Professor Carlton Larson recently contributed two entries to the “Take Care” blog, which addresses a wide range of issues related to the constitutional requirement that the President “shall take care that the laws are faithfully executed.”
On July 10, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 534, legislation that was made possible in part through the contributions of Meredith Hankins ’16, Elisa Shieh ’17, and Greg Gonzalez ’18, who participated as students in a unique partnership between UC Davis School of Law and the California Law Review Commission (CLRC).
Empirical research by Professor Donna Shestowsky on how challenged litigants are to identify their court's mediation and arbitration programs was highlighted in the "research insights" section of summer 2017 issue of Dispute Resolution Magazine, the official journal of the ABA's Section on Dispute Resolution.
Professor Anupam Chander and Visiting Lecturer Mona Pinchis-Paulsen participated in a Council on Foreign Relations workshop on “The Rise of Digital Protectionism: Implications for U.S. Interests and Possible Solutions,” in San Francisco on July 20.
The Uniform Law Commission has approved an updated version of the Uniform Parentage Act, which Professor Courtney Joslin played a significant role in revising.
Professor Kelly Behre, Director of the UC Davis School of Law Family Protection and Legal Assistance Clinic, presented a national webinar on “Effective Litigation and Pro Se Litigants” for the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence as part of their “Toughest Cases Webinar Series” on July 11, 2017.
Professor Brian Soucek was interviewed on the KCRW/Public Radio International show To the Point and discussed LGBT rights under the Trump administration with host Warren Olney.
“The Secret Life of Muslims,” a digital series, available online at Vox and the USA Today Network, for which Wajahat Ali ‘07 serves as a producer, has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary.
Professor Edward Imwinkelried commented for the Los Angeles Times on the methodology of Mark Safarik, an FBI profiler whose testimony helped secure a murder conviction that put an innocent man behind bars for 11 years.
Dean Kevin R. Johnson commented for a report on Capital Public Radio regarding the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold federal funding from “sanctuary cities” that decline to fully cooperate with immigration enforcement priorities.
Professor Emerita Angela Harris has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), joining 18 other UC Davis faculty or emeriti who are members of the prestigious institution.
Professor Lisa R. Pruitt commented for the Washington Post on the divisions that exist in many rural communities between those who work and those who don't
Professor Karima Bennoune, acting in her capacity as the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, delivered the Keynote address opening the one-day intersessional seminar organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on "Cultural Rights and the Protection of Cultural Heritage."
Professor Carlton Larson is cited in recent articles appearing in USA Today and Vox regarding the potential for alleged ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to result in treason charges.
Professor Holly S. Cooper, Co-director of the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, is the subject of a profile in The Chronicle of Social Change.
Nida Siddiqui’16 will be leaving her post as Law Fellow at California International Law Center, King Hall’s academic center for international and comparative law research, and will be joining Rastegar Law Group.
Ryan Holte ’08 has joined the faculty at the University of Akron School of Law as the David L. Brennan Associate Professor of Law and Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law and Technology
Lawyers, technology transfer officers, scientists and entrepreneurs from all over the world travelled to King Hall to explore U.S. models of intellectual asset management and technology licensing during the seventh annual Licensing Academy in Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer held June 19-30 at UC Davis School of Law.
