UC Irvine Law faculty are distinguished scholars, educators, and thought leaders, making significant contributions to the legal field each month. Stay up to date with their latest publications, research, and achievements through our monthly timeline, showcasing how they continue to shape legal scholarship and practice worldwide.
February
Mario Barnes
Publication:
- Author, “It’s Structural, Not Personal: Disrupting the Fallacy That Renders the Court ‘Unreasonably’ Blind to the Meaning of Color in Policing,” 72 UCLA L. Rev. Dis. 328 (2024) (available here)
Speaking engagement:
- Lecture, Jerome M. Culp, Jr. Critical Theory Lecture, Duke Law School Center on Law, Race & Policy (February 20, 2025)
Veena Dubal
Publication:
- Author, “Data Laws at Work,” Yale Law Journal Forum (January 31, 2025) (available here)
David Kaye
Speaking engagement:
- Panelist, “The American Election,” and “A Dialogue on War Zones,” UC Irvine Forum for the Academy and the Public 2025’s Annual Conference, “Facts Under Fire: Reporting in Impossible Times” (February 8, 2025)
Stephen Lee
Speaking engagement:
- Panelist, “Pop-Up Panel: Birthright Citizenship—Learn about Trump’s new Executive Order and ask your questions to UC Irvine experts,” UC Irvine School of Social Sciences and Department of Political Science (February 3, 2025)
Elizabeth Loftus
Speaking engagement
- Panelist, “Tech Challenges to Truth in the Age of AI and Algorithms,” UC Irvine Forum for the Academy and the Public 2025’s Annual Conference, “Facts Under Fire: Reporting in Impossible Times” (February 8, 2025)
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Publication:
- Co-author (with Andrea Kupfer Schneider), International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Academic Press 2025) (more information here)
Speaking engagement:
- Book launch for International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Academic Press 2025), UC Irvine Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (February 13, 2025)
Katie Porter
Speaking engagements:
- Interview, “A Conversation with Former U.S. Representative Katie Porter,” Yale Law School Solomon Center (February 6, 2025)
- Presenter, “Three Reflections for 2025,” UC Irvine School of Social Ecology (February 11, 2025)
Ari Waldman
Publication (forthcoming):
- “Rethinking Youth Privacy” (with Danielle Keats Citron), accepted for publication by the Virginia Law Review
Speaking engagements:
- Presenter, “LGBTQ+ Executive Orders,” Rainbow Labs (Feb. 10, 2025)
- Presenter, “The Digital Iron Cage: The Radical Death of Tech Ethics and Safety,” New York University School of Law, Privacy Research Group (Jan. 29, 2025)
Accolade:
- Listed as No. 34 in Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp’s article, “The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2024” (February 05, 2025) (available here)