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Professor Shayak Sarkar spoke to Salon for a Dec. 11 story on Republican opposition to the  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

In a  Dec. 13 in Newsweek opinion piece, Professor Shayak Sarkar and civil and workers’ rights lawyer Josh Rosenthal wrote about President Donald Trump’s and border czar Tom Homan’s plans for mass deportations.

“Mass deportation plans rely on others’ cooperation,” Sarkar and Rosenthal wrote. “And the Constitution provides guidance and protections to meet this moment.”

On Monday, Jan. 20, UC Davis School of Law hosted its sixth annual MLK Day of Service and Celebration, honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Members of the UC Davis Black Law Students Association, in partnership with the law school's Office for Student Affairs and the Dean's Office, led efforts to celebrate MLK Day.

Leading media outlets and others have sought the expertise of UC Davis Law immigration law Professors Kevin R. Johnson and Gabriel “Jack” Chin in assessing President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda.

Johnene Stebbins ’96 won election to the Santa Clara County Superior Court in November.

A longtime Santa Clara County deputy district attorney, Stebbins defeated Chief Assistant District Attorney Jay Boyarsky, receiving 55% of the vote to Boyarsky’s 45%.

Stebbins filled a vacancy on the court created by Judge Vincent Chiarello’s retirement.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson spoke to Sacramento Bee reporter Matthew Miranda about a potential immigration crackdown in Sacramento in the lead-up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

University of Virginia School of Law Professor Amanda Frost references a 2021 UC Davis Law Review article co-written by Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin in a Jan. 7 essay in The Atlantic headlined “The Coming Assault on Birthright Citizenship.”

UC Davis School of Law hosted the sixth Equality Law Scholars’ Forum Nov. 15-16. 

Professor Kevin R. Johnson will speak at the event “Mass Deportation: How History Shapes the Coming Fight” on Friday, Jan. 17 in San Francisco.

Cabinet, an art press in Brooklyn, has published Professor Brian Soucek’s Permitting Art: Visual Arts and the First Amendment on the Streets of New York as the first book in its new series “Art before the law.”