Urmila Taylor joined the faculty of the First Year Skills program as a Professor of Legal Writing in 2021. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was Notes Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Before she began her academic career, Taylor served as Director of the Social Security Administration’s litigation practice in the Ninth Circuit. She developed agency-wide trainings on administrative law and regulatory practice, as well as legal writing and research, oral argument, and appellate advocacy. Taylor began her legal career in the antitrust practice at O’Melveny and Myers, LLP.
Education
B.A., Stanford University (1998)
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center (2004)