UC Davis Law professors present at Stanford's Civil Procedure Workshop

Professors Andrea Chandrasekher, David Horton and Brian Soucek presented papers at the annual Stanford Law School Civil Procedure Workshop on Nov. 9 and 10.

Chandrasekher and Horton presented “Arbitration Nation: Data from Four Providers," an article they co-authored and is forthcoming in the California Law Review.

Professor Soucek delivered his paper, "Heightened Pleading Standards for Defendants: A Case Study of Court-Counting Precedent," that is based on a forthcoming Alabama Law Review article. Soucek wrote the article with Remington B. Lamons, King Hall Class of 2018.

Professor Chandrasekher's educational background includes a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley. She has taught as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern School of Law and served as a fellow at Stanford Law School. Her research interests include criminal law, law and economics, quantitative methods, criminal justice, public policy analysis, and policing.

Professor Horton joined the King Hall faculty in 2012.  His primary research and teaching interests are wills and trusts, contracts, and arbitration law. In 2015, his article "In Partial Defense of Probate: Evidence from Alameda County, California" was selected as the winner of the 29th annual Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Scholarly Paper Competition and he was honored with UC Davis School of Law’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

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.