Faculty

Professor Elizabeth Joh and podcasting partner Roman Mars released a flurry of episodes of What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law over the summer, most covering recent Supreme Court cases.

In interviews and a recently published memo, Professor Darien Shanske expressed his disagreement with the Maryland Tax Court’s decision to strike down the state’s first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax.

In a trio of Aug. 14 rulings in favor of Apple, Google and Peacock TV, the court rejected the tax as unconstitutionally discriminatory and preempted by federal law. 

In late August, Professor Hannah Buxbaum submitted a lecture, "Extraterritoriality under International Jurisdictional Law,” to the U.N. Audiovisual Library of International Law.

Professor Chimène Keitner spoke to Reuters for a Sept. 1 story on ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s contention that he is immune from prosecution as the head of a sovereign state.

Professor David Sandino spoke at the Northern California Technical Assistance Program Conference held Aug. 20 in Redding.

The program provides support to underserved rural and Indigenous communities with contaminated drinking water. The UC Davis Water Justice Clinic provides legal assistance to these communities to improve their water supplies to meet safety standards.

Sandino directs the Water Justice Clinic.

Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute  advocacy affiliate Roosevelt Forward  interviewed Professor Sarah Polcz and George Washington University Law Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend on Aug. 20 for the Fireside Stacks newsletter.

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke to Axios for an Aug. 14 story headlined “The majority-minority shift changing rural America.”

The Sacramento Bee has honored Professor Amagda Pérez as one of its 2026 Change Makers. 

In partnership with Nehemiah Leaders Programs, the Bee is spotlighting 60 “innovative and diverse people who are shifting our region’s landscape.”

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Donna Shestowsky spoke at the “Pathways to Law Teaching” event on August 5 at UC College of the Law, San Francisco.

The half-day workshop focused on pathways to securing full-time law school faculty roles that involve a mix of teaching and research and are often described as “tenure-track.”

Professor Sarah Polcz co-wrote an op-ed published Aug. 12 in Time magazine.