Professor of Law
B.A., Arizona State; J.D., Hawaii; LL.M., Harvard

Office Location: McDonough 516

Assistant: Dianne McDonald

Phone: 9402

Biography

Professor Matsuda was a professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law before joining the Law Center. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, she was professor of law for eight years at the University of Hawaii School of Law, teaching American Legal History, Torts, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, and Sex Discrimination. Professor Matsuda has also taught at Stanford Law School and the University of Hiroshima and served as a judicial training consultant in Micronesia and South Africa. She was an associate at the labor law firm of King & Nakamura in Honolulu and was law clerk to the Honorable Herbert Y.C. Choy of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Matsuda has written well-known articles on constitutional law and jurisprudential issues, including hate speech, affirmative action, and feminist theory. Her books include Called From Within (University of Hawaii Press); Words that Wound (Westview Press); and We Won't Go Back, Making a Case for Affirmative Action (co-authored, Houghton Mifflin). Professor Matsuda is currently serving on the court-appointed Texaco Task Force on Equality and Fairness as part of a record-setting anti-discrimination settlement. She serves on the national advisory boards of Ms. Magazine; the American Civil Liberties Union; and the National Asian Pacific Legal Consortium.