Biography
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George Cardona
Adjunct Faculty
B.S. Yale, 1982
J.D. Yale, 1986
UCLA Law faculty since 2000
cardona@law.ucla.edu |
George Cardona teaches Criminal Trial Advocacy. His research interests include the role of criminal juries and the mechanisms of criminal discovery.
Professor Cardona was notes and topics editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review. He then clerked for Dolores K. Sloviter of the Third Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as an associate in the Tax Work Group of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles; and from 1989 through 1991, he worked as a Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. For the next seven years he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, first in the Central District of California as, for a time, Deputy Chief of the Major Frauds section, then in 1998 in the Northern District of California as Chief of the Appeals Section, and later returning again to the Central District as Chief of the Criminal Division. For exceptional work, he received the Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service.
