A Superior Court judge since 2018, Damrell has presided over various civil and criminal trials and other proceedings, including misdemeanor arraignments and sentencing, civil harassment and domestic violence restraining order hearings, and family court proceedings.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit this week drew on and cited to Professor Vikram Amar's work in the area of voting equality in Grant v. Belangia, a case involving a South Carolina law that discriminates on the basis of age with respect to absentee-voting eligibility.
Professor Emeritus Kevin R. Johnson spoke to the New York Times for an Aug. 11 report on how body-camera footage, text messages and other evidence from lawsuits indicate racial profiling within the mass deportation campaign by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit relied on Professor Chimène Keitner’s scholarship in its decision in Kuiper v. Reyes Mena affirming that former foreign officials cannot use sovereign immunity as protection against allegations of torture, slavery, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killing.
Bala discussed the conviction and recent sentencing to 15 years in prison of Colin Gray, whose son used a gun Gray gave him for Christmas in a deadly 2024 school shooting in Georgia.
UC Davis Law now counts 21 current and nine emeriti faculty in the ALI, which consists of judges, lawyers and law professors and caps membership at 3,000.
Chancellor Gary S. May has appointed Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law Mary Ziegler as a UC Davis Chancellor’s Leadership Professor.
The five-year appointment recognizes outstanding scholarship and contributions to campus and includes $25,000 in research support funds each academic year.
UC Davis Law pioneered some of the first water law classes in the nation in the early 1970s, and its program has been developing into its full structure more recently.
