Faculty

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.”

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.

Professor Darien Shanske spoke to Bloomberg Law for a Jan. 3 story about a Maryland Tax Court order calling for a lengthy discovery process in the legal battle over the state's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax. Apple, Google, Meta and the Peacock streaming service have challenged the tax.

On Dec. 12, UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May held a reception at the Mondavi Center honoring Distinguished Professor of Law Kevin R. Johnson’s 16+ years as dean of UC Davis School of Law.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit cited an article by Professor Chimène Keitner in U.S. v. Türkiye Halk Bankasi A.Ş. 

Professor of Environmental Practice and California Environmental Law & Policy Center Co-Director Rick Frank co-taught a Dec. 12-13 California Judicial Council-sponsored course in Sacramento designed to train state court judges regarding principles of California water law.