Faculty

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May has honored Associate Dean Beth Greenwood with a Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement. The award recognizes faculty and staff members for outstanding global engagement in advancing the university’s teaching, research and service missions.

UC Davis Global Affairs has selected Professor Peter Lee as the recipient of a Seed Grant for International Activities.

Professor Menesh Patel is the recipient of UC Davis School of Law’s 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award. The award, supported by the generosity of Bill and Sally Rutter, honors “law teachers who give stellar performances in the classroom.”

Patel will accept the award at the annual “Celebrating King Hall” ceremony on April 9 at the law school.

Professor Peter Lee spoke to the New York Times for a Feb. 10 story on efforts to revive a groundbreaking federal study on nature killed by President Donald Trump.

Professor Shayak Sarkar spoke to the New York Times on Feb. 9 about actions by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Russell Vought to severely weaken the bureau.

In an Feb. 4 opinion piece published in the Los Angeles Times, Professor Shayak Sarkar and attorney Josh Rosenthal write about the Trump administration reversing policies that kept immigration enforcement officers from so-called “sensitive locations” like schools and churches.

On Jan. 15, Professor Kevin R. Johnson participated in the Consular Accountability Project event “Challenging Visa Denials and Inadmissibility Policies Under Trump 2.0.” 

University of Pittsburgh Law Professor Sheila Vélez Martinez wrote in Jotwell about an article coauthored by Professor Raquel Aldana. Titled “Latinas in the Legal Academy: Progress and Promise,” the article was published in the Harvard Latin American Law Review.

Professor Andrea Cann Chandrasekher spoke to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Building Local Power podcast about her paper “The ‘Good’ Starbucks: Consumer Redlining in Large American Chain Stores.”

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke to preLaw Magazine about rural legal deserts, or areas with too few lawyers and judges to meet demand.