Biography
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, and writes and practices in a variety of fields. She teaches Criminal Law, Property Law, Law and Literature, and Women and the Law.
Professor Murray writes about Community Constitutionalism, Criminal Law, Property Law, Gender Justice, and Law and Literature. She also writes about the relationship between law and visual, conceptual, and performance art. She has published law review articles in the California Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law, The Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, the N.Y.U Journal of Law & Social Change, and Law and Literature.
Murray’s work in community legal thought found expression in an art show titled Drawn Together, which launched in 2020 at Cuchifritos Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side. Her co-artists in this project, which studies power inequities in artists’ contracts, are Mira Dayal, Simon Wu, Maia Chao, and Anais Duplan.
