Christopher Hawthorne
Clinical Professor of Law & Assistant Director,
Academic Support Program
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8344
Fax: (213) 386-5312
E-mail: christopher.hawthorne@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, Columbia University
JD, magna cum laude, Loyola Law School, Order of the Coif
Christopher Hawthorne is a Clinical Professor, and Assistant Director of Loyola Law School's Academic Support Program. Previous to joining the Loyola faculty, Hawthorne was a solo practitioner specializing in appellate criminal defense. Immediately after law school, he was an associate with O'Melveny & Myers, practicing in their Litigation Department's White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group. Prior to his legal career, he wrote and produced motion pictures, for which he won the Writer's Guild of America Award for Best Children's Script, the Prix de Critiques at the Festival Avoriaz and the Silver Cairo at the Cairo Film Festival. One of his films was also nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Family Script. Hawthorne graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Law School, where he was a Sayre Macneil Fellow and a Note & Comment Editor on the Loyola Law Review.
"Bringing Baghdad into the Courtroom: Should Combat Trauma in Veterans Be part of the Criminal Justice Equation?" 24:2 Criminal Justice 5 (ABA Publications Summer 2009)
Legal Writing, Legal Research, Ethical Lawyering, Summer Institute