California Western School of Law Faculty Highlights August
SAN DIEGO (September 3, 2024) – Faculty at California Western School of Law (CWSL) are continuing to prolifically produce groundbreaking work and present it across the country and around the globe.
Here are some highlights of the faculty’s activities from the month of August:
Professor Bisom-Rapp’s article, Older Women Workers, the Pandemic, Employment Discrimination and Lifetime Disadvantage, has been published in Edward Elgar’s Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing.
Professor Bisom-Rapp was also quoted extensively in Bloomberg Law’s “Business Concerns Loom Over California’s Indoor Worker Heat Rule.” She shared her insights on California’s new rule intended to address “workplace safety concerns raised by the effect of extreme weather caused by climate change.”
Professor Bisom-Rapp was recently elected a member of the Labor Law Group (LLG) and will co-host the 19th Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL) alongside University of San Diego School of Law Professor Orly Lobel.
Professor Cooper’s article, Are ‘Friends’ Electric? A Comparativist Approach to Guidelines for the Development and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in the People’s Republic of China and the United States of America, was published in the Boston University International Journal.
Professor Cooper was also quoted in “Nvidia Slapped With Class Action by YouTube Creators for Using Content to Train AI Software,” published on Law.com. Professor Cooper has written extensively on the regulation of artificial intelligence and has been a featured speaker at national and international conferences on the topic.
Professor Jones’s article, Implementing ABA Standard 303(b)(3): Positive Legal Education Through a Community of Inquiry, was published in the Vermont Law Review. In the article, Professor Jones offers “suggestions for law schools to employ positive psychology in a Community of Inquiry so that students can learn, grow, and flourish while in law school, on the bar exam, and in the profession.”
Professor Klein was quoted in “Why Are Policyholders So Frequently Underinsured in the Event of a Total Loss? What Can Fix the Underinsurance Problem?” published by Merlin Law Group. The blog post cited Professor Klein’s article The Unnatural Disaster of Insurance, Underinsurance, and Natural Disasters, published this year in the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. That article “pulls from the shadows the likely true causes for an unnatural disaster of frequent, profound, unintended underinsurance, and points the way to a new, more equitable jurisprudential resolution.”
Professor Sheley was quoted in “Girardi's Defense May Stand On His Deteriorating Mind” published by Law360, shedding insight on the trial of disbarred lawyer Tom Girardi.
In Mealey’s Daubert Report, Professor Sheley published “Courts Must, As Recently Reminded, Follow The Law In Rule 702 Expert Testimony Determinations,” noting that “Courts’ failures to apply Rule 702 correctly have created obvious risks to innocent parties confronted by well-credentialed experts whose proffered testimony has not been adequately scrutinized by the trial court.”
On August 9, Professor Simon was a featured speaker at the 24th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at the UC Berkeley School of Law, speaking about her recent paper, Artificial Intelligence and the Self-Represented Inventor. This piece describes how AI might help increase access to the patent system for inventors who cannot afford legal representation but also sets forth the risks of overreliance on AI to address the special challenges they face.
Professor van de Biezenbos was quoted in “Ottawa will invest in expanding interprovincial electricity grid but only if provinces are interested,” published by Research Money Inc. The article cited Professor van de Biezenbos’s article, Lost in Transmission: A Constitutional Approach to Achieving a Nationwide Net Zero Electricity System, published in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal in 2022.
Professor van de Biezenbos also appeared on the Canadian Global Affairs Institute’s Energy Security Cubed Podcast, speaking about the challenge of balancing local environmental considerations and the larger issues of energy security and climate change.
