Students

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.” 

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.

UC Davis Law ranks No. 1 among the nation’s law schools in “greatest resources for women,” according to The Princeton Review’s just-released “Best Law Schools, 2023” rankings. Davis also placed high for “best quality of life” (No. 10).

UC Davis School of Law students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends marked Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with the law school's fourth MLK Day of Service and Celebration. The day’s activities furthered the principle of community service so vital to the mission of King, the civil rights giant whose name graces the law school's building.

Brenda Quintanilla ’24 has received the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s 2022 AILA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Law Student Scholarship.

According to AILA’s website, the scholarship is intended to provide academic, professional, and financial support to law students from historically underrepresented groups who are interested in the practice of immigration law and advocating on behalf of immigrant communities.

More than 90% of UC Davis Law’s Class of 2022 has secured full-time legal employment, the highest job rate for a King Hall graduating class just out of law school in at least 15 years.

Career Services’ emphasis on employer recruitment and individual relationships with students has yielded positive outcomes, Assistant Dean of Career Services Craig Compton said.

“Our numbers continue to rise,” Compton said, in terms of employers participating in the law school’s many Career Services programs. “Our entire office is dedicated to recruiting employers.”

Jenny Ballesteros Magdaleno ’23 has received a prestigious Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund 2021-22 scholarship.

UC Davis Law hosted the fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Trial Competition, held Oct. 14-16 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento.

The tournament drew exceptional student advocates from 18 schools from across the country, including USC, Duke, Florida State, Stetson, and Fordham University. Top honors were ultimately claimed by Stetson in a close final round victory against USC.

Congratulations to the 2L teams of Mitra Purpur and Raquel Rodriguez-Walmisley and Jessica Shyong and Emily McAtee, who competed in the ABA Regional Negotiations Competition, held Oct. 21-22 at the University of Colorado School of Law.

Purpur and Rodriguez-Walmisley won praise from the judges for their rapport building, teamwork and flexibility and earned the sixth-highest score. McAtee and Shyong won their head-to-head competition in the regional finals and will compete at the national competition in February 2023 in Chicago.

On Oct. 14, UC Davis School of Law hosted the Global Migration Center conference "Lessons Learned and Ways Forward for the Economics and Politics of Refugee Integration." The event focused on the flow of migrant refugees after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.