LMU Loyola Law School has expanded its faculty ranks for the 2025-26 academic year with professors who are joining the school from other institutions and continuing faculty with new appointments. Their combined expertise includes novel perspectives on the law surrounding the family unit, immigration, cybersecurity, racial justice, and much more.
NEW FACULTY
Albertina Antognini joins Loyola as professor of law and William M. Rains Fellow from the University of Arizona College of Law, where she was co-director of the Family and Juvenile Law Certificate Program. She will teach “Property,” “Family Law,” and “Trusts & Estates,” and a seminar on the regulation of the modern family. Her innovative scholarship has appeared in numerous flagship journals, including most recently the Stanford Law Review and the Washington University Law Review. She is a winner of a Fulbright Scholar Award for research in Stockholm, Sweden. She reaches a wide audience as a contributor to Jotwell, a popular legal scholarship blog, and drives scholarly and teaching collaboration as co-founder of the Nonmarriage Roundtable conference and Family Law Scholars’ Teaching conference.
Jonathan Bremen ’19 returns to Loyola as an associate clinical professor of law teaching “Legal Research and Writing.” He previously served as a visiting associate clinical professor of law. He has also represented indigent criminal defendants in their appeals at the California Appellate Project. He served as a staff attorney at the California Supreme Court and as an impact litigation staff attorney at the Public Law Center. For the latter, he conducted large-scale litigation and public policy advocacy on behalf of low-income Orange County residents. He was previously a tenured music professor and department chair of Arts and Humanities at Los Angeles Southwest College.
Ángel Díaz joins Loyola as an associate professor of law. He will teach “Contracts,” “Information Privacy Law,” and “Race, Technology & the Law.” He writes and teaches in the areas of critical race theory and private law, along with law and technology. His forthcoming “The Public Harms of Private Surveillance” will appear in the UCLA Law Review; his other recent scholarship includes “Online Racialization and the Myth of Colorblind Content Policy” in the Boston University Law Review. Before joining Loyola, Díaz worked as counsel to the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice and was a visiting associate professor at USC Gould School of Law.
Vince Farhat ’96 is now a visiting associate clinical professor of law at Loyola, where his courses include “Legal Research and Writing,” “White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice,” and “Ethical Lawyering.” Previously an adjunct professor at LLS, he has had a distinguished career in private practice and public service. He was most recently the chair of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Group at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP. Previously, he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, spending time in the Major Frauds and Civil Divisions.
John Henry ’99 is the law school’s new director of Trial Advocacy Programs and associate clinical professor of law. Henry began coaching the school’s Byrne Trial Advocacy Team in 1999. As a coach, he has won several national titles, including the William W. Daniel National Invitational Mock Trial Competition, Loyola’s National Civil Trial Competition, St. Mary’s Lone Star Classic competition, and the regionals of the American Association of Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition five times. Henry most recently served as the chief deputy district attorney of the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, overseeing the Major Crimes Division.
Andrew Keane Woods joins as a professor of law and a William M. Rains Fellow, teaching “Contracts,” “Law & Technology”, and “Cybersecurity.” Previously, he served as director of the TechLaw Program at the University of Arizona College of Law. Recent examples of his scholarship include “Public Law, Private Platforms” in the Minnesota Law Review, “Against Data Exceptionalism” in Stanford Law Review, and “From Gods to Google” (co-authored) in Yale the Law Journal.
Anna Morkos is an associate clinical professor of law teaching “Legal Research & Writing” and “Contract Drafting.” She previously served as a visiting associate clinical professor of law. Morkos is a civil litigator turned corporate counsel who has served on the General Counsel Committee of the Direct Selling Association and the Attorney Well-Being Committee of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Southern California Chapter. In addition, she was previously a Fulbright grantee in Colombia, where she taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga.
Yaphett Powell’s vision for the Entertainment & Media Law Institute that he serves as director: to provide strategic leadership and expand it into a globally focused academic and industry hub encompassing entertainment, media, and sports. Joining Loyola as associate clinical professor of law, his other goals for the institute include being a bigger leader in emerging areas, such as social media and influencers, and emerging technologies, such as AI, metaverse, gaming, and AR/VR. Previously holding leadership positions at The Walt Disney Company, Fox Networks Group and other global companies, Powell teaches the school’s Entertainment Law Practicum.
FACULTY TRANSITIONS:
Rebecca Delfino joins Loyola’s tenure-line research faculty as an associate professor of law after serving in impactful academic and administrative leadership roles for the law school. Her research focuses on the intersection of law, current events, and systemic disruptions. A prolific scholar on deepfakes, courts, and judges, her articles have appeared in myriad law reviews, including the Yale Law & Policy Review, Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and Seton Hall Law Review. In her prior role as associate dean for Clinical Programs and Experiential Learning, she oversaw 20-plus live-client clinics. She worked closely with the LLS and LMU administrations on areas such as curricular design and strategic budgetary planning.
While Marisa Harris ’17 takes on the role of director of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction Justice Project and visiting associate clinical professor of law, she has long made an impact on the law school. As a post-graduate fellow with the law school’s Juvenile Innocence & Fair Sentencing (JIFS) Clinic, Harris made a vital impact through training and mentoring law students in the representation of youth impacted by functional life sentences. Under Harris’ supervision, the clinic helped secure the release of more than 75 individuals from prison. Harris’ impact further extended through her co-leadership of the Independent Forensic Gang Expert College. Harris previously served the law school as a supervising attorney and adjunct professor.
H. Marissa Montes ’12, director and co-founder of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic (LIJC), is now an associate clinical professor of law. Montes founded the LIJC, the first community-based immigration clinic housed at a law school, as a student and built it into a clinic as a Loyola Public Interest Law Fellow. She spearheaded the launch of the LIJC’s Binational Migrant Advocacy Project, the first-ever binational immigration clinic based at a U.S. law school, which is debuting an office in Mexico this academic year. She serves on the California Department of Justice Calgang Database Technical Advisory Committee and was appointed by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve on the inaugural Los Angeles Commission on Civil and Human Rights.
Grace Parrish ’06 is an associate clinical professor of law and director of the Field Placement Program. Before leaving private practice, Parrish worked at a civil defense firm and prosecuted special education matters on behalf of students and families. Since 2012, Parrish has taught “Electronic Discovery.” She also teaches “Ethical Lawyering” and a simulated litigation course which provides a survey of the litigation skills necessary to prosecute and defend a case from the pleading stage, through discovery and motions, up to but not including trial. She is a member and past president of the Loyola Law School Alumni Board of Governors.
Vivian Wong was appointed the director of the Youth Justice Education Clinic at the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy after serving as its interim director and supervising attorney. She also serves as a visiting associate clinical professor of law. Previously a Skadden Fellow at the Learning Rights Law Center, Wong had the chance to develop a program to provide intensive, trauma-informed special education legal services for system-involved youth, with an emphasis on increasing mental health access. Additionally, Wong is the recipient of a prestigious Stanford Public Interest Network Fellowship.
AFFILIATE FACULTY
Fernando Saldivar Jr., S.J. joins Loyola as an affiliate faculty member. Father Saldivar will co-teach with Professor Cesare P.R. Romano in the Loyola Center for Human Rights and will provide thought leadership in student programming and grounding Loyola Law School’s core mission and values in Jesuit principles of engagement in the world, promotion of social justice, and advancing dialogue across difference. He is a licensed California attorney and worked in litigation for seven years before entering the Society of Jesus in 2016. As a Jesuit, he earned a master’s degree in social philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and completed his theology studies at Facultés Loyola Paris and the Université de Strasbourg. During his regency, Father Saldivar was missioned to Nairobi, Kenya, where he spent two years as the global policy and advocacy officer for the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA).