Recent Faculty Scholarship and Engagement
UC Law San Francisco is pleased to share a selection of recent faculty publications and conference presentations from December 2024 to March 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
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.
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).
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).