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Faculty Updates
Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp
IIn January, Professor Bisom-Rapp completed a one-year term as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Women in Legal Education (WILE). WILE organized seven events for the January 2022 AALS Annual Meeting. Among the Section’s Annual Meeting highlights were the 2022 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, which Professor Bisom-Rapp presided over, and a well-received session on Status, Gender, and Intersectionality in the Legal Academy, which she moderated. Additionally, Professor Bisom-Rapp’s article, The Role of Law and Myth in Creating a Workplace that ‘Looks Like America,’ was accepted for publication by the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law and will appear in print in fall 2022.
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Professor Danielle C. Jefferis
Professor Jefferis’s recent scholarship has garnered national and international attention. This year, she has presented her work at The Australian National University, Columbia Law School, American University Washington College of Law, and the American Constitution Society’s Constitutional Law Scholars Forum. She has been invited to present this summer at the University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the University of Amsterdam School of Law, and the Global Meeting on Law and Society in Lisbon.
Professor Justin P. Brooks
Professor Justin P. Brooks—Professor Brooks was featured in the San Diego Reader’s “Best of 2021 .”
Professor James M. Cooper
Professor Cooper was appointed as a Research Fellow at Singapore University of Social Science. He published a law review article, “Games Without Frontiers: The Increasing Importance of Intellectual Property Rights in the People’s Republic of China”, in the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law. He continues to write op-eds for the Hill and Coindesk/Yahoo Finance.
Professor Laura M. Padilla
Professor Padilla’s article, “The Black–White Paradigm’s Continuing Erasure of Latinas: See Women Law Deans of Color”, will be published in Denver Law Review’s 2022 Symposium Issue. She is presenting the paper at its 2022 Symposium Workshop: Critical Race Perspectives on Gender, Identity, and Culture in the Law. She is also serving on the Graciela Olivares Latinas in Legal Education (“GO LILA”) Workshop Committee. Their inaugural workshop will be hosted by Stanford Law School and will be held June 24-25.
