Faculty News

The Hawaii Supreme Court cited Professor Courtney Joslin in its decision in JK v. HK. The decision held that a woman was a legal parent to a child born to her former same-sex partner and for whom she had jointly planned and cared.

On May 19, Professor  Afra Afsharipour  presented a new project, “ESG and Dealmaking in East Asia,” at the International Contracting workshop at Washington and Lee University School of Law.

Professor Afra Afsharipour presented the paper “The Rhetoric and Reality of BigLaw” at the National Business Law Scholars Conference, held May 26-27 at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Afsharipour also helped organize the annual conference.

Professor Afra Afsharipour helped the team at Million Bazillion--the Marketplace podcast that explains economic issues to children--develop an episode focused on mergers and acquisitions.

The May 26 episode centers on a question from a 9-year-old named Cora, who wonders why a company might want to buy another company.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson was a guest on KQED's The California Report to discuss tracking ICE arrests inside California Courts.

Listen to the interview that aired on April 29.

Professor Raquel Aldana spoke on a panel at the Immigration and Nationality Law Review’s 
“Community Resistance: Immigration Law in the Face of Mass Deportation & Repression” symposium, held April 17 at UC Davis School of Law.

Aldana took part in the panel discussion “History of ICE, Oppression of Palestinian and Student Activism, and Community Resistance Against the Trump Administration and ICE.”

Professor Raquel Aldana discussed “Immigrants and the Battle for One Nation in the Courts” at the University of the Pacific Law Review symposium on March 27 at McGeorge School of Law.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson was quoted in a May 8 San Francisco Chronicle article, "Ex-Catholic priest among 12 immigrants whose citizenship Trump administration wants to revoke."

Read the story.

Professor Thomas Joo was quoted in The American Lawyer for a May 12 article, "'Shot Across the Bow': Insider Trading Scheme May Prompt Changes in Big Law." 

On May 1, Professor Carlton F.W. Larson gave the keynote lecture at “The Impact and Heritage of Treason” conference at St. Antony’s College at Oxford University.

Larson’s talk was titled “Treason in Modern America.”