Professor Thalia Gonz谩lez Joins UC Law SF Faculty
Thalia Gonz谩lez
Professor Thalia Gonz谩lez
Gonz谩lez joins Hastings after working at Georgetown University Law Center as a Senior Scholar in the Center on Poverty and Inequality and as the Madeline N. McKinnie Professor of聽Politics聽at Occidental College. She is an expert in restorative and transformative justice, including how restorative justice practices, applications, and theories operate within the law and public systems to remedy structural inequality and address individual and systemic harm.
At Hastings, Gonz谩lez will teach Criminal Law; Race, Racism and American law; and courses on restorative justice and health justice. 鈥淚t is truly a privilege to聽teach a new generation of leaders who will seek to promote justice not only in our聽local 鈥媗egal systems,聽but across through the country as well as internationally.鈥 She also has been a visiting scholar and professor at Denver University, UCLA, and UC Berkeley鈥檚 law schools.
Gonz谩lez talked about what drew her to Hastings, 鈥淚t has an incredible interdisciplinary faculty working across existing and emerging legal domains.鈥 She added, 鈥渁s an urban campus in San Francisco, students and faculty alike understand that they not simply studying pressing legal issues but engaging in action for the public good.鈥
As a researcher committed to collaborative partnerships, Gonz谩lez focuses on developing new empirical evidence of race and gender disparities grounded in the lived experience of impacted people and communities. She is a co-author of a study on the adultification of Black girls and is developing adultification bias training for judges and judicial staff, particularly for family and juvenile court judges. Gonz谩lez already has started planning a conference on restorative justice to be held in the spring of 2023, co-hosted with the National Center on Restorative Justice, and will partner with two Hastings journals 鈥 the Journal on Gender and the Law and the Race and Poverty Law Journal. She earned her JD from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and BA Arizona State University.