Faculty News

Professor Raquel Aldana spoke to Continuing Education of the Bar about a California Senate bill that would create an oversight framework for immigration detention centers in the state.

The bill would allow the Department of Public Health to inspect involuntary residential facilities and establish standards to ensure the health and safety of residents.

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Professor Kevin R. Johnson wrote a June 30 essay for the Daily Journal, "How courts built federal control over immigration in America." 

Professor David Sandino lent context to a June 10 story from California Continuing Education of the Bar about how the state’s “snow drought” will affect the water decisions farmers will need to make for the rest of 2026.

Professor Shayak Sarkar’s paper “Databased Immigration Enforcement” was selected for presentation at the American Bar Association Administrative Law Conference, held May 7 in Washington, D.C.

Sarkar co-authored the paper with attorney Josh Rosenthal.

Shayak Sarkar's scholarship addresses the structure and legal regulation of inequality. His substantive interests lie in financial regulation, employment law, immigration, and taxation.

Professor Darien Shanske spoke to The San Francisco Standard for a June 9 story about how labor groups are divided on California’s “billionaire tax” November ballot initiative.

Shanske helped draft the initiative, which would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the state’s billionaires to support health care and other state services hurt by federal cuts.

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On May 19, Professor  Afra Afsharipour  presented a new project, “ESG and Dealmaking in East Asia,” at the International Contracting workshop at Washington and Lee University School of Law.

Professor Afra Afsharipour presented the paper “The Rhetoric and Reality of BigLaw” at the National Business Law Scholars Conference, held May 26-27 at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Afsharipour also helped organize the annual conference.

Professor Afra Afsharipour helped the team at Million Bazillion--the Marketplace podcast that explains economic issues to children--develop an episode focused on mergers and acquisitions.

The May 26 episode centers on a question from a 9-year-old named Cora, who wonders why a company might want to buy another company.