William C. Hubbard Conference on Law and Education

George Triantis

Dean Elect and Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School at Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research, Stanford University

Honorable Diane P. Wood

Senior Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit at Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School

Honorable Goodwin Liu

Associate Justice at California Supreme Court

Goodwin Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Nominated by Governor Jerry Brown, Justice Liu was sworn into office in 2011 and retained by the electorate in 2014 and 2022. Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Liu was Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession.

Joseph Bankman

Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School

Mark C. Suchman

Research Professor and Executive Director at American Bar Foundation

Mark C. Suchman is a Research Professor and Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation. Before joining the ABF in 2023, Suchman was a Professor of Sociology at Brown University, where he led the Sociology Department’s Work, Organizations, and Economy faculty.

Matthew Clair

Assistant Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Law at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences

Meera E. Deo

The Honorable Vaino Spencer Chair | Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School

Meera E. Deo is a national expert on legal education, racial representation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is also Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE), which houses the largest repository of law student data and is based at Indiana University-Bloomington. Before joining Southwestern, she was a tenured Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. Professor Deo has also held previous visiting positions at Berkeley Law, UC Irvine School of Law, UCLA School of Law, UC Davis School of Law, and New College of Florida. She teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Law & Society, and Race & Law. Her research utilizes empirical methods to interrogate institutional diversity, affirmative action, and Critical Race Theory. Professor Deo’s scholarship has been widely published in law reviews and peer-review journals and cited in numerous amicus briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2020, she was elected to the American Law Institute.

Mickey Trockel

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine

Nora Freeman Engstrom

Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Co-Director, Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School

Norman W. Spaulding

Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law at Stanford Law School

A nationally recognized scholar in the areas of professional responsibility, civil procedure, and federal courts, Norman W. Spaulding’s research concentrates on the history of the American legal profession and theories of adjudication. In 2014, he received the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2010 he served as the Covington & Burling Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Paul Brest

Interim Dean and Professor of Law, Emeritus at Stanford Law School

Robert L. Nelson

Director Emeritus and the MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession, American Bar Foundation at Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University

Robert W. Gordon

Professor of Law, Emeritus at Stanford Law School

Ronit Dinovitzer

Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto at Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation

Ronit Dinovitzer is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where she co-directs the Research Group on Legal Diversity. She is also Affiliated Faculty in Harvard’s Center on the Legal Profession. She has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ronit recently delivered the Annual Lecture on the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law, focusing on issues of diversity and inequality in the legal profession. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto.

Shaun Ossei-Owusu

Presidential Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law

Shaun Ossei-Owusu is an interdisciplinary legal scholar with expertise in legal history, criminal law and procedure, civil rights, and the legal profession. His work sits at the intersection of law, history, and sociology and focuses on how governments meet their legal obligations to provide protections and benefits to poor people and racial minorities. He also works on stratification in legal education and the legal profession.

William C. Hubbard

Dean and Professor of Law at University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law

William C. Hubbard is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He served as president of the American Bar Association in 2014–2015. He previously served a two-year term as chair of the ABA’s House of Delegates. Hubbard is a past president of the American Bar Foundation and a past president of the American Bar Endowment.