LMU Loyola Law School has expanded its scholarly and clinical faculty ranks for the 2025-26 academic year with professors who are joining the school from other institutions and continuing faculty with new appointments. Working on cutting-edge issues in areas of law and technology, contract theory, family law, constitutional law, housing law, and more, they bring to Loyola their wide-ranging experiences in research and scholarship, as well as in litigation and transactional practice across industries. We are proud to introduce this new cohort of dedicated teachers and scholars.
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Professor Albertina Antognini comes to LMU Loyola Law School from the University of Arizona, where she received the College of Law’s Distinguished Early Career Scholar Award. Antognini specializes in laws that regulate intimate relationships, with her research and teaching spanning family law, property, trusts and estates, contracts, and constitutional law, among others.
Antognini is a prolific and impactful scholar, with publications recently in the UC Irvine Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Stanford Law Review. She was awarded a Fulbright scholar award in 2023 to conduct research on nonmarital couples in Stockholm, and she also contributed to the Uniform Law Commission’s drafting of the Uniform Cohabitants’ Economic Remedies Act. Her forthcoming scholarship includes Abolishing the Family, a co-authored project aimed at considering what an abolitionist family law might entail by engaging with the literature on family abolition, which has up until now mostly appeared outside of law.
Antognini is also a leader and mentor, serving as a co-founder and co-organizer of the Roundtable on Nonmarriage and the Law, a former co-chair of the Family Law Scholars and Teachers conference, and a regular contributing editor to JOTWELL’s Family Law section.
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Professor Andrew Keane Woods also joins LMU Loyola Law School from the University of Arizona, where he was the Milton O. Riepe Professor of Law. His research focuses on questions of regulation for the digital world, including areas of foreign affairs law and contract theory. His recent co-authored article, From Gods to Google, in the Yale Law Journal, exposes the role the Supreme Court’s solicitude for religious speakers plays in the current digital-free-expression landscape. Additional recent publications appear in the Stanford Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others.
Woods’ scholarly expertise is widely recognized. He has testified before government bodies in the U.S., Canada, India, and the U.K., and his scholarly work has been cited in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and NPR. He is also a contributing editor at Lawfare, and his short-form pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, and Slate.
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Professor Ángel Díaz joins LMU Loyola Law School from USC Gould School of Law, where he was a visiting associate professor. Before joining the academy, Díaz worked as counsel to the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice and practiced corporate law in New York City. In his scholarly work, Díaz examines how private law interacts with public regulation to shape access to public space and privatize inequality, with articles published or forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review and the Boston University Law Review.
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A longstanding member of the clinical faculty at LMU Loyola Law School, Professor Rebecca Delfino joins the research faculty with a rich scholarly agenda in the area of legal system response to emergent threats, including the opioid epidemic, synthetic media and deepfake technologies, and mass migration. Her recent scholarly work on courts and deepfakes appears in the Seton Hall Law Review (2025) and the Ohio State Law Journal (2024), and her proposal for revision of federal evidence rules to meet the challenges of deepfakes was presented for consideration to the Federal Judiciary Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence during its May 2025 meeting. From 2022-25, Delfino served as Associate Dean for Clinical Programs and Experiential Learning, where she oversaw the law school’s 20-plus live-client clinics, array of legal skills courses, and extensive experiential learning programs.
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| CLINICAL FACULTY & DIRECTORS
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Professor Yaphett K. Powell joins LMU Loyola Law School as a clinical faculty member and director of the Entertainment and Media Law Institute. Teaching in the Institute’s core Entertainment Law Practicum, Powell brings a strategic vision to expand the already robust Institute into a globally focused academic and industry hub encompassing entertainment, media, and sports, including emerging areas and technologies such as social media and AI, metaverse, gaming, and AR/VR. He has global and local connections and experience, including leadership positions at The Walt Disney Company and Fox Networks Group, among others.
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|  Professor John Henry is the new director of Trial Advocacy Programs and an associate clinical professor of law. Henry began coaching the school’s Byrne Trial Advocacy Team in 1999. As a coach, he has led LLS teams to win several national titles, including the William W. Daniel National Invitational Mock Trial Competition, Loyola’s National Civil Trial Competition, St. Mary’s Lone Star Classic competition, and the regionals of the American Association of Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition five times. Henry most recently served as the chief deputy district attorney of the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, overseeing the Major Crimes Division. | |  Professor H. Marissa Montes, director and co-founder of the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic (LIJC), is now an associate clinical professor of law. Montes founded the LIJC, the first community-based immigration clinic housed at a law school, as a student and built into a clinic as a Loyola Public Interest Law Fellow. She recently spearheaded the launch of the LIJC’s Binational Migrant Advocacy Project, the first-ever binational immigration clinic based at a U.S. law school. She serves on the California Department of Justice Calgang Database Technical Advisory Committee and was appointed by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve on the inaugural Los Angeles Commission on Civil and Human Rights. | |
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|  Professor Jonathan Bremen comes to the LMU Loyola Law school clinical faculty after years of legal practice and a career as a tenured music professor and department chair of the Arts and Humanities at Los Angeles Southwest College. He has represented indigent criminal defendants in their appeals at the California Appellate Project, and he also served as a staff attorney at the California Supreme Court and as an impact litigation staff attorney at the Public Law Center. In recent scholarly work, forthcoming in the Chapman Law Review, Bremen undertakes an empirical investigation into enforcement of California’s Housing Element Law. | |  Professor Anna Morkos joins the LMU Loyola Law School clinical faculty, teaching Legal Research & Writing and Contract Drafting. A civil litigator turned corporate counsel, Morkos worked at the firms Davis, Rothwell, Earle and Xóchihua, PC and Markowitz Herbold, PC, before transitioning to an in-house role at a multi-national cosmetics company, Jafra Cosmetics International, Inc. Prior to law school, Morkos was a Fulbright grantee in Colombia, where she taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga. | |
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|  Professor Grace Parrish is an associate clinical professor of law and is also the incoming director of the Field Placement Program. Before leaving private practice, Parrish worked at a civil defense firm and prosecuted special education matters on behalf of students and families. Since 2012, Parrish has taught in the areas of electronic discovery and litigation skills as well as professional responsibility. She is a member and past president of the Loyola Law School Alumni Board of Governors. | |  Professor Vivian Wong was appointed the director of the Youth Justice Education Clinic at the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy after serving as its interim director and supervising attorney. She also serves as a visiting associate clinical professor of law. Previously a Skadden Fellow at the Learning Rights Law Center, Wong had the chance to develop a program to provide intensive, trauma-informed special education legal services for system-involved youth, with an emphasis on increasing mental health access. Additionally, Wong is the recipient of a prestigious Stanford Public Interest Network Fellowship. | |
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|  Professor Marisa Harris, now a visiting associate clinical professor of law, takes on the role of director of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction Justice Project. As a post-graduate fellow with the law school’s Juvenile Innocence & Fair Sentencing (JIFS) Clinic, Harris made a vital impact, training and mentoring law students in the representation of youth impacted by functional life sentences. Under Harris’ supervision, the clinic helped secure the release of more than 75 individuals from prison. Harris has also been a co-leader of the Independent Forensic Gang Expert College and previously served the law school as a supervising attorney and adjunct professor. | |  Professor Vince Farhat joins the LMU Loyola Law faculty as a visiting associate clinical professor of law. Previously an adjunct professor at LLS, he has had a distinguished career in private practice and public service. He was most recently the chair of the White Collar Defense Investigations Group at Jeffer Mangels Butler Mitchell LLP, and he also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, spending time in the Major Frauds and Civil Divisions. | |
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