Professor Soucek Invited to the Systemwide Academic Freedom Congress
The Systemwide Academic Freedom Congress, co-sponsored by the Office of the UC Provost, the UC Academic Senate's Committee on Academic Freedom, and the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, will host a virtual meeting on June 2 about the origins of academic freedom, its enduring presence, and contemporary controversies that surround this foundational concept.
Professor Brian Soucek is one of the many scholars joining the discussion. He will be speaking on a panel about DEI and academic freedom.
Professor Soucek’s primary teaching and research interests are antidiscrimination 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. Professor Soucek is a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow. His book, The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education, will be published later this year by the University of Chicago Press.