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Ezra Ross 

Lecturer in Law
B.A. UC Berkeley, 1996
J.D. Harvard, 2000
UCLA Law faculty since 2007
ross@law.ucla.edu

Ezra Ross teaches Lawyering Skills and assists in supervising UCLA's Trial Advocacy Clinic. 
 
After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School, Professor Ross clerked for U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz.  He then joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges where he practiced commercial litigation and was four times named a Super Lawyer-Rising Star by Los Angeles magazine.
 
Professor Ross researches and writes about under-recognized regulatory breakdowns.  His recent article, The Collection Gap: Underenforcement of Corporate and White-Collar Fines and Penalties, 29 Yale Law & Policy Review 454 (2011) (with M. Pritikin), analyzes administrative agencies' massive failure to substantially collect the financial penalties they impose on corporate violators. 
 
Professor Ross also volunteers at various charities, including the Posse Foundation, where he was a writing coach for inner-city high school students.