Ji Seon Song, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, has been named a Hellman Fellow for 2024-25 in support of her research proposal titled, “Crisis Policing.”
“I am very honored to be selected as a Hellman Fellow and grateful to the Hellman Family and the University for supporting my research on policing and mental health crisis response,” said Professor Song.
“We are pleased to see Professor Song included in the newest cohort of Hellman Fellows,” said UC Irvine School of Law Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law Austen Parrish. “The fellowship will provide valuable support to Professor Song’s vital research on policing practices and its effects on marginalized groups.”
Prof. Song is among 10 assistant professors at the University of California, Irvine who will receive Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by promising assistant professors. This year’s recipients join an elite group of 85 UCI Society of Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund was established at UC Irvine.
The program began in 1995 at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and has since expanded organically to all UC universities and four private institutions. In 2020, after 25 years of funding the fellowships, the Hellman family created an endowment to allow the awards to continue in perpetuity across the UC’s 10 campuses.
View UC Irvine’s announcement to learn more about the 2024-25 Hellman Fellows.
More about Assistant Professor Ji Seon Song
Professor Ji Seon Song’s teaching and research focuses on criminal law, criminal procedure, policing and punishment. Prof. Song’s scholarship examines the deployment of policing authority and corresponding effects on racial minority and other marginalized groups. Her research informs interventions that address race- and class-based disparities in policing practices.
Prof. Song’s scholarship draws on her years of practice experience. Previously, Prof. Song represented youth and adults as a Deputy Public Defender at the Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender and as an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center. She also worked as a senior policy advocate for the National Juvenile Defender Center.
As part of her ongoing research on the intersection of policing and healthcare, Prof. Song co-founded the Health Equity and Access for Law Enforcement Involved Patients, a national network of academics and practitioners from law, medicine and public health. She previously led the Working Group on Policing and Patient Rights with Georgetown University Law Center’s Health Justice Alliance. She regularly conducts trainings and provides consultation for medical providers and hospitals. Prof. Song is also a well-known advocate for local, regional, and national juvenile justice reform. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the Pacific Juvenile Defender. Prof. Song clerked for the late Honorable Deborah A. Batts of the Southern District of New York.
Prof. Song earned a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures with a minor in Music from Columbia College, Columbia University; a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law; and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Prof. Song joined UC Irvine School of Law from Stanford Law School, where she was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law.
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