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October
Sameer Ashar
Speaking engagements:
- Facilitator, “Envisioning and Enacting a Better Future,” Justice as Lens community conversation, UC Irvine School of Law (October 2025)
- Panelist, “The Role of Public Citizen and the Rule of Law,” Association of American Law Schools (December 2025)
Mario L. Barnes
Speaking engagement:
- Invited speaker, The Jerome M. Culp, Jr. Critical Theory Lecture, Center on Law, Race & Policy, Duke University School of Law (September 2025)
Joshua Blank
Publication:
- Article, Audit Guides and the Administrative State, 29 Florida Tax Review __ (forthcoming, 2026) (with Leigh Osofsky)
Speaking engagements:
- Presenter, ‘Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance’ (with Leigh Osofsky), American Bar Association Tax Section, Committee on Tax Practice and Technology (September 2025);
- Presenter, ‘Audit Guides and the Administrative State’ (with Leigh Osofsky), University of Missouri Tax School of Law Tax Policy Colloquium (September 2025);
- Presenter, ‘Rethinking Taxpayer Purpose’ (with Ari Glogower), 118th Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association, Boston, MA (November 2025);
- Presenter, ‘Audit Guides and the Administrative State’ (with Leigh Osofsky), 118th Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association, Boston, MA (November 2025)
Book reviews and events:
- Online symposium on Prof. Blank’s book, “Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance” (Cambridge University Press, 2025) (with Leigh Osofsky), published on Yale Journal on Regulation and ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice’s Notice & Comment Blog (October 6-10, 2025) — Symposium participants: Professor Emily Cauble (Wisconsin) Professor Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) Professor Sarah Lawsky (Illinois) Nina Olson (Former National Taxpayer Advocate) Professor Clint Wallace (South Carolina) Professor Lawrence Zelenak (Duke) — following the reviews by all the participants, Joshua Blank and Leigh Osofsky will publish a response as the final post of the symposium.
- Reviews of Prof. Blank’s book, “Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance” (Cambridge University Press, 2024) (with Ari Glogower) — one by Leslie Book (Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law), published in the British Tax Review (September 2025) and the other by Orly Mazur (Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law), published in the Journal of the American Taxation Association (September 2025)
Robert S. Chang
Speaking engagements:
- Speaker, Brown Bag, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, UC Irvine Law, September 2025
- Speaker, “What Asian American Legal History Can Teach Us About Travel Bans, Birthright Citizenship, the Trans Military Ban, the Attack on Law Firms, and Other Contemporary Issues,” William P. Gray Legion Lex Inn of Court, Costa Mesa, California, September 2025
- Panelist Session 2, Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment, The 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy, Howard University School of Law, Webinar, September 2025
- Panelist, Breaking Barriers: Navigating Immigration Policies and Their Impact on Marginalized Communities, Korean American Bar Association of San Diego, September 2025
- Speaker, “A (Partial) History of Race in America,” Elimination of Bias CLE, Buchalter, Irvine, California, September 2025
Amicus filings:
- Commonwealth v. Robinson (MA Supreme Judicial Court; race and peremptory challenges)
- State v. Henderson (CA Courts of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District; CA Racial Justice Act and statistical evidence of disparity)
- State v. Bankston; State v. Barrera; State v. Chhuon (CA Supreme Court; CA Racial Justice Act and implicit bias)
- Noem v. National TPS Alliance (SCOTUS; on behalf of 137 Members of Congress; Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans)
Veena Dubal
Speaking engagement:
- Keynote speaker, “Data Rights at Work: A Comparative Perspective,” Fourth Edition Lawtomation Days: Technology and (Dis)Trust — AI Between Confidence and Controversy, IE University (IE Law School), Madrid, Spain (October 2025)
Andrew Gold
Speaking engagements:
- Invited commenter, Michigan Law Junior Faculty Forum (October 2025)
- Speaker, Columbia Law School Private Law Colloquium (October 2025)
Annie Lai
Speaking engagement:
- Panelist, “Professional Identity in an Era of Mass Deportation,” Association of American Law Schools (November 2025)
Christopher Leslie
Speaking engagement:
- Discussant, “Antitrust Law and Food Systems: Protecting Competition for Farmers, Workers, and Consumers,” Lunch & Learn Webinar, Berkeley Food Institute (September 2025)
Susan McMahon
Speaking engagement:
- Panelist, “Pedagogical Reform and Hierarchy and Pedagogy,” AALS Journal of Legal Education Symposium themed “Impact, Excellence, Resilience: Contemporary Views on Pioneering Legal Education Scholarship,” New York Law School (October 2025)
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Publications:
- Book chapter, Henry Kissinger: Metternich, Messenger, Mediator, or Meddler? in “Negotiators Who Changed the World: Timeless Lessons on Leadership and Negotiation,” Remigiusz Smolinski, ed. (Springer Nature 2025)
- Book chapters in “Abogacía Ética, De Oxímoron A Redundancia. Experiencias Docentes En Ética Profesional” (Ethical Advocacy, From Oxymoron to Redundancy. Teaching Experiences in Professional Ethics), Martín F. Böhmer, ed. (Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch 2025) (Spanish):
- Contar historias en la escuela: cómo utilizar estudios de casos e historias para enseñar ética profesional (Telling Stories in School: Using Case Studies and Histories to Teach Professional Ethics), 69 Fordham L. Rev. 787 (2000)
- El método de “infusión” en la UCLA: la enseñanza transversal de la ética profesional (The “Infusion” Method at UCLA: Teaching Professional Ethics Cross-Cutting), LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS., Summer-Autumn 1995 (with Richard H. Sander)
Professional engagement:
- Discussion by Faina Milman-Sivan and Dana Gilo (University of Haifa, Israel) titled “ADR Case Study” honoring Prof. Menkel-Meadow’s work, AALS Journal of Legal Education Symposium themed “Impact, Excellence, Resilience: Contemporary Views on Pioneering Legal Education Scholarship,” New York Law School (October 2025)
Alison Mikkor
Speaking engagement:
- Panel Moderator (Co-Editor, Journal of Legal Education), AALS Journal of Legal Education Symposium themed “Impact, Excellence, Resilience: Contemporary Views on Pioneering Legal Education Scholarship,” New York Law School (October 2025)
Austen Parrish
Speaking engagements:
- Panel Moderator (Co-Editor, Journal of Legal Education), AALS Journal of Legal Education Symposium themed “Impact, Excellence, Resilience: Contemporary Views on Pioneering Legal Education Scholarship,” New York Law School (October 2025)
Trevor Reed
Speaking engagement:
- Speaker, “The Intangible NAGPRA,” Dawn of AI, Dusk of WTO – Now and Next Challenges for Intellectual Property — a Symposium, Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University (September 2025)
Ji Seon Song
Speaking engagements:
- Panelist, Policing, Carcerality, and Public Health: What Do We Do Now, part of ‘Memory, Medicine, and Law: Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina,’ Georgetown Law O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law (September 2025)
- Panelist, Radicalization and Criminalization in Postcolonial Worlds: A Comparative Discussion, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (September 2005)
- Presented paper, ‘Pregnancy’s Criminal Procedure Problem,’ Care and Carcerality Conference, University of Wisconsin Law School (September 2025)
Jane Stoever
Accolade:
- Recipient, 2025 Paul H. Chapman Award, Foundation for Improvement of Justice (September 2025)