Faculty

Professor Nila Bala’s forthcoming Boston College Law Review article  “Parent-Child Privilege as Resistance” received a highly positive and expansive review in Jotwell from Rutgers Law School Professor Anibal Rosario-Lebrón.

On Nov. 8, Professor Afra Afsharipour presented her article “ESG Dealmaking” (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 2024) as part of the Emanuel Emroch Colloquy Series at the University of Richmond School of Law. 

Politico reporters Blanca Begert and Ry Rivard quoted Professor Rick Frank in a Nov. 18 report on how New Jersey and several other U.S. states now face drought and wildfire conditions long familiar to Californians.

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin spoke to David Shribman for a Nov. 16 story in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper on President-elect Donald Trump’s unorthodox Cabinet picks, including former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson spoke to Sacramento’s ABC10 news for a Nov. 22 report on whether California can afford to challenge moves made by the new Donald J. Trump presidential administration.

Professors Afra Afsharipour and Amelia Miazad moderated panel discussions at the 2024 Berkeley Fall Forum on Corporate Governance, presented by UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law and Business and Cooley Nov. 12-13.

Professor Lisa Pruitt spoke just before the Nov. 5 presidential election to reporter Catarina Maldonado Vasconcelos of the Portuguese newspaper Expresso.

The Nov. 4 article looked at the state of the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on the final weekend before the election.

Professor Carlton F.W. Larson spoke to Katie Couric Media for a Jan. 12 story on what will happen to President-elect Donald Trump’s legal cases now that he has been re-elected.

Professor Lisa Ikemoto appeared on the CBS Evening News on Nov. 12 to discuss the lack of genetic information protections for customers of struggling genealogy testing website 23andMe. The company laid off 40% of its work force recently.

Professor Lisa Pruitt presented a  work in progress, “How the Rural Lawyer Shortage and Spatial Inequality are Undermining the Criminal Legal System in Washington State,” on Nov. 15 at the Law &  Rurality Workshop at the University of Iowa College of Law.