Faculty News

Professor David Sandino lent context to a June 10 story from California Continuing Education of the Bar about how the state’s “snow drought” will affect the water decisions farmers will need to make for the rest of 2026.

Professor Shayak Sarkar’s paper “Databased Immigration Enforcement” was selected for presentation at the American Bar Association Administrative Law Conference, held May 7 in Washington, D.C.

Sarkar co-authored the paper with attorney Josh Rosenthal.

Shayak Sarkar's scholarship addresses the structure and legal regulation of inequality. His substantive interests lie in financial regulation, employment law, immigration, and taxation.

Professor Darien Shanske spoke to The San Francisco Standard for a June 9 story about how labor groups are divided on California’s “billionaire tax” November ballot initiative.

Shanske helped draft the initiative, which would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the state’s billionaires to support health care and other state services hurt by federal cuts.

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On May 19, Professor  Afra Afsharipour  presented a new project, “ESG and Dealmaking in East Asia,” at the International Contracting workshop at Washington and Lee University School of Law.

Professor Afra Afsharipour presented the paper “The Rhetoric and Reality of BigLaw” at the National Business Law Scholars Conference, held May 26-27 at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Afsharipour also helped organize the annual conference.

Professor Afra Afsharipour helped the team at Million Bazillion--the Marketplace podcast that explains economic issues to children--develop an episode focused on mergers and acquisitions.

The May 26 episode centers on a question from a 9-year-old named Cora, who wonders why a company might want to buy another company.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson was a guest on KQED's The California Report to discuss tracking ICE arrests inside California Courts.

Listen to the interview that aired on April 29.

Professor Raquel Aldana spoke on a panel at the Immigration and Nationality Law Review’s 
“Community Resistance: Immigration Law in the Face of Mass Deportation & Repression” symposium, held April 17 at UC Davis School of Law.

Aldana took part in the panel discussion “History of ICE, Oppression of Palestinian and Student Activism, and Community Resistance Against the Trump Administration and ICE.”

Professor Raquel Aldana discussed “Immigrants and the Battle for One Nation in the Courts” at the University of the Pacific Law Review symposium on March 27 at McGeorge School of Law.