This year’s Literary Orange author event on April 14th promises to be the most exciting ever! In addition to keynote speakers Lisa See and Paula McClain, the diverse program includes a number of UCI’s own legal scholars and alumni participating on a variety of fascinating author panels.

The panel will focus on writing about the law—both the short view, journalism, and the long view, history.

Esteemed Law Professors Christopher Tomlins and Henry Weinstein will serve on the Color of Justice panel, moderated by the School's Assistant Dean for Communications Rex Bossert.  The panel will focus on writing about the law—both the short view, journalism, and the long view, history. The challenge in both disciplines is similar: to make vivid and concrete through writing what is essentially an abstract intellectual concept; that is, to show how human lives are affected by the law.

Henry Weinstein
Christopher Tomlins

Professor Tomlins is widely regarded as one of the leading American legal historians in the United States, and one of the most highly regarded scholars working at the intersection of Law & Society, and Law & Humanities. He recently won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in history for his account of immigration in America, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865.  Professor Weinstein was for decades one of the leading legal journalist in the United States, writing primarily for The Los Angeles Times. He has written more than 3,000 stories and done reporting on the ground in 36 states. He has also written for the San Francisco Examiner, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among many other publications.  Bossert served as the Editor-in-Chief of The National Law Journal, and the Managing Editor of The New York Law Journal before coming to UCI.

David Hernandez
James Brown
Louis B. Jones

Adding to the exciting line up are UCI Creative Writing Program alumni Louis B. Jones and James Brown, along with David Hernandez of the Poetry program.  Jones will participate on the fiction panel, Discovering New Possibilities.  He is the author of Ordinary Money, Particles and Luck, and California’s Over, which were all named New York Times Notable Books, and the recently released novel Radiance. James Brown will serve on the Memoir panel, Life Goes On.  He is the author of several novels, and the memoirs, The Los Angeles Diaries, and more recently, This River, both of which deal with his dysfunctional family, addiction and recovery. He is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing.  David Hernandez will participate on the Poetry panel, A Visual Language.  He is the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry. His recent collection, Hoodwinked, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. 

Presented by the UCI Libraries and the OC Public Libraries, this year’s Literary Orange event will be held on Saturday, April 14 from 9 am—4 pm in the UCI Student Center.  The event offers attendees the opportunity to engage with an exciting array of authors, ask questions, purchase books and have them signed, and learn about the writing process.  For more information and to register, please visit www.literaryorange.org or call 949.824.4651.