UCI Law’s faculty address the most important legal issues of the day. Many articles are available here in this growing collection; more complete lists of scholarly works are on our faculty pages at law.uci.edu/faculty
Submissions from 2021
Movement Law, Amna A. Akbar, Sameer M. Ashar, and Jocelyn Simonson 73 Stan. L. Rev. (2021)
Institutional Design for Access to Justice, Emily Taylor Poppe 11 UC Irvine L. Rev. 781 (2021)
The Willful Blindness Doctrine: Justifiable in Principle, Problematic in Practice, Kenneth W. Simons Ariz. St. L.J. (2021)
Constructing the Content and Meaning of Law and Compliance, Shauhin A. Talesh Cambridge Handbook of Compliance 63 (2021)
Planet of the Insurers: How Insurers Shape and Influence Law and Impact Access to Justice, Shauhin A. Talesh Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism 336 (2021)
Introduction — Modern Legal Realism: Paving the Way for Theoretically-Informed Empirical Research in the Legal Academy, Shauhin A. Talesh, Elizabeth Mertz, and Heinz Klug Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism 1 (2021)
Transnational Access to Justice, Christopher A. Whytock 38 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 154 (2021)
Submissions from 2020
Language, Culture, and the Culture of Language International JD students in U.S. Law Schools, Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Carole Silver Power, Legal Education, and Law School Cultures (2020)
Banking on Democracy, Mehrsa Baradaran 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. 353 (2020)
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, Mehrsa Baradaran New York Law Review Online (2020)
Rethinking Financial Inclusion: Designing an Equitable System with Public Policy, Mehrsa Baradaran Roosevelt Institute (2020)
(Un)Changing Rates of Pro Se Litigation in Federal Courts, Mark Gough and Emily Taylor Poppe 45 Law & Soc. Inquiry 567 (2020)
Law Students and Cell Phone Use: Results of a Six-School Survey, Robert M. Jarvis, Cindy Thomas Archer, Linda Galler, Hugh D. Spitzer, Jodi Wilson, and Mark E. Wojcik 89 UMKC L. Rev. 269 (2020)
New Legal Realism Goes to Law School: Integrating Social Science in Law and Legal Education, Emily Taylor Poppe Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism 191 (2020)
Surprised by the Inevitable: A National Survey of Estate Planning Utilization, Emily Taylor Poppe 53 UC Davis L. Rev. 2511 (2020)
A New Chinese Economic Law Order?, Gregory C. Shaffer and Henry Gao 23 J. Int'l Econ. L. 607 (2020)
Introductory Note to Animal Science Products Inc. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (United States Supreme Court), Christopher A. Whytock 59 I.L.M. 1 (2020)
The Concept of a Global Legal System, Christopher A. Whytock The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup's Bold Proposal 72 (2020)
Submissions from 2019
Democratic Norms and Governance Experimentalism in Worker Centers, Sameer M. Ashar and Catherine Fisk 82 Law & Contemp. Probs. 141 (2019)
Access to Power, Sameer M. Ashar and Annie Lai 148 Daedalus 82 (2019)
DACA, Government Lawyers, and the Public Interest, Sameer M. Ashar and Stephen Lee 87 Fordham L. Rev. 1879 (2019)
Critical Theory and Clinical Stance, Wendy A. Bach and Sameer M. Ashar 26 Clinical L. Rev. 81 (2019)
For Things to Remain (Sort of) the Same, Everything Must Change India’s First Generation Professional Elites & the Surreptitious Reproduction of Hierarchy, Swethaa Ballakrishnen Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality (2019)
Just Like Global Firms: Unintended Gender Parity and Speculative Isomorphism in India's Elite Professions, Swethaa Ballakrishnen 53 Law & Soc'y Rev. 108 (2019)
Intentional Invisibility: Professional Women and the Navigation of Workplace Constraints, Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Priya Fielding-Singh, and Devon Magliozzi 62 Soc. Persp. (2019)
A New Minority? International JD Students in US Law Schools, Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Carole Silver 44 Law & Soc. Inquiry 647 (2019)
Jim Crow Credit, Mehrsa Baradaran 9 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 101 (2019)
The Twenty First Century Homestead Act, Mehrsa Baradaran The Great Democracy Initiative (2019)
2016-2019 Cumulative Supplement to Donald Earl Childress III, Michael D. Ramsey & Christopher A. Whytock, Transnational Law and Practice (2015), Donald Earl Childress III, Michael D. Ramsey, and Christopher A. Whytock Aspen Casebook Series (2019)
Empowerment, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Attending Personal Empowerment Programs, Esmeralda R. Garcia, Jane K. Stoever, Peiyi Wang, and Ilona Yim J. Interpersonal Violence (2019)
Constitutional Gerrymandering Against Abortion Rights: NIFLA v. Becerra, Michele Bratcher Goodwin and Erwin Chemerinsky 94 NYU L. Rev. 61 (2019)
Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, Linda S. Greene, Lolita Buckner Inniss, Bridget J. Crawford, Mehrsa Baradaran, Noa Ben-Asher, I. Bennett Capers, Osamudia R. James, and Keisha Lindsay 34 Wis. J. L. Gender & Soc'y 1 (2019)
Blockchain Havens and the Need for Their Internationally-Coordinated Regulation, Omri Y. Marian 20 North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology (2019)
The Culture of Negotiation: Trumpian Imprints on the Future?, Carrie Menkel-Meadow 35 Negotiation J. 221 (2019)
The Future is ̶B̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Complicated: AI, Apps & Access to Justice, Emily Taylor Poppe 72 Okla. L. Rev. 185 (2019)
Why Consumer Defendants Lump It, Emily Taylor Poppe 14 NW. J. L. & Soc. Pol'y 149 (2019)
Access to Safety and Justice: Service of Process in Domestic Violence Cases, Jane K. Stoever 94 Wash. L. Rev. 333 (2019)
Firearms and Domestic Violence Fatalities: Preventable Deaths, Jane K. Stoever 53 Fam. L.Q. 183 (2019)
Reentry Services for the Removed, Katie Tinto 70 Fla. L. Rev. Forum 124 (2019)
Submissions from 2018
Case Study 1: Movement Groups with Flat, Innovative Governance Structures, Sameer M. Ashar and Meena Jagannath 47 Hofstra L. Rev. 19 (2018)
Nevertheless They Persisted: Gendered Frameworks and Socialization Advantages in Indian Professional Service Firms, Swethaa Ballakrishnen 55 Can. Rev. Soc. 343 (2018)
Review of Gender, Alterity and Human Rights, by Ratna Kapur, Swethaa Ballakrishnen 27 Feminist Legal Stud. (2018)
India's Women Legal Academics: Who They are and Where You May Find Them, Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Rupali Francesca Samuel Gender and Careers in The Legal Academy (2018)
Copyright and Hypernarrative, Dan L. Burk 31 Law & Lit. (2018)
Book Review: The Black Police: Policing Our Own, Devon W. Carbado and L. Song Richardson 131 Harv. L. Rev. 1979 (2018)
Citizenship Matters: Conceptualizing Belonging in an Era of Fragile Inclusions, Jennifer M. Chacón, Susan Bibler Coutin, Stephen Lee, Sameer M. Ashar, Edelina M. Burciaga, and Alma Garza 52 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1 (2018)
State Remedies for Human Rights, Seth Davis and Christopher A. Whytock 98 B.U. L. Rev. 397 (2018)
Review of Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Development by Niels Vestergaard, Brooks A. Kaiser, Linda Fernandez, and Joan Nymand Larsen (eds.) 2018, Joseph F.C. DiMento 10 Y.B. Polar L. (2018)
The Elusive 'High Road' for Lawyers: Teaching Professional Responsibility in a Shifting Context, Bryant G. Garth 14 U. St. Thomas L. J. 305 (2018)
Decoding Guilty Minds, Matthew Ginther, Francis X. Shen, Richard J. Bonnie, Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, and Kenneth W. Simons 71 Vand. L. Rev. 241 (2018)
Law and the Conundrum of Higher Education Quality, Jonathan Glater 51 UC Davis L. Rev. 1211 (2018)
Book Review: Pregnancy, Poverty and the State, Michele Bratcher Goodwin and Erwin Chemerinsky 127 Yale L. J. 1270 (2018)
Polarization and the Judiciary, Richard L. Hasen 22 Ann. Rev. L. & Pol. Sci. (2018)
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption (Preface), Richard L. Hasen
Legal Innocence and Federal Habeas, Leah M. Litman 104 Virginia L. Rev. 417 (2018)
Is All Corporate Tax Planning Good for Shareholders?, Omri Y. Marian 52 UC Davis L. Rev. (2018)
Challenging the Rhetorical Gag and TRAP: Reproductive Capacities, Rights, and the Helms Amendment, Michele Goodwin
Imperfect Alternatives: Institutional Choice and the Reform of Investment Law, Sergio Puig and Gregory C. Shaffer 112 Am. J. Int'l L. 361 (2018)
China's Rise: How It Took on the U.S. at the WTO, Gregory C. Shaffer and Henry Gao 2018 U. Ill. L. Rev. 115 (2018)
Sticky Floors, Springboards, Stairways & Slow Escalators: Mobility Pathways and Preferences of International Students in U.S. Law Schools, Carole Silver and Swethaa Ballakrishnen 3 U.C. Irvine J. Int'l Transnat'l Comp. L. 39 (2018)
Self-Defense, Necessity, and the Duty to Compensate, in Law and Morality, Kenneth W. Simons 55 San Diego L. Rev. 357 (2018)
Restating the Intentional Torts to Persons: Seeing the Forest and the Trees, Kenneth W. Simons and W. Jonathan Cardi 10 J. Tort Law 1 (2018)
How To Increase Our Affordable Housing Stock Introduction-Our National Housing Policy, Robert A. Solomon 2018-62 UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper (2018)
The Consequences of Citizens United: What Do the Lawyers Say?, Ann Southworth 93 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 101 (2018)
From International Law and International Relations to Law and World Politics, Christopher A. Whytock Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2018)
Harmonization of Civil Procedure: Is the United States a Model for the European Union?, Christopher A. Whytock From Common Rules to Best Practices is European Civil Procedure 133 (2018)
U.S. Supreme Court Brief of Professors of Conflict of Laws and Civil Procedure as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Animal Science Products, Inc. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Christopher A. Whytock and Zachary Clopton UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper (2018)
Submissions from 2017
Curation, Music, and Law, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa UCI Law Research Paper Series (2017)
Movement Lawyers in the Fight for Immigrant Rights, Sameer M. Ashar 64 UCLA L. Rev. 1464 (2017)
Personification and Conflict in the Study of Movement Lawyering, Sameer M. Ashar U.C. Irvine Sch. L. Res. Paper Series (2017)
‘She Gets the Job Done’: Entrenched Gender Meanings and New Returns to Essentialism in India's Elite Professional Firms, Swethaa Ballakrishnen 4 J. Prof. Org. 324 (2017)
The Timing of Tax Transparency, Joshua D. Blank 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 449 (2017)
Simplexity: Plain Language and the Tax Law, Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky 66 Emory L. J. 189 (2017)
Patents and Allied Rights: A Global Kaleidoscope, Dan L. Burk Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (2017)
Human Trafficking, Immigration Regulation and Sub-Federal Criminalization, Jennifer M. Chacón 20 New Crim. L. Rev. (2017)
Immigration and the Bully Pulpit, Jennifer M. Chacón 130 Harv. L. Rev. Forum (2017)
The 1996 Immigration Laws Come of Age, Jennifer M. Chacón 9 Drexel L. Rev. (2017)
Deferred Action and the Discretionary State: Migration, Precarity and Resistance, Susan Bibler Coutin, Sameer M. Ashar, Jennifer M. Chacon, and Stephen Lee Citizenship Studies (2017)
American Colonialism and Constitutional Redemption, Seth Davis 105 Cal. L. Rev. (2017)
Minor Courts, Major Questions, Seth Davis and Michael Coenen 70 Vand. L. Rev. (2017)
The Shape of [Ground] Water (Law): California's New Act, and Prospects for Sustainability, Joseph F.C. DiMento J. Sw. (2017)
Hollywood Writers and the Gig Economy, Catherine Fisk U. Chi. Legal F. (2017)
Police Unions, Catherine Fisk and L. Song Richardson 85 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 712 (2017)
'No Money Down' Bankruptcy, Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless, Katherine M. Porter, and Thorne Deborah 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1055 (2017)
Issues of Empire, Contestation, and Hierarchy in the Globalization of Law, Bryant G. Garth UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper Series (2017)
The Role of Lawyers in South and East Asia, Bryant G. Garth and Yves Dezalay Routledge Handbook of Asian Law 110 (2017)
Abortion: A Woman's Private Choice, Michele Bratcher Goodwin and Erwin Chemerinsky 95 Tx. L. Rev. 1189 (2017)
Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes, Sara S. Greene, Parina Patel, and Katherine M. Porter 101 Minn. L. Rev. 1031 (2017)
Cheap Speech and What It Has Done (to American Democracy), Richard L. Hasen 16 First Amend. L. Rev. (2017)
The 2016 U.S. Voting Wars: From Bad to Worse, Richard L. Hasen UCI Research Papers Series (2017)
Unduly Burdening Women’s Health: How Lower Courts Are Undermining Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, Litman M. Leah
Debunking Anti-Novelty, Leah M. Litman 66 Duke L. J. (2017)
Judge Gorsuch and Johnson Resentencing (This Is Not a Joke), Leah M. Litman 115 Mich. L. Rev. (2017)
The State Administration of International Tax Avoidance, Omri Y. Marian 7 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. (2017)
Feminist Legal Academics: Changing the Epistemology of American Law through Conflicts, Controversies and Comparisons, Carrie Menkel-Meadow Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy (2017)
Internationalizing the New Conflict of Laws Restatement, Ralf Michaels and Christopher A. Whytock 27 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 349 (2017)
Police Use of Force, L. Song Richardson Academy for Justice, A Report on Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform 185 (2017)
Systemic Triage: Implicit Racial Bias in the Criminal Courtroom, L. Song Richardson 126 Yale L. J. 862 (2017)
The Politics of International Law, Wayne Sandholtz and Christopher A. Whytock Research Handbook on the Politics of International Law 1 (2017)
Race, Law & Inequality, Fifty Years after the Civil Rights Era, Carroll Seron and Frank W. Munger 2017 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. (2017)