Faculty Roundup: The latest highlights from UCI Law’s faculty
Cindy Thomas Archer, Rachel Croskery-Roberts and Ezra Ross
From July 26 – July 28, UCI Professors of Lawyering Skills Cindy Thomas Archer, Rachel Croskery-Roberts and Ezra Ross spoke at the Ninth Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference at the City Law School in London. Applied Legal Storytelling (AppLS) examines the use of stories, storytelling, or narrative elements in law practice, legal education and the law. Prof. Croskery-Roberts went on to speak at the 15th Annual Global Legal Skills Conference at Nottingham Trent University, where she presented on “Teaching Students for Whom English is a Second Language in the JD Program.”
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
UCI Professor of Law Swethaa Ballakrishnen spoke at the World Literature and Law Conference on August 14. The conference was jointly organized by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and the interdisciplinary law journal, Law & Literature. Prof. Ballakrishnen, a panelist on “Visions of Law, Love and Justice,” explored the topic, “Lunchbox, Ted Lasso, Hometown Cha Cha Cha: Community as New Grammar in Law and Love.”
Mario Barnes
UCI Professor of Law Mario Barnes will visit Grinnell College as a Scholars’ Convocation speaker on September 21 through the college’s Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights. Prof. Barnes will deliver a talk about the legitimacy crisis facing the U.S. Supreme Court. The Scholars’ Convocation series serves as a common hour aimed at fostering a shared educational atmosphere among the Grinnell College community. The interdisciplinary and accessible nature of the convocation allows for an intellectual encounter that reaches beyond the traditional bounds of academic disciplines.
Dalié Jiménez
On July 20, UCI Professor of Law Dalié Jiménez was a panelist at Student Debt 3.0, the third national symposium on the student debt crisis hosted by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum in downtown Portland. The symposium, co-sponsored by the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), is attended by state AG offices, members of the legal community, policy advisors and national experts in the field of student debt. Discussion encompassed the state of student debt; shadow student debt; ISA’s (Income Share Agreements) and institutional debt; training repayment agreement provisions (TRAP)/employer-driven debt; consumer protection and emerging risks in higher education; and return to repayment.
Christopher Leslie
On May 4, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Law Christopher Leslie presented his forthcoming paper in the Minnesota Law Review, “Banking Deserts, Structural Racism, and Merger Law,” at the University of Cambridge and University of Southern California Gould School of Law’s Virtual Antitrust Workshop series. Earlier this year, Prof. Leslie published two law review articles: “The Factor/Element Distinction in Antitrust Litigation,” 64 William & Mary Law Review 585 (2023), and “Predatory Pricing Algorithms,” 98 New York University Law Review 49 (2023).
Elizabeth F. Loftus
UCI Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology, Law & Society; Cognitive Science; and Law Elizabeth F. Loftus gave the Haaß Foundation Talk in July at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Intended for an interdisciplinary audience, the Haaß Foundation Talk is an annual talk presented by a highly reputed international scientist in an area of social sciences and/or economics. The speaking engagement is sponsored by the University Chancellor and the Deans of the Faculties of Social Sciences and Economics, and is funded by the Ursula and Dieter Haaß Foundation.
Austen Parrish
UCI Law Dean Austen Parrish co-edited the soon-to-be published book, “Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality in International Law” (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023), with Cedric Ryngaert, a professor of Law, Economics and Governance at Utrecht University School of Law in the Netherlands. By engaging with the ongoing discussion surrounding the scope of cross-border regulation, the research handbook provides insights into the concept of extraterritoriality and offers an overview and analysis of one of the most critical components of global governance.
Ari Waldman
In September, UCI Professor of Law Ari Waldman will deliver the keynote lecture, “Rethinking Children’s Privacy,” at the Children and Screens 2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress in Washington D.C., and give the primary response at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s 16th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture on consent in privacy law at Berkeley Law. His upcoming publications include: “Gender Data in the Automated Administrative State,” 124 Columbia Law Review __ (forthcoming 2023), and “Forward: Framing Managerialism as an Object of Study and Strategic Displacement,” 86 Law & Contemporary Problems __ (forthcoming 2023) (with Julie Cohen) (Co-editor with Julie Cohen of the special issue: Regulatory Managerialism and Public Governance).
Christopher A. Whytock
In July, the U.S. State Department appointed UCI Vice Dean and Professor of Law Christopher A. Whytock to serve on the United States Delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law, Working Group on a Convention on Jurisdiction in Transnational Civil or Commercial Litigation. Prof. Whytock’s recent publications include Situs and Domicile in Choice of Law for Succession Issues, 97 Tulane Law Review 1181 (2023), and The Many State Doctrines of Forum Non Conveniens, 72 Duke Law Journal 1163 (2023) (with William S. Dodge & Maggie Gardner).