January 18, 2020
Media Highlights Why being anti-racist is not enough ABA Journal—January 14, 2021 Richard Zitrin: “For us white progressives, deep self-examination is also not enough unless it’s abiding. There’s always more to understand.” The COVID-19 Vaccine Debate: How Employer Decisions Could Help Or Hurt Businesses for Years to Come…
Robin Feldman UC Law SF Professor Robin Feldman’s op-ed, “Why the cancer ‘moonshot’ has been so disappointing,” was published in The Washington Post. In the op-ed, Feldman argues pharmaceutical companies pour resources into “orphan drugs” rather than making a concerted effort to cure cancer. The result, she…
Dubal. UC Law SF Professor Veena Dubal’s op-ed, “Let’s follow California’s lead and regulate companies like Uber,” was published in the Guardian. “AB5, however, does not reflect a stark legal shift, as its detractors have argued. Rather, the law standardizes the legal test for…
UC Law SF Professor Veena Dubal spoke with the New York Times about Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), a landmark bill that will require gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft to treat workers as employees, not like independent contractors. When asked about potential actions taken by…
UC Law SF Professor Jared A. Ellias was quoted extensively in a Sept. 5 Wall Street Journal article titled, “PG&E, Insys Bankruptcies Stumble in Bids for Bonuses, Severance.” “In both of these decisions, bankruptcy judges are policing the edges of what debtors are allowed to do…
July 31, 2018
Professor Shanin Specter appeared on CNN, with host Michael Smerconish, to discuss the legal ramifications of the tape of Michael Cohen speaking with then-candidate Trump about making a payment to a Playmate. “It is a new level. It’s shocking that the President would suggest that his former lawyer…