Faculty Roundup | March 2025

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Joshua Blank 

Publications: 

  • Book, Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance (co-authored with Leigh Osofsky) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming May 2025), available for pre-order via Cambridge University Press and Amazon 
  • Book, Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance (co-authored with Ari Glogower) (Cambridge University Press 2024) 

Speaking engagements: 

  • Presenter, “Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance” (with Ari Glogower), The Tax Club, New York, NY (December 2, 2024)  
  • Presenter, “Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance” (with Ari Glogower), Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Illinois (February 11, 2025)  
  • Presenter, “Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance” (with Ari Glogower), UC Irvine Tax Law Society, Irvine, California (February 28, 2025) 
  • Moderator, “Beyond the Code: Careers in Tax Law Explained”, American Bar Association Tax Section, Online Webinar (March 19, 2025)  
  • Presenter, Panel: The State of Tax Judicial Doctrines, Virginia Tax Study Group, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia (March 28, 2025) 

Robert S. Chang 

Forthcoming publications: 

  • Article, “Who Owns Civil Rights History” (with H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.), 105 Boston University Law Review (forthcoming 2025) 
  • Article, “‘That’s Not My Name’: The Linguistic Violence of Misnaming Parties in Court Proceedings and in Opinions” (with Linda CJ Lee & Cecily C. Hazelrigg), 100 Washington Law Review (forthcoming 2025)  
  • Book, AsianCrit at the Intersections (with Rose Cuison-Villazor) (University of California Press, forthcoming Spring 2027) 

Speaking engagements: 

  • Speaker, “How Do We Come to Participate in the Struggles of Those Who Are Not Us?” 2025 Neil Gotanda Lecture in Asian American Jurisprudence; symposium commemorating the 25-year anniversary of the publication of Professor Chang’s book, Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State (New York University Press 2000), hosted by the Berkeley Asian American Law Journal. UC Berkeley Law (March 2025)  
  • Keynote address, “What It Means to Me to Be a Korean American Lawyer During this Current Moment,” Korean American Bar Association – San Diego Annual Dinner (February 2025)  
  • Speaker, “Defining the Problem—A History of Race in America,” and “Machine Bias,” Training on Anti-Racism and the Courts, Judicial College of Maryland (February 2025)   

Veena Dubal 

Speaking engagement: 

  • HR Workshop, “Racialized Workforces, Digital Technologies, and Transnational Labor,” Yale Law School (March 6, 2025) 

Kevin Haeberle 

Republication: 

Speaking engagements: 

  • Draft article presentation, “Securities Regulation’s Liquidity Rationale,” George Washington Law School Business Law Workshop (March 2025) 

David Kaye 

Speaking engagement: 

  • Presentation, “What Matters to Me and Why,” UC Irvine Office of Inclusive Excellence (March 13, 2025) 

Appointment: 

Shauhin Talesh 

Speaking engagement: 

  • Workshop session on article, “Insuring Cyber Insecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators of Consumer Protection,” Consumer Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley Law Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and Boston University School of Law (March 6, 2025) 

Emily Taylor Poppe 

Professional engagement: 

  • Appointment, Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s High-Volume Civil Adjudication Project (Effective January 2025) 

Ari Waldman 

 Forthcoming publications: 

  • Article, “Challenging Technology Expertise,” Vol. 105, Boston University Law Review (forthcoming 2026) 
  • Article, “Rethinking Youth Privacy” (with Danielle Keats Citron), Vol. 111, Virginia Law Review (forthcoming 2025 or 2026) 
  • Article, “Digital Authoritarianism” (with Danielle Keats Citron), University of Chicago Law Review Online (forthcoming 2025) 
  • Article, “Civil Society and the Future of Privacy Law,” Vol. 74, Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2025) 
  • Book review of Surveillance Deputies: When Ordinary People Surveil for the State (by Sarah Brayne, Sarah Lageson, & Karen Levy), JOTWELL (Journal of Things We Like Lots) (February 6, 2025) 

Speaking engagements: 

  • Host, first Law and Technology Theory and Methods Workshop (January 31, 2025) 
  • Host, second annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender, & Law Conference (February 21-22, 2025) 
  • Queer Resilience Online Keynote Address on new book project, The Current State of Legal Protections for LGBTQ+ Populations, Rainbow Labs (February 10, 2025)