Yxta Maya Murray
Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8169
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: yxta.murray@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, cum laude, University of California Los Angeles
JD, with distinction, Stanford University
After law school, Yxta Murray clerked for the Honorable Harry Hupp in the Central District of California and then for the Honorable Ferdinand Fernandez of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena. She joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 1995.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Presenter, "Latinas: Who are We?," Second Annual Lat-Crit Conference in San Antonio, May 1997
Guest Commentator, "CNN & Company"
Presenter, "American Criminal Law," University of Trier in Germany
The Jade Queen (Rayco/HarperCollins, 2005)
"Tragicomedy," Howard Law Review
The Conquest (Harper Collins Publishers 2002)
What it Takes to Get to Vegas (Grove/Atlantic Press 1999)
"The Latino American Crisis of Citizenship," 31 UC Davis Law Review 503 (1998)
"Viva Lopez," 8 Buzz Magazine 69 (April 1997)
Locas (Grove/Atlantic Press May 1997)
Administration of Criminal Justice, Feminist Jurisprudence, Sexual Orientation and the Law, Sentencing