Professor Soucek speaks at Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Panel

Professor Brian Soucek was among the presenters Feb. 27 at the first event in a new UC Davis speaker series organized by the Chancellor’s Committee on LGBTQIA+ Communities.

His presentation focused on legal challenges facing transgender people, on campus and across the country, during the Trump administration. The Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Panel included students and staff speaking to their experiences as transgender and gender nonconforming people connected to UC Davis.

Professor Soucek’s primary teaching and research interests are anti-discrimination law, civil procedure, constitutional law, and refugee/asylum law. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D from Columbia University. He has clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Mark R. Kravitz in Connecticut, and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.