions. Kong brings to Loyola his deep experience advising both buyers and sellers in technology mergers and acquisitions.
