The Jones Center collaborates with several faculty members whose research and teaching focus on law and race, gender, or social justice. Affiliate faculty members provide supervision on Social Justice Fellows’ third-year research projects and work collaboratively with the Jones Center on select programs, events, and projects.
Emily Houh
Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts, Co-founder, Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, UC College of Law
Professor Houh’s areas of interest are commercial law, contracts, and critical race. Current research includes anti-CRT legislation in Ohio and participatory action research methods in critical race/feminist praxis. Learn more about Professor Houh
Kristin Kalsem
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law, Co-founder, Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, UC College of Law
Professor Kalsem’s areas of interest are bankruptcy, commercial law, feminist legal theory, law and literature. Research includes developing and facilitating domestic violence trainings for judges and practitioners and participatory action research methods in critical race/feminist praxis. Learn more about Professor Kalsem
Kristie Bluett
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, Director, Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic, UC College of Law
Professor Bluett is the director of the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic. Research includes international human rights, women’s human rights, and refugees. Learn more about Professor Bluett
Ryan Thoreson
Assistant Professor of Law, UC College of Law
Professor Thoreson’s areas of interest are constitutional law, international law and human rights, torts, anti-discrimination law, comparative law, and law and sexuality. Research includes contemporary social movements, spanning constitutional law, criminal law, tort law, comparative and international law. Learn more about Professor Thoreson
Sarah Eads Adkins
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, Director, Legal Access Clinic, UC College of Law
Professor Adkins is the director of the Legal Access Clinic. Previously, she served as a public interest law attorney who specialized in providing legal services to low-income immigrants, and she also served as an Assistant Attorney General of Kentucky under Governor Andy Beshear. Learn more about Professor Adkins
Ahmed Lavalais
Assistant Professor of Law, UC College of Law
Professor Lavalais teaches in the areas of Race and the Law, Criminal Law, and Juvenile Law. Previously, he held a fellowship in the Policy Advocacy Clinic (PAC) at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and the role of policy director in the Civil Rights Division at the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office. Learn more about Professor Lavalais.