Professor

Jane

K.

Stoever

Professor Jane Stoever teaches Family Law and directs the Domestic Violence Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where she oversees students representing abuse survivors in civil, criminal, immigration, and policy interventions in abuse. She also directs the interdisciplinary UCI Initiative to End Family Violence and co-chairs the Orange County Domestic Violence Death Review Team. She just completed her term as Chair of UC Irvine's Academic Senate.

Professor Stoever's scholarly work focuses on the multiple oppressions abuse survivors face and explores ways that the law can better respond to complex experiences of intimate partner abuse. Her recent publications address firearm fatalities, reproductive coercion, technology-enabled abuse, and modernizing rules of civil procedure, and her scholarship includes the book, The Politicization of Safety (NYU Press 2019). She has advised the Obama and Biden administrations on domestic violence policy and has led the drafting and introduction of over a dozen bills, ten of which have been signed into law, including the first-in-the-world law on reproductive coercion as a form of domestic abuse; statutes providing free evidence to abuse survivors, remedying coerced debt, and addressing vehicular technology in abuse; and multiple reforms to procedural rules. Awards for her work include a Congressional Woman of the Year Award, the Everyday Hero Award from the Orange County Bar Association, the Paul H. Chapman Award from the Foundation for Improvement of Justice, Inc., and the Justice for Children Leader Award. 

She previously taught at Georgetown University Law Center, American University Washington College of Law, and Seattle University School of Law; served as a judicial clerk; and worked at legal aid offices and as a live-in staff member at a shelter for unhoused families. At Harvard Law School, she was a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.