January 4, 2019
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor Veena Dubal (@veenadubal) appeared in the KCET and Link TV documentary series “City Rising: The Informal Economy.” An article about the acclaimed series appeared in Boyle Heights Beat. http://bit.ly/2Ts3uvx – “There’s hypersurveillance. All the corporate entities are super vigilant (and) weary of…
December 7, 2018
Professor Eumi Lee was appointed today by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to a judgeship in Alameda Superior Court. Lee has been a clinical professor at UC Law SF since 2005, where she served as co-founder and co-director of the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice from 2010 to 2012.
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Karen Musalo, the director of Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, provided commentary for an article in The Nation that looks at an immigration case that has resulted in a major impact on asylum claims.http://bit.ly/2FO0yHx Musalo was quoted in an article from NPR entitled “Trump Escalates…
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor Rory Little (@rorylittle) produced two articles on the SCOTUS Blog this month. The first entitled, “Argument preview: Do ‘slight force’ robberies count for enhancing Armed Career Criminal Act sentences?” (http://bit.ly/2RmJs4l) and the second, entitled “Argument preview: What vehicle burglaries, if any, count for enhancing Armed…
October 1, 2018
THE FACULTY BUZZ: “It is a bit strange for a judge who claims to follow the literal text of the Constitution to insist that the president has a privilege that does not appear anywhere in the Constitution,” said Professor Joel Paul (@JoelRichardPaul) in an article for Tufts Now on…
September 4, 2018
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor Veena Dubal (@veenadubal) discussed “Gig Economy 101,” everything from the May 2018 California Supreme Court ruling in Dynamex v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County to the astounding fact that she has never used an Uber or Lyft, in a live interview with ARS…
August 28, 2018
The Ninth Circuit ADR Committee announced that UC Law SF is the winner of the 2018 Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Education Award for its instruction in mediation, negotiation and arbitration. Established in 2005 by the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, the award recognizes institutions that have advanced ADR scholarship…
August 2, 2018
THE FACULTY BUZZ: Professor Joan C. Williams (@joancwilliams) contributed an Op-Ed to the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Elites Feed Anti-Immigrant Bias.” https://on.wsj.com/2vatQZ1 — “There’s nothing inherent about the glamour work that makes it more valuable. It’s just very situational,” said Professor Williams in an article for CNN…