Mario Barnes joins from the University of Miami School of Law. He teaches criminal law, constitutional law, national security law, and race and the law.
Alejandro Camacho, from the University of Notre Dame Law School, teaches environmental law.
Jennifer Chacon joins from the UC Davis School of Law, where she covered criminal procedure and immigration law.
Stephen Lee, previously of Stanford Law, is an expert in administrative law and immigration law.
Christopher Leslie teaches antitrust law and intellectual property; he comes to UCI from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Copyright law professor R. Anthony Reese joins from the University of Texas School of Law.
And Christopher Tomlins teaches American legal history.
When its first class enters in Fall 2009, The University of California, Irvine School of Law will be the fifth law school in the UC system, and the first public law school to open in California in 40 years.