In Print

Professor James Cooper's co-authored book, A Short & Happy Guide to AI Governance and Regulation, written with Professor Kashyap Kompella of BITS Law School, recently ranked number one in Amazon India's law category.


Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp's co-authored article, "How to Manage the Wolf in the Fold: A Government-Focused Approach to Regulatory Capture in the Platform Economy Comparing California with British Columbia," written with Professor Urwana Coiquaud of HEC Montréal, has been published in the Connecticut Law Review.


Professor Shawn Fields’s article, "Police Reform as System Justification," has been published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

On the Road

Dean and President Miriam Baer will speak at the Law Day Celebration, organized by the San Diego County Bar Association and co-sponsored by the community's legal affinity groups, at the San Diego County Central Courthouse on May 1.


Professor Joanna Sax will present her article, "Inclusive Science," at the conference BioLawLapalooza 8.0, co-hosted by Stanford Law School Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School on May 1.


Professor Brenda Simon will present her forthcoming scholarship, "Salvaging Innovation from Extinction," at the panel "Innovation Law & Policy" at Stanford Law School on May 1.


Clinical Professor Dana Sisitsky and Adjunct Professor Ted Janowsky will lead the session "Partnerships in Practice: Enhancing Legal Education and Access to Justice Through Community Collaboration" at the AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education in Portland, Oregon on May 4.


Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp will deliver the keynote presentation "Workplace Culture Around the World: What We Can Learn From Other Countries," followed by an interview with Branden Butler, Director of the County's Office of Ethics, Compliance, and Labor Standards, at San Diego County's Annual Ethics Conference on May 13.


Professor Nancy Marcus will present "LGBTQ+ and Reproductive Health Care First Amendment Protections Against Compelled Communications and Medical Censorship in a New Constitutional Landscape" at the 2026 LGBTQ+ Bar Association Lavender Law Conference as part of the inaugural Queer Legal Scholarship Symposium in Chicago, Illinois in July.


Professor Spencer Williams presented "Measuring Legal Reasoning" at the SPARK AI Consortium, hosted by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego, on April 24.

Future Events

May 8: 2026 Commencement Ceremony, Commencement Speaker Honorable Michael S. Groch '92, Presiding Judge, San Diego Superior Court


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