William D. Araiza
Rev. Richard A Vachon, S.J. Fellow and Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8167
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: bill.araiza@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, summa cum laude, Columbia University, Phi Beta
Kappa
MS, Georgetown University
JD, Yale University
After graduating from law school, William Araiza clerked for the Honorable William Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then for the Honorable David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. He was an associate with two large law firms in Los Angeles, an adjunct faculty member at the University of California Los Angeles Law School and a visiting professor at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Araiza has contributed to several texts on administrative and international law and is the co-editor of a casebook on constitutional law. He has been a member of the Loyola Law School faculty since 1995.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Board Member, Western Law Center for Disability Rights, Los Angeles, 2000-present
Chair, Law School Self-Study Committee, Fall 1999-present
Member, Sexual Orientation Bias Committee, Los Angeles County Bar, 1996-present
Participant, Loyola Law School Symposium on Federalism, March, 1999
Moderator, Panel Presentation on Proposition 209, California Bar Association Annual State Convention, Long Beach, CA, October 1996
"Irrationality and Animus in Class-Of-One Equal Protection Cases," 34 Ecology L.Q. 493 (2007) (solicited article for symposium)
"Limits on Agency Discretion to Choose Between Rulemaking and Adjudication: Reconsidering Patel v. INS and Ford Motor Co. v. FTC," 58 Admin. L. Rev. 899 (2006) (symposium)
First Amendment Law: Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion (LexisNexis 2006 (with Arthur Hellman and Thomas Baker)
Constitutional Law: Cases, History and Dialogues, 3rd ed. (LexisNexis 2006) (with Phoebe Haddon and Dorothy Roberts)
"Foreign and International Law in Constitutional Gay Rights Litigation: What Claims, What Use and Whose Law?," 32 Wm. Mitchel L. Rev. 455 (2006) (solicited article for symposium)
Administrative Law Black Letter (West 2006)
"The Section 5 Power and the Rational Basis Standard of Equal Protection," 79 Tulane L. Rev. 519 (2005) (recipient, John Minor Wisdom award for best article of the year in the Tulane L. Rev.)
"The Section Five Power After Tennessee v. Lane," 32 Pepperdine L. Rev. 39 (2004) (solicited article)
"In Praise of A Skeletal APA: Judicial Discretion, Remedies for Agency Inaction and APA Amendment," 56 Administrative Law Review 979 (2004) (symposium)
Amicus Brief in Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 34 Entvt'l Law Reporter 10443 (2004)
"Court, Congress and Equal Protection: What Brown Teaches Us About The Section 5 Power," 47 Howard Law Review 199 (2004) (solicited article for symposium: Brown @ 50)
"Captive Audiences, Children and the Internet," 41 Brandeis Law Review 397 (2003) (symposium)
"Judicial and Legislative Checks on Ex Parte OMB Influence Over Administrative Rulemaking," 54 Administrative Law Review 611 (2002) (symposium)
"ENDA Before It Starts: Could Gay or Lesbian State Employees Sue Their Employers for Damages, Under the Proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act, In Light of the Court's Recent § 5 Jurisprudence?," 22 Boston College Third World Law Journal 1 (2002)
The First Amendment: Cases, History and Dialogues, Anderson Publishing Co. (2002) (with Donald Lively, Phoebe Haddon, Dorothy Roberts and John Knechtle)
"Agency Adjudication, The Importance of Facts and the Limitations of Labels," 57 Washington & Lee Law Review 351 (2000)
"Alden and the Web of Environmental Law," 33 Loyola of L.A. Law Rev. 1513 (2000)
Constitutional Law: Cases, History and Dialogues, Anderson Publishing Co. (2nd ed. 1999) (ed., with Donald Lively, Phoebe Haddon, Dorothy Roberts and Russell Weaver)
"The Trouble With Robertson: Equal Protection, the Separation of Powers and the Line Between Statutory Amendment and Statutory Interpretation," 48 Catholic U. L. Rev. 1055 (1999)
"Democracy, Distrust and the Public Trust: Process-Based Constitutional Theory, the Public Trust Doctrine and the Search for a Substantive Environmental Value," 45 UCLA Law Rev., December (1997)
"Text, Purpose and Facts: The Relationship Between CERCLA Sections 107 and 113," 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 193 (1996)
"Notice-and-Comment Rights for Administrative Decisions Affecting International Trade: Heightened Need, No Response," 99 Yale L.J. 669 (1989)
"United States of America" chapter in International Law of Export Control (K. Meessen ed. 1992) (co-authored with Professor Michael Reisman, Yale Law School)
Administrative Law, Constitutional Law