Faculty

King Hall will house one of five new labor centers opening this month across the University of California system.

Professor Lisa Pruitt, Kaceylee Klein ’25 presented their paper “Rural Bashing” on Feb. 17 at the University of Richmond Law Review symposium “Overlooked America: Addressing Legal Issues Facing Rural United States.” 

Professor Lisa Pruitt spoke at the Feb. 24 Alabama Law Review symposium “Our History, Our Future.” The event recognized the 150th anniversary of Alabama Law and 50 years since the first Black students graduated from the law school. 

Professor Courtney Joslin spoke on the “Impact of Dobbs Beyond Abortion” panel at the Feb. 24 “Health, Equity, and Law After Dobbs” conference co-hosted by American University Washington College of Law and The George Washington University Law School. 

Professor Joslin is a scholar in the field of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus on same-sex and non-marital couples.

Thirty-four teams participated in UC Davis Law’s Intraschool Negotiations Competition, held March 4 at King Hall.

Congratulations to winning teams Sinporion Phuong ’25 and Mark Lerner ’25 and Garrett Vena ’24 and Ethan Hicks ’24, and to finalists Hannah Thomas and Morgen Hopson and Kim Martinez and Ethan Bell – all from the Class of 2025 – and to all the teams for their strong efforts in the competition.

Thanks to Dean Kevin R. Johnson for offering opening remarks, King Hall Negotiations Team advisor Professor Donna Shestowsky, and to all of our practitioner judges.

On Feb. 28, Professor of Environmental Practice Richard M. Frank testified before the California Assembly’s Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee. The topic of the committee hearing was, “How Should California’s Water Rights System Adapt to a 21st Century Climate?"

Dean Kevin R. Johnson spoke to The National Desk for a Feb. 22 story on a rule proposed by President Joe Biden’s administration that could limit asylum seekers on the southern border.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Feb. 28 regarding a multistate lawsuit to block the Biden administration's student loan debt cancellation program. Professor John Patrick Hunt and University of Tennessee Professor Celeste Carruthers wrote a March 1 piece for The Conversation about what’s at stake in the case.

Professor Mary Ziegler spoke to the Washington Post on Feb. 6 and NPR on Feb. 8 about abortion opponents targeting New Mexico, where abortion is legal.

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