Faculty

Congratulations to Professor Lisa R. Pruitt, who has reached the 25-year milestone as a faculty member at UC Davis School of Law.

Pruitt, who arrived at the law school in 1999, will be honored Wednesday, Oct. 22 at an event celebrating the latest members of UC Davis’ exclusive Quarter Century Club.

The Brigitte Bodenheimer Research Scholar and a Distinguished Professor of Law, Pruitt received the law school’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2020.

Professor Kelly Behre has been appointed to the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. She will serve a one-year term.

Behre previously served on the commission from 2018-21, before she termed out.

Professor Darien Shanske  weighed in for the Washington Post on Aug. 26 about President Donald Trump’s opposition to other countries imposing digital services taxes on giant tech companies based in the United States. Read the story

By Carla Meyer

In an era of extreme division, Professor Aaron Tang has found a national – and creative – platform to encourage civil discourse.

Hannah Buxbaum, the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, has been elected to the Institut de Droit International, a leading society that promotes the development of international law.

Professor Peter Lee participated in a recent roundtable hosted by Politico on financial fraud and cybercrime. The roundtable gathered representatives from the technology industry, law enforcement, government, and academia to address the rise of technology-based scams and other cybercrime. Professor Lee spoke about the role of AI-based technologies in both facilitating fraud and detecting it, and the need to consider greater regulation to stem cybercrime.

Professor Peter Lee recently presented two papers at faculty workshops in Hong Kong. At the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, he presented an article entitled “Synthetic Data and the Future of AI.” The article, which was recently published in the Cornell Law Review, explores the emergence of synthetic data used to train machine learning (ML) models and ways to enhance the development of such data.

Professor Peter Lee recently presented an article entitled “Synthetic Data and the Future of AI” at faculty workshops at Seoul National University School of Law and Korea University School of Law. The article explores the use of synthetic words, images, and other data to train machine learning (ML) models and ways to ensure the robust, transparent, and distributed development of such data.

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin joined other immigration law experts for a June 30 webinar, “The History of U.S. Immigration.”

The University of Houston Law Center hosted the event, which provided context for today’s immigration policy.