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NPR: Seattle City Council takes up changes to new minimum wage law
Prof. Veena Dubal said any city or state government that has tried to regulate these gig companies, has faced similar resistance.
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Reuters: These law schools ranked tops for jobs in 2023
UC Irvine School of Law is ranked No. 12 for having the most 2023 J.D. graduates in full-time, long-term, bar passage-required jobs, and is listed as the only school in California.
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USA Today: Collection agencies can buy debt from creditors, can sue for money | Fact check
Prof. Dalié Jiménez told USA TODAY: “There’s nothing illegal about selling debts to collection agencies – or debt buyers as they would more accurately be called if they’re buying,” she wrote in an email. “(It) happens to probably most debts that go unpaid.”
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The New York Times: A Look at Washington State’s ‘Strippers’ Bill of Rights’*
Prof. Veena Dubal said the new law was “the result of the hard work of organizing done by these workers in a very, very dangerous industry.”
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Mashable: Talking to someone online for emotional support may be riskier than you realize
Prof. Ari Waldman reviewed the terms of service for the companies Mashable reported on and found very limited grounds for a lawsuit if a user sought recourse after experiencing harm.
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CQ Researcher: Regulating Tech: Will new internet rules safeguard consumers?
Prof. David Kaye says that justification by governments teetering on the edge of autocracy to restrict information access is as simple as pointing to democratic countries who do it themselves.
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Orange Coast Magazine: Power of Women as Lifestyle Leaders
Christina Zabat-Fran ’12, General counsel for Lanvin Group: Orange County born and raised, was one of 60 students in the inaugural class at UCI Law and fondly recalls the day founding dean Erwin Chemerinsky called her to encourage her to “come build” whatever she wanted at the new school.
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Orange County Register: Sacramento Snapshot: New bill seeks to add protections for victims of abuse
Prof. Jane Stoever, director of the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, says: “For many survivors, reengaging with a person who has caused harm by initiating adversarial litigation is extremely frightening, retraumatizing and dangerous.”
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Foreign Affairs: The Risks of Internet Regulation*
Prof. David Kaye pens an op-ed that discusses how well-intentioned efforts could jeopardize free speech.
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Above The Law: The Best Law Schools For Diversity (2023)
UCI Law is listed as one of the best law schools for diversity (No. 1 for Asian students).
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Orange County Business Journal: Post-Pandemic Era Ups Lawyer Demand*
“We anticipate adding three more attorneys to our Orange County office by the end of the summer of 2024, including two recent UCI law graduates.”
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Sacramento Snapshot: Mandatory reporting in domestic violence cases can affect children, bill’s author argues*
A new bill in the California Legislature seeks to clarify just when mandated reporters need to alert child welfare authorities. Other supporters include the UCI Law’s Domestic Violence Law Clinic and the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color.
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NPR: Uber and Lyft threaten to halt operations in Minneapolis over minimum wage law
Professor Veena Dubal says: “The city council has done exactly what government should do for both fair labor and fair competition: ensure that workers are getting paid in ways that sustain their livelihoods.”
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The Washington Post: Lawmakers are wrestling with how to regulate deepfakes*
The problem is that “current laws aren’t working,” says UCI Law Professor Ari Ezra Waldman. While it has always been possible to manipulate images, he said AI presents a “proliferation problem,” because it has dramatically lowered the barriers to both creating and sharing those images.
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Bryant and Baden Justice Served: Professor Elizabeth Loftus Weighs In on Michelle Troconis Trial
VIDEO: Bryant and Baden talk with key defense expert, UCI Law Professor Elizabeth Loftus, about her role and the jury verdict.
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Law.com: 2024 Go-To Law Schools
UCI Law is No. 20 on Law.com’s Go-To Law School report.
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Harvard Law School: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Negotiation: Very Short Introduction to Negotiation
Join Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow for a virtual talk on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 to discuss her latest book Negotiation: A Very Short Introduction.
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RGA Online: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Science and the Law
Prof. Joseph DiMento contributed an article to Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente – RGAONLINE extreme weather events, climate change and the law.
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KQED: To Fight Rising Rents, These Fresno County Residents Bought Their Mobile Home Park
UCI Law’s Community and Economic Development Clinic helped park residents secure funding for the purchase through California’s Manufactured Housing Opportunity & Revitalization Program program and the Farmworker Housing Grant Program.
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UCI School of Social Ecology: New book tells DAPA story
The book is co-authored by Susan Bibler Coutin, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law and society; Jennifer M. Chacón, the Bruce Tyson Mitchell professor of law at Stanford; and Stephen Lee, UCI professor of law. Sameer Ashar, professor of law at UCI, is co-author of two chapters.
