Jo
Carrillo

Jo Carrillo, J.D., J.S.D. , publishes and teaches on the topic of property and marital property systems, financial intimate partner violence, consumer protection issues, and legal humanities. Currently, her legal research centers on how specific statutes and constellations of statutes can encourage relational equality in intimate partnerships and friendships. She is also interested in mapping financial torts and crimes that are perpetrated in the family.

In the last decade, she has worked to better understand and advance the field of California community property law, the most complex marital property system in the U.S. if not the world. She edited the eleventh edition of a family property casebook that has been in use for the past 60 years. Her other publications in the field include student-oriented texts and academic articles on fundamental changes that marriage equality has initiated in law.

She is the Faculty Director of the Indigenous Law Center at UC Hastings and an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a member of the Modern Language Association and a former trustee of the Law and Society Association. She served on the Herbert Jacob Book Prize Selection Committee. She was on the Board of Authors for the Felix Cohen Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005).

She is a peer reviewer for different academic journals, having most recently served as a peer reviewer for the start-up Museum of Science Fiction (MOSF) Journal of Science Fiction. When it comes to science fiction, she particularly interested in how speculative fiction imagines and/or re-imagines the institution of property, identity (especially gender), and intimate partnerships.

While permanent academic appointment is at UC Hastings she has held various temporary appointments over the years, including Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School (1998-99), Lillian and Harry Hastings Research Chair at UC Hastings (2006-07), Visiting Scholar at The Center for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley (2006-07).