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The Salt Lake Tribune: After a glitch in child abuse referrals, Utah, Navajo Nation making changes in how they communicate
Professor Heather Tanana says understanding and respecting jurisdiction and tribal sovereignty is key to handling child welfare cases involving Native American children.
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Consumer Financial Protection Circular: Prof. Veena Dubal’s Work on Algorithmic Wage Discrimination Cited
Professor Veena Dubal’s work on algorithmic wage discrimination is relied upon and cited in a new Consumer Financial Protection Circular.
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Orange County Register: UCI opens new civil rights law center named for Japanese-American who fought 1942 internment order*
UC Irvine Law celebrated the opening of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality on October 22.
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MSN: Who’s Afraid of Gary Gensler? Not Don Wilson, the Trader Who Beat the Regulator Once Before
Professor Kevin Haeberle said that some heads of regulatory agencies are simply “more aggressive” than others. “When those individuals find themselves limited in what they can do in terms of rule-making, they often turn to regulation by enforcement.”
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Environmental Working Group: New approaches to public data make the invisible visible: The environmental injustice of pesticide use in California
A joint report from: Californians for Pesticide Reform, UC Irvine School of Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources , Environmental Working Group, and Golden Gate University School of Law
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Company pays off debts of Atlantans in ‘random acts of kindness’
Professor Dalié Jiménez says, “Debt is a trap.” The further behind consumers fall, the harder it is to escape without severe damage to their lives, said Jimenez.
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Daily Journal: Supreme Court Rejects Bar’s Attorney-Supervised Exam Alternative*
Mary Basick, Assistant Dean for Academic Skills, was quoted in the Daily Journal about the California Supreme Court’s sweeping new recommendations for a new California bar exam.
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The Daily Journal: California’s dirty secret: Clean-record deals kept badcops on the job*
Prof. Susan Seager and the Press Freedom Project were highlighted in an opinion piece in The Daily Journal about clean-record agreements.
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L’Eco di Bergamo: Incorrect Information Can Generate False Memories
Professor Elizabeth Loftus: “Our mind can be influenced and believe situations or things that never happened to be true.”
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Bloomberg Tax: Crypto Tax Payments Get Few Takers as More States Eye Programs
Professor Omri Marian is quoted: “It makes no policy sense. It’s an added collection cost to the state with no discernible benefit.”
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Law.com: New UC Irvine Law Course Explores Practice Management With Help From Gen AI
This fall, UC Irvine Law offered a Modern Legal Practice Management course, taught by Amy Wegener and Ali Shahidi, where students learn how to navigate practice management, legal lifecycle matters, and client needs with assistance from generative AI tools.
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MSNBC: Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s Produced Play Fatherland Opens in NYC
Director Stephen Sachs discusses the show on Morning Joe.
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Avvenire: That false memory that generates truth
Prof. Elizabeth Loftus’ research highlights the ways in which déjà vu of events that never happened are formed and the techniquesto create them from scratch.
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ABA Journal: US law firms are closing their China offices
Professor Ji Li is quoted saying: “The China offices of most U.S. law firms did not generate much profit in the past two decades, so the exit decision should not be that hard,” adding that what attracted U.S. firms to China was “the rosy expectation of a growing Chinese economy and continuous U.S.-China economic integration.”
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The Washington Post: The EU is losing two titans of tech regulation, testing its resolve*
Professor David Kaye says the shift in leadership will test how committed the E.U. is to providing the resources needed to impose its complex new rule book.
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Oklahoma Voice: Concerns over private student loans brought to U.S. Senate panel
Professor Dalié Jiménez, Director of the Student Loan Law Initiative, said the private student loan industry had transformed in the last decade.
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Analytics Insight: AI’s Fact-Checking Game, Debunks Conspiracy Theories Better Than Humans
Professor Elizabeth Loftus said that the reason for AI’s success is the ability to deliver the truth without bruising a man’s ego.
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Mission Local: Mayor Breed is deleting texts. Legal experts say that’s a problem
Professor Susan Seager was quoted in Mission Local, weighing in on the legal implications of Mayor Breed’s deleted texts.
