Arman Avagyan '22
Associate Professor of Academic Success and Bar Preparation
B.A., University of California, Irvine
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Member, California State Bar
Joined SW: 2025
Professor Avagyan is a member of Southwestern’s Academic Success and Bar Preparation Department. He comes from years of experience in practicing all facets of complex civil litigation, focusing on representing healthcare practitioners and groups, health maintenance organizations, and healthcare facilities in professional and general liability cases involving medical malpractice.
Prior to law school, Professor Avagyan delivered culturally competent services to a diverse consumer population in California’s largest community-based nonprofit provider of behavioral and mental health services.
Success in law school and the bar isn’t reserved for the few—it belongs to those with the right tools, mindset, and support.
While a student at Southwestern, Professor Avagyan served as an Executive Board Member and Managing Editor for the Southwestern Journal of International Law. He worked as a teaching assistant for Professor Bridgette M. de Gyarfas and as a research assistant for Vice Dean Anahid Gharakhanian. Professor Avagyan also worked at the Admissions Office as an Admissions File Reviewer and taught law-related critical life skills to youth in Los Angeles through the Street Law Clinic.