"CEQA at 40," a conference on the California Environmental Quality Act hosted by the California Environmental Law and Policy Center (CELPC) and UC Davis School of Law, brought an overflow audience to King Hall on November 4.
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit spoke on "The First Amendment in the Age of Information Overload" in the 2nd annual Central Valley Foundation/James B. McClatchy Lecture on the First Amendment.
Robert Boochever, a former Alaska Supreme Court Justice and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, died of natural causes on October 9, 2011 at his home in Pasadena. Judge Boochever was the namesake and inspiration for the Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality at UC Davis School of Law.
UC Davis School of Law alumni from eight classes returned to King Hall on October 22 to mingle and reminisce, enjoy lunch, tour the King Hall building's new east wing, and listen to addresses from Dean Kevin R. Johnson, Alumni Board President John Schick '72, Law School Students Association President Rabia Paracha '12, and Professor Dan Simmons '71.
Academic experts, judges, prosecutors, policy makers, and students joined Legislators at King Hall at a policy forum to address reform of the sentencing system as state and local authorities realign prison, probation and jail.
UC Davis School of Law figured prominently in the eleventh annual Peter J. and Carolee W. Shields Society Breakfast hosted by UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi on September 10.
Theane Evangelis Kapur, a member of the legal team representing the plaintiffs in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal trial over California's controversial same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, spoke to King Hall students and faculty in the Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom on September 7.
As China seeks to modernize and adapt its legal system to an increasingly international economy, faculty and students from China's largest law school are turning to UC Davis School of Law for the expertise they need.
David Caron, the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and President of the American Society for International Law, delivered a lecture on "Images of the Arctic and the Futures They Suggest" on September 1 in the Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom.
