July 9, 2018
This op-ed appeared in the July 10, 2018, print edition of The Wall Street Journal. Excerpt: As recently as the 1990s, Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont found that working-class men in the New York City area held generally positive attitudes toward immigrants, describing them as “family oriented” and “hard workers, just…
May 15, 2018
Professor Veena Dubal’s work, Wage Slave or Entrepreneur?: Contesting the Dualism of Legal Worker Identities (2017) 10 5 Cal.L.Rev. 65, 72, was cited in the California Supreme Court’s decision in the pivotal “gig economy” case of Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County. In a…
May 14, 2018
"The Dynamex Decision" creates a major change in the landscape for California's gig economy and follows the path of Professor Dubal's analysis from her scholarly work.
March 16, 2018
Professor Zachary Price’s SCOTUSblog post was cited by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in a footnote of a Memorandum & Order in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) case of Vidal v. Nielsen pending in the Eastern District of New York. As part of his preliminary injunction…
October 4, 2017
When his parents denied access to all TV except PBS wildlife specials, it sparked a life-long environmental law interest in our "infectiously enthusiastic" professor.
September 29, 2017
"The Judges' Book is the first compendium of legal scholarship I have seen specifically selected for its usefulness by the judiciary. The project is an important and welcome one." - From the Foreword by Judge Marsha S. Berzon, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
September 11, 2017
Professor Greaney's commentary suggests that regulations should target the real culprits, providers with market power and the ability to stifle competition.
June 26, 2017
The idea of becoming a lawyer is full of stereotypes, but what is truly at the heart of people dedicated to law? What does justice really mean to them? This is why we work #ForJustice.
June 19, 2017
Ellias presented from his new paper, "What Drives Bankruptcy Forum Shopping? Evidence from Market Data."
January 17, 2017
One of only five academics in elite organization focused on the creative, ethical, and efficient adjudication of insurance coverage and extra-contractual disputes, peer-provided scholarship, professional coordination and the improvement of the relationship between and among its diverse members.
December 7, 2016
The European drafting process remains far from complete, and actual adoption of the resulting proposals will surely be a gradual thing. Throughout, however, these developments will have a significant UC Law SF component, and UC Law SF students will have the benefit of information about these significant international trends.
November 3, 2016
Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism wins John Phillip Reid Book Award