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Faculty Roundup: The latest highlights from UC Irvine Law’s faculty

December 2024

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Swethaa Ballakrishnen 

Speaking engagement: 

  • Paper presentation, “BLASÉ: Deviant Lawyers, Denial of Discrimination, and the Case for QuEer-CRT,” American Bar Foundation Speaker Series (Dec. 4, 2024) 

Courtney Cahill 

Publication (forthcoming): 

  • Book, “Busted: Policing Women on Top,” to be published in 2026 with Oxford University Press 

Alejandro Camacho 

Publication: 

  • Co-author, Letter to U.S. House and Senate Leaders on the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (Nov. 11, 2024) (available here) 

Joseph F.C. DiMento 

Publication: 

  • “The United States and Climate Change Law After the Election of Donald Trump,” Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente – RGAONLINE (Dec. 1, 2024) (available here) 

Robert Lindquist 

Publication: 

  • Book chapter on U.S. compliance law and practice, Mémento Compliance 2025-2026 (Lefebvre Dalloz 2024)(available for pre-order) (French) 

Ann Southworth 

Publication: 

  • “US Conservative Advocacy Organizations and Right-Wing Legal Mobilization in Europe,” 20 Int. J. L. Context 307-323 (2024) (additional information)  
  • “Conservative Legal Advocacy Organizations and the Roberts Court,” Fordham Law Review, invited symposium on “Lawyers and Their Institutions” (forthcoming 2025) 

Speaking engagements: 

  • Invited Lecture, “$peech”, University of Leeds, U.K. (November 13, 2024)  
  • Podcast, “Big Spenders: The Evolution of Corporate Money in Elections,” Bite-Sized Business Law, (December 3, 2024)  
  • Invited speaker, “More Money Than Ever: Campaign Spending, Campaign Finance Law, and American Democracy,” AALS Annual Meeting (January 8, 2025)  
  • Invited Speaker, Conference on “Free Speech in Crisis & the Limits of the First Amendment,” Yale Law School (March 28-29, 2025) 

Other: 

  • Review of “Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending” (2024), in Cato's Reason (magazine) (November 2024) 

Jane Stoever 

Speaking engagements: 

  • Invited Talk, “Domestic Violence Dynamics, Prevention, and Intervention,” Delta Kappa Gamma International Society of Women Educators (November 18, 2024) 
  • Invited Panelist, “Critical Stages of Women’s Health: Domestic Violence as a Primary Health Issue and Vulnerabilities to Achieving Freedom from Violence,” UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, Women’s Health Summit (November 15, 2024) 
  • Invited Talk, “Removing the Bias of Criminal Convictions from Family Law,” UC Irvine Center for Psychology and Law and UC Irvine’s Psychological Science Colloquium (October 7, 2024) 

Shauhin Talesh

Publications:

  • Co-author (with Spencer Levitt, UC Irvine Law ’24), “A Mile Wide but an Inch Deep: Pervasive Racism in International Football, Symbolic Compliance, and a Substantive Path Forward,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change (2024) (available here) 

Speaking Engagements: 

  • Speaker, Law and the Social Science Section Panel, 'Insuring Cyber Insecurity' AALS (January 9, 2025) 
  • Speaker“Internet and Computer Law. Section, Law and Technology Section' AALS (January 10, 2025) 
  • Speaker, “National Security Law and Insurance Law Joint Program, 'Cybersecurity, Insurance, and National Security' ABF/JPB Access to Justice Faculty Scholars Workshop (January 10, 2025) 
  • Speaker, 'Publishing with Law and Society Review' Yale Law School, Information Society Project (January 17-18, 2025) 
  • Speaker, Insuring Cyber Insecurity (January 30, 2025) 

Christopher Whytock

Publications:

  • “Choice of Law for Property Issues: The Third Restatement’s Approach in Comparative Context,” in Private International Law and Rights In Rem (Maria Font i Mas ed.) (Marcial Pons Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales, 2024)

  • “Politics and Private International Law,” in Research Methods in Private International Law (Xandra Kramer & Laura Carballo Piñeiro eds.) (Edward Elgar 2024) (available here)

 Speaking engagements:

  • Presenter, “Conflict of Laws in the United States: A Comparative Human Rights Perspective,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, Fort Worth, TX (October 2024)
  • Presenter, “Human Rights and Conflict of Laws,” presented at New York University School of Law, New York, NY (October 2024)

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