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ALSO INSIDE: DEMOCRATIC LEADER KING HALL KING HALL VETERANS PELOSI SPEAKS AT 2013 PHOTOGRAPHY ASSOCIATION COMMENCEMENT MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN e live in an era of rapid social and economic change, and legal education is evolving in ways that are both exciting and challenging. At UC Davis School of Law, we are growing and developing in ways that enable us to successfully address these challenges while still remaining true to the vision that has defined King Hall for more than 40 years. We are, and will remain, a world leader in legal education, committed to scholarly excellence and the highest levels of professional achievement, dedicated to social justice, and distinguished by our unique sense of community. Our faculty has taught at Northwestern School of Law and Stanford Law never been stronger. School, and Professor Brian Soucek, who has taught at As a group, they the University of Chicago. We are launching the Aoki were recently ranked Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies, adding 23rd in the U.S. new courses, expanding our Academic Success program, News & World Report peer assessment category. We were stepping up our Career Services, and much more. also ranked 23rd by University of Chicago Law Professor In addition, we are working hard to provide additional Brian Leiter, whose rating system is often regarded as funding for student scholarships, endowed professorships, the most systematic evaluation of American law school lectures and symposia, our outstanding clinical programs, quality. Our facility today is truly second to none. With the and more. Our alumni, faculty, and friends have successful completion of the King Hall Expansion and responded with enthusiasm, contributing more than $7 Renovation Project, the School of Law now has a state-of- million in private support over the past two years. Thank the-art facility befitting its status as one of the world’s great you to all who made this possible! law schools. Our students are gifted, diverse, and inspired. In this issue of Counselor, you will read about the many In an era when some law schools are lowering standards in ways our faculty, alumni, students, and staff are working order to maintain enrollment, King Hall has made no such to maintain the highest levels of scholarly excellence, serve compromises, and the best and brightest continue to be society, and raise King Hall’s national and international drawn to UC Davis School of Law. profile to even higher levels. Moving forward, our future is bright. We continue Thank you for your support, and thank you for to hire exceptional new faculty: this year’s additions believing in King Hall. include Professor Lesley K. McAllister, who joins us from the University of San Diego School of Law, Professor Darien Shanske, formerly of UC Hastings College of the Law, Professor Andrea Cann Chandrasekher, who has Kevin R. Johnson, Dean 2 KING HALL COUNSELOR p.42 p.16 p.32 2014 CONTENTS MANAGING EDITOR PAMELA WU NEWS & NOTES WRITER & EDITOR 04 JOE MARTIN 13 CAREER SERVICES DESIGNER King Hall Increases Support for Recent Graduates SAM SELLERS PHOTOGRAPHY BY 14 BLACK LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW HOSTS FIRST-EVER REUNION EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE NOTED 16 UNTOLD STORIES Professor Karima Bennoune and the Fight Against Muslim O FFI C E S O F Fundamentalism by People of Muslim Heritage EXTERNAL RELATIONS ALUMNI RELATIONS, 18 DONOR PROFILE DEVELOPMENT, & MARKETING Arthur Chinski ’70 SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT 19 BUILDING PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURE KAREN CHARNEY Every Picture Tells a Story: the Transformation of DIRE ctO R O F M A R K E T I N G Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall & PUBLIC RELATIONS PAMELA WU 25 STU D ENT S L AUN C H K I N G H A L L SENIOR EDITOR, VETERANS ASSOCIATION NEWS & PUBLICATIONS JOE MARTIN 26 PARTNERSHIPS IN PUBLIC SERVICE S E N I O R G RA ph I C D E S I G N E R & PHOTOGRAPHER 31 ALUMNI PROFILE SAM SELLERS Erin Webster-Main ’02 A SSO C IAT E D I R E ctO R O F ANNUAL AND SPECIAL FUNDS 32 FACULTY EMERITI: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? CHRISTIAN ROCKWOOD John D. “Jack” Ayer EVENTS MANAGER GIA HELLWIG 34 ALUMNI PROFILES DEVELOPMENT & Simone Campbell ’77 - Gary Solis ’71 & alumni faculty MARKETING ASSISTANT FAYE VEIRS 36 GIVING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT - Donor and Alumni Profiles LAURA PIZZO - Legacy Lifetime Giving - Directed Giving 41 PHOTO GALLERY 400 Mrak Hall Drive Davis, California 95616 t. 530.754.5328 | f. 530.754.5327 [email protected] www.law.ucdavis.edu p.19 p.25 NEWS & NOTES House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi addressing the Class of 2013 during their Commencement Ceremony, held on May 17, 2013 at the UC Davis Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. DEMOCRATIC LEADER NANCY PELOSI SPEAKS AT CLASS OF 2013 COMMENCEMENT Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy “When I look at this class of law school graduates and the Pelosi delivered the commencement address and David Wiener world that we live in,” Chancellor Katehi said, “I know that we ’13 received the Law School Medal for academic achievement still need people who will interpret the law for the rest of us, we as UC Davis School of Law honored graduating JD and LLM still need people like you who will defend the weak and prosecute students at the 2013 Commencement Ceremony on May 17 at the the perpetrators, and improve our culture and our ethics, and UC Davis Mondavi Center for we need you to help sustain the Performing Arts. our democracy. You are the The School of Law granted ones who will show us the way 196 JD and 35 LLM degrees at forward.” the event, which nearly filled to Congresswoman Pelosi, capacity the 1,800-seat Mondavi who as Speaker of the House Center and included remarks from 2007 to 2011 was the from UC Davis Chancellor highest-ranking woman ever Linda P.B. Katehi, Dean Kevin in U.S. politics, offered her R. Johnson, Professor Edward congratulations to the graduates Imwinkelried, and student and their families, and talked speaker Alexander Rich ’13. about the challenges ahead “Congratulations to all for them and for the nation, of you, our graduates, and including the need to address to your families and friends income disparity, immigration who stood behind you during these very challenging years reform, marriage equality, and other issues. of hard work and study,” said Chancellor Katehi. “You have “The challenge is to make that legacy of Dr. Martin Luther achieved a true milestone by graduating from one of the top King and all that he talked about your own. I know that you as law schools in the country, and I know there will be many more lawyers, as public servants, as graduates of King Hall have the great accomplishments in your futures.” She talked about the legal education, the moral wherewithal, the confidence, and the importance of personal commitment, flexibility, and perseverance courage to pursue the work of justice,” Congresswoman Pelosi in facing the challenges ahead. said. 4 KING HALL COUNSELOR KING HALL LAUNCHES AOKI CENTER FOR CRITICAL RACE AND NATION STUDIES UC Davis School of Law has launched the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies, a new initiative that will serve to focus and connect the work of faculty and Lesley McAllister Darien Shanske Andrea Chandrasekher Brian Soucek students at the School of Law and across the UC Davis campus in the areas of critical race and nation studies and honor the life and OUTSTANDING NEW FACULTY JOIN KING HALL work of the late Professor Keith Aoki. The UC Davis School of Law has succeeded in recruiting four outstanding Center was formally introduced at a special additions to its already-exceptional faculty. Professors Lesley McAllister, Darien reception on October 7 at King Hall. Shanske, Andrea Chandrasekher, and Brian Soucek have joined King Hall. Professor Keith Aoki died at the age of Professor McAllister joins UC Davis School of Law from the University of San 55 on April 26, 2011 following a prolonged Diego School of Law, where she had taught since 2005 and served as the Stanley illness. A brilliant scholar, devoted teacher, Legro Professor in Environmental Law. She holds a JD from Stanford Law School and beloved colleague, Professor Aoki had and a PhD from UC Berkeley. She has also taught at UC San Diego, clerked for a lasting, positive impact on faculty and Judge Fern M. Smith of the Northern District of California, and worked as an students at the School of Law and beyond. attorney for Earthjustice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She He was an accomplished and respected teaches and writes in the areas of environmental, natural resources, and energy scholar who used words, art, music, and law, comparative and international law, administrative law, and property law. Her engagement to create a significant body current research focuses on innovative regulatory approaches in environmental of work in civil rights, critical race theory, and energy policy. Her publications include Climate Change Law & Policy (Aspen, intellectual property, and local government Wolters Kluwer, 2012) and Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and law. Although he contributed to scholarship Legal Institutions in Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2008), as well as numerous in many fields, his work connecting critical articles in leading law journals. theory, race, and immigration issues was Professor Shanske was a tenured Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of close to his heart. the Law, where he had been on the faculty since 2008. He earned a law degree The Aoki Center will sponsor programs from Stanford Law School, a PhD from UC Berkeley, and a Master’s Degree at King Hall and across the UC Davis from McGill University in Montreal.