A Superior Court judge since 2018, Damrell has presided over various civil and criminal trials and other proceedings, including misdemeanor arraignments and sentencing, civil harassment and domestic violence restraining order hearings, and family court proceedings.
Professor Sarah Polcz co-wrote an op-ed published Aug. 12 in Time magazine.
Headlined “An AI Tax Could Be the Great Equalizer America Needs,” the piece by Polcz and George Washington University Law School Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend discusses Sen. Bernie Sanders’ American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act.
Bala discussed the conviction and recent sentencing to 15 years in prison of Colin Gray, whose son used a gun Gray gave him for Christmas in a deadly 2024 school shooting in Georgia.
UC Davis Law pioneered some of the first water law classes in the nation in the early 1970s and has been developing into its full structure more recently.
Dean Jessica Berg has announced that Professor Carter “Cappy” Whiteis the recipient ofthe 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award. Supported by the generosity of Bill and Sally Rutter, the award honors “law teachers who give stellar performances in the classroom.”
White will receive the award at the Celebrating King Hall event on April 29 in the King Hall courtyard.
Professor Brian Soucek wrote a Jan. 2 essay for the Wall Street Journal headlined “Why Universities Can’t Be Neutral.”
Soucek writes that over the past few years, many universities – an estimated 150, by one count – have agreed to embrace a standard of institutional “neutrality.”
Professor Raquel Aldana spoke to the Washington Post for a Dec. 3 story headlined “Trump pauses immigration applications for 19 nations on travel ban list.”
A Nov. 20 New York Times article, headlined “The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner,” notes that a 2019 Twitter thread and subsequent paper by Professor Christopher Elmendorf on the “builder’s remedy” have been instrumental in the push to build more housing in the state.
