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Lara Stemple
Director of Graduate Studies
B.A. Mills College, 1994
J.D. Harvard 1999
stemple@law.ucla.edu |
Lara Stemple is the Director of Graduate Studies at UCLA School of Law, where she oversees the law school’s LL.M. and S.J.D. degree programs. Stemple teaches a seminar called Human Rights and Sexual Politics, as well as a course on American law for foreign law students.
Stemple’s research and advocacy interests focus on human rights, sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, and prisons. Outside of the law school, Stemple has taught UCLA courses on human trafficking and on health and human rights. In 2004 Stemple served as a Rockefeller Post Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Program on Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights. In 1998 she was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University.
Before joining UCLA, Stemple was the Executive Director of the human rights organization Stop Prisoner Rape, and she currently serves on the organization’s Board of Directors. She also served as the Senior Advocacy Officer at the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health, where she directed the California Microbicides Initiative. Before that, Stemple worked for the domestic and international programs at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York.
Stemple has drafted legislation, lobbied members of Congress and United Nations delegates, testified before legislative bodies, authored human rights reports, published op-eds, and appeared on national radio and television programs.
