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Professor Peter Lee recently presented a paper at the Intellectual Property & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) conference at Waseda University in Tokyo. Professor Lee presented a work in progress entitled “Techno-Optimism in Innovation Law and Policy.” The piece, which is forthcoming in the Emory Law Journal, contrasts policymakers’ highly laudatory view of innovation with several underappreciated costs of technological progress.

Jennifer Carbuccia ’07 has served as the General Counsel at Sweetwater Union High School District for over a decade. Previously, she directed labor relations at San Diego Unified School District and served in leadership in labor relations at the City of San Diego. Before that she was an attorney at Currier & Hudson, advising school district, college, utilities, and other public agency clients in San Diego and Imperial County.

On April 25, Professor Shayak Sarkar presented his paper “Financial Assimilation” at the Wharton Financial Regulation Conference at the University of Pennsylvania. The article is forthcoming in the California Law Review.

Shayak Sarkar's scholarship addresses the structure and legal regulation of inequality. His substantive interests lie in financial regulation, employment law, immigration, and taxation.

Professor Mary Ziegler’s book Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction was released April 22 by Yale University Press and has generated extensive coverage from top media outlets including the New Yorker, New York Times, The Guardian and PBS.

Media outlets scrambling to understand reproductive rights issues have been relying on Professor Mary Ziegler’s expertise. Ziegler is one of the world’s foremost historians of United States debates surrounding abortion, IVF, and reproduction. She regularly provides analysis for major news outlets. She has also advised governors and members of Congress and submitted congressional testimony. She lectures worldwide on the history and law of reproduction.

Professor Albert Lin spoke to Science magazine for an April story on a new paper that finds a way to quantify how much emissions from a particular polluter contributed to a given heat wave.

On April 8, Professor Kevin R. Johnson gave a talk to the Notre Dame Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society.

Johnson discussed recent developments in birthright citizenship, which Donald Trump has attempted to end. Johnson discussed how text, history, and precedent firmly establish birthright citizenship as part of U.S. law.

In May, the Supreme Court will weigh Trump’s claim that there is no automatic guarantee of birthright citizenship in the Constitution.

Professor Aaron Tang wrote an April 20 essay in the New York Times about how the major questions doctrine, which had been popularized by conservatives on the Supreme Court to constrain the reach of regulatory agencies, now is being used to challenge President Donald Trump’s “seemingly boundless claims of presidential power.”

“As the saying goes, what goes around, comes around,” Tang writes. “And it is not likely to be good for Mr. Trump.”

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin spoke to Oakland’s KTVU Channel 2 for a March 25 story about Woodland’s historic Chicago Cafe being up for sale.

“The Chicago Cafe is an important part of California and U.S. history,” Chin said. “On the surface, it is an ordinary family restaurant, but when examined more closely, it reveals a remarkable immigrant story.”

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin commented for the Sacramento Bee for a March 21 story on a Sacramento County resident’s lawsuit opposing a plan by the county and the United Way to give $725 a month to 200 Black, Native American and Alaska Native families.

Plaintiffs Eva Zhou and the nonprofit Californians for Equal Rights Foundation filed a lawsuit alleging this guaranteed-basic-income program was discriminatory.