Faculty Roundup: The latest highlights from UCI Law’s faculty

January 2025

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Sameer Ashar 

Engagement: 

  • Distinguished Visitor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Prof. Ashar taught the intensive course, “Toward Abolition Democracy: Law, Lawyers, and Social Movements” (January 2025) (more information here)

Joshua D. Blank 

Publication: 

  • Co-author (with Ari Glogower), Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance (Cambridge University Press 2024) (available here) 

Robert S. Chang 

Publication: 

  • Co-author (with Nolan L. Cabrera), Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts (Cambridge University Press 2024) (available here) 

Andrew Gold 

Publication: 

  • Contributor, “Of Architecture and Offices in Property Law” panel at Property and Propriety (or a Well-Ordered Society)” (October 26–27, 2023), published in Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal (a publication of William & Mary Law School’s Property Rights Project), 13 BRIGHAM-KANNER PROP. RTS. J. ___ (2024) (available here 

Dalié Jiménez 

Speaking engagement: 

  • Paper presentation, “Life-cycle Effects of Income-Driven Repayment on Credit Outcomes, Future Student Loan Borrowing, and Labor Market Outcomes,” 2025 ASSA Annual Meeting, American Economic Association (January 4, 2025) 

David Kaye

Publication: 

  • Co-author, European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission)’s “Report on a Rule of Law and Human Rights Compliant Regulation of Spyware, Adopted by the Venice Commission at its 141st Plenary Session (Venice, 6-7 December 2024)” (December 13, 2025) (available here) 

Elizabeth Loftus

  • Listed No. 1 in Cognitive Psychology for 2024, Professor Loftus has been recognized as a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS for her outstanding contributions to the field, impactful publications, and exceptional academic influence. (more information here)

Carrie Menkel-Meadow 

Publication (forthcoming): 

  • Co-author (with Andrea Kupfer Schneider), International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Academic Press 2025) (more information here) 

Trilby Robinson-Dorn 

Speaking engagement: 

  • Panelist, Equal Pay Today and our Research and Litigation Enforcement Committee webinar, “Examining Employer Compensation Practices that Contribute to Pay Inequities” (January 16, 2025) 

Ann Southworth 

Publication: 

  • Co-author (with Catherine Fisk), The Legal Profession: Ethics in Contemporary Practice, 3d Ed. (West Academic 2024) 

Shauhin Talesh

Speaking engagements (forthcoming):

  • Presenter, American Bar Foundation/JBF Access to Justice Faculty Scholars Workshop, Arizona State University (January 17, 2025)
  • Presenter, “Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators,” Information Society Project Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School (January 30, 2025)

Ari Waldman 

Professional engagement: 

  • Selected as a Newkirk Faculty Fellow for 2025 by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society 

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)

Presentations: 

  • “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) 
  • “Human Rights and Conflict of Laws,” presented at New York University School of Law, New York, NY (October 2024)