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Adriana Chavez '26, Rachel Kennard '27 Receive Scholarships from Energy Law Foundation

Congratulations to environmental law students Adriana Chavez ’26 and Rachel Kennard ’27 on receiving 2025-26 scholarships from The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law.

Chavez was awarded a $7,500 Francis Hartogh Diversity Outreach Scholarship and Kennard received a $6,750 Foundation Scholarship.

The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law is an educational nonprofit dedicated to the study of all aspects of natural resources and energy law.

King Hall Strengthens Longtime Ties to Alaska's Courts

 

By Carla Meyer

Nolan Gerlach ’23 took an unusual route to practicing law in his home state.

Now a clerk for Alaska Supreme Court Associate Justice Jennifer Henderson, Gerlach was born in Anchorage but moved around with his father’s Air Force posts before settling in Dixon, California for high school.

Professor Lee Presents Paper and Chairs Session at Waseda University

Professor Peter Lee recently presented a paper at the Intellectual Property & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) conference at Waseda University in Tokyo. Professor Lee presented a work in progress entitled “Techno-Optimism in Innovation Law and Policy.” The piece, which is forthcoming in the Emory Law Journal, contrasts policymakers’ highly laudatory view of innovation with several underappreciated costs of technological progress.

Jennifer Carbuccia, Class of ’07

 

Jennifer Carbuccia ’07 has served as the General Counsel at Sweetwater Union High School District for over a decade. Previously, she directed labor relations at San Diego Unified School District and served in leadership in labor relations at the City of San Diego. Before that she was an attorney at Currier & Hudson, advising school district, college, utilities, and other public agency clients in San Diego and Imperial County.

Professor Sarkar Presents at Wharton Conference

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.

Faculty Feature: Professor Mary Ziegler

 

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.