Faculty Roundup | February 2025

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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