King Hall Faculty Shine at Law and Society Annual Meeting
UC Davis School of Law faculty were a formidable presence at the Law and Society Association 2015 Annual Meeting held in Seattle on May 28-31, presenting papers, leading discussions, and participating in numerous panels.
Fourteen faculty members participated in the event, which is the second-largest annual gathering of law school faculty, behind only the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting. The Law and Society annual meeting is also significant because it brings professors of economics, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines together with law faculty for interdisciplinary discussions of law in the context of social issues. This year's conference was organized around the theme of "What has law accomplished in the Global North and Global South?"
UC Davis School of Law faculty participants in the 2015 Annual Meeting include:
- Professor Afra Afsharipour, who participated in a roundtable discussion of "Shareholders, Stewardship & Accountability" and a panel on "Corporations and their Constituencies: Employees, Customers, Creditors, and the Public."
- Professor Mario Biagioli, who presented "When Machines Were Texts: The Strange History of the Idea/Expression Distinction."
- Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin, who presented "Collateral Consequences and the Constitution" and took part in a roundtable discussion of "Teaching Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and the Law" as well as a panel discussion of "Critiquing and Celebrating the 1965 Hart-Celler Act."
- Professor Angela Harris, who presented "The Color of Farming: U.S. Agriculture as a Site of ‘Race Making.'"
- Professor Elizabeth Joh, who presented "Sting Victims: Third Party Harms and Undercover Policing."
- Dean Kevin R. Johnson, who participated in a discussion of "Increasing Access to Justice through Alternative Avenues" and a roundtable on "The Evolving (and Disputed) Roles of Legal Education, Law Professors and the Legal Profession Itself in Contemporary Society."
- Professor Tom Joo, who participated as a non-presenting co-author in a discussion of "Sting Victims: Third Party Harms and Undercover Policing."
- Professor Courtney Joslin, who presented "Marriage Equality and Non-marital Families" and chaired a discussion of "Lies, Coercion, and Violence among Intimates."
- Rex Perschbacher, who presented "The Role of Personal Jurisdiction in Access to Justice."
- Lisa R. Pruitt, who presented on "Illustrating Rural Poverty in Constitutional Litigation."
- Darien Shanske, who presented "A New Perspective on Fiscal Federalism: Subnational Governments as Second Movers" and chaired a discussion of "History and Fiscal Policy."
- Brian Soucek, who presented on "Contextual Equal Protection" and participated in a panel discussion of "Critiquing and Celebrating the 1965 Hart-Celler Act."
- Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., who presented "Modeling the Tax Practitioner's Standard of Care."
- Rose Cuison-Villazor, who presented "Non-Citizen Nationals: Neither Citizens nor 'Aliens'" and participated in a roundtable discussion of "Teaching Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and the Law."