Professor Patricia Winograd was appointed to Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion. In this role, she has helped shape and define Loyola Law School's mission to deliver educational excellence with a deep concern for social justice, and to celebrate and uplift its diverse student body. Prof. Winograd led Loyola Law School's annual Diversity Week celebrations this past fall, which included the grand opening of the new Multicultural Center on campus.

Professor Robert Brain is a leading voice about the ABA's proposed changes to Standard 405, which would increase voting and governance rights to legal writing faculty. Prof. Brain spoke on the topic at the LWI One-Day Workshop on Improving Legal Writing Faculty Status, co-hosted by LWI’s Professional Status Committee: Advice & Support, and at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, UCI Law.

Last spring, Professor Geoffrey Kehlmann’s Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic students won a reversal in two immigration cases in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The clinic students represented a Mexican immigrant who fled violence due to his mental illness and an El Salvadoran woman and son who sought refuge from domestic violence. In both cases, Prof. Kehlmann’s students persuaded the court to reverse a decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals and remand for further proceedings.

Professor Susan Bakhshian is a member of the Portfolio Bar Exam working group, which has proposed a bar exam in California that would remove barriers and focus on testing skills and knowledge with an assessment of a portfolio of work and completion of supervised practice hours in lieu of the traditional exam. The proposal was recently approved by the State Bar Board of Trustees and will be sent to the California Supreme Court for consideration.

Professor Nadine Tan teaches Legal Research & Writing and advises students in the law school’s Academic Success Program. She began her career as a law clerk to the Hon. S. James Otero (Ret.) of the United States District Court for the Central District of California before practicing general and employment litigation at Parker, Milliken, Clark, O’Hara & Samuelian APC. Prof. Tan is president of the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association (SCCLA), the first Asian-Pacific American bar association in the country. 

Professor Kristen Burzynski teaches Legal Research and Writing. After graduating from UCI Law, Prof. Burzynski was a fellow at the New York Civil Liberties Union, where she focused on LGBTQ rights and other civil rights litigation. Subsequently, she was a Social Justice Fellow at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, practiced plaintiff-side employment litigation at Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho, and represented labor unions at Reich, Adell & Cvitan.