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UC Irvine Law Chancellor's Professorship Celebration
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Mario Barnes
Professor Mario Barnes, a nationally recognized scholar of the legal and social implications of race and gender — primarily in the areas of employment, education, criminal and military law — returned to UC Irvine Law in spring 2022 after serving as the Toni Rembe Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law from 2018 to 2021.
At UC Irvine, he has served in multiple senior administrative roles and helped launch the Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR). Before joining UC Irvine Law, he was a faculty member at the University of Miami School of Law and a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Law.
Prior to his academic career, Barnes spent 12 years on active duty in the U.S. Navy, including service as a prosecutor, defense counsel, special assistant U.S. attorney, and on the commission that investigated the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. He retired from the Navy in 2013 after 23 years of combined active and reserve service.
Courtney Cahill
Professor Courtney Cahill is a scholar of constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, sex equality, and LGBTQ equality. Her scholarship targets three substantive areas: reproductive rights (including alternative reproductive technologies); sex and LGBTQ discrimination; and the presence of emotions (particularly disgust) within the law. Cahill is the author of “Busted: Policing Women on Top,” forthcoming at Oxford University Press (2026). “Busted” cracks open a long-neglected subject: the policing of women’s and girls’ breasts. Digging into a vast network of topless bans and five decades of topless prosecutions, “Busted” unearths the law’s complicity in the very sexism law ought to uproot.
Cahill’s forthcoming book dovetails with her other scholarship, which has been published in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, and North Carolina Law Review, among other journals. Two of her articles have received the Dukeminier Award, given to the best works on gender and sexual orientation published that year.
Prior to her appointment at UC Irvine, Cahill was the Donald Hinkle Professor of Law at Florida State University, College of Law. She has been a visiting professor at Brown University (Political Science), the University of Michigan Law School, and Washington & Lee School of Law.
Cahill attended Yale Law School after graduating from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, specializing in late-medieval Italian literature. At Princeton, Cahill was a graduate fellow in the University Center for Human Values and a Fulbright fellow affiliated with the University of Florence in Florence, Italy. While at Yale, Cahill was the Chief Essays Editor for the Yale Law Journal, a Coker Fellow, and the recipient of the Colby Townsend Memorial Prize, awarded to a member of the second-year class for the best paper by a second-year student.