Ann Ching joined the law faculty in 2019. Professor Ching's legal career began in the U.S. Army, where she served as an Army lawyer and achieved the rank of Major. Her military awards include the Bronze Star for combat service in Iraq and the Humanitarian Assistance Award for disaster relief operations in Japan. Following her Army career, Professor Ching was an Assistant Professor of Law at Pepperdine University (2013-2015) and Ethics Counsel for the State Bar of Arizona (2016-2019). In October 2020, Professor Ching was appointed to serve as a judge pro tempore for the East Valley Regional Veterans Court, a treatment court that covers seven jurisdictions in the greater Phoenix area.
Professor Ching is active in the Arizona legal community and frequently speaks on topics related to legal ethics and professionalism. Professor Ching serves on the Arizona Supreme Court Ethics Advisory Committee, the State Bar of Arizona Ethics Advisory Group, and as a faculty member for the State Bar of Arizona mandatory professionalism course.
Professor Ching has served on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Asian American Bar Association (2018-present) and as its President (2023-2024). She is also a member of the State Bar of Arizona and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).
Education
B.A., University of Arizona
J.D., University of North Carolina
LL.M., The Judge Advocate General's School of the Army
For All Intensive Purposes: A Primer on Malapropisms, Eggcorns, and Other Rogue Elements of the English Language , 2008 Army Law. 66 (2008). Full Text via HeinOnline
Evolution of the Command Responsibility Doctrine in Light of the Celebici Decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 5 N.C.J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 167 (1999-2000). Full Text via HeinOnline
BOOKS
Contemporary Appellate Advocacy (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2025) (with Hon. David B. Gass).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Depictions of International Humanitarian Law in U.S. Film, in Law and War in Popular Culture (Stefan Machura, ed., 2024).
Military Justice in Film, in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture(Nicole Rafter & Michelle Brown eds., Oxford University Press 2018).
Wartime Legislation, Public Trial, and Void for Vagueness, in The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties(Paul Finkelman, ed., Routledge 2006).
