UC Davis Law shows a strong presence at Law and Society Association annual meeting

King Hall was well-represented at the Law and Society Association 2019 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Professors Gabriel “Jack” Chin, Lisa Ikemoto, Thomas Joo, Courtney Joslin, Lisa Pruitt, Brian Soucek, Professor Emerita Angela Harris and Visiting Professor Meera Deo participated in the conference, held May 30-June 2 in Washington, D.C.

Chin addressed policing issues regarding Asians and African Americans as part of the “Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States 2: Policing Discrimination” session.

Ikemoto chaired the roundtable discussion “The Reconfiguration of Human Dignity and the Erasure of Communities, People, and Rights in Reproduction and Intimacy.” UC Davis Religious Studies Professor Meaghan O’Keefe also was part of the discussion.

Joo participated in the session “The Social and Legal Construction of Ownership and Its Loss.” Joslin presented her piece “Autonomy in the Family” as part of the “Family, Formation, Boundaries and Categories” session.

Pruitt looked at “Evolving Rhetoric Regarding Race and Politics: The Rise of the R-Word” during a session titled “The Role of Law and Police in Enforcing Racism.” Julia Mendoza ’08, a lecturer at Stanford Law, was part of the same session. Pruitt also participated in the professional development panel “Law and Rurality,” a continuation of the Law and Rurality Workshop hosted by Pruitt and UC Davis School of Law in February.

Soucek gave a talk called “Tax Law as Muse” for the panel “Aesthetics in Unexpected Places in the Law,” which he organized.

Harris participated in the roundtable sessions “Racial Capitalism: Historical and Modern Projects” and “Self-Care, Healing, and Mind/Body After the Kavanaugh Hearings and Confirmation,” and was the discussant for “Law, Political Economy, and the City.”

Deo presented “Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia,” as part of the “Transformations in Legal Education” session.