Professor Araiza will join the faculty in January 2009 from Loyola Law School Los
Angeles, where he has taught since 1995. He currently serves as the Associate Dean for
Faculty and is the Rev. Richard A. Vachon, S.J. Fellow and Professor of Law. His teaching
and scholarly interests are in administrative, constitutional and international law and
he has widely published in these areas. After graduating from Yale Law School, Professor
Araiza clerked for the Honorable William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit, and then for the Honorable David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. He
practiced as an associate with two large law firms in Los Angeles, and he served as an
adjunct faculty member at the University of California Los Angeles Law School and as a
visiting professor at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He serves as a board
member of the Western Law Center for Disability Rights in Los Angeles, and is a member of
the Los Angeles County Bar’s Sexual Orientation Bias Committee.
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