Recent Faculty Scholarship and Engagement
UC Law San Francisco is pleased to share a selection of recent faculty publications and conference presentations from August to September, 2025. This period reflects our faculty’s continued scholarly productivity and thought leadership across a broad range of doctrinal and interdisciplinary fields.
Explore our faculty’s recent scholarship and professional engagements that exemplify UC Law SF’s ongoing commitment to academic excellence and advancement of the law.
Publications
Civil Procedure
Scott Dodson, International Encyclopaedia of Civil Procedure – United States (Wolters Kluwer 2025).
Scott Dodson, Personal Jurisdiction and the Fifth Amendment, 17 ConLawNOW 1 (2025).
Civil Rights
Moira O’Neill, A weak link in efforts to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing? Evaluating public engagement processes in housing plan development in Southern California, Urban Affairs Review (with several other authors).
Constitutional Law
Scott Dodson, Personal Jurisdiction and Federalism, 103 Washington University Law Review 1 (2025).
Scott Dodson, The Supreme Court and Public Opinion, 111 Iowa Law Review 117 (2025).
Jodi Short, Brief of Law Scholars Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees, in Rhode Island v. Trump (with multiple other authors).
Kate Weisburd, The Fourth Amendment Will no Longer Protect You, L.A. Times, Sept. 29 (with Daniel Harawa).
Criminal Law
Scott Dodson, Reforming Jury and Judicial Selection: A Preliminary Report, 32 Voir Dire 6 (2025) (with others).
Rory Little, Annual Summary of the Supreme Court’s Term, Criminal Cases, ABA.
Karen Musalo, Under Trump, U.S. returns to treating violence against women as a ‘private matter’, L.A. Times, Aug. 3.
Environmental Law
Dave Owen, Water and the Western City, 44 Stan. Env’t L.J 261.
Seema N. Patel, Governance & Guardrails: Artificial Intelligence & Low-Wage Workers, Md. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025-26).
Health Care Law
Dorit Reiss, School Vaccination: Past, Present, Future, 65 History of Education Quarterly (with Kim Tolley).
Jodi Short, Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees’ Petition for Rehearing En Banc, in Global Health Services v. Trump (with multiple other authors).
Intellectual Property Law
Robin Feldman, AI versus IP: Rewriting Creativity (Cambridge University Press).
Zach Henderson, Rethinking Robot Liability, B.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming Spring 2026).
Zach Henderson, Agentic AI and the God of the Gaps, Harv. J..L. & Tech (forthcoming Summer 2026).
George Horvath, Incremental Innovation, 28 SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 131.
International, Immigration, and Refugee Law
Karen Musalo, In Immigration Decision K-E-S-G-, a Break with Precedent Turns Back the Clock on Women’s Rights, Just Security, Sept. 12.
Conference Presentations and Speaking Events
Civil Procedure
Scott Dodson, Moderator, Iqbal at 15, Berkeley Law Symposium.
Civil Rights
Moira O’Neill, Lessons from Nationwide Approaches to Affordable Housing and Exclusionary Zoning.” Panel Presentation at Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Justice and the Future of Affordable Housing. Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Constitutional Law
Rory Little, Organizer, Moderator and Presenter, It’s a New World: The United States Supreme Court, and Canadian Perspectives. ABA Annual Meeting, Toronto.
Criminal Law
Binyamin Blum, Keynote Address, Jornadas Nacionales de Derecho Probatorio (National Conference on Evidence Law), Santiago.
Reuel Schiller, How Do Historians Use Context to Move Beyond “Anecdotes” to Good History? Federal Judicial Center, Evaluating Historical Evidence Virtual Series.
Employment Law & Workers’ Rights
Juliana Franco, Know Your Rights: Paid Family Leave and Disability Insurance, Webinar in collaboration with California Work & Family Coalition and Poder Latinx.
Jessica Lee, New Illinois Family Responsibilities Discrimination Law, Illinois Family Caregiver Coalition, August 2025.
Liz Morris, Please Don’t Fire My Patient: How to Support Patients with Work Accommodations and Paid Leave, Kaiser Permanente Hospital Oakland Grand Rounds.
Seema N. Patel, The Law of Worker Data Privacy Harms, Summer Works-in-Progress Workshop, AALS Sections on Employment Discrimination Law and Labor Relations and Employment Law.
Seema N. Patel, Moderator, Logged In, Left Out: Racial Inequality in Remote Work, UC Law Center for Racial & Economic Justice.
Seema N. Patel, Unique Privacy Harms Resulting from Datafication of Low-Wage Workers, Reinvigorating Antidiscrimination and Privacy Protections Panel, 20th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment & Labor Law (COSELL); Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ.
Environmental Law
Dave Owen, Allocating Electricity, University of Michigan Institute for Energy Solutions.
Dave Owen, Allocating Electricity, Networks, Platforms, and Utilities online workshop.
Health Care Law
Ben Barsky, Presenter, Intrastatutory Federalism and Opioids, Health Law Scholars Workshop, Saint Louis University School of Law.
George Horvath, Invited Speaker, Univ. of Utah SJ Quinney School of Law Lee E. Teitelbaum Symposium, Fireproofing the FDA.
Intellectual Property Law
Paul Belonick, Ethics: The Stoics and AI, UC Law SF LexLab AI Summer Colloquium.
Tal Niv, Calibrating Openness in AI, Foundation for American Innovation conference, After Fair Use: AI and Copyright, Washington DC (with Mike Linksvayer).
International, Immigration, and Refugee Law
Karen Musalo, Plenary Panel, National, State and Local Impact of Trump Administration Refugee Policies, Everyone Belongs Here Symposium, UCSF-UC Law SF Consortium Health Justice Series.
Moria Paz, Invited Speaker, Roundtable, Citizenship and Global Justice (with Ayelet Shachar), APSA.
Trial Advocacy
Scott Dodson, Judicial Efficiency in U.S. Courts, International Association of Procedural Law Annual Conference, Zagreb, Croatia.
April to March 2025
Publications
Business and Corporate Law
Evan Epstein, What It Takes to Lead in the Boardroom: Insights for Prospective Directors, The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum.
Evan Epstein, Navigating Startup Litigation: Essential Lessons for Board Members, Board Recruitment Magazine.
Jodi Short, Re-Theorizing Administrative Law in the Great Unsettling, JOTWELL, June 2, 2025.
Civil Procedure
Scott Dodson, A Procedural Giant, 77 UC Law Journal.
David I. Levine, Justice for Survivors, Bankruptcy for Schools? Daily Journal.
David I. Levine, Civil Procedure in California (2025 ed. West Academic).
Constitutional Law
Ming Hsu Chen, Civic Engagement among New Americans: Arab, Asian, Latinx Americans During a Shifting Political Landscape (with ILRC New Americans Campaign).
Jodi Short, Brief of Law Scholars Amici Curiae in New York v. Trump on Separation-of Powers Issues (with William W. Buzbee, Noah Rosenblum, Jonas Monast, Patrick Jacobi and Alexandra St. Romain).
Jodi Short, Brief of Law Scholars Amici Curiae in Global Health Council v. Trump on Separation-of-Powers Issues Raised by Effective Elimination of USAID (with William W. Buzbee, Noah Rosenblum, Jonas Monast, Patrick Jacobi and Alexandra St. Romain).
Lois A. Weithorn, Dobbs, State Policies, and Minors’ Interests in an Open Future, 36 UC Law SF Gender & Just. L.J. 99.
Criminal Law
Hadar Aviram, Secretive Sheriffs: COVID-19 Data Opacity in California Jails, Nevada Law Journal (with Aparma Komarla).
David Faigman, The Ineffectiveness of the “Consistent with” Judicial Limitation on Forensic Firearms Testimony, Law & Human Behavior (with Nicholas Scurich and Brandon L. Garrett).
David Faigman, Behavioral Research in the Shadow of Plea Bargaining, 38 Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
David L. Faigman, Overcoming Judicial Innumeracy: A Proposal to Bring the Venerable Process of Peer Review to the Enduring Problem of Courts’ Scientific Illiteracy, 26 Colum. Sci. & Technology L. Rev. 76 (2025).
Kate Weisburd, Criminal Procedure Without Consent, 113 Cal. L. Rev. 697 (2025).
Environmental Law
Dave Owen, We need to simplify environmental permits to boost their impact, The Hill (with Timothy Male).
Health Care Law
Ben Barsky, Reevaluating Medicaid Waivers Targeting the Reentry Population, JAMA Health Forum (2025) (with James René Jolin & Meredith B. Rosenthal) (first author).
Ben Barsky, Treatment Initiations and Opioid Overdoses Among Recently Incarcerated People After Adoption of the Take-Home Methadone Policy, Drug and Alcohol Dependence (2025) (with Shapei Yan & Meredith B. Rosenthal) (first author).
Ben Barsky, Characteristics of ACO-Affiliated Organizations Offering Methadone to Patients with Opioid Use Disorder, Health Affairs Scholar (with Maia Crawford, Haiden A. Huskamp, Mary F. Brunette & Ellen Meara) (middle author)
Robin Feldman, The New Clinical Investigation exclusivity: a substantial source of monopoly time for brand drugs, Nature Biotechnology.
Jessica Lee, Pregnant and Parenting Students Rights, California Women’s Law Center.
Emily Murphy, Neurolaw: Overview, Past, Present, and Future, in Neuroscience and Society: The Interface of Neuroscience and the Social Sciences (Taylor & Francis).
Dorit Reiss, The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program needs to be updated, not eliminated, STAT (with Arthur Kaplan).
Dorit Reiss, Changed Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccines for Children and Pregnant Women: A Failure of Process, Policy, and Science, JAMA (with Lawrence Gostin and Paul Offit).
Dorit Reiss, The Ninth Circuit’s Nod to Anti-Vaccine Advocates, 86 Ohio State Law Journal online (with Richard H. Hughes IV).
International, Immigration, and Refugee Law
Blaine Bookey, A nation that abandons due process turns its back on justice, The Daily Journal.
Blaine Bookey, Shining a Light on Asylum Adjudication—New Immigration Judge Outcome Tracking Tool (2025), Bender’s Immigration Bulletin (with Kristen Henderson).
Karen Musalo, The U.S. Failed refugees during the Holocaust. Trump’s Libya plan would too, L.A. Times.
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Fighting Grand Corruption: Transnational and Human Rights Approaches from Latin America and Beyond (Cambridge University Press).
Legal Writing
Morris Ratner, Stephen Goggin, Stefano Moscato, Margaret Greer & Elizabeth McGriff, Determinants of Success on the Bar Exam: One Law School’s Experience 2010-2023, 73.2 J. Legal Ed. 539 (2025).
Many UC Law SF scholars contributed to The Judges’ Book, Vol. 9 (Scott Dodson ed. 2025).
Trial Advocacy
Scott Dodson, The Complexities of Consent to Personal Jurisdiction, 113 California Law Review 333.
Scott Dodson, Transcultural Courts, 15 International Journal of Procedural Law 3.
Scott Dodson, The Gray Book of Conflict of Laws (KDP 2025).
Conference Presentations and Speaking Events
Business and Corporate Law
Evan Epstein, Moderated discussion on Who Governs AI? Inside the Rise of a New Empire, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Evan Epstein, invited Guest Speaker at the Nasdaq + Wharton Alumni for Boards’ Board Culture and Effectiveness Session.
Evan Epstein, Presentation on Corporate Governance Trends from Silicon Valley, Board Leadership Program from CESA, Chapter Mexico, Mexico City.
Evan Epstein, Invited Guest Speaker for the Santa Clara University Black Corporate Board Readiness Program Cohort 14.
Evan Epstein, Speaker at the Latino Corporate Directors’ Association BoardReady Institute (BRI), KPMG, Boston.
Robin Feldman, Presentation, DOJ Working Group for AI Issues.
Robin Feldman, Presentation, CA Working Group for AI Issues.
Robin Feldman, Testimony, California Law Revision Commission regarding AI and Competition (Sacramento, CA).
Robin Feldman, Podcast, Feldman Interviews Feldman: How I Used AI in Writing a Book about AI.
Robin Feldman, What Boards Should Know (about AI), Boardroom Governance Podcast (the Boardroom Governance Podcast is hosted by our own Evan Epstein).
Britney Glidden, Presentation, Generative AI in Legal Clinics: Training Tomorrow’s Lawyers with Emerging Technology (with Linsey Krolik), AALS Clinical Conference, Baltimore.
Zach Henderson, Invited Panelist, AI and the Tech Frontier, 14th Annual Transatlantic Law Forum (Oslo, Norway).
Jodi Short, Presenter, Understanding Moral Decision Making in Bureaucratic Organizations through the Political-Cultural Lens, Berkeley Sociology Conference in Honor of Neil Fligstein.
Jodi Short, Presenter, The Moral Turn in Administrative Law, Law & Society Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Jodi Short, Presenter, Sending a Message: An Empirical Assessment of Responses to Punitive and Non-Punitive Compliance Messaging Strategies, ComplianceNet, Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY.
Civil Procedure
Scott Dodson, Commentator, What is Civil Procedure For?, American Bar Foundation, Chicago.
Scott Dodson, Podcast Guest, Episode 247, Business Scholarship Podcast with Andrew Jennings (May 2025) (with Joe Grundfest).
Scott Dodson, Presenter, Cy Pres in Federal Securities Class Actions, Texas Law School.
Clinical Training
Nira Geevargis, Beyond Problem Solving: Using Case Rounds to Explore Storytelling Frames,10th Applied Legal Storytelling Conference (University of Michigan Law School).
Nira Geevargis, Funding the Future: Supporting Law Students to Stay on the Path to Public Interest Careers, ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference (San Francisco).
Nira Geevargis, Every Dollar Matters: Creative Solutions for Removing Financial Barriers in Experiential Education, 2025 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education—Reexamining the Role of Lawyers and the Responsibilities of Clinical Teachers in Society (Baltimore).
Gail Silverstein, Panelist, Every Dollar Matters: Creative Solutions for Removing Financial Barriers in Experiential Education, 2025 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Baltimore.
Constitutional Law
Matt Coles, Reuel Schiller, Jodi Short, Participants, DOGE Explained, Manny’s.
Rory Little, Supreme Court Review, KQED Forum.
Rory Little, Out of Many, One: The Constitution’s Promise, Hampshire and Franklin County Courthouses, Massachusetts.
Radhika Rao, Discussant, Brennan Center (NYU) Supreme Court Reform Conference, San Francisco.
Radhika Rao, Keynote, Planned Parenthood Advocate’s Fund the Fight event, Palo Alto.
Natalia Ramirez Lee, Panelist, First 100 Days of Trump, San Francisco Public Library, April 16, 2025 (discussed how workers have fared under the first 100 days of the Trump administration).
Reuel Schiller, Presentation: Civil Rights and Labor Rights in Wartime Shipyards, Ninth Circuit Historical Society panel on Law, Labor, and the Waterfront.
Employment Law & Workers’ Rights
Liz Morris, Caring for Pregnant, Postpartum, and Lactating Workers: How California healthcare providers can help patients secure their health and livelihoods through workplace accommodations and paid leave, UCLA Health.
Liz Morris, Understanding and Using the Legal Rights of Pregnant, Postpartum, and Lactating Workers, Orange County Perinatal Collaborative.
Seema N. Patel, The Law of Worker Data Harms, Thomas C. Grey Fellows’ Forum, Stanford Law School.
Seema N. Patel, The Law of Worker Data Harms, Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), UCLA School of Law.
Seema N. Patel, Panelist, 2025 Emerging Scholars Workshop, Culp Colloquium, Harvard Law School.
Seema N. Patel, Unique Privacy Harms Resulting from Worker Datafication of Low-Wage Workers, Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF) and Western Law Teachers of Color (WLTC) Joint Conference, University of Hawai’i Richardson School of Law.
Seema N. Patel, Panelist, Liberation from the Rule of Law: Indigenous Futures, Transgressing Colonial Borders, Worker Resistance, and the Possibility of Justice, CAPALF/WLTC Joint Conference, University of Hawai’i Richardson School of Law.
Seema N. Patel, Work in Progress, The Law of Worker Data Harms, Critical Justice Initiative Summer Workshop 2025: The Law and Political Economy of Legal Education, Seattle University School of Law.
Natalia Ramirez Lee, Presenter, The Evolving Employee Experience, ComplianceNet, Fordham University School of Law, May 28, 2025, New York, NY.
Natalia Ramirez Lee, Presenter, Working After the Pandemic: Ruptures and Continuities, Law and Society Association Conference, May 23, 2025, Chicago, IL.
Natalia Ramirez Lee, Discussant and Chair, Accessing Justice for Whom?, Law and Society Association Conference, May 22, 2025, Chicago, IL.
Joan Williams, book tour events for Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back, Brooklyn Public Library (in conversation with Gideon Lewis-Kraus of The New Yorker), Harvard Bookstore (in conversation with Prof. James Kloppenberg), Commonwealth Club San Francisco (in conversation with radio host Pat Thurston), Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore (Berkeley).
Health Care Law
Ben Barsky, Co-Chair, Health Interventions and the U.S. Criminal System, LSA Annual Meeting.
Ben Barsky, Chair, Accessing Vaccines: Challenges, Pitfalls, and the Role of Law, LSA Annual Meeting.
Ben Barsky, Chair, Crisis and Opportunity in Empirical Policy Research and Research Translation: The Key Role of Scientific Legal Mapping in Improving the Measurement of Legal Exposures, LSA Annual Meeting.
Ben Barsky, Presenter, Harm Reduction Federalism, Addressing Vulnerability Points, LSA Annual Meeting.
Robin Feldman, Pipeline Divestitures in the Pharmaceutical Sector, Stanford University’s BioLawLapalooza.
Emily Murphy, Collective Brains, Collective Rights, Duke Law School faculty workshop.
Dorit Reiss, Access to Vaccines, LSA.
Dorit Reiss, Law, Anti-Semitism, and Misinformation: Aid or Obstacle?, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Science conference, Houston Holocaust Museum
Dorit Reiss, Plenary Presentations: Advocacy in Action and Emerging Conversations, California Immunization Summit.
Yvonne Troya, CCRC Issues in California, Special Commission on Continuing Care and Retirement Communities of the Massachusetts State Legislature.
International, Immigration, and Refugee Law
Blaine Bookey, Guest Lecture, Negotiating Trauma in Legal Practice, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Moria Paz, presenter, JILSA summer workshop.
Moria Paz, Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars.
Moria Paz, Moderator, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens (’89) Memorial Symposium, UC Law SF.
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, talks on transitional justice for Impunity Watch Tunisia and groups working on transitional governance in Syria.
Legal Writing
Angie Gius, Discussant, Defining Us: Identity, Unity, and the Future of the Legal Writing Community, Association of Legal Writing Directors Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
Leo Martinez, Lead Speaker and Panelist, Traditions in the Teaching of Law, European Law Faculty Association Annual Meeting, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Leo Martinez, Plenary Speaker, Regulatory Shifts in Higher Education: What to Know. WASC Accreditation Resource Conference, Orange County.
Reuel Schiller, Presentation, Academic Publishing and Turning Your Dissertation into a Book, J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, University of Wisconsin — Madison, School of Law.
Tax Law
Manoj Viswanathan, Damage Award Taxation and Distributive Justice, Duke Law School.
December 2024 to March 2025
Publications
Business and Corporate Law
Abraham Cable, Startup Compensation 2.0, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog.
Robin Feldman, AI and Antitrust: “The Algorithm Made Me Do It”, Antitrust Prof Blog, Jan. 2025 (with Caroline A. Yuen).
Liz Morris, Pregnant Dockworkers in L.A. and Long Beach Need Better Workplace Protection, Ms. Magazine, January 14.
Seema Patel, Written recommendations in response to the California Privacy Protection Agency’s (CPPA) request for comments on proposed regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) (Jan 9, 2025) (with other authors).
Joan Williams and Jamie Dolkas, How to Assess the New Legal Risks of your DEI Policies, Harvard Business Review, February 27 (with Laura J. Maechtlen).
Constitutional Law
Zamir Ben-Dan, Slavery’s Constitutional Endurance: The Antebellum States’ Rights Principle, 105 B.U. L. Rev. 163.
Matthew Coles, Taking the Name Brown in Vain: Separate But Equal, Brown and the Harvard Case, 22 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 47 (2025).
Christina Koningisor, First Amendment Disequilibrium, 110 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2024), (with Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky). Recipient of the 2025 Harry W. Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy.
Zachary Price, Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic (Cambridge University Press).
Zachary Price, A Primer on the Impoundment Control Act, Lawfare (Jan. 28, 2025)
Zachary Price, Trump Follows Biden’s Lead by Flouting the Law, Wall Street Journal (Jan. 22, 2025)
Zachary Price, We Need a Supreme Court for All Americans, The Hill (Dec. 12, 2024) (op-ed contribution)
Plus a series of guest posts on Constitutional Symmetry (Zachary Price’s new book) on The Volokh Conspiracy (Nov. 25-27, 2024).
Michael Salerno, Amicus Brief, Center for Biological Diversity v. California Public Utilities Commission (Cal. S. Ct.) (with several other authors).
Kate Weisburd, “Legally Magic” Words: An Empirical Study of the Accessibility of Fifth Amendment Rights, 119 Nw. U. L. Rev. 637 (2024) (with Roseanna Sommers).
Joan Williams, Trump Says He Wants Meritocracy. Here’s How to Do it, Bloomberg, January 31 (with Vernā Myers).
Dispute Resolution
Zac Henderson, AI and Probabilistic Dispute Resolution, 2025 Wis. L. Rev. 215.
Environmental Law
John Leshy, How Biden Should Spend his Final Weeks in Office, N.Y. Times, December 24, 2024 (with multiple coauthors).
John Leshy, Utah Wants the Supreme Court to Give it Land Owned by All Americans, N.Y. Times, January 8, 2025.
Health Care Law
Benjamin A. Barsky, Medicaid Cuts Could Especially Harm Persons Needing Home-Based Supports, Journal of the American Medical Association (2025) (with Michael Ashley Stein & Lisa I. Iezzoni).
Benjamin A. Barsky, Improving the Transparency of Legal Measurement in Health Policy Evaluation—A Guide for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors, JAMA Health Forum (2025) (with Alina Schnake-Mahl, Cason D. Schmit & Scott Burris).
Benjamin A. Barsky, Prescribing Buprenorphine By Telehealth: Lessons From San Francisco Amidst A Changing Regulatory Landscape, Health Affairs Forefront (2025) (with Jeffrey K. Hom, Hillary Kunins, Leslie W. Suen, Donna Hilliard, Sneha Patil & Christine Soran).
Benjamin A. Barsky, Expanding Health Insurance for Formerly Incarcerated People (Jan. 29, 2025), The Commonwealth Fund Blog (with James René Jolin & Meredith B. Rosenthal).
Benjamin A. Barsky, Community Integration of People with Disabilities a Quarter Century After Olmstead v. L.C. (Jan. 8, 2025), Harvard Law Review Blog (with Michael Ashley Stein & Lisa I. Iezzoni).
Dorit Reiss, Administrative Changes that Decrease Transparency at HHS, The Regulatory Review.
Dorit Reiss, Court grants summary judgment in Gardasil litigation, Skeptical Raptor.
Dorit Reiss, Will RFK Jr. gut US vaccine policy? Here’s what to watch for, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Intellectual Property Law
Robin Feldman, Artificial Intelligence and Cracks in the Foundation of Intellectual Property, 76 UC L.J. 47.
International, Immigration, and Refugee Law
Karen Musalo, With Fear, Favor, and Flawed Analysis: Decision-Making in U.S. Immigration Courts, 65 B.C. L. Rev. 2743 (2024) (with Anna O. Law, Annie Daher, Katharine M. Donato, Chelsea Meiners).
Trial Advocacy
Scott Dodson, Judicial Jurisdiction and Competence, in Comparative Civil Procedure 134 (Woo & van Rhee eds. Edward Elgar 2025) (with Sebastian Spinei).
Scott Dodson, An Academic’s View of Supreme Court Advocacy, ABA Litigation Section, Appellate Practice Pointers (Jan. 10, 2025).
Scott Dodson was a settlement objector in Baker v. ParkMobile, LLC, No. 21-cv-02182 (N.D. Ga. 2025). The parties modified the settlement in response to the objection, and the court directed the parties to supply additional support, consistent with his objection.
David Levine, O’Connor’s California Practice: Civil Pretrial (Thomson Reuters, 2025 ed.).
Conference Presentations and Speaking Events
Business and Corporate Law
Jessica Dimas, Paid Leave and Workplace Rights During Pregnancy, Postpartum, and While Breastfeeding for California Farmworkers, Dar a Luz Community Health Worker Training.
Heather Field, Panelist, Use of LLCs/Partnerships in M&A Transactions, USC Gould School of Law 2025 Tax Institute (January 28).
Juliana Franco presented Prenatal Pesticide Exposure and Farmworkers’ Rights to family-medicine residents in Ventura County.
Nira Geevargis, Moderator, The Courage to Change How We Educate the Next Generation: Democracy, Autocracy, and Professional Identity, AALS Annual Meeting (January 8).
Nira Geevargis, Panelist, CLEA vs. AALS, Two Paths: One Goal, AALS Externships Committee and CLEA (Clinical Legal Education Association) (January 21).
Nira Geevargis, Case Rounds for Externship Professors, AALS Clinical Section Teaching Methodologies Committee.
Brittany Glidden, Generative AI in Legal Clinics: Training Tomorrow’s Lawyers with Emerging Technology, Northern California Clinical Conference.
Zac Henderson, Invited participant, AI Discussion Group, The Commonwealth Club.
Zac Henderson, Panel Moderator, UCLJ “Chronically Online” Symposium.
Zac Henderson, Presenter, Untitled Working Paper Presentation, Junior Scholars’ Conference, Northeastern University Law School.
Jessica Lee Rights of Lactating Students, 2025 California Breastfeeding Summit.
Liz Morris, From Advocacy to Implementation: The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, ACOG Congressional Leadership Conference.
Seema Patel: Socio-Economics and the Future of Worker Rights, Labor Relations and Employment Law and Socio-Economics Joint Program, AALS Annual Meeting.
Seema Patel, New Ideas in Workplace Law, commenting on Black Labor Coalitions Matter, Michael Z. Green, Texas A&M University School of Law, AALS Annual Meeting.
Seema Patel, Moderator & Panelist, Workers’ Voices in the Age of Digital Technologies, opening panel at Making Tech Work: A Statewide Conference on Labor, AI, and Building Power in California, Sacramento, CA (Jan 14, 2025).
Natalia Ramírez Lee, Flexible Work, Rigid Discrimination, New Ideas in Workplace Law and New Voices in Poverty Law programs, AALS Annual Conference.
Natalia Ramírez Lee, Flexible Work, Rigid Discrimination, Latina Law Scholars Virtual Workshop Series, January 23.
Natalia Ramírez Lee, Panelist, Remote and Flexible Work: Why it Matters for Women, Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Natalia Ramírez Lee, Flexible Work, Rigid Discrimination, Northeastern University Junior Scholars Conference.
Jodi Short, The Moral Turn in Administrative Law, Constitutional Interpretation in a Polarized Era workshop, UC Law San Francisco (January 31).
Jodi Short, Commentor, A Data-Driven Analysis of Bond Decisions in the Immigration Courts (by Amy E. Semet), AALS New Voices in Administrative Law Program.
Jodi Short, Commentor, Regulating Birth Justice, (by Jamille Fields Allsbrook), AALS New Voices in Administrative Law Program.
Jodi Short, The Moral Turn in Administrative Law, National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars, Tucson, AZ.
Jodi Short, Commentor, Purpose-Driven Compliance (by Veronica Root Martinez), at the Corporate Disasters Conference, UC Law SF.
Emily Strauss, Organizer and Emcee Extraordinaire,* Corporate Disaster Conference.
Joan Williams, How to Assess the New Legal Risks of your DEI Policies, ABA’s National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law.
Criminal Law
Prithika Balakrishnan, Panelist, Glowing Up Our Clinic Seminar, Northern California Clinical Conference, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Prithika Balakrishnan, Moderator, Background on Legal Theories and Approaches to Homelessness, Symposium on the Impact of Grants Pass on Homelessness in the Bay Area, UC Law San Francisco Constitutional Law Quarterly.
David Faigman, Managing Scientific Evidence in the Age of Climate Change, Judicial Council of California.
Emily Murphy, Panelist, Evidence Section Panel on Predictive Evidence, AALS Annual Meeting.
Emily Murphy, Collective Brains, Collective Rights, Seattle University School of Law faculty workshop.
Dispute Resolution
Mattie Robertson, Moderator, New Regulation of the ADR Process in California: An Interview with Senator Tom Umberg on the Aims and Workings of SB 940, California Lawyers Association, (December 9).
Environmental Law
Dave Owen, Panelist, Water Woes and Wizardry, AALS Annual Meeting.
Dave Owen, Commenter and presenter, Environmental Law Works-in-Progress Panel, AALS Annual Meeting.
Dave Owen, Panelist, Groundwater Recharge Panel, Planning and Conservation League Legislative Forum, UC Davis Law School, January 25.
Dave Owen, Climate Change and the Courts, Judicial Council of California.
Government Law
Zachary Price, Organizer and Panelist, Constitutional Interpretation in a Polarized Era, UC Law SF, January 30-31. Christina Koningisor, Radhika Rao, and Reuel Schiller moderated panels, and Jodi Short also was a panelist.
Zachary Price, Lawfare Daily: Understanding the Impoundment Crisis, Lawfare Podcast (Jan. 30, 2025).
Zachary Price, Book Talk and Panel Discussion, Constitutional Symmetry, George Washington Law School.
Health Care Law
Benjamin A. Barsky, Presenter, Measurement Validity as Catalyst for Law and Policy Development, Crisis and Opportunity in Empirical Policy Research and Advocacy: The Key Role of Scientific Legal Mapping, AALS Annual Meeting.
Benjamin A. Barsky, Presenter, Harm Reduction Federalism, Drug Use Research Group, University of California, San Francisco.
Benjamin A. Barsky, Presenter, Federalism and Opioids, Junior Scholars Conference, Northeastern University School of Law.
Robin Feldman, Pharmaceutical Mergers and Pipeline Divestitures, UC Irvine.
George Horvath, Comment k and the Medical Device Regulatory Mess: A Choice, Not a Necessity, Ninth Annual Health Law Works-in-Progress Workshop, Seton Hall Law.
Radhika Rao, Speaker, Property & Health Law 35 years after Moore v. UC Regents, George Washington University School of Law.
Dorit Reiss, What RFK Jr. Could Do, webinar for the Association of Health Journalists, December.
Dorit Reiss, Is it True You Can’t Sue a Vaccine Manufacturer? We Ask a Vaccine Legal Scholar, Why Should I Trust You Podcast.
Dorit Reiss, Immunization in Rough Water: Challenges and Potential Solutions, Immunize Colorado.
Dorit Reiss, Religious Exemptions and Vaccines: What to Expect in 2025.
Intellectual Property Law
Jeff Lefstin, Developments in Patent Law, California Lawyers’ Association annual IP Institute.
International, Immigration, and Refugee Law
Blaine Bookey, Panelist, Project 2025 Arrives – Immigration & The Justice System, KALW – the Bay Agenda.
Blaine Bookey, Guest Lecture, The Role of Law: Conflict, Health and Human Rights, UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences.
Blaine Bookey, Presenter, Actualizaciones de Asilo en Estados Unidos, Secretaría de Bienestar e Igualdad Social de la Ciudad de México.
Blaine Bookey, Panelist, Strengthening Global Governance: Transparency, Reform and Accountability, UC Davis Journal of International Law & Policy Symposium.
Richard Boswell, Give Us Your Tired, KPFA Morning Show, January 26.
Richard Boswell, Kidnapping for the Government, KPFA 94.1 FM, Sunday Show Guest Speaker.
Thalia Gonzalez, February 2025. Panelist, Fordham Urban Law Journal: Perspectives on Restorative Justice. Fordham Law School.
Thalia González, March 2025. Research presentation, Civil Rights, Carcerality and Education Law: The Future of American Public Education. Faculty Colloquium Series, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.
Thalia González, Health, Wellbeing and Reparations: Expanding the Right-Based Framework to Address Epistemic Harm, Northwestern University, Buffet Institute for Global Affairs (Global Working Group on Epistemic Reparations).
Thalia González, Panelist, Health Law and Advancing Equitable Access to Care for Youth. American University Washington College of Law.
Karen Musalo, With Fear, Favor and Flawed Analysis: Decision-making in U.S. Immigration Courts, 2025 Asylum Conference, New York Law School.
Karen Musalo, Making a Record for Particular Social Group; Strategies and Alternatives, 2025 Asylum Conference, New York Law School.
Gail Silverstein, Co-presenter, Building a Stronger Social Justice Coalition to Advance Justice, Northern California Clinicians’ Conference.
Trial Advocacy
Scott Dodson, Lecture, The U.S. Supreme Court and Public Opinion, Radzyner Law School, Israel (Dec. 3, 2024).
Scott Dodson, Panelist, Forum Shopping in the Courts: Courage or Cowardice?, AALS Section on Litigation (Jan. 9).
Scott Dodson, Panelist, Consent After Mallory, AALS Section on Conflict of Laws (Jan. 10).
Scott Dodson, Presenter, The Forms and Modes of Judicial Restraint, AALS Works-in-Progress Roundtable (Jan. 10).
Scott Dodson, Presenter, The Complexity of Consent to Personal Jurisdiction, Emory Law School (Jan. 26).