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Professor Sarah Polcz published an op-ed in The Hill on April 29, "Let the public share in the rewards of artificial intelligence." 

Judy Holzer Hersher ’84, a retired Sacramento Superior Court judge, has established an endowment at UC Davis School of Law for the Study of Judicial Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Modern Judiciary. 

Dean Jessica Berg has announced that Professor Carter “Cappy” White is the recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award. Supported by the generosity of Bill and Sally Rutter, the award honors “law teachers who give stellar performances in the classroom.”  

White will receive the award at the Celebrating King Hall event on April 29 in the King Hall courtyard.

Professor Brian Soucek wrote a Jan. 2 essay for the Wall Street Journal headlined “Why Universities Can’t Be Neutral.”

Soucek writes that over the past few years, many universities – an estimated 150, by one count – have agreed to embrace a standard of institutional “neutrality.” 

Professor Raquel Aldana spoke to the Washington Post for a Dec. 3 story headlined “Trump pauses immigration applications for 19 nations on travel ban list.”

A Nov. 20 New York Times article, headlined “The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner,” notes that a 2019 Twitter thread and subsequent paper by Professor Christopher Elmendorf on the “builder’s remedy” have been instrumental in the push to build more housing in the state.

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Professor Brian Soucek's article “The Constitutional Irrelevance of Art” was quoted and cited to the U.S.

Jenny Ballesteros Magdaleno ’23 has received a prestigious Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund 2021-22 scholarship.

Professor Elizabeth Joh wrote a Dec. 11 essay for Slate on the topic of police using robots to deploy lethal force.