IRVINE, Calif. (April 24, 2025) — The University of California, Irvine School of Law hosted its annual Celebration of Books, honoring nine books authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited by UC Irvine Law faculty within the last year. The collection featured at this year’s event encompassed a wide range of topic areas, ranging from tax law and civil rights to international dispute resolution and access to justice.
The following faculty were featured at the 2025 Celebration of Books:
Joshua D. Blank, Professor of Law
- Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming May 2025)
- Untaxed: The Rich, The IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance (with Ari Glogower) (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Robert S. Chang, Professor of Law and Sylvia Mendez Presidential Chair for Civil Rights; Executive Director, Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality
- Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts (with Nolan Cabrera) (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Eve Darian-Smith, Affiliated Faculty, UC Irvine School of Law; Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Global and International Studies
- Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming May 2025)
Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law
- Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law
- Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (4th ed.) (with Lela Love, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Michael Moffitt, and Kristen Blankley) (Aspen Publishing, 2025)
- International Conflict Resolution Processes (with Andrea Kupfer Schneider) (Carolina Academic Press, 2025)
Ann Southworth, Professor of Law; Co-Director, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
- The Legal Profession: Ethics in Contemporary Practice (3rd ed.) (with Catherine Fisk) (West Academic Publishing, 2024)
Emily Taylor Poppe, Professor of Law; Faculty Director, UCI Law Civil Justice Research Initiative
- Access to Justice: An Introduction (West Academic Publishing, forthcoming May 2025)
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