Stephen Sugarman
Stephen D. Sugarman is the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he has taught since 1972. He was the associate dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law from 1980 to 1982, and then again from 2004 to 2009. At UC Berkeley, he teaches multiple classes in the social justice curriculum, including classes torts and sports law. He has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, at University College, London, and at Columbia University, among other institutions.Work
With his colleague John Coons, Sugarman was an influential architect of the school voucher movement in the United States, and their research was cited by the Heritage Foundation to argue for such programs in 1981. Coons and Sugarman also argued the case Serrano v. Priest before the California Supreme Court in 1976.
