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On Monday, Jan. 20, UC Davis School of Law hosted its 6th 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 UC Davis Law Office for Student Affairs and the UC Davis Law 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.”

Co-director of the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic and King Hall alumna Holly S. Cooper ’98 is a nationally recognized expert on immigration detention issues and on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Both clients and King Hall students benefit from her extensive litigation experience defending the rights of immigrants.

In December, Professor of Environmental Practice Rick Frank filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on behalf of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.