Justice league
Social ecology faculty highlight deficits in effort to improve law enforcement, court processes and corrections
Social ecology faculty highlight deficits in effort to improve law enforcement, court processes and corrections
EVENT: UCI Law graduate Star Leal, selected by her classmates to be this year’s student commencement speaker, gave birth to a baby boy – her fourth child –last Sunday. Leal, 29, earned her degree while advocating for homeless and special needs children and ran highly successful toy drives for them. She will focus her practice […]
Chancellor’s Professor Richard Hasen explores legacy of conservative Supreme Court icon Antonin Scalia in new book
Distinguished legal scholar is only woman of color to lead top-30 law school
UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Law Carrie Menkel-Meadow has been selected to receive the 2018 American Bar Foundation Fellows Outstanding Scholar Award. The award recognizes her decades-long work in creating, building, shaping, and internationalizing the field of alternative dispute resolution, and for her major contributions to the studies of the legal profession and feminism. Awarded annually […]
Esteemed attorney brings extensive experience with higher education legal issues
The School of Law’s seventh annual Supreme Court Term in Review earlier this month featured an all-star panel of judges, scholars and journalists, whose lively discussion of key Supreme Court cases decided in the October 2016 term attracted hundreds of people to the Irvine Barclay Theatre and thousands more who tuned in via livestream. Prominent […]
EVENT: UCI’s School of Law hosts U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who will address Russia’s threat to liberal democracies around the world. Afterward, Erwin Chemerinsky, UCI law school’s founding dean, hosts a discussion with Rep. Schiff. WHEN/WHERE: 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 30, in the Irvine […]
EVENT: UCI will host the first gathering of chiefs, governors and presidents of indigenous sovereign nations within the U.S. WHEN/WHERE: 12:30-5:30 p.m. Monday, May 22, at the Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science & Engineering, 100 Academy Drive, on campus INFORMATION: Free and open to the public. Media planning to attend should RSVP […]
Dan Burk, Chancellor’s Professor of law at UCI, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar cybersecurity grant to conduct research at the Oxford Internet Institute in the United Kingdom this fall. An internationally prominent authority on legal and social issues related to high technology, Burk will study “Statutory Protocols for Access to Secured Digital Content,” specifically, the U.K.’s […]