Supreme Court Amicus Brief Cites Professor Soucek's Article

Professor Brian Soucek's article “The Constitutional Irrelevance of Art” was quoted and cited to the U.S. Supreme Court last week in the amicus brief filed by the Motion Picture Association in an important upcoming trademark case, Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products. The article was quoted by the Ninth Circuit earlier this year in Green v. Miss United States of America, and was cited to the Supreme Court in another of this term’s biggest cases, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, in an amicus brief by Public Citizen.

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.