senior advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration Laurie L. Levenson, criminal law professor and media commentator Jessica Levinson, Professor, President, LA Ethics Commission Justin Levitt, Professor, former deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department, Civil Rights Division Yxta Maya Murray, legal scholar and novelist Cesare P.R. Romano, international law expert and human rights litigator Former faculty Richard L. Hasen, election law expert Terry J. Hatter Jr., Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Gerald Uelmen, part of the "dream team" assembled to defend O. J. Simpson Staff Former staff Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th President of Sri Lanka, who formerly worked at Loyola Law as a systems integrator and Unix Solaris administrator. Alumni Attorneys and activists Gloria Allred, J.D. 1974, lawyer, radio talk show host and media personality; named one of Loyola's "50 Inspirational Alumni" Johnnie Cochran, J.D. 1962, high-profile defense lawyer (deceased) Ricardo Cruz, former Chicano Civil Rights Movement lawyer Mark Geragos, J.D. 1982, high-profile defense lawyer, co-host of "reasonable doubt" podcast Irving A. Kanarek, aerospace engineer and defense attorney for Charles Manson Melanie E. Lomax, Civil Rights lawyer and former head of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism Edward L. Masry, plaintiff's lawyer portrayed in the movie Erin Brockovich Carmen Milano, was a Cleveland lawyer before being disbarred and becoming a member of the Mafia in the 1980s. Robert Shapiro, defense lawyer; name partner of Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro Edward Tabash, Board of Directors for the Center for Inquiry. Constitutional expert on Church State Issues. Michael Trope, sports agent and divorce trial lawyer co-founder of Trope and Decarolis in Los Angeles. Laura Wasser, attorney specializing in divorce and well-known for her celebrity clients. Judiciary Lynn "Buck" Compton, former California Court of Appeal Justice, former Los Angeles chief deputy prosecutor known for the prosecution of Sirhan Sirhan and member of the Band of Brothers Rick Distaso, judge and former prosecutor Otto Kaus, former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court R. Gary Klausner, federal judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Central District of California Kathryn Doi Todd, of the California Court of Appeal Manuel Real, federal judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Central District of California John F. Walter, federal judge sitting in the United