James Park
Sanjukta Paul
Professor of Law
David J. Epstein Fellow
Professor Park spoke on “Auditor Contributions to Securities Class Action Settlements” at the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting in May. He discussed “Halliburton and the Integrity of the Public Corporation” at the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy Symposium on “Fraud on the Market after Halliburton II” in February. In January, he was a presenter at the AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Securities Regulation, on “Auditor Contributions to Securities Class Action Settlements.” He spoke on “Investor Protection and the Distinction Between Corporate and Securities Law” at the University of Richmond Law School Corporate and Securities Litigation Workshop in October 2014. Publications s
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“ Halliburton and the Integrity of the Public Corporation,” Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy (symposium piece) (forthcoming, 2015).
“ Averages or Anecdotes? Assessing Recent Evidence on Hedge Fund Activism,” 62 UCLA Law Review Discourse 100 (2014).
Edward Parson
Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law; Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Professor Parson spoke on climate engineering at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Jose in February. He also served as an expert reviewer of two recent National Academy of Sciences reports on climate engineering, and spoke on a recent panel convened for the release of the reports. Publications s
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Subtle Balance: Expertise, Evidence, and Democracy in Public Policy A and Governance, 1970-2010 (Edward A. Parson, ed.). McGill-Queens University Press (2015).
“ Climate Change: Less Focus on Collective Action, More on Delayed Benefits and Concentrated Opponents,” Centre for International Governance Innovation, Fixing Climate Governance Policy Brief Series No. 2 (2015).
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Sanjukta Paul presented her research paper, “Independent Contractor Workers and Antitrust Liability for Worker Collective Action: The Very Idea,” at the Labour Law Research Network Conference at the University of Amsterdam in June; at the Law & Society Conference in Seattle in May; and at Class Crits VII at UC Davis School of Law in November 2014. She was a discussant on “L.A. and Long Beach Port Truck Drivers: Exploitation and Resistance” at the UCLA Institute for Research in Labor & Employment in May. In February, she participated as a panelist in the Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal 2015 Symposium “A Tale of Two Cities: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Increasing Economic Disparities in the Los Angeles Community.” She was an invited speaker at the California Employment Lawyers Association’s Eleventh Annual Advanced Wage & Hour Seminar in April and at the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s seminar, “Joint Employer Developments in Discrimination, Labor, and Wage & Hour Law,” in January. She continued to serve as a pro bono attorney with the Wage Justice Center on Talavera, et al, v. QTS, Inc., et al, a class action on behalf of misclassified port truck drivers in Southern California.
Richard Re
Assistant Professor of Law Publications s
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“ Promising the Constitution,” 110 Northwestern Law Review (forthcoming, 2016).
“Narrowing Precedent in the Supreme Court,” 114 Columbia Law Review 1861 (2014).
Angela Riley
Professor of Law; Co-Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center Professor Riley spoke on “The Situation of Indigenous Peoples in the United States Under Human Rights Standards” as part of a celebration honoring former U.S. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Professor S. James Anaya, at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College