Faculty Roundup: The latest highlights from UCI Law’s faculty
Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Professor of Law Swethaa Ballakrishnen’s article, “Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession,” was published in Vol. 48, Issue 4 of Law & Social Inquiry. Using preliminary observations from three parallel projects that employ a range of methods (network and content analysis, surveys, focus groups, and interviews), the article traces the experience of navigating different kinds of identity as useful capital within the legal profession. Additionally, Ballakrishnen has been elected to the Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA)’s board of trustees for the 2024 – 2025 term. ALSA is a network of scholars committed to the empirical and theoretical inquiry into law and society in the Asian region.
Mario Barnes
Professor of Law Mario Barnes presented a paper at the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) 2023 Conference, “Voice, Resistance and Repair: Law and Living Together,” which took place from Dec. 6-8 at the University of Technology Sydney. Barnes also delivered a talk on Dec. 11 at the University of Aukland on the future of affirmative action in the U.S. on a panel with Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu William S. Richardson School of Law Dean Camille Nelson.
Veena Dubal
Professor of Law Veena Dubal’s article, “On Algorithmic Wage Discrimination,” was published in Vol. 123, Issue 7 of the Columbia Law Review. The article draws on a multi-year, first-of-its-kind ethnographic study of organizing on-demand workers and constructs a novel framework rooted in worker on-the- job experiences to understand the ascent of digitalized variable pay practices, or the importation of price discrimination from the consumer context to the labor context — what this article identifies as algorithmic wage discrimination. In addition, Dubal hosted the lecture "Myth & Measurement of Digitized Wages in Platform Work" on Dec. 4 as part of Boston University School of Law’s Social Justice for Data Science Lecture Series.
Stephen Lee
Professor of Law Stephen Lee presented a paper titled “Immigration Benefits in an Era of Administrative Violence” at the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) 2023 Conference, “Voice, Resistance and Repair: Law and Living Together,” which took place from Dec. 6-8 at the University of Technology Sydney.
Jane K. Stoever
UCI Clinical Professor of Law Jane K. Stoever was a featured speaker at the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence’s event, “Domestic Violence, Child Custody Litigation, and Firearm Fatality Prevention: Policy and Practical Insights from Courageous Moms, National Experts, and Leading Legislators” on Dec. 13. At the full-day convening, Stoever, who directs the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, reported on the Orange County Domestic Violence Death Review Team’s study of the past decade of fatalities, with lessons for Orange County and beyond.