Faculty Highlights: Prolific Scholarship and Recognitions of Excellence


UCLA Law Magazine | Fall 2020 | Volume 43

UCLA Law’s faculty members are renowned leaders in a wide array of fields where the law intersects with immigration, taxation, climate change, technology, entertainment, philosophy, healthcare, international human rights, public service and so much more. Here, we present an exhaustive list of the many publications – and well-deserved honors – that our eminent scholars and teachers added to their stellar records this year.


RICHARD A. ABEL
Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
Distinguished Research Professor

Publications

  • Lawyers in 21st Century Societies, Vol. 1: National Reports, edited with Ole Hammerslev, Hilary Sommerlad and Ulrike Schultz, Hart (2020).

KHALED M. ABOU EL FADL
Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Modern Re-Readings of the Hadith Through a Gendered Lens,” in the Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women, edited by Asma Afsaruddin, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
  • “Islamic Ethics, Human Rights and Migration,” in Migration and Islamic Ethics: Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship, edited by Ray Jureidini and Said Fares Hassan, Brill (2019).

E. TENDAYI ACHIUME
Professor of Law

Professor Achiume won UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award and Eby Award for the Art of Teaching in May, and she was elected to the editorial board of Just Security in June. She continued serving as the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, drafting a report on how emerging digital technologies entrench racial inequality, among other endeavors.


STEPHEN M. BAINBRIDGE
William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Bob Cochran on Law and Lawyering: A Catholic Perspective,” 47 Pepperdine Law Review 371 (2020).
  • “Corporate Purpose in a Populist Era,” 98 Nebraska Law Review 543 (2019).
  • “Enhanced Accountability: The Catholic Church’s Unfinished Business,” 53 University of San Francisco Law Review 165 (2019).

LATOYA BALDWIN CLARK
Assistant Professor of Law

Publications

  • “On Confirmation,” 26 UCLA Women’s Law Journal 21 (2019).

ASLI Ü. BÂLI
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights

Professor Bâli served as the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor at Yale Law School during the Spring 2020 term, and she was elected as a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She served on the American Society of International Law’s 2019 Research Forum and as committee chair of Middle East Studies Association’s Global Academy, securing a substantial grant from the Carnegie Endowment to support the program. She was a faculty co-organizer of the 2020 UCLA Law Review symposium, “Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire.”

Publications

  • “From Foreign Text to Local Meaning: The Politics of Religious Exclusion in Transnational Constitutional Borrowing,” with Matthew Nelson, David Mednicoff and Hanna Lerner, 45 Law & Social Inquiry (2020).
  • “Artificial States and the Remapping of the Middle East,” 53 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 405 (2020).
  • “A Politics of Accountability Grounded in Solidarity,” 7 London Review of International Law 417 (2020).

STEVEN A. BANK
Vice Dean for Curricular and Academic Affairs
Paul Hastings Professor of Business Law

Publications

  • “The Olympic-Sized Loophole in California’s Fair Pay to Play Act,” 120 Columbia Law Review Forum 109 (2020).
    “FIFA, Forced Arbitration, and the U.S. Soccer Lawsuits,” 30 Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport 1 (2020).

PAUL BERGMAN
Professor of Law Emeritus

Publications

  • The Criminal Law Handbook, with Sara J. Berman, Sixteenth Edition, Nolo (2020).

WILLIAM BOYD
Michael J. Klein Chair in Law

Publications

  • “Ways of Price Making and the Challenge of Market Governance in U.S. Energy Law,” 105 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming 2020).

TAIMIE BRYANT
Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Aid-In-Dying Nonprofits, 57 San Diego Law Review 147 (2020).

DANIEL J. BUSSEL
Professor of Law

In 2020, Professor Bussel became a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Publications

  • Bankruptcy, with David A. Skeel, Jr. and Michelle M. Harner, Eleventh Edition, Foundation Press (forthcoming 2020).

DEVON W. CARBADO
The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Footnote 43: Recovering Justice Powell’s Anti-Preference Framing of Affirmative Action,” 53 UC Davis Law Review 1117 (2019).
  • “An Intersectional Critique of Tiers of Scrutiny: Beyond ‘Either/Or’ Approaches to Equal Protection,” with Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, 129 Yale Law Journal Forum 108 (2019).

JENNIFER M. CHACÓN
Professor of Law

Professor Chacón served as the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law in January 2020, delivering the public lecture “The Criminalization of Migration,” and as the Shafton Memorial Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Minerva Center for Human Rights in December 2019, delivering the inaugural Shafton Memorial Lecture, “Criminalization of Migration in the U.S. and Beyond.”

Publications

  • Immigration Law and Social Justice: Case and Statutory Supplement, with Kevin R. Johnson and Bill Ong Hing, Aspen (2020).
  • “Against Punitive Approaches to Animal Protection,” Jotwell (2020), book review of Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment by Justin Marceau.
  • “Immigration Federalism in the Weeds,” 66 UCLA Law Review 1330 (2019).
  • “The Inside-Out Constitution: Department of Commerce v. New York,” 2019 Supreme Court Review 231 (2019).

BETH A. COLGAN
Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Beyond Graduation: Economic Sanctions and Structural Reform,” 69 Duke Law Journal 1529 (2020).
  • “Nor Excessive Fines Imposed,” in The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment, edited by Meghan J. Ryan and William W. Berry III, Cambridge University Press (2020).
  • “Financial Hardship and the Excessive Fines Clause: Assessing the Severity of Property Forfeitures After Timbs,” with Nicholas M. McLean, 129 Yale Law Journal Forum 430 (2019).

SCOTT L. CUMMINGS
Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics
Professor of Law

Professor Cummings was awarded the 2020-21 Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He was selected to deliver Chicago-Kent College of Law’s 42nd Annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture, “Catalyzing Localism: What Is New About the Green New Deal?”

Publications

  • Global Pro Bono: Causes, Context, and Contestation, edited with Fabio de Sa e Silva and Louise G. Trubek, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2021).
  • An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, Oxford University Press (2020).
  • Legal Ethics, edited with Deborah L. Rhode, David Luban and Nora Freeman Engstrom, Foundation Press (2020).

JOSHUA FOA DIENSTAG
Professor of Law
Shapiro Family Endowed Chair in Modern Political Theory

Starting in 2021, Professor Dienstag will serve as one of three co-editors of the journal Political Theory.


SHARON DOLOVICH
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program

Professor Dolovich launched the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, which tracks the impact of COVID-19 in prisons, jails, immigration detention centers and youth facilities. In August, she was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Best Practices for Implementing Decarceration as a Strategy to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities.

Publications

  • “COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons,” with Brendan Saloner, Kalind Parish, Julie A. Ward and Grace DiLaura, 324 Journal of the American Medical Association 602 (2020).
  • “Evading the Eighth Amendment: Prison Conditions and the Courts,” in The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment, edited by Meghan J. Ryan and William W. Berry III, Cambridge University Press (2020).

INGRID V. EAGLY
Professor of Law

Professor Eagly delivered the 2020 Walter O. Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law, “From Family Detention to Family Separation: Lessons from the Border,” at the University of Florida Levin College of Law in February.

Publications

  • “The Movement to Decriminalize Border Crossing,” 61 Boston College Law Review (2020).

STEPHEN GARDBAUM
Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law

Publications

  • “Uncharismatic Revolutionary Constitutionalism,” in Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Law, Legitimacy, Power, edited by Richard Albert, Hart (2020).

LAURA E. GÓMEZ
Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law
Faculty Director, Critical Race Studies Program

Publications

  • Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism, New Press (2020).

MARK F. GRADY
Distinguished Professor of Law

Publications

  • “The American Negligence Rule,” 53 Valparaiso University Law Review 545 (2019).

MARK GREENBERG
Michael H. Schill Endowed Chair in Law
Professor of Philosophy

Professor Greenberg delivered the Natural Law Colloquium lecture at Fordham University School of Law in September 2019. The lecture, “Legal Interpretation and Natural Law,” is the basis of a forthcoming article in the Fordham Law Review.

Publications

  • “Legal Interpretation,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

SEAN HECHT
Co-Executive Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Evan Frankel Professor of Policy and Practice
Co-Director, UCLA Law Environmental Law Clinic

Sean Hecht was elected as a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers in June.


JILL R. HORWITZ
Vice Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life
David Sanders Professor in Law and Medicine

Publications

  • “Regulating Opioid Supply Through Insurance Coverage,” with M. Christopher Auld, Benjamin Lukenchuk and Lynn McClelland, 39 Health Affairs 1566 (2020).
  • “The Importance of Data Source in Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Research,” with Corey Davis, Rebecca Fordon, Lynn McClelland and Ellen Meara, 55 Health Services Research (2020).
  • “Charitable Nonprofits and the Business of Health Care,” in The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, edited by Walter W. Powell and Patricia Bromley, Third Edition, Stanford University Press (2020).
  • “Ambulance Diversions Following Public Hospital Emergency Department Closures,” with Charleen Hsuan, Renee Y. Hsia, Ninez A. Ponce, Thomas Rice and Jack Needleman, 54 Health Services Research 870 (2019).

SUNG HUI KIM
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Program on In-House Counsel, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy

Publications

  • “Economic Inequality, Access to Law, and Mandatory Arbitration Agreements: A Comment on the Standard Conception of the Lawyer’s Role,” 88 Fordham Law Review 1665 (2020).
  • Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach, with Renee Knake Jefferson, Russell G. Pearce, Bruce A. Green, Peter A. Joy, M. Ellen Murphy, Laurel S. Terry and Lonnie T. Brown Jr., Fourth Edition, West (2020).

MÁXIMO LANGER
Professor of Law
Director, UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
Faculty Director, UCLA Criminal Justice Program

Publications

  • “The Quiet Expansion of Universal Jurisdiction,” with Mackenzie Eason, 30 European Journal of International Law 779 (2019).

DOUGLAS LICHTMAN
Professor of Law

Professor Lichtman presented the keynote address “Dinosaur Bones in the Patent Law” at the fifth annual Law & Corpus Linguistics conference at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in February 2020.

Publications

  • “Cashing Out Children’s Television,” 27 UCLA Entertainment Law Review (forthcoming 2020).
  • “Naughty Bits: An Empirical Study of What Consumers Would Mute and Excise from Hollywood Fare If Only They Could,” with Benjamin Nyblade, 66 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 227 (2019).
  • “The Perspiration Principle,” 18 John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 463 (2019).

LYNN M. LOPUCKI
Security Pacific Bank Distinguished Professor of Law

Publications

  • Business Associations: A Systems Approach, with Andrew Verstein, Aspen (2020).
  • Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings, with Christopher R. Mirick, Sixth Edition, Wolters Kluwer (2019).

DAVID MARCUS
Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Class Actions, Jurisdiction, and Principle in Doctrinal Design,” with Will Ostrander, B.Y.U. Law Review (forthcoming).
  • “The Persistence and Uncertain Future of the Public Interest Class Action,” 24 Lewis & Clark Law Review 395 (2020).
  • “Inability to Pay: Court Debt Circa 2020,” with Judith Resnik, 98 North Carolina Law Review 361 (2020).
  • “Due Process and Mass Adjudication: Crisis and Reform,” with David Ames, Cassandra Handan-Nader and Daniel E. Ho, 72 Stanford Law Review 1 (2020).
  • “Quality Review of Mass Adjudication: A Randomized Natural Experiment at the Board of Veterans Appeals, 2003-16,” with Daniel E. Ho, Cassandra Handan-Nader and David Ames, 35 Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 239 (2019).

JON D. MICHAELS
Professor of Law

Publications

  • “We the Shareholders: Government Market Participation in the Postliberal U.S. Political Economy,” 120 Columbia Law Review 465 (2020).

JENNIFER L. MNOOKIN
Dean and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, PULSE @ UCLA Law (Program on Understanding Law, Science & Evidence)

In 2020, Dean Mnookin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and joined the board of trustees of the Law School Admission Council. In July, the California Supreme Court decided to lower the passing score on the state bar exam after years of advocacy that Dean Mnookin led with other California law school deans.

Publications

  • Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony, with David L. Faigman, Edward K. Cheng, Erin E. Murphy, Joseph Sanders and Christopher Slobogin, 2019-20 edition, Thomson West (2019).
  • The New Wigmore, A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence, with David H. Kaye and David E. Bernstein, Second Edition, Wolters Kluwer (2019).

HIROSHI MOTOMURA
Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy

Publications

  • Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy, with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin, Maryellen Fullerton, Juliet P. Stumpf and Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Ninth Edition, West (forthcoming).
  • “Immigrant Integration and the Law,” in Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy, edited by David Scott FitzGerald and John D. Skrentny, Stanford University Press (forthcoming 2021).
  • “The Many Meanings of In-Between,” in L’Expérience de la mobilité de l’antiquité à nos jours - II: Situations de l’entre-deux (The Experience of Mobility Across Time - II: In-Between Situations), Ausonius Éditions, (forthcoming 2020).

STEPHEN R. MUNZER
Distinguished Research Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Questioning Bonhoeffer on Temptation,” 85 Irish Theological Quarterly 265 (2020).
  • “Economic Inequality Across Traditions,” in Economic Inequality and Morality: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, edited by Richard Madsen and William M. Sullivan, Brookings Institution Press (2019).

NEIL W. NETANEL
Pete Kameron Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Transplanting Fair Use Across the Globe: A Case Study Testing the Credibility of U.S. Opposition,” with Niva Elkin-Koren, 72 Hastings Law Journal (forthcoming).

JAMES PARK
Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy

Publications

  • “Regulation by Selective Enforcement: The SEC and Initial Coin Offerings,” with Howard Park, 61 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 99 (2020).

SUNITA PATEL
Assistant Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic

Publications

  • “Jumping Hurdles to Sue the Police,” 104 Minnesota Law Review 2257 (2020).

JESSICA PEAKE
Director, International and Comparative Law Program

Jessica Peake serves on the committee of the American Society of International Law’s Midyear Meeting Research Forum and was elected to the executive council of ASIL’s Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict in April 2020. She is also a member of the editorial committee of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Publications

  • “Judicial Action and Accountability for Law of War Violations in the ‘War on Terror,’” 12 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 167 (2020).

NINA RABIN
Director, Immigrant Family Legal Clinic

Publications

  • “Searching for Humanitarian Discretion in Immigration Enforcement: Reflections on A Year As an Immigration Attorney in the Trump Era,” 53 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 139 (2019).
  • “Youth on Their Own,” with Cecilia Menjívar, in Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People, edited by Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio, NYU Press (2019).

KAL RAUSTIALA
Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law
Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations

Publications

  • “The Second Digital Disruption: Streaming and the Dawn of Data-Driven Creativity,” with Christopher Jon Sprigman, 94 New York University Law Review 1555 (2019).

PETER L. REICH
Lecturer in Law
Academic Director, Law & Communication Intensive

Professor Reich received the 2019 award for New Interpretation of U.S.-Mexican Relations from PROFMEX, the Consortium for Research on Mexico. In December 2019, he was appointed chair of the American Society for Legal History’s Committee on Documentary Preservation.

Publications

  • “What Constitutes an Equitable Water Share? A Reassessment of Equitable Apportionment in the Jordan-Israel Water Agreement 25 Years Later,” with Samer Talozi, Amelia Altz-Stamm, and Hussam Hussein, 21 Water Policy 911 (2019).

ANGELA R. RILEY
Professor of Law
Director, MA/JD Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies
Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center

Publications

  • “Decolonizing Indigenous Migration,” with Kristen A. Carpenter, California Law Review (forthcoming).

MICHAEL T. ROBERTS
Executive Director, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy
Professor from Practice

Michael Roberts co-chaired CLE International’s Annual Food Law Conference in San Francisco in March, and he delivered the keynote address at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Fraud Workshop in Rome, Italy, in November 2019.


JOANNA C. SCHWARTZ
Professor of Law

Publications

  • “After Qualified Immunity,” 120 Columbia Law Review 309 (2020).
  • “The Myth of Personal Liability: Who Pays When Bivens Claims Succeed,” with James E. Pfander and Alexander A. Reinert, 72 Stanford Law Review 561 (2020).
  • “Qualified Immunity’s Selection Effects,” 114 Northwestern University Law Review 1101 (2020).

ANDREW D. SELBST
Assistant Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Negligence and AI’s Human Users,” 100 Boston University Law Review 1315 (2020).
  • “The Hidden Assumptions Behind Counterfactual Explanations and Principal Reasons,” with Solon Barocas and Manish Raghavan, FAT* ’20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 80 (2020).

SEANA SHIFFRIN
Professor of Philosophy
Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice

Publications

  • “Compelled Speech and the Irrelevance of Controversy,” 47 Pepperdine Law Review 731 (2020).
  • “Lying, Reciprocity and Free Speech ⎯ A Reply to Eight Critics,” 38 Law and Philosophy 555 (2019).

KIRK J. STARK
Barrall Family Professor of Tax Law and Policy

Publications

  • “The Power Not to Tax,” 69 American University Law Review 565 (2019).

RICHARD H. STEINBERG
Professor of Law
Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Chair in Law
Professor of Political Science

Publications

  • The International Criminal Court: Contemporary Challenges and Reform Proposals, Brill (2020).
  • “The Impending Dejudicialization of the WTO Dispute Settlement System?,” 112 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 316 (2019).

LARA STEMPLE
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student Programs
Director, Health and Human Rights Law Project

Lara Stemple was appointed to serve as the co-vice chair of the board of directors of the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI).

Publications

  • Foreword, in Weiterbildung zur Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt (Professional Training as a Preventive Strategy Against Sexual Violence), edited by Karl-H. Richstein and Werner Tschan, Second Edition, Beltz Juventa (2020).
    “Police and the Criminalization of LGBT People,” with Naomi G. Goldberg, Christy Mallory, Amira Hasenbush and Ilan H. Meyer, in The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States, edited by Tamara Rice Lave and Eric J. Miller, Cambridge University Press (2019).

KATHERINE STONE
Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Distinguished Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Rupture and Invention,” in The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden, Cambridge University Press (2019).

REBECCA STONE
Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Promises, Reliance, and Psychological Lock-In,” with Alexander Stremitzer, 49 Journal of Legal Studies 33 (2020).

  • “Promises, Expectations, and Social Cooperation,” with Dorothee Mischkowski and Alexander Stremitzer, 62 Journal of Law and Economics 687 (2019).

EUGENE VOLOKH
Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law

Publications

  • The First Amendment and Related Statutes: Problems, Cases and Policy Arguments, Seventh Edition, Foundation Press (2020).
  • “Anti-Libel Injunctions,” 168 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 73 (2019).

DIANA R.H. WINTERS
Assistant Director, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy

Publications

  • Book review of Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety by Timothy D. Lytton, 39 Journal of Legal Medicine 443 (2019).

NOAH D. ZATZ
Professor of Law

Publications

  • “Get to Work or Go to Jail: State Violence and the Racialized Production of Precarious Work,” 45 Law & Social Inquiry 304 (2020).
  • “Work, Pay, or Go to Jail: Court-Ordered Community Service in Los Angeles,” with Lucero Herrera, Tia Koonse and Melanie Sonsteng-Person, UCLA Labor Center (2019).

ERIC M. ZOLT
Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus

Publications

  • “Personal Income Tax,” with Sebastian James and Victor Thuronyi, Tax Policy Assessment Framework (2019)
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