Clinical Faculty

A legal education is not only the intellectual effort it takes to understand the law. It is also the heady experience of translating understanding into action. At Hastings, the action is in the experiential programs where you can put your substantive legal knowledge into practice.

The Clinical Faculty encompasses the following areas:

• Civil Justice Clinic
• Immigrants' Rights Clinic
• Refugee and Human Rights Clinic
• Simulation
• Outplacement and Externship
• Emeritus Faculty

Civil Justice Clinic Faculty

Mark N. Aaronson
Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.581.8924
Email: aaronson@uchastings.edu
BA, MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; JD, University of Chicago

Courses Taught:  Community Economic Development Clinic; Problem Solving & Professional Judgment 

Professor Aaronson served for 13 years as Executive Director of the San Francisco Lawyers' Committee, a civil rights and legal services organization providing free representation to poor and minority clientele using staff and volunteer attorneys. His publications include articles on legal professionalism, lawyering judgment, and welfare reform.

Miye Goishi
Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Justice Clinic
Telephone: 415.581.8915
Email: goishimi@uchastings.edu
BA, University of California, San Diego; JD, Thomas Jefferson School of Law


Courses Taught: Civil Justice Clinic: Individual Representation Clinic and Mediation Clinic; Asian-Americans and the Law Seminar; Roles & Ethics

Professor Goishi for more than a decade represented low-income clients, primarily on housing issues, as a staff and managing attorney with Contra Costa Legal Services. She also served as executive director of Marin Legal Aid and has been a frequent instructor in skills programs for legal services attorneys. Her scholarly work includes an article on the potential misuse by parents of their child's sexual orientation in mental health commitment proceedings.

Eumi Lee
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.581.8908
Email: leeeu@uchastings.edu
B.A. Pomona College, JD with honors Georgetown University Law Center

Courses Taught: Civil Justice Clinic: Individual Representation Clinic; Roles & Ethics; Seminar on Terrorism and the Law - Warrantless Wiretapping (SP 2006)

During law school, she was a founding member of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and served as a Law Clerk for the Office of Independent Counsel Carol Elder Bruce. After graduation from law school, Professor Lee served as a Law Clerk for both the Honorable Jerome Turner of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before arriving at Hastings, Professor Lee practiced in San Francisco at Keker & Van Nest and at Thelen, Reid & Priest. She specialized in criminal defense and commercial litigation. Throughout her career, she has engaged in extensive amounts of pro bono litigation involving civil rights and liberties, as well as gender and asylum issues.

Shauna Marshall
Professor of Law and Academic Dean
Telephone: 415.565.4682
Email: marshall@uchastings.edu
BA, Washington University, St. Louis; JD, University of California, Davis; JSM, Stanford

Courses Taught:  Public Interest Concentration Seminar 

Academic Dean Marshall was an attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and then with Equal Rights Advocates, where she worked in public education and organizing campaigns on behalf of low-income women and women of color, as well as on the landmark San Francisco Fire Department desegregation case. She has lectured in civil rights and community law practice at Stanford Law School and directed the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. Her writings focus on class action litigation and ethical issues when representing groups.

Ascanio Piomelli
Clinical Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.581.8925
Email: piomelli@uchastings.edu
BA, JD, Stanford

Courses Taught:  Civil Justice Clinic:  Group Advocacy & Systemic Reform Clinic and Individual Representation Clinic; Public Interest Concentration Seminar 

Professor Piomelli represented low-income workers and tenants for seven years in community law offices in Fresno and East Palo Alto, and served as executive director of the East Palo Alto Community Law Project. His scholarly writing focuses on the theory and practice of active collaboration between lawyers and clients.

Gail Silverstein
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.581.8920
Email: silverst@uchastings.edu
BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; JD, UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
 

Courses Taught: Civil Justice Clinic: Individual Representation Clinic and Mediation Clinic; Roles & Ethics

Prior to joining the Clinic in December 2005, Gail was a staff attorney/clinical supervisor in the HIV/AIDS Legal Unit of East Bay Community Law Center, a community-based clinic of UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Gail spent her first year of practice on a post- graduate public interest fellowship at the Hawkins Center in Richmond, California, helping individuals with disabilities. Gail's responsibilities at the Clinic include supervising the casework of students and co-teaching the classroom component of courses.

Mai Linh Spencer
Assistant Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.581.8921
Email: spencerm@uchastings.edu
BA, Amherst College; JD, New York University School of Law
 

Courses Taught: Civil Justice Clinic - Individual Representation Clinic

Mai Linh Spencer, originally from New York City, graduated from Amherst College, then spent several years in Seattle working as a victim’s advocate before attending law school at NYU.  As a trial attorney for five years with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, she prosecuted federal criminal civil rights violations, including police and prison brutality, racial violence, and involuntary servitude/trafficking.  Though she was based in Washington, DC, her cases provided a great opportunity to visit the country, including Phoenix, Honolulu, Anchorage, Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, and – her favorite –  Pikeville (KY).  After moving to the Bay Area, she was a Deputy State Public Defender for four years, representing capital and non-capital defendants on direct appeal.  She has completed a two-year fellowship with the Civil Justice Clinic and is thrilled to be joining Hastings and the CJC for an additional year.

Lara Bazelon
Clinical Teaching Fellow
Telephone: 415.581.8923
Email: bazelonl@uchastings.edu
BA, Columbia University; JD, New York University School of Law
 

Lara Bazelon is the CJC's Clinical Teaching Fellow. Before coming to Hastings, she worked for seven years as an attorney in the Federal Publilc Defenders Office in Los Angeles, where she tried a variety of felony cases and did some work on habeas and death penalty matters.

Outplacement and Externship Faculty

George Bisharat
Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.565.4721
Email: bisharat@uchastings.edu
BA, University of California, Berkeley; MA, Georgetown University; PhD, JD, Harvard

Courses Taught:  Criminal Practice Clinic 

Professor Bisharat served for four years as a San Francisco deputy public defender. A specialist in legal anthropology, he has consulted with the Palestinian Legislative Council on the structure of the Palestinian judiciary and reforms in criminal procedure. He also is concerned with problems of social identity, ethnicity, race, and racism, and their interrelations with law and the legal system in the United States and abroad.

Kate Bloch
Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.565.4867
Email: blochk@uchastings.edu
BA, MA, Washington University, St. Louis; JD, Stanford

Courses Taught:  Criminal Practice Clinic 

Professor Bloch clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, before joining the Santa Clara County Office of the District Attorney, where she was a deputy district attorney handling juvenile, high-technology, misdemeanor, and felony cases. Her scholarly articles include works in criminal law and clinical pedagogy.

Marsha Cohen
Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.565.4676
Email: cohenm@uchastings.edu
BA, Smith College; JD, Harvard
Professor Cohen clerked for Associate Justice Raymond L. Sullivan of the California Supreme Court. She served as an attorney for Consumers Union in Washington, D.C., practicing in the areas of federal food and drug law, product safety law, and public utilities law, and also has participated in numerous government and National Academy of Sciences panels and advisory committees, primarily involving issues of food and nutrition, drug approval, and medical devices. She is co-author of Pharmacy Law for California Pharmacists.

David Jung
Professor of Law and Director, Center for State and Local Government Law
Telephone: 415.565.4639
Email: jungd@uchastings.edu
BA, Harvard; JD, University of California, Berkeley

Courses Taught:  Local Government Clinic; Current State & Local Government Problems

Professor Jung is the co-author of Cases and Materials on Remedies' Public and Private. Through the Center for State and Local Government Law, which he directs, Hastings students conduct legal research in response to questions from state and local government agencies, such as the State Assembly and Senate, the Governor's office, and the State Judicial Council. Prior to coming to Hastings, he oversaw the Legal Writing and Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

Michael Salerno
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Externships and Pro Bono Programs
Telephone: 415.565.4663
Email: salernom@uchastings.edu

Courses Taught: Legislative Process, Statutory Interpretation and Bill Drafting, Advanced Legislative Process Seminar, and Issues in State and Local Government Law Seminar.

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Nancy Stuart
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Externships and Pro Bono Programs
Telephone: 415.565.4620
Email: stuartn@uchastings.edu

Courses Taught:  Judicial Externship; Legal Externship 

Prior to coming to Hastings, Nancy had varied experiences in public interest law from litigating Voting Rights cases with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area to representing individuals living with HIV in a wide array of civil legal issues. Nancy was a member of the Civil Justice Clinic Faculty from 2000 through 2005 and following a brief foray in South Lake Tahoe, where she developed and staffed a legal services program at the local women's center, has returned to Hastings as the Director of Externships and Pro Bono Programs.

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Immigrants' Rights Clinic Faculty

Richard Boswell
Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.565.4633
Email: boswellr@uchastings.edu
BA, Loyola Marymount University; JD, George Washington University

Courses Taught:  Immigrants' Rights Clinic

Professor Boswell is a frequent lecturer on immigration law and trial skills programs. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Clinical Law Review and has written numerous books and articles on immigration law and clinical legal education. He is the author of Immigration and Nationality Law: Cases and Materials and co-author of Refugee Law and Policy: Cases and Materials.

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Refugee and Human Rights Clinic Faculty

Karen Musalo
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
Telephone: 415.565.4720
Email: musalok@uchastings.edu
BA, Brooklyn College; JD, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley

Courses Taught: Refugee & Human Rights Clinic; Refugee Law

Karen Musalo is Resident Scholar at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she directs The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies and teaches refugee law and policy. Professor Musalo is an internationally recognized expert on refugee law. She has served as an expert consultant to the Commission on International Religious Freedom, has been a congressional witness on refugee issues, and has also served as an immigration and refugee law expert in legal proceedings in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. She is frequently quoted in the media, lectures throughout the country, is the author of numerous articles on refugee issues, and is co-author of Refugee Law and Policy.

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Simulation Faculty

 Grande Lum
 Clinical Professor, Director of Hastings Center for Negotiation
 and Dispute Resolution

 Telephone: 415.581.8940
 Email: lumg@uchastings.edu
 Phi Beta Kappa graduate in psychology from UC-Berkeley; JD, Harvard

Courses Taught: Negotiation & Settlement

Professor Lum was a founding member of ThoughtBridge, a mediation and consulting firm, before founding Accordence, where he was the Managing Director.  He has been a partner with the Conflict Management, Inc. consulting firm and a teaching fellow with the Harvard Negotiation Project.  Professor Lum has been an adjunct lecturer on dispute resolution courses at Stanford Law School as well as UC Berkeley School of Law.  He is a Board member of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center and a member of both the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Association for Dispute Resolution - Northern California.  He is an appointed member of the CA Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution.  Professor Lum developed an online learning module in negotiation; produced a video on multi-party negotiations; and published a number of articles on various topics such as negotiation, conflict resolution, and collaborative processes.  He has served as the negotiation expert for Monster.com on executive negotiatoin issues and writes for the Huffington Post.  He authored The Negotiation Fieldbook, recently published by McGraw-Hill.

Melissa Nelken
Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.565.4662
Email: nelkenm@uchastings.edu
BA, Brandeis University; MA, Harvard; JD, University of Michigan Research Psychoanalyst, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute

Courses Taught: Negotiation & Mediation

Professor Nelken previously practiced law in Michigan and San Francisco, specializing in litigation. She was Western Regional Director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has taught trial advocacy and negotiation in continuing legal education programs around the country. She is the co-author of Problems and Cases in Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation.

Roger Park
James Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation
Telephone: 415.565.4632
Email: parkr@uchastings.edu
BA, JD, Harvard

Courses Taught: Trial Objections 

Professor Park is the author or co-author of five books, including a leading evidence casebook, a book on trial objections, and a hornbook on evidence law. Many of his law review articles focus on hearsay and character evidence. He has written computer-aided lessons that are currently used at more than 100 law schools.

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Emeritus Faculty

Beatrice Moulton
Emeritus Professor of Law
Telephone: 415.565.4694
Email: moultonb@uchastings.edu


Professor Bea Moulton retired from Hastings following the Spring 2004 semester. Professor Moulton worked in the civil rights movement, the Peace Corps, and in various anti-poverty legal services programs. She is the co-author with the late Gary Bellow of The Lawyering Process: Materials for Clinical Instruction in Advocacy, initially published in 1978, for which she recently received the first John Bradway Award in recognition of the text's landmark, seminal status in the field of clinical education. She also developed the Roles and Ethics course, which is now taught by other Hastings faculty members.

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