Faculty

Professor Karrigan Börk and Michigan State University Associate Professor Mariah Meek wrote a May 13 piece for The Conversation responding to a proposal by President Donald Trump’s administration

Professor Lisa Pruitt spoke to The Guardian for a May 16 story about how recent federal cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration are causing concern even in Trump strongholds like Shasta County.

Such unease highlights the potential effects the cuts pose to far northern California, where rural communities with smaller tax bases are more reliant on federal support.

Professor Eric Fish spoke to the New York Times for a May 15 story on Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher from Russia who now faces felony smuggling charges.

Professor Nila Bala was invited to participate in a May 20 roundtable on children’s online safety at the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento.

Presented by the Family Online Safety Institute, the closed-door discussion gathered California policymakers, industry leaders and online safety experts to address what FOSI calls “the growing need for collaboration at the state level.”

The Systemwide Academic Freedom Congress, co-sponsored by the Office of the UC Provost, the UC Academic Senate's Committee on Academic Freedom, and the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, will host a virtual meeting on June 2 about the origins of academic freedom, its enduring presence, and contemporary c

On April 25, Professor Shayak Sarkar presented his paper “Financial Assimilation” at the Wharton Financial Regulation Conference at the University of Pennsylvania. The article is forthcoming in the California Law Review.

Shayak Sarkar's scholarship addresses the structure and legal regulation of inequality. His substantive interests lie in financial regulation, employment law, immigration, and taxation.

Professor Mary Ziegler’s book Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction was released April 22 by Yale University Press and has generated extensive coverage from top media outlets including the New Yorker, New York Times, The Guardian and PBS.

Media outlets scrambling to understand reproductive rights issues have been relying on Professor Mary Ziegler’s expertise. Ziegler is one of the world’s foremost historians of United States debates surrounding abortion, IVF, and reproduction. She regularly provides analysis for major news outlets. She has also advised governors and members of Congress and submitted congressional testimony. She lectures worldwide on the history and law of reproduction.

Professor Albert Lin spoke to Science magazine for an April story on a new paper that finds a way to quantify how much emissions from a particular polluter contributed to a given heat wave.

On April 8, Professor Kevin R. Johnson gave a talk to the Notre Dame Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society.

Johnson discussed recent developments in birthright citizenship, which Donald Trump has attempted to end. Johnson discussed how text, history, and precedent firmly establish birthright citizenship as part of U.S. law.

In May, the Supreme Court will weigh Trump’s claim that there is no automatic guarantee of birthright citizenship in the Constitution.