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September
Cindy Thomas Archer
Professional engagement:
- Program Committee member, Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Professional engagement:
- William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law, American Bar Foundation (2025-2026 term)
Joshua D. Blank
Speaking engagement:
- Presenter, “The Benefits and Pitfalls of Automated IRS Guidance,” American Bar Association Tax Section (September 2025)
Robert S. Chang
Accolade:
- Spotlight on Excellence Award, Orange County Coalition for Diversity in the Law 2025 Awards Gala (September 2025)
Speaking engagements:
- Panelist, “Amicus Brief Strategies in the Lower Courts,” NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. 43rd Annual Capital Punishment Training Conference (July 2025)
- Panelist, “NextGen Civil Rights – Nonprofit, Practitioner, and Academic Partnerships to Support Effective Community Lawyering. Transformative Justice in a World on Fire” Joint Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and Western Law Teachers of Color, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi (June 2025)
- Plenary, “The Role of Amicus Briefs in Promoting Justice,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
- Keynote, 2025 Awards Gala. Orange County Coalition for Diversity in the Law (September 2025)
Publications
- Op-ed, “San Francisco Public Defender Made the Right Call to Limit Defender Caseloads” (with Robert C. Boruchowitz), Daily Journal (June 2025)
Amicus briefs
- U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Members of Congress and at the Ninth Circuit to support plaintiffs challenging the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans (Noem v. National TPS Alliance)
- Fifth Circuit on behalf of numerous organizations supporting plaintiffs challenging the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act (W.M.M. v. Trump)
- U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Korematsu Center and several other racial justice centers in support of a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors (Chiles v. Salazar)
Recognitions:
- 2025 Community Pillar Award, Orange County Asian American Bar Association, OCAABA 31st Annual Installation Dinner (July 2025)
- Spotlight on Excellence Award, Orange County Coalition for Diversity in the Law, 2025 Awards Gala (September 2025)
Rachel Croskery-Roberts
Professional engagement:
- Chair, Program Committee, Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Speaking engagements:
- Plenary Armchair Conversation with Professor Katie Porter, “Legislative Advocacy and Government Service in Times of Crisis,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
- Presenter, “The Role of Concurrences and Dissents as Preservers of Truth in a Post-Factual World,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Veena Dubal
Publication:
- Study, “How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it” (with Wilneida Negrón), Growth and Equity in the AI Era, Washington Center for Equitable Growth (August 2025)
Andrew Gold
Publications:
- “Legal Concepts as a Deep Structure of the Law: Reinach’s A Priori in Action,” in Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law (Marietta Auer, et al., eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2025) (co-authored with Henry Smith)
- “Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification,” American Journal of Jurisprudence (co-authored with Henry Smith) (forthcoming)
Speaking engagements:
- Speaker, Law & Contemporary Problems symposium, Duke Law School (September 2025)
David Kaye
Speaking engagement:
- Testimony, “Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation,” House Judiciary Committee (September 2025)
Christopher Leslie
Speaking engagement:
- Presenter, “Rebate Walls: Anticompetitive Manipulation of Pharmaceutical Formularies;” Antitrust Law and Healthcare Conference; Competition, Antitrust Law, and Innovation Forum (CALIF) (September 2025)
Omri Marian
Speaking engagement:
- Presenter, “The Benefits and Pitfalls of Automated IRS Guidance,” American Bar Association Tax Section (September 2025)
Charlie Martel
Professional engagement:
- Program Committee member, Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Speaking engagement:
- Presenter, “Freedom Writers – Student Perspectives on Writing on Rights in Law School,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Sue McMahon
Professional engagement:
- Program Committee member, Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Speaking engagements:
- Panelist, “Competency and Restoration Reimagined from Practice to Possibility: Level Setting,” National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Webinar (September 2025)
- Plenary Armchair Conversation with Professor Robert S. Chang, “The Role of Amicus Briefs in Promoting Justice,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
- Presenter, “Rule of Law and the Lawyering Skills Classroom,” (with Alison Mikkor), Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Alison Mikkor
Speaking engagement:
- Presenter, “Rule of Law and the Lawyering Skills Classroom,” (with Sue McMahon), Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Austen Parrish
Speaking engagements:
- Speaker, “Transformation, Impact, and Opportunities: Leadership Lessons from Trailblazing California Law School Deans,” California Lawyers Association Annual Meeting (September 2025)
- Moderator, “The Value of Legal Education,” The Access Imperative Convening (September 2025)
- Panelist, “Access to Legal Education,” The Access Imperative Convening (September 2025)
- Panelist, “Transformation, Impact, and Opportunities: Leadership Lessons from Trailblazing California Law School Deans,” California Lawyers Association, 2025 Annual Meeting (September 2025)
- Speaker, “Navigating the Year in a Time of Uncertainty,” Deans Dialogue (Webinar) (September 2025)
- Remarks, “AALS Workshop for Lateral Candidates,” AALS Webinar (September 2025)
Katie Porter
Speaking engagement:
- Plenary, “Legislative Advocacy and Government Service in Times of Crisis,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
L. Song Richardson
Speaking engagement:
- Speaker, “Transformation, Impact, and Opportunities: Leadership Lessons from Trailblazing California Law School Deans,” California Lawyers Association Annual Meeting (September 2025)
Michael Robinson-Dorn
Professional engagements:
- Appointment as inaugural Myron and Sonya Glassberg Chair in Environmental Law, UC Irvine School of Law (Fall 2025)
Trilby Robinson-Dorn
Publication:
- Article, “A Road Map for Law Schools: Changing Problematic Faculty Compensation Practices that Perpetuate the Gender Pay Gap,” AALS Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 73, No. 3 (2025)
Ezra Ross
Speaking engagement:
- Presenter, “Justice and the Problem of Client Centeredness,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Shauhin Talesh
Publication:
- Book, Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators (University of California Press 2025)
Beatrice Tice
Professional engagement:
- Program Committee member, Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Speaking engagement:
- Speaker, “Teaching Courage as a Lawyering Skill,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Danielle Tully
Professional engagement:
- Program Committee member, Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)
Ari Waldman
Accolade:
- 2025 Dukeminier Awards’ Ezekiel Webber Prize, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law for the article, “Gender Data in the Automated Administrative State,” 123 Colum. L. Rev. 2249 (2023), appearing in Volume 24 of the Dukeminier Awards Journal
Christopher Williams
Speaking engagement:
- “What is Critical Race Theory and Why Does the President of the U.S. Care?” The “Limits on Executive Power” Series, UC Irvine School of Law (September 2025)