UCI Law Talks

In this UCI Law Talks episode, UCI Law Prof. Stephen Lee and José Padilla, Executive Director, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA) explore the plight of farmworkers in the U.S., the challenges of educating the public about this plight, and how public service work can become a lifelong commitment. Recorded in conjunction with the UCI Law event March 11-12, "Establishing Equity in Our Food System" http://www.law.uci.edu/events/food-equity/2016/

More about the speakers and the issues:

• Prof. Stephen Lee: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/lee/

• José Padilla: http://www.crla.org/crla-directors

• Video: California Rural Legal Assistance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahOVme-8JNc

• New York Times Op-Ed: Protect Female Farmworkers http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/opinion/how-to-protect-female-farmworkers.html?_r=0

In this UCI Law Talks episode, UCI Law Prof. Henry Weinstein moderates an exchange of views between Prof. Rick Hasen and Ed Whelan, former law clerk to Justice Scalia and president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), on the future of the Supreme Court and the 2016 elections. About the speakers:

• Prof. Rick Hasen: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/

• Ed Whelan: http://eppc.org/author/edward_whelan/

• Prof. Weinstein: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/weinstein/

In this episode of UCI Law Talks, Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Hasen discuss the impact of Justice Scalia’s sudden death on the Supreme Court and the presidential election.

More about Prof. Rick Hasen: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/

More about Dean Erwin Chemerinsky: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/chemerinsky/

Richard L. Hasen is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine School of Law. He is a renowned expert on election law, legislation, remedies, and torts. His newest book is "Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections." In this episode of UCI Law Talks, recorded at a book talk, Prof. Hasen discusses the contentious issue of campaign financing, with commentary by Dean Chemerinsky. In Plutocrats United, Prof. Hasen argues that both left and right avoid the key issue of the new Citizens United era: balancing political inequality with free speech.

More about Prof. Hasen: www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/

More about his new book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300212457/plutocrats-united

Jonathan Glater is Assistant Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law. His areas of expertise include higher education law, criminal law, corporate law, white collar crime and securities fraud. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Glater for nine years worked as a reporter at The New York Times, where he wrote about the business of law and about higher education finance. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, Prof. Glater unpacks the nuances of student debt and effects on higher education. He argues that talking about student loans in terms of a “crisis” may be missing the true challenge.

• More about Prof. Glater: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/glater/

• Prof. Glater writes about "Shifting the risk of higher education": http://www.law.uci.edu/news/in-the-news/2016/djournal-glater-012516.pdf

Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean of UC Irvine School of Law, Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law. His areas of expertise include constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He is the author of eight books and more than 200 articles in top law reviews. He frequently argues cases before the nation’s highest courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and also serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, Dean Chemerinsky discusses the potentially blockbuster cases to watch in the 2015-16 Supreme Court term now that the docket is set, including cases on immigration, abortion and contraception.

More about Dean Chemerinsky: http://www.law.uci.edu/about/deans-office/

Annie Lai is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law. Her areas of expertise include immigration, workers' rights, discrimination law, criminal procedure and legislative advocacy. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, she explains how the Immigrant Rights Clinic is transforming lives and teaching students the skills necessary for modern legal practice. More about the Immigrant Rights Clinic: http://www.law.uci.edu/academics/real-life-learning/clinics/immigrant-rights.html

• More about Prof. Lai: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/lai/

Shauhin Talesh is Assistant Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law, with joint appointment in Criminology, Law & Society. He is also Director of the Law and Graduate Studies Program at UC Irvine. He is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests include the empirical study of law and business organizations, dispute resolution, consumer protection, insurance, and the relationship between law and social inequality. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, Prof. Talesh examines how procedural rules in litigation have morphed in ways that undermine plaintiffs’ substantive civil rights, tilting the playing field in favor of defendants. Learn more with these links to Prof. Talesh's writing:

• 2012 Law and Society Review article, which goes into the differences between two different arbitration systems: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/talesh/Talesh_46LSR_463.pdf

• Abstract: The Process is the Problem: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/talesh/Talesh_The-Process-is-the-Problem.pdf

More about Prof. Talesh: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/talesh/

David Kaye is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Justice Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law, and he is UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression. Prof. Kaye’s scholarship and teaching focus on public international law, especially international human rights law, international humanitarian law, accountability for violations of human rights, and the law governing the use of force. In August 2014, Prof. Kaye was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to serve three years as Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression worldwide. With the assistance of students in his International Justice Clinic, Prof. Kaye reports to the UN on some of the key issues in free expression worldwide, such as the safety of journalists, severe restrictions placed on Internet access and usage, the chilling effects of electronic surveillance, hate speech and incitement to violence. http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/kaye/

Catherine Fisk is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center in Law, Society and Culture at University of California Irvine. Prof. Fisk teaches and writes on the law of the workplace, legal history, civil rights and the legal profession. She is the author of dozens of articles and four books, including the prize-winning Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of the Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930, and Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace. Her research focuses on workers at both the high end and the low end of the wage spectrum. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, Prof. Fisk breaks down the Supreme Court case to be decided in the 2015-16 term, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which has the potential to weaken the role of public employee unions nationwide. http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/fisk/