California Western Faculty Highlights – December 2024

Jan 06 2025
December Faculty Highlights
December Faculty Highlights

SAN DIEGO (January 7, 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 November: 

Chief Justice Roger Traynor Professor of Law, William Aceves 
Professor William Aceves has been appointed to serve as a co-chair for International Law Weekend 2025, which will be held at Fordham Law School. ILW 2025 is one of the largest international law conferences in the world. 
William Aceves

Associate Professor of Law, Emily Behzadi Cárdenas 
Professor Emily Behzadi Cárdenas’ upcoming book, Heritage Bound: Law, Legacy, and Landscape in Mexico, has been contracted by the Stanford University Press.

Professor Behzadi Cárdenas presented a chapter from her upcoming book, Heritage Bound: Law, Legacy, and Landscape in Mexico, “Distilling the Law of Tequila” at the Heritage and Human Rights Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. 

Emily Behzadi Cárdenas

Professor of Law, James Cooper 
Professor James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella’s book, A Short and Happy Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers, was reviewed in the Hindustan Times

Professor Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella’s OpEd “Memo to the new czar of artificial intelligence: How to maintain U.S. leadership”, was published in the Los Angeles Daily News and 12 other publications.

James Cooper
Professor of Law, Michael Yu 
Professor Michael Yu has announced that he’ll be teaching “California Community Property” for BARBRI in Winter 2025. 
Michael Yu