Professor Patrick Murphy, College of Arts and Sciences
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Professor William Riggs, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Director, International Human Rights Clinic, and Academic Director, International Programs
Kendrick Hall 307
Expertise: Asylum law & policy,
Immigration law ,
International human rights,
Trauma and burnout
Lindsay M. Harris is a professor of law and director of the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Clinic. Before joining USF Law, Professor Harris served as Associate Dean of Clinical and Experiential Programs at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law where she directed the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic. Professor Harris was the recipient of the AILA 2020 Elmer Fried Excellence in Teaching Award. Professor Harris has visited as Acting Director of the…
Assistant Professor
Education 109
Belinda Hernandez Arriaga is a Faculty Coordinator for the Masters In Counseling MFT program at USF's South Bay location. Belinda has a doctorate in Education, and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eighteen years experience working in community mental health, with a specialization in child trauma and Latino Mental Health. Belinda has extensive experience in county mental health where she worked in Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall mental health and San Mateo County Pre to Three High Risk…
Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, Professor, Founding Director of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, and Dean's Circle Scholar
Kendrick Hall 308
Expertise: Asian American Legal History,
Immigration Law and Policy,
Migration Theory,
Public Interest Lawyering,
Race, Racism and U.S Law,
Racial Justice,
Affirmative Action and Diversity,
Rules of Evidence,
Modern Policing
Throughout his career, Professor Bill Ong Hing pursued social justice through a combination of community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented publications on immigration policy and race relations, including Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System (Beacon Press 2023), American Presidents, Deportation and Human Rights Violations (Cambridge Univ. Press 2019); Ethical Borders—NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican…
Adjunct Professor
Filip Kovacevic is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Politics and International Studies. As a Montenegrin author, social justice activist, and geopolitical analyst, Prof. Kovacevic has lectured and taught across Europe, the Balkans, the former USSR, and the U.S., including two years at Smolny College, the first liberal arts college in Russia, operating under the auspices of St. Petersburg State University. He received fellowships from the Open Society Institute and the National…
Visiting Professor
Kendrick Hall 305
Expertise: Criminal law and procedure,
Policing,
Evidence
Andrew Lah is a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He brings years of experience as a supervising criminal civil rights prosecutor, a federal public defender, and as private counsel litigating complex civil and criminal cases into the classroom.
An experienced trial attorney, he has been called on to train public defenders, prosecutors, law enforcement officials, and civil litigators on investigations and trial practice, including at multinational forums with…
Associate Professor
Kendrick Hall 311
Tiffany Li is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she teaches intellectual property and technology law courses. She is also a Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. Li is an expert on privacy, artificial intelligence, and technology platform governance. She regularly appears as a legal commentator in national and global news outlets, and she has written for popular publications including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and…
Associate Professor and Chair of the Justice for Animals Program
Kendrick 312
Expertise: Animal law,
Professional responsibility/Legal ethics,
Law & social movements
Professor Matthew Liebman joined the USF faculty in 2020 as the endowed Justice for Animals chair and as an associate professor of law. Before coming to USF, Matthew practiced law for 12 years with the Animal Legal Defense Fund, including three years as the organization’s director of litigation. At ALDF, Professor Liebman litigated a wide variety of animal protection issues, including cases to defend the First Amendment rights of activists and to establish fundamental legal rights for nonhuman…
Associate Dean of Faculty, Research, and Impact
Malloy Hall 305
Professor
Masonic Hall 216
Patrick Murphy is the Faculty Director for the Urban and Public Affairs program. Patrick is particularly interested in public budgets and tax policy, with an eye toward fairness and sustainability. As a policy researcher, he has led a number of different applied projects for organizations such as the RAND Corporation, the University of Washington, and the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). He currently serves as the Director of Resource Equity and Public Finance for The Opportunity…
Visiting Professor and Founding Director, Center for Law, Tech, and Social Good
Expertise: Blockchain/Web 3 law and regulation,
Ethics in technology,
Corporate law,
Legal ethics,
Implicit bias,
Judicial ethics,
Emerging technology law
Michele Benedetto Neitz joined the University of San Francisco School of Law in January 2022. She is the Founder and Academic Director of the Center for Law, Tech, and Social Good, formerly known as the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center, which was the first of its kind in the United States. She teaches Blockchain Technology and the Law, Business Associations, Legal Ethics, and other classes. Prior to joining USF Law, Professor Neitz was voted “Most Outstanding Professor” by the graduating…