Professor Horton Testifies Before U.S. Senate Aging Committee

UC Davis Law Professor David Horton testified before the U.S. Senate Aging Committee on Wednesday, Sept. 3, in Washington, D.C. The hearing, "Protecting Older Americans: Leveling the Playing Field for Older Workers," focused on how forced arbitration compounds the harms of age discrimination.

 

David Horton is a Fair Business Practices and Investor Advocacy Professor of Law at UC Davis Law. His primary research and teaching interests are wills and trusts, contracts, and arbitration law. In 2015, his article "In Partial Defense of Probate: Evidence from Alameda County, California" was selected as the winner of the 29th annual Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Scholarly Paper Competition and he was honored with UC Davis School of Law’s Distinguished Teaching Award.