Oscar Teran

Oscar Teran serves as the Associate Dean of Career Services at Southwestern Law School since October 2022 and has been an Adjunct Faculty member at Chapman University since January 2019. Teran previously held the position of Director of Career Development at Western State College of Law from November 2019 to October 2022, and served as the Director of the UCI DREAM Center at UC Irvine from June 2017 to November 2019. Prior roles include Assistant Director of Career Services at Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law (August 2015 - June 2017), Director of the Alumni Mentor Program at UC Hastings College of the Law (August 2013 - August 2015), and various staff attorney positions at Bay Area Legal Aid, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., Positive Resource Center, and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Teran holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Philosophy from Chapman University, along with additional academic credentials from Leiden University and Universidad Blas Pascal.