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Los Angeles Times: Trump fires more immigration judges in what some suspect is a move to bend courts to his will
Professor Sameer Ashar called recent immigration actions “experiments” in expanding expedited removal and limiting due process for immigrants.
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Los Angeles Times: State Bar of California admits it used AI to develop exam questions, triggering new furor
Mary Basick, Assistant Dean of Academic Skills, called the February 2025 bar exam “worse than we imagined,” sharply criticizing the use of AI-generated questions drafted by non-lawyers as “an obvious conflict of interest.”
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Daily Journal: State Bar used AI to write exam questions, suggests lower pass score*
Mary Basick said the flawed questions made many suspect AI was used on the bar exam.
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KCRA: ‘We were essentially guinea pigs’: New California bar exam causes chaos after rollout of hybrid test (Video)
Mary Basick, Assistant Dean of Academic Skills, told KCRA that the February bar exam’s rollout was unfair due to technical failures and unfamiliar questions.
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San Francisco Chronicle: California may lower bar exam score after botched rollout and AI controversy*
Mary Basick, Assistant Dean of Academic Skills, called the February bar exam “unacceptable and utterly outrageous,” citing a conflict of interest in the exam’s design and validation.
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SFGATE: Bay Area traveler says Uber gift cards boosted fare
Professor Veena Dubal was cited for her 2023 research showing how companies like Uber and Amazon use algorithms to influence behavior and set unequal pay.
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The San Francisco Standard: In reversal, Lurie says you can read his texts
Professor Susan Seager, head of the Press Freedom Project, was quoted in the San Francisco Standard emphasizing that compliance with public records laws is a basic obligation for public officials.
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UCI School of Social Ecology: No. 1 cognitive psychologist receives double honors
Professor Elizabeth F. Loftus has been named a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS and a study she co-authored has won a 2025 Best Paper Award from Computer Human Interaction (CHI).
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The New Yorker: So You Want to Be a Dissident?
Professor David Kaye is quoted in The New Yorker on the challenges facing political dissidents and the growing risks to free expression in the United States.
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The Washington Post: Some foreign students fear speaking out as visa cancellations rise
Professor Veena Dubal was quoted in The Washington Post discussing the chilling effect of rising visa cancellations on foreign students.
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Bar exam blunders and the crisis the State Bar continues to ignore*
Mary Basick, Assistant Dean of Academic Skills, co-authored an article in the Daily Journal arguing that the State Bar’s rushed changes to the bar exam violate state law and undermine fairness.
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Daily Journal: Audit of troubled bar exam likely months away, Umberg says*
Mary Basick said the delay in auditing the bar exam leaves test takers in limbo, compounding an already stressful situation.
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Law360: A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process*
Peter Afrasiabi, director of UC Irvine Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic and partner at One Legal, authored a Law360 article examining the due process implications of executive actions against law firms, drawing parallels to the Cold War-era Harry Bridges case.
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Law and Political Economy: Eight Legal Experts on Trump’s Assault on Higher Education
Professors Sameer Ashar and Veena Dubal contributed to a piece in Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, analyzing the Trump administration’s executive actions against higher education.
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Vanderbilt University: Law Clinics File Amicus Brief Related to Application of Copyright Act in Tennessee Court of Appeals Case
Professor Jack Lerner, Director of the IPAT Clinic, joined a group of amici urging the Tennessee Court of Appeals to reverse a decision that misapplied the Copyright Act to restrict public access to records.
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The New York Times: How X Is Benefiting as Musk Advises Trump
Professor David Kaye is quoted in The New York Times: “He is transforming X as a platform into government media, without any kind of constraint.”
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American Association of University Professors: The Assault on Campus Protests
Professor Sameer Ashar, Director of the Workers and Tenants Law and Organizing Clinic, authored a piece examining how a recent Trump executive order targets pro-Palestinian student activism and threatens the democratic spirit of U.S. college campuses.
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