California Western School of Law Faculty Activity - July
SAN DIEGO (August 1, 2024) – Faculty at California Western School of Law (CWSL) are continuing to produce groundbreaking work and present it across the country and around the globe.
Here is a round-up of CWSL faculty activity from the month of July:
Professor Aceves was cited in the San Diego Union Tribune article entitled, “The U.S. Supreme Court just gave cities more power to clear homeless camps. What does that mean for San Diego County?”
On July 27, Professor Aceves, alongside Professor James Cooper, participated in San Diego Comic Con’s Arts Conference Poster Session, presenting their collaborative project, “Comic Arts in Public Service: Tales from National and International Law."
Professor Bisom-Rapp was elected a member of the Labor Law Group (LLG). Founded in 1953, the LLG is an invitation-only learned society comprised of leading US and Canadian labor and employment law scholars. LLG was formed as a non-profit trust. The group's members employ a collaborative process to create and publish innovative Work Law materials for the law school classroom. Among the LLG titles in print are casebooks on ADR in the Workplace, Employment Discrimination Law, Legal Protection for Individual Employees, Public Sector Employment, Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace, and International Labor Law.
Prior to her election, Professor Bisom-Rapp was invited to present a paper at the 2024 Labor Law Group Annual Meeting, which was held at Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, IL on June 20-21. She presented her work-in-progress, The Role of the State in (De) Standardizing Work: A Government Focused Approach to Regulatory Capture in the Platform Economy, which she is writing with Canadian Professor Urwana Coiquaud (HEC Montréal). The article examines the platform economy, especially the app-based transportation and delivery sectors, in order to develop a government focused approach to understanding how companies capture systems of legal regulation so that those systems conform to a low-cost labor business model – a model which disadvantages workers.
On July 3, Professor Cooper spoke at the Catholic University of Uruguay – the largest university in the country – on a panel entitled, “Justice and Media: Between Collaboration and Distrust.” His fellow panelist was Matt Moffett, former reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
On July 27, Professor Cooper, alongside Professor William Aceves, participated in San Diego Comic Con’s Arts Conference Poster Session, presenting their collaborative project, “Comic Arts in Public Service: Tales from National and International Law.”
On July 8, Professor Fink presented her work “Backdating #MeToo” at the National Student Legal Services 47th Annual Summer Conference, addressing the courts’ application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act in a “post #MeToo world”.
Professor Jones was a featured speaker at the Legal Writing Institute (LWI)’s Biennial Conference, presenting “Proving Outcomes: More Than Final Grades” alongside Professor Sandra Simpson.
Professor Jones was appointed to Chair the Legal Writing Institute’s PR, Website, Social Media, and LWI Lives Committee, and he was also appointed to the LWI Sirico Scholars Workshop Governing Board.
Professor Klein was a featured speaker on the proposed Third Party Litigation Financing Model Act at the National Council of Insurance Commissioners, Summer 2024 National Meeting.
Professor Klein was also quoted in the NBC Washington article, “Homeowners insurance premiums rose 21% last year. Climate change is partly to blame, experts say,” offering insight on how climate disasters create significant increases in insurance premiums.
Professor Marcus was quoted extensively in the Metro UK article, “Ten years on from the killing of Eric Garner, has anything changed?”, discussing efforts in the United States “to restructure the use of police force.”
Professor Sheley was a commentator on junior scholars' works-in-progress at the Women in Legal Academia Conference at the University of Minnesota.
Professor Emeritus Glenn C. Smith
Professor Smith was featured on ABC 10News in San Diego in a segment entitled, “Constitutional law expert breaks down Biden's call for Supreme Court reform,” discussing President Biden’s proposed changes to the Supreme Court, including term limits and a code of ethics.
