Students

ChangeLawyers, a community foundation that empowers the next generation of lawyers, judges and activists, has highlighted incoming UC Davis Law student Sharan Kalkat ’29 as a member of the Next Gen Scholars cohort.

Since 2001, the King Hall Outreach Program has helped high-potential first-generation or economically underserved college students and recent graduates gain the knowledge and skills needed to excel in the law school admissions process.

The brainchild of then-Assistant Dean of Admission Sharon Pinkney, KHOP began as an in-residence program, held during the summer, before assuming its current schedule of distinct winter and summer sessions unfolding over four Saturdays.

Mila and Ernie Llorente ’75 have made a gift to establish a public interest internship fund at UC Davis School of Law. 

The Mila and Ernie Llorente ’75 Public Interest Internship will provide stipends to support students who work for city or county governmental agencies during the summer, with a preference for positions in the Bay Area.

Six UC Davis Law students have received prestigious John Paul Stevens Foundation Public Interest Fellowships.

The King Hall community gathered on April 22 for a Public Service Graduation (PSG) ceremony celebrating members of the Class of 2026 for their achievements in public service law. The event featured remarks from Dean Jessica Berg, Professors Nila Bala, Holly S.

UC Davis Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) was named National Chapter of the Year at the 58th National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA) Convention, held March 18-22 in Portland, Ore.

UC Davis School of Law’s Water Justice Clinic has received a $3.2 million grant that will support its work on behalf of rural and low-income communities for the next three years.

On March 4, law students Max Kohn ’26 and Kiar Rivers ’26 argued on behalf of a Civil Rights Clinic client before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. The panel was comprised of Ninth Circuit Judges Milan D. Smith Jr. and Ryan Nelson, and Brian Morris, the Chief Judge of the District of Montana, sitting by designation.

The King Hall Negotiations Team hosted 28 teams of highly motivated first-year UC Davis Law students on Feb. 28 at the 18th annual Intraschool Negotiations Competition.

On Feb. 4, Third District Court of Appeal Justice and King Hall Adjunct Professor Shama Hakim Mesiwala ’98 and her Appellate Advocacy class attended California Supreme Court oral arguments at a special setting of the court in Sacramento’s historic Library and Courts Building.