Joseph Dimento

GSRPhD, Urban and Regional PlanningUniversity of Michigan - Ann Arbor1974
GSRJDUniversity of Michigan - Ann Arbor1974

GSRPhD, Urban and Regional PlanningUniversity of Michigan - Ann Arbor1974
GSRJDUniversity of Michigan - Ann Arbor1974
Assistant-Associate ProfessorSchool of Social EcologyUC Irvine19741984
Director, Program in Social EcologySchool of Social EcologyUC Irvine19801984
ProfessorUrban Planning and Public PolicySchool of Social EcologyUC Irvine19842007
Head, Criminology, Law and Society SectionSchool of Social EcologyUC Irvine19881989
Director of Land Management, Office of the ChancellorUC Irvine19891990
Assistant Executive Vice ChancellorUC Irvine19901992
Director20012012
Faculty AssociateITS-IrvineUC Irvine2005
Professor, Law and PlanningUC Irvine20072018
Distinguished Professor, Law and PlanningUC Irvine20182024
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Law and PlanningUC Irvine2024

In his decades of teaching, Professor Joseph DiMento has written 11 books and taught courses on a wide variety of subjects, including urban and regional planning, domestic and international environmental law, administrative law and regulation, business and government, conflict resolution. Professor DiMento recently stepped down as the director of UC Irvine’s Newkirk Center for Science and Society, established in May 2001 with the goal of improving science’s response to community needs and to increase the effective uses of scientific results for the benefit of society.