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.
April
Mary Basick
Publication (forthcoming):
- Book, Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam, Bar Review Series, 3rd Edition (with Tina Schindler) (Aspen Publishing April 25, 2025) (available for pre-order on Amazon)
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Publication
- Article, “Blasé: Deviant Lawyers and the Denial of Discrimination,” Law & Society Review 1–32 (2025)
Robert S. Chang
Speaking engagement:
- Roundtable Discussion, “A Deeper Dive: Executive Power and the Rule of Law,” UC Irvine School of Law (April 16, 2025)
Andrew S. Gold
Publication:
- Article, “The Equity in Corporate Law” (with Henry E. Smith), 100 Notre Dame Law Review 789 (2025)
Carrie Hempel
Publication
- Article, “Within the Law, Beyond Exploitation: The Evolution of Immigrant Worker Cooperatives” (with Gowri J. Krishna), 52 Fordham Urb. L.J. 931 (2025)
Dalié Jiménez
Speaking engagements:
- Presenter on paper, “Do Documents Protect Defendants? Evaluating the Effects of California’s Fair Debt Buying Practices Act,” American Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting (May 16-17, 2025)
- Presenter on paper, “Do Documents Protect Defendants? Evaluating the Effects of California’s Fair Debt Buying Practices Act,” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (November 8, 2025)
Stephen Lee
Speaking engagement:
- Roundtable discussion, “A Deeper Dive: Good Governance and the Limits of Presidential Power and the Executive Branch,” UC Irvine School of Law (April 14, 2025)
Kenneth Simons
Publication (citation):
- Article, “Self-Defense, Necessity, and the Duty to Compensate, in Law and Morality,” 55 San Diego L. Rev. 357 (2018), was cited and discussed in detail by the Indiana Supreme Court in a recent decision, Turner v. State, 2025 WL 782331 (March 12, 2025)
Ann Southworth
Speaking engagement:
- Invited speaker, “Freedom of Speech and the Crisis of the Political Marketplace,” Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment, Yale Law School (March 28-29, 2025)
Publication (book review):
- Review of Prof. Southworth’s book, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending (Cambridge University Press 2024), published in Perspectives on Politics, Volume 23, Issue 1: Special Section: Labor and Collective Action, March 2025, pp. 374 – 376
Jane Stoever
Speaking engagements:
- Presenter, “Connected Vehicles and Protections for Survivors: Passage and Implementation of SB 1934,” California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, statewide webinar funded by the Office of Violence Against Women (March 18, 2025)
- Invited Lecture, “Domestic Violence as a Primary Health Issue, Mandatory Reporting Laws and Complexities, and Legal Remedies to Abuse,” UC Irvine School of Medicine (January 29, 2025)
Accolades:
- Piqui’s Law Honor from the California Protective Parents Association for legal analysis and advocacy to pass Piqui’s Law, which requires training of judges and custody evaluators, prohibits ordering abused children to reunification camps, and sets legal standards for child custody and experts in California (February 15, 2025)
Shauhin Talesh
Speaking engagements:
- Presenter on forthcoming book, “Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators,” NYU Law School Cybersecurity Innovation Law and Policy Workshop (virtual) (April 3, 2025)
- Presenter on forthcoming book, “Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators,” Faculty Workshop at Southwestern Law School (April 9, 2025)
- Presenter on forthcoming book, “Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators,” Faculty Workshop at New York University Abu Dhabi (April 15, 2025)
- Faculty speaker, “The Endogenous Construction of Law: How Cyber Insurance Companies Construct the Meaning of Privacy Law and Cybersecurity Compliance,” Digital Capital and Political System: Shaping Inequalities in a Technological Age (Research Symposium), University of Sharjah, UAE (April 17-18, 2025)
Katharine Tinto
Speaking engagement:
- Panel presenter on misdemeanors, “Forever Criminalized?: How Collateral Consequences Advance Disparities in Criminal Justice,” Hofstra Law Review Volume 53 Symposium (March 28, 2025)