Bryant Garth is Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at University of California-Irvine Law School, where he codirects the Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession. He was Interim Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation for 2022-23, following a year as Interim Dean at UCI Law for the 2021-22 academic year. Previously, he served as Dean of Southwestern Law School from 2005 until 2012, Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation from 1990 to 2004, and Dean of the Indiana University-Bloomington School of Law from 1986 to 1990.

Garth’s scholarship focuses on the legal profession, the sociology of law, and globalization. Two of his books coauthored with Yves Dezalay, Dealing in Virtue (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and Asian Legal Revivals (University of Chicago Press, 2010), were awarded the Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society Association for the best books in the field of Law and Society published that year, He also won the LSA’s Harry Kalven Prize in 2019  for “empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.” His most recent books are B. Garth and G. Shaffer, eds., The Globalization of Legal Education: A Critical Perspective (2022, Oxford University Press) and Y. Dezalay and B. Garth, Law as Reproduction and Revolution: An Interconnected History (2021, University of California Press).