Faculty

Professor David Sandino presented on Oct. 24 at the Fulbright Association Conference in Washington, D.C.

Sandino’s talk, “California’s Implementation of the Human Right to Water: Turning Concept into Reality,” addressed the history and implementation of California’s Human Right to Water law (AB 685).

The Fulbright Association is an independent nonprofit and the American alumni organization of the Fulbright program.

On Oct. 29, Professor Courtney Joslin and Yale Law School Professor Douglas NeJaime presented to the editorial staff of Family Law Quarterly.

The Family Law Quarterly, a scholarly journal of the American Bar Association, will publish Joslin and NeJaime’s forthcoming article “Assisted Reproduction and Nonmarital Families.” 

On Oct. 29, the Wall Street Journal profiled “The Four Academics Who Dreamed Up California’s Wealth Tax,” including Professor Darien Shanske.

Professor Carlton F.W. Larson appeared on the Analyzing American Revolution podcast on Oct. 21.

Professor Emeritus Kevin R. Johnson spoke to the Sacramento Bee for an Oct. 26 story about the Trump administration’s list of people it says might be noncitizens improperly registered to vote.

The story points out that the list is the subject of many legal cases that could affect the administration of elections in California on Tuesday, Nov. 3. 

On Nov. 3, the most prominent wealth-tax proposal of the recent “tax the rich” era will go before California voters. UC Davis Law Professor Darien Shanske is one of its architects.

Professor Nila Bala appeared on the Oct. 18 episode of the Australian news program 7 News Spotlight. The episode explored what it deemed “the hidden dangers of DNA testing.”

Professor Albert Lin spoke to the journal Nature on Oct. 19 about an influx of public-records requests made to climate attribution scientists, who study the relationship between climate change and extreme weather events.

Many of the requests came from groups with ties to the fossil-fuel industry, Nature noted. 

UC Davis Law Professor Mary Ziegler received the 2026 American Historical Association's John Lewis Award for History and Social Justice. Established in 2021, this award recognizes a historian for leadership and ongoing engagement at the intersection of historical scholarship, public culture, and social justice.

Professor David Sandino spoke on a panel on Oct. 10 as part of alumni weekend at Santa Clara University School of Law. 

The panel focused on how technology has influenced environmental law. Sandino, a Santa Clara Law alum, addressed how California water law has served as an action-forcing mechanism for technology development, catalyzing new technologies for water supplies, conservation and reclamation.