UCI Law in the News
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March 2023
- UC law schools join advocacy centers for unions - The Daily Journal*
- UCI Law Students Spend Spring Break Serving Others - UCI Law
- UC Irvine Labor Center opens on campus
- Prof. Baradaran speaks to Marketplace about liquidity in smaller banks and concerns about the move to larger banks amid the banking crisis - Marketplace
- UCI Law ranked No. 22 in Law.com’s 2023 Go-To Law School ranking of the 50 law schools that sent the highest percentage of 2022 J.D.s into associate jobs at the nation’s largest 100 law firms - Law.com
- Prof. Baradaran comments in Yahoo News on recent bank collapses hitting home for Black-owned banks as Republicans blame 'woke' culture - Yahoo News
- Prof. Goodwin, senior editor for Slate Dahlia Lithwick, former Obama health policy director Dr. Kavita Patel, and president of NARAL Pro-Choice America Mini Timmaraju react to a Texas judge appearing open to ordering a stop to the use of an FDA approved abortion pill - MSNBC
- LISTEN: UCI's Bryan Cunningham speaks on Lawfare Podcast with Kemba Walden and David Kris about the recently released U.S. National Cyber Strategy and its significant policies, and threats to national security from China - Lawfare
- LISTEN: UCI's Bryan Cunningham speaks on Lawfare Podcast with Jen Easterly and David Kris about cybersecurity and emerging threats - Lawfare
- UCI's Bryan Cunningham comments in SC Media on ransomeware groups and their increasingly aggressive extortion tactics - SC Media
- Prof. David Kaye was quoted in the International Bar Association on policies for hate speech and misinformation on big tech platforms - International Bar Association
- UCI Law alumna Laura Lively was featured in UCI News reflecting on her legal career path - UCI News
- Prof. Dalié Jiménez talked to Insider about the student-loan lender SoFi filing a lawsuit to end the student-loan payment pause - Business Insider
- WATCH: Prof. Goodwin speaks to MSNBC's American Voices about the current state of abortion rights across the country - MSNBC
- Prof. Goodwin's essay was cited in Giddy article, "What was Abortion Like in Early America" - Giddy
- Prof. Dalié Jiménez was quoted in Bloomberg Law column by Lydia Wheeler on potential Plan B for President Biden's student loan relief - Bloomberg Law
- LISTEN: Prof. Goodwin speaks with WBUR Here & Now's Celeste Headlee about five lawsuits concerning abortion restrictions in Texas - WBUR
- Prof. Goodwin was quoted in Healthline about Walgreen's announcement that it is stopping distribution of the abortion medication mifepristone in 20 states - Healthline
- Prof. Dalié Jiménez was quoted in USA Today on potential outcomes of the Supreme Court's decision regarding President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan - USA Today
- Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow will give the plenary keynote at the American Bar Association's 25th Annual Dispute Resolution Spring Conference - American Bar Association
- Prof. Jane Stoever was featured in UCI New's story highlighting efforts by UCI’s Initiative to End Family Violence and Domestic Violence Clinic - UCI News
- Prof. Dalié Jiménez was quoted in Bloomberg Law on President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan - Bloomberg Law
February 2023
- LISTEN: Prof. Goodwin speaks with KQED in audio piece, "Texas Federal Court Could Block Access to a Key Abortion Drug Nationally" - KQED
- UCI Law Swearing-in Ceremony was featured in the OC Lawyers Magazine - OC Lawyers Magazine
- UCI Law Environmental Clinic 2L Student Bonggeul (Edward) Joo discusses Fast Fashion Thrift Swap with KUCI - KUCI
- Prof. Jack Lerner commented in the Economist in article, "At Young Thug's blockbuster trail, rap lyrics are used as evidence" - The Economist
- UCI Law third-year law student Judy Baladi wrote an op-ed discussing the need to reconsider long-term sanctions on Syria in the aftermath of the recent earthquake, which was featured in the OC Register - OC Register
- UCI Law Ranked No. 8 Overall, No. 2 for Professors Teaching, in Analysis of Princeton Review's Best Law Schools of 2022 - UCI Law
- UCI Law International Justice Clinic was highlighted by Tech Policy Press regarding its filing of an amicus brief in Gonzalez v Google - Tech Policy Press
- UCI Law Honored with CAL LAW Diversity Champion Award - UCI Law
- Prof. David Kaye discusses Supreme Court case Gonzalez v Google case - Article 19
- UCI Law Graduate Tax Program Students Named Finalists in National Tax Competition - UCI Law
- UCI Law Professor Katie Tinto and School of Social Ecology Professor Keramet Reiter co-authored a column in the Daily Journal concerning UCU's LIFTED prison education and reentry project - Daily Journal*
- UCI Law's Immigration Rights Clinic litigation case, with the ACLU of Southern California and the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, challenging ICE's deceptive impersonation tactics was highlighted by Daily Kos - Daily Kos
- Prof. Mehrsa Bardaran was quoted in Vox in "How crypto failed Black investors." - Vox
- Prof. Joseph DiMento's book, "Polar Shift: The Arctic Sustained" has been shortlisted by Project Syndicate for its 2023 Sustainability Book Award - Project Syndicate
- UCI Law is ranked No. 9 in Princeton Review's Best Law School rankings for the category of "overall law school ranking" - Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog
- Prof. Omri Marian was selected as the U.S. National Reporter for WU's Crypto Assets: Tax Law and Policy - WU Vienna
- James Lee, Chief of IRS Criminal Investigation, to Keynote the Annual UCI Law / Taylor Nelson Amitrano LLP Tax Symposium - UCI Law
- Prof. Shaffer was quoted in Dutch paper deVolkskrant on President Joe Biden's international trade policy - deVolkskrant
- UCI Law tied No. 2 in The Princeton Review's Best Law School ranking category of how students rate the quality of teaching at their law school - Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog
- UCI Law tied No. 7 in the Princeton Review's Best Law School ranking category for "teaching and accessibility" - Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog
- Prof. Kaye was quoted in Vox on former President Donald Trump's return to Facebook and Instagram - Vox
- UCI Law's Environmental Law Clinic Students Launch Project to Fight Fast Fashion - UCI Law
- Prof. Katie Tinto was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on Gov. Gavin Newsom's commutation recommendations and how a third of those people still remain behind bars - The Los Angeles Times
- UCI Law First-Year Student Melanie McCorkle Appointed to Irvine's Child Care Committee - UCI Law
- Mario Barnes and Kaaryn Gustafson Honored with Prestigious American Bar Foundation Fellows Outstanding Scholar Award - UCI Law
- Professor Kaaryn Gustafson and Professor Mario L. Barnes to Receive the 2023 ABF Fellows Outstanding Scholar Award - American Bar Foundation
- Prof. Shaffer was mentioned in a Truthout article about his op-ed explaining why SCOTUS is violating the 10th Amendment by not letting states enact gun control - Truthout
- Prof. Goodwin's 2019 law review article was cited in Reuters regarding mass incarceration in Louisiana and its reflection of racial bias and exploitation of Black labor - Reuters
- UCI Law ranked No. 7 Most Diverse Faculty, No. 8 Most Liberal Students and No. 10 Best Professors by The Princeton Review - Law.com
January 2023
- Prof. David Kaye comments on how surveillance tech helped protect power and the drug trade in Honduras - Coda
- Prof. Joshua Blank, Victor Fleischer and Omri Marian were ranked among the "50 Most Downloaded U.S. Tax Law Professors of 2022" by Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog - TaxProf Blog
- Prof. Rachel Moran's article, "Public norms or private autonomy," which discusses Peltier v. Charter Day School, was published in the Daily Journal - The Daily Journal*
- UCI Law graduate Aaron Brynildson '15, active-duty Judge Advocate in the United States Air Force, was highlighted by the University of Mississippi School of Law with a Q&A - University of Mississippi School of Law
- Prof. David Kaye quoted in Vox on Facebook ban lift on former President Donald Trump - Vox
- Prof. Dalié Jiménez was quoted in Business Insider on President Biden's legal defense regarding the student loan forgiveness plan - Business Insider
- Prof. Jack Lerner was quoted in Yahoo News on Young Thug trial underway and use of rap lyrics in RICO case - Yahoo News
- Prof. Goodwin speaks with CNN's Kim Brunhuber discussing next steps in the fight against post-Dobbs landscape - CNN
- UCI Law's International Justice Clinic and Human Rights NGO Article 19 Urge the U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Free Expression Online
- Prof. Shaffer was quoted in The Weekly Dystopia on semiconductor production in the U.S. and trade policy - The Weekly Dystopia
- Prof. Dalié Jiménez was quoted in Business Insider on President Biden's student-lean forgiveness plan - Business Insider
- Prof. Emily Taylor Poppe quoted in CNET on AI lawyers - CNET
- First-Year Student Claire Foster Honored for Efforts Assisting a Voter on Election Day - UCI Law
- Prof. Rachel Moran spoke on AirTalk with Larry Mantle about a lawsuit challenging a dress code at a North Carolina charter school as gender discrimination - AirTalk with Larry Mantle
- Prof. Christopher Leslie was quoted in CNET on Amazon retail antitrust regulation -CNET
- Prof. Dalié Jiménez was quoted in Inside Higher Ed on the HEROES Act and Biden's student debt-relief plan - Inside Higher Ed
- LISTEN: Prof. Shaulin Talesh's article on how the U.S. government can provide a backstop in the event of a cyber attack was promoted on The LawFare Podcast by the article's co-publisher Bryan Cunningham - LawFare Podcast
- Dean Austen Parrish was listed in Orange County Business Journal's 2022 OC 500 Directory of Influence - OC Business Journal
- UCI Law Professor Katie Tinto and Criminal Justice Clinic Secure Release from Prison for Client - UCI Law
- Professor of Law Emily Taylor Poppe Named to Editorial Boards of Law & Social Inquiry and Law & Society Review - UCI Law
- Prof. Dalié Jiménez quoted in Business Insider on legal precedents concerning potential strike-down of Biden's student loan forgivenss plan - Business Insider
- Prof. Katie Tinto discusses San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office argument against reducing bail for William McKay - The Press-Enterprise
- Prof. Omri Marian was quoted in Forbes on tax loss harvesting using digital assets - Forbes
- UCI Law Professor Shaulin Talesh named co-editor of the Law & Society Review - UCI Law
- Prof. Goodwin mentioned in Wired article, "Would You Sell Your Extra Kidney?" - WIRED