Scholarship at UC Law SF
Prof. Ming Hsu Chen, right, is faculty director of the Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality She is the author of Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era (Stanford University Press 2020) and sat on a constitutional law panel with U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson of the Northern District of California.
Center for Litigation and Courts Director and Distinguished Professor Scott Dodson wrote the winning case briefs while Research Professor Joshua Davis argued live before the Court’s nine justices in Washington, D.C. The result was a unanimous opinion in favor of their client, Stuart Harrow.
Robin Feldman is founder and director of the UC Law SF Center for Innovation (C4i) and of the AI Law & Innovation Institute. Feldman has authored 4 books and more than 80 articles in law journals, as in the American Economic Review, the New England Journal of Medicine, and various science journals.
Recent Scholarship
Updated September 2024
Published:
- Ben Barsky, Disability, Race, and Health Beyond the Carceral State, 122 Michigan Law Review 1261 (with Craig Konnoth & Michael Ashley Stein) (reviewing Mary Crossley, Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health).
- Ben Barsky, Access to Care and Outcomes With the Affordable Care Act for Persons With Criminal Legal Involvement, JAMA Health Forum (with James René Jolin, Carrie G. Wade & Meredith B. Rosenthal).
- Ben Barsky, Reducing Disparities Through Online Accessibility Information, JAMA Health Forum (with Michael Ashley Stein & Lisa I. Lezzoni).
- Ming Chen, Epilogue: We the People: Race, Citizenship, and Equality, 75 U.C. Law Journal 1729.
- Ming Chen, Race and Regulatory Equity, 22 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 395.
- Scott Dodson, Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?, 49 Law & Social Inquiry 1283.
- Robin Feldman, Dance of the Biologics, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (with Gideon Schor).
- Robin Feldman, AI & Antitrust: The Algorithm Made Me Do It, Competition Journal, Antitrust Law Section (with Caroline Yuen).
- Dave Owen, Mapping the New Clean Water Act, Science.
- Moria Paz, Toward a Taxonomy of Freedom of Movement Claims: Identifying Rights-Based Pathways for Today’s Refugees Beyond the 1951 Refugee Convention, Harvard Journal of International Law.
- Reuel Schiller, From Binding Arbitration to Shareholder Activism: Labor History and the History of Modern Liberalism, 52 Reviews in American History 44.
- Reuel Schiller, Liberation Without Law: Queer Workers and the Limits of Legal Liberalism, Jotwell.com (review of Margot Canaday, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America).
Accepted for publication:
- Hadar Aviram, Parallel Lines: Thai Work Migrants in Israel and the Native/Convert Buddhism Dichotomy, Pacific World
- Scott Dodson, International Encyclopaedia of Civil Procedure – United States
- Zac Henderson Probabilistic Dispute Resolution, Wisconsin Law Review
- Dorit Reiss, The Ninth Circuit’s Nod to Anti-Vaccine Advocates,Ohio State Law Journal (with Richard Hughes III).
Speaking:
- Robin Feldman, Dance of the Biologics, Harvard Law School’s Health Law Workshop.
- Robin Feldman, Authentic Intelligence: Being Human in the Age of AI, NJI National Conference.
- George Horvath, Commentor, Wiet Life Science Law Scholars Workshop, Loyola Chicago Law.
- Jessica Lee, invited presenter on workplace issues related to lactation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Children, Youth, and Families.
- Jessica Lee, participant, White House roundtable with the Chair of the EEOC, Vice President Harris’s Chief Economic Advisor, and the head of the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division.
- Emily Murphy, Moderator, book talk on Law and Neuroscience for Judges, Legislators, and Practitioners, Berkeley Judicial Institute.
- Emily Murphy, Progress of the Working Group on a California Children’s Right to Healthy Brain Development, Flux Society Congress for Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Emily Murphy, panelist, Senior Fellows Program of the UCLA-CSU Collaborative on Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning.
- Seema N. Patel, Whistle While You Work? The Fatal Problem with Whistleblower Regulations in Low-Wage Work Industries That Increasingly Use Artificial Intelligence, 19th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment & Labor Law (COSELL), Univ. of San Diego Law School.
- Seema N. Patel, Building Worker Power in the Digital Age: Popular Education Tools for Organizers, PowerSwitch Action.
- Seema N. Patel, Emerging Technologies and Low-Wage Workers, Third Annual Michael A. Olivas Writing Institute, UC Davis School of Law.
- Seema N. Patel, Moderator & Panelist, Labor Law, Technology, and Social Movements, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
- Seema N. Patel, Panelist, (Alt-)Labor Enforcement and Worker Power, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
- Seema N. Patel, Panelist, Making Rights Real: The Renaissance of Labor Standards Enforcement Research & Action at the Local, State & Federal Levels, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 76th Annual Meeting, New York.
- Moria Paz, Panelist, Law and Politics in the Governance of Flows at Sea,International conference: Global Mobility Law: Norms, Geographies and Theory, organized by MOBILE: The Danish National Research Foundation’s Center of Excellence For Global Migration Law (Sep. 5-6).
- Reuel Schiller, The Meaning of Deference in Neoliberal Regulatory Regimes, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting.
- Reuel Schiller, Panelist and commentor, Discretion, Trust, and Regulation, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting.
Other highlights:
- Ben Barsky successfully defended his dissertation and has completed his Ph.D.
- Emily Murphy also hosted the first Working Group meeting for grant-sponsored research on a California Children’s Right to Healthy Brain Development. The meeting involved over two days with two dozen collaborators from science, legal academia, non-profit policy and advocacy agencies, and independent research institutions, which the working group followed up with an 8000 word report synthesizing its work and describing next strategic steps for research and publications.
- Jessica Vapnek’s International Development Law Center was awarded a new grant from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam to partner UC Law SF with Ho Chi Minh City University Law School.
- The Center for WorkLife Law helped pass another law. In August, Illinois enacted new legislation securing anti-discrimination protections for caregiving workers
Faculty
Our faculty and scholars are leaders in their fields. They’re also passionate teachers who inspire the next generation of lawyers and leaders. Learn more about our faculty.