Jo
Carrillo
Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Indigenous Law Center
- Office 332-200
- Email Address carrillo@uchastings.edu
- Telephone (415) 565-4866
Biography
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).
Expertise
Education
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Stanford Law School
J.S.D., Law
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University of New Mexico
J.D., Law
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Stanford University
B.A., Undergraduate Studies
Accomplishments
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Chip Robertson Scholarly Publications Fund Award 2010
Awarded by UC Hastings College of the Law.
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Outstanding Mentor Award to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Students 2010
Awarded by Stanford University.
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Roger J. Traynor Scholarly Publication Award 2010
Awarded for outstanding scholarly achievement by UC Hastings College of the Law.
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Mediator Certification 2010
Conferred by the Center for Mediation in Law.
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Outstanding Service & Achievement Award 2010
Awarded by UC Hastings 1066 Faculty Foundation.
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Hastings Research Chair 2015
Awarded by UC Hastings College of the Law.
Selected Scholarship
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Financial Interpersonal Violence: When Money and Transactions become Weapons 2017
Domestic Violence Report
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To Influence, Shape, and Globalize: Popular Legal Culture and Law 2011
LAW IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY: ESSAYS ON MAJOR THEMES IN THE WORK OF LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN
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The M Word: From Partial Coverture to Skills-Based Fiduciary Duties in Marriage 2010
Hastings Women's Law
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The Sound of Silence: The Continuing Debate Over Class Action Rescission Under TILA 2010
Hastings Business Law Journal
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Conversion as a Remedy for Interference with Home Equity 2010
Banking and Financial Services Policy Report: A Journal on Trends in Regulation and Supervision 28:9 (2010): 5-11.
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This Little Loan Went to Market: The Consumer-Lender-Investor Equation of Federal Truth in Lending 2009
Banking and Financial Services Policy Report: A Journal on Trends in Regulation and Supervision 28:8 (2009): 7-12.
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In Translation for the Latino Market Today: Acknowledging the Rights of Consumers in a Multilingual Housing Market 2008
Harvard Latino Law Review
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Dangerous Loans: Consumer Challenges to Adjustable Rate Mortgages 2008
Berkeley Business Law Journal
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Links and Choices: Popular Legal Culture in the Work of Lawrence M. Friedman 2007
Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal
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Surface and Depth: Some Methodological Problems with Bringing Native American Histories to Light. 1993
New York University Review of Law & Social Change 20:2