Austen Parrish

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Austen Parrish (LinkedIn) is the Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Before joining the University of California, Irvine, he was the Dean and James H. Rudy Professor of Law at Indiana University Bloomington’s Maurer School of Law. He currently serves as the 2025 President of the Association of American Law Schools, is a long-standing member of the board of directors of AccessLex Institute, serves as co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, and is a member of the board of directors of the Public Law Center. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a fellow with the American Bar Foundation. His research interests focus on international law, transnational litigation, and the role that national courts and domestic institutions play in solving global challenges. He has particular expertise in legal and policy issues related to the extraterritorial application of domestic law (SSRN). Over his career, he has taught a variety of courses, including Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Transnational Law, International Environmental Law, and Public International Law. From 2003 to 2010, he directed an international and comparative law program in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, hosted by Southwestern Law School and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, in collaboration with the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, a United Nations affiliate. Prior to entering academia, Dean Parrish was an attorney with O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles.