King Hall Faculty Present at Law and Society Association 2016 Annual Meeting

UC Davis School of Law faculty including Professors Afra Afsharipour, Gabriel "Jack" Chin, Courtney Joslin, Albert Lin, Brian Soucek, and Rose Cuison Villazor gave presentations at the Law and Society Association 2016 Annual Meeting held June 2-5 in New Orleans.

Among the conference events was an "Audience Meets Reader" session devoted to the discussion of "The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America," which was edited by Professors Chin and Villazor and contains a chapter by Professor Soucek. The three King Hall faculty contributors were present to participate in that discussion.

Professor Chin also chaired a session on "Collateral Consequences, Misdemeanor Justice, and the ‘Micro' Dimension of Mass Punishment," in which he presented his article "Collateral Consequences and the Bill of Rights: Rethinking Ex Post Facto and the Grand Jury Clause."

Professor Soucek also gave a talk as part of a panel entitled "Beyond Protected Classes," and commented on a paper by Rutgers School of Law Professor Carlos Ball as part of a panel entitled "Frontiers of Gender Theory: Freedom of Expression, IP, and the Internet."

Professor Villazor also participated in an Author Meets Reader session on University of Miami School of Law Professor Kunal Parker's "Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600 - 2000" and chaired a session on "New Frames in Immigration Law" in which she presented "Towards a Social Relations Theory of Immigration Law."

Professor Afsharipour participated as panelist in a discussion of Yale Law School Professor Aaron Dhir's "Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity" and also in a roundtable session on "Corporate Diversity: Comparative and Critical Perspectives."

Professor Joslin presented her article "Uncovering the History of Marital Status Nondiscrimination" and served as a commentator for a piece entitled "The Corporate Family" by Professor Allison Tait of Richmond School of Law.

Professor Lin presented his paper "Preliminary Injunctive Regulation."