UCI Law Talks

Sarah Lawsky is Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at UC Irvine School of Law. Her area of expertise is tax law, but she is also a leading aggregator and analyst of entry-level hires of law school faculty in the U.S. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, she discusses the health of the legal market, which has been the subject of much discussion, and unpacks exactly what has happened in the law teaching market and identifies characteristics associated with obtaining an entry-level job in this increasingly uncertain part of the academy. Learn more with these links to her reports:

• 2015 Entry Level Hiring Report (PDF): http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/lawsky/2015EntryLevelHiringReport.20151209.pdf

• 2015 Entry Level Hiring Report (blog post): http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2015/05/spring-self-reported-entry-level-hiring-report-2015.html

• All PrawfsBlawg Entry Level Hiring Posts: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/entry-level-hiring-report/

• Actual entry level hires for 2013: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2014/03/2013-full-hiring-report.html

• All PrawfsBlawg posts on Getting a Job on the Law Teaching Market: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/getting_a_job_on_the_law_teaching_market/

Professor Lawsky's UCI Law profile page: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/lawsky/

Kaaryn Gustafson is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center on Law, Equality and Race at UC Irvine School of Law. Her areas of expertise include welfare and economic policy, criminal law and procedure, race, ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic inequality. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, she elaborates on her groundbreaking research into the history of bastardy laws in America which have shaped U.S. law and policy in many surprising ways. http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/gustafson/

Michele Bratcher Goodwin is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at UC Irvine School of Law. Her expertise includes bioethics, constitutional law, family law, reproductive rights and torts. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, she warns of the serious and inadequately recognized challenges posed by the rising number of women in prison in the U.S. http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/goodwin/

Richard L. Hasen is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine School of Law. His areas of expertise are election law, legislation, remedies, and torts. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, he discusses the dynamic challenges posed by battles to reshape election law, including the upcoming Supreme Court case, Evenwel v. Abbott, deciding the “one person, one vote” issue. Find out what he dubs a potential “political earthquake.”

http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/

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 January 2014, National Jurist magazine named Dean Chemerinsky the most influential person in legal education in the United States. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, he analyzes significant cases in the upcoming 2015-16 Supreme Court term, including cases deciding affirmative action, election law and union dues. http://www.law.uci.edu/about/deans-office/