Faculty

Professor Darien Shanske spoke to Bay City News Service (via SFGATE) for a Nov. 16 story headlined “San Jose Spotlight: DA May Investigate Santa Clara County Over Sales Tax Measure.” Read the story

Professor Emeritus Alan Brownstein wrote a Nov. 18 op-ed for The Hill headlined “Universities need better communication with the public that funds them.”  

Greater discussion is needed regarding university governance, Brownstein writes.

Professor Karrigan Börk spoke to Time magazine on Nov. 20 for a story headlined “What the Trump Administration’s Plan to Weaken Endangered Species Protections Could Mean.”

Bork told Time that proposals by the Fish and Wildlife and National Marine Fisheries services to roll back some Endangered Species Act rules are part of “a broad effort” to “allow more logging and mining and less conservation of the species that are in trouble in the United States.”

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt spoke to Newsweek for a Nov. 20 story headlined “Rural America Feels Differently About the Future.” The story focuses on an American Communities Project survey that found rural residents more optimistic about the country’s future.

The Association of American Law Schools’ Art Law section will present its first-ever Art Law Scholarship Award to Professor Brian Soucek and Columbia University Teachers College Associate Professor Jennifer C. Lena, for their 2025 Cornell Law Review article “Tax Law as Muse.”

Professor Shayak Sarkar presented his ongoing research on the taxation of domestic workers at the National Tax Association in Boston and the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Advanced Topics in Taxation Colloquium.

Professor Shayak Sarkar has joined the American Bar Foundation’s Wheeler Committee, the nonprofit research institute’s external research review panel.

Shayak Sarkar's scholarship addresses the structure and legal regulation of inequality. His substantive interests lie in financial regulation, employment law, immigration, and taxation.

Professor Elizabeth Joh spoke to Wired for a Nov. 5 story headlined “Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State.”

The mayor-elect’s progressive ideals conflict with the city’s police surveillance policies, Joh said. She noted that immigration enforcement will “almost certainly be a flashpoint,” since “the use of technology in that context is alarming people.”

In October, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Senate Bill 82, which seeks to end “infinite arbitration clauses,” as outlined in Professor David Horton’s highly influential 2020 University of Pennsylvania Law Review article of the same name.

An illustrious group of scholars from UC Davis Law and beyond gathered on Friday, Oct. 31 for a well-attended UC Davis Law Review symposium honoring Professor and longtime Dean Kevin R. Johnson.