Professor Soucek Talks to Bee About Ruling on Transgender Athletes in School Sports
Professor Brian Soucek spoke to The Sacramento Bee for a Sept. 4 story about a federal judge’s ruling regarding transgender athletes and school sports.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Judge Cynthia Valenzuela dismissed a key Trump administration challenge to California rules allowing transgender students to compete on teams aligned with their gender identities.
Professor Brian Soucek is a constitutional law scholar and philosopher of art whose work ranges from equality and free speech law, to academic freedom, to topics at the intersection of law and aesthetics. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Mark R. Kravitz in Connecticut, and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Soucek is a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow. He is the author of The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education published by the University of Chicago Press.