Bee asks Dean Johnson about efforts to cancel upcoming state bar exam

Dean Kevin R. Johnson spoke with The Sacramento Bee’s Dale Kasler about efforts to have the California Supreme Court cancel the upcoming state bar exam amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Law school deans and recent graduates are arguing that graduates be licensed instead under a system used in other states known as “diploma privilege.” Read the story

Kevin R. Johnson is the law school’s dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.