A new review is out for Prof. Josh Blank’s book co-authored with Prof. Ari Glogower, “Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance” (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2024). Read the entire review by Prof. Leslie Book: bit.ly/4gyAfCJ

Meet Emma Kantor, president of the Student Bar Association! A second-year law student, Emma earned her bachelor’s degree in managerial economics with minors in professional writing and accounting from @ucdavis.bsky.social.

The Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (@korematsuctr.bsky.social) at UCI Law, together with @newenglandinnocence.org & Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP, filed an amicus brief in Commonwealth v. Robinson before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. bit.ly/47Qc7tc

White & Case LLP treated our students to coffee and conversation at UC Irvine Law today! Thank you to Lorie Ball, Manager of Early Careers Legal Recruitment, and Associates Shashank Chitti and Matt Jones for sharing your experiences and insights about the firm.

UCI Law's Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality & the California Unity Bar filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit case, Newsom v. Trump, urging the court to affirm the district court’s ruling that the deployment of federalized National Guard forces in LA was unlawful. bit.ly/3K2liNg

i found these past several days to be a low point. the killing was horrible, & in its wake we see state censorship - against educators, civil society, Democrats - actively proposed, building on the admin's ongoing repression.

UCI Law’s highly ranked Lawyering Skills Program hosted the 2025 Western Regional Legal Writing Conference Sept. 5–6, drawing scholars from across the U.S. The theme of the conference was “Lawyering Through a Justice Lens." Learn more: bit.ly/3VaG7sd

The @fordfoundation.org featured UC Irvine Law's International Justice Clinic, led by Prof. @davidakaye.bsky.social, spotlighting its global efforts to defend digital rights against surveillance, censorship, and opaque tech practices. www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-sto...

In @bloomberglaw.com’s coverage of Google’s privacy trial loss over misleading data-tracking practices, UCI Law Prof. @ariezra.bsky.social is quoted on the limits of long, complex privacy disclosures. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...

Prof. Annie Lai, director of UCI Law's Immigrant & Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic, called the SCOTUS ruling in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo — which reverses judgment from two lower courts & lifts a temporary order barring DHS from unlawful stop practices in SoCal — “a devastating blow.” bit.ly/3JRHCZX

UC Irvine Law Vice Dean & Prof. of Lawyering Skills Trilby Robinson-Dorn has published a new article in the Journal of Legal Education titled “A Road Map for Changing Problematic Faculty Compensation Practices that Perpetuate the Gender Pay Gap.” 🔗 Read the article: jle.aals.org/home/vol73/i...

Prof. @korematsuctr.bsky.social, in @theguardian.com, said federal conspiracy charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla raise concerns of selective prosecution — a move that could have a "chilling effect on free speech under the First Amendment." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UC Irvine Law Clinical Professor @davidakaye.bsky.social testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Sept. 3 in a hearing titled, “Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation.” View a recording of the hearing & Prof. Kaye’s written testimony: news.law.uci.edu/2025/09/04/u...

👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h... Here are my concluding paras:

So honored to be recognized by the @williamsinstitute.bsky.social and alongside @nbenas.bsky.social @margotpollans.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social. Their scholarship is outstanding!

UC Irvine Law announced the establishment of the Myron and Sonya Glassberg Chair in Environmental Law and installation of Prof. Michael Robinson-Dorn as the inaugural chairholder. Learn more: news.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/m...

Prof. @veenadubal.bsky.social, quoted in @latimes.com + San Francisco Chronicle, cautioned that California’s new Uber/Lyft unionization deal may result in “a toothless union” with little power to secure better wages or conditions. www.latimes.com/california/s... www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Congratulations to Prof. @ariezra.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2025 Dukeminier Awards’ Ezekiel Webber Prize by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law‬ for his article, “Gender Data in the Automated Administrative State,” 123 Colum. L. Rev. 2249 (2023). news.law.uci.edu/2025/09/02/p...

"County Air District Ignoring its Environmental Justice Obligations," by Gregg Macey @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social and Charles Rilli @sierraclub.org, published today in the San Diego Union Tribune. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/08/27/o...

The Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality has filed an amicus curiae brief in Chiles v. Salazar, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Colorado’s law banning licensed mental health care providers from practicing conversion therapy on minors. Learn more: news.law.uci.edu/2025/08/26/u...

Chancellor’s Prof. @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social, in The Hill, reflects on the long history of U.S. environmental law and warns that recent federal actions could represent significant rollback of protections, with lasting consequences for public health & the environment. thehill.com/opinion/ener...

Professor @ariezra.bsky.social was quoted in @wsj.com discussing the challenges of new age-verification rules for social media, noting that current tools are “no better than parents being in control of their own children” and ultimately “poor guardrails.” urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Now available: “Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators” (University of California Press 2025), a new book by UC Irvine Law Professor Shauhin Talesh – available in both print and as a free open-access e-book. Learn more: news.law.uci.edu/2025/08/25/n...

Dean Austen Parrish, who also serves as president of the AALS, is quoted in Marketplace and Forbes on how new federal student loan borrowing caps could affect law students, tuition, and financial aid. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0... www.forbes.com/sites/fionar...

Our August member spotlight is none other than new #LSA President Mario L. Barnes! (@ucirvinelaw.bsky.social‬) Learn more about Professor Barnes here: bit.ly/LSABarnes #LawAndSociety #CriticalRaceTheory #AcademicCommunity

UC Irvine Law has appointed Amy Atchison as Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library. As Director, she will oversee Law Library operations and collections to ensure these resources support the Law School’s mission. Learn more: news.law.uci.edu/2025/08/05/u...

Chancellor's Prof. Mario L. Barnes, who just began his two-year term as President of the @lawandsociety.bsky.social, is featured in LSA’s latest Member Spotlight to reflect on his involvement with LSA & decades of contributions to the sociolegal community.  www.lawandsociety.org/2025/08/01/l...

Late Friday evening, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Vasquez-Perdomo v. Noem denied the federal government’s request for a stay of a temporary restraining order prohibiting federal agencies from continuing their unlawful stop practices in Southern California. www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...

The Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality — led by Founder and Executive Director Robert Chang (@korematsuctr.bsky.social) & Director Shaleen Shanbhag — received the Community Pillar Award at OCAABA's Annual Installation Dinner on July 10. news.law.uci.edu/2025/08/01/f...

We welcome Trevor G. Reed and Christopher Williams (’19) to our full-time faculty, and Alisa Blair, Charlie Martel, and Danielle Tully to our visiting faculty. Prof. Williams is the first UC Irvine Law alumnus to join our full-time faculty. Learn more: news.law.uci.edu/2025/07/30/u...

Professor Victor Fleischer, quoted in @nytimes.com, described the expanded start-up tax break as “everybody’s worst picture of the tax code,” pointing to how the wealthiest Americans & advisers have exploited a loophole in a bill promoted as helping ordinary people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Prof.‪‬ Dalié Jiménez was quoted in @bloomberglaw.com‬ commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court’s use of the emergency docket in cases involving the Trump admin. “The court is absolutely behaving differently when it comes to the Trump administration.” news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Dean Austen Parrish commented in The Chronicle of Higher Education discussing the potential impact of changes to federal graduate student loan programs. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Prof. @omrimarian.bsky.social was quoted in The Washington Post, weighing in on newly enacted state laws in Missouri, Texas, and other states, that recognize gold and silver as legal tender. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The UC Irvine School of Law's Immigrant and Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic, directed by Prof. Annie Lai, has joined a broad coalition of legal and community organizations in a class action lawsuit challenging the federal government’s recent immigration raids in Southern California.

Mario Barnes’ (@ucirvinelaw.bsky.social) and Osagie Obasogie’s (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) ‪open access LSR article, “Introduction to the special issue on empirical methods and critical race theory,” is available now via @cambup-law.cambridge.org! #CRT #LawAndSociety bit.ly/LSR_CRT25

Here’s a short opinion piece I co-wrote on the repeated mistakes or lies by Republicans and Democrats about the purposes and effectiveness of our bedrock environmental law.

This high-stakes Supreme Court term tackled major issues: privacy, health care, gun and environmental regs, nationwide injunctions, the death penalty, due process, & executive power. Join our all-star panel to unpack the term. 📅 July 8 | 🕞 3:30–5 p.m. uci.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey...

@ucirvinelaw.bsky.social environmental law center research by Gregg Macey and Sue Dexter cited in push for more thoughtful regulation of freight and logistics as San Diego Air Pollution Control District explores Indirect Source Rule. @sierraclub.org @earthjustice.org www.sdapcd.org/content/dam/...

Prof. @veenadubal.bsky.social told @nytimes.com, "There’s been a real reckoning over the past 25 years with the history of xenophobia in CA labor unions... if labor wants to grow its strength... it cannot see itself as just representing the white working class.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Professor @ariezra.bsky.social, quoted in the @latimes.com, questioned Sonoma County’s drone surveillance, asking why warrant rules don’t apply to aerial tech: “We shouldn’t have to walk around life expecting... no privacy from anything anymore, from any direction.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, Prof. @davidakaye.bsky.social criticized Marco Rubio’s visa policy, calling it “completely open-ended” and warning that it “gives vast discretion to this administration to decide what's actionable and what's not.” www.techpolicy.press/three-questi...

UC Irvine Law’s Criminal Justice Clinic, led by Prof. Katie Tinto, recently secured the release of two clients after 30+ years in federal prison. Since 2019, the clinic has helped free 26 people through its Compassionate Release Project. 🔗 Learn more: news.law.uci.edu/2025/05/27/u...

In an India Post article, UC Irvine Law Professor @korematsuctr.bsky.social is mentioned for his remarks during a May 16 media briefing, where he framed the birthright citizenship executive order as part of a broader history of racial exclusion in U.S. citizenship laws. indiapost.com/us-birthrigh...

UC Irvine Law Prof. @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social joins legal scholars nationwide in urging USFWS & NOAA to keep a key Endangered Species Act protection: the definition of “harm,” which includes habitat destruction that kills or injures wildlife. 🔗 Read their letter: www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full...

Today the American Law Institute (ALI) approved Restatement of the Law, Copyright — the first Restatement devoted to copyright law and a significant milestone in guiding courts through the complex and evolving issues in copyright law. Learn more: www.ali.org/news/article...

UC Irvine Law welcomed exceptional visiting scholars this year, including experts from Spain, Brazil, and Korea, who advanced research on labor rights, democratic governance, and comparative law. Learn more: news.law.uci.edu/2025/05/12/u...

Dean Austen Parrish, who serves as president of the Association of American Law Schools, discussed possible factors contributing to the rise in law school applications with @coloradosun.com. coloradosun.com/2025/05/16/c...

Thank you American Community Media for inviting me to speak at your hosted media briefing. Though my eyes are closed on the cover image for the story, I assure you that my eyes were (mostly) open when I spoke. americancommunitymedia.org/media-briefi...