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This is a very special year at UC Davis School of Law: 2016 4 News & Notes the 50th anniversary of our founding! As we welcome Managing Editor our 50th class to the King Hall community, this milestone PAMELA WU Writer & Editor 14 Faculty Profile provides an opportunity to consider how far the School of JOE MARTIN Professor Angela P. Harris EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE NOTED Law has come since those first classes met in “bungalows” and the Evolution of Legal Graphic Designer Education and temporary buildings scattered across the UC Davis SAM SELLERS Photography campus a half century ago. UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE NOTED 16 King Hall 14 In 1965, UC Davis School of Law was an unknown quantity. The students Community who enrolled—and the faculty who signed on to teach them—were taking a OFFICES OF chance on a new school with no building to call its own, no upperclassmen or EXTERNAL RELATIONS Celebrates 50th alumni network, no reputation, and no identity other than what they would ALUMNI RELATIONS, DEVELOPMENT, & MARKETING Anniversary choose to establish. Our founding faculty and students seized the opportunity to create something special: a public law school dedicated to public service and Senior Director of Development KAREN CHARNEY the highest standards of excellence, a true sense of community, diversity, and Director of Marketing 32 Perfect Union the ideals of social justice espoused by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Public Relations How the Perfect Tender PAMELA WU In the decades that followed, generations of faculty, students, alumni, Infant Care Co-op Found a Senior Editor, Home at King Hall and staff reaffirmed these core values. Through their talents, hard work, News & Publications 34 and dedication, UC Davis School of Law swiftly earned and maintained a JOE MARTIN reputation as one of the world’s great law schools. Senior Graphic Designer & Photographer 34 50 Years of the Now, in our 50th year, our faculty are internationally renowned as dedicated SAM SELLERS UC Davis Law educators and influential scholars passionately engaged in addressing the most Director of Development pressing legal and social issues of our time. King Hall alumni excel as judges NICK DOLCE Review and justices in some of our highest courts, partners in leading law firms around Associate Director of Alumni Relations & Annual Giving the world, acclaimed educators, respected lawmakers, community activists, JIN H. KIM 37 Profiles outstanding public service attorneys and private practitioners, and in many Development & Alumni 41 Relations Coordinator Anne Stausboll ’84 other roles. In an era when law school applications have declined across the KATY FACCIOTTI board, UC Davis School of Law continues to attract a remarkably talented, Faculty Emeriti: Where Are They Now? Events Manager Professor Emeritus Bruce Wolk diverse, and inspired student body. Just as remarkable, our unwavering sense GIA HELLWIG Duncan Crabtree-Ireland ’98 of community has endured through all 50 classes of King Hall students. Development & Marketing Assistant Darrell Steinberg ’84 Today, as legal education and the legal profession continue to experience FAYE VEIRS Karen Johnson-McKewan ’85 rapid change, UC Davis School of Law is leading the way forward, addressing the challenges ahead while remaining true to the values that have defined King

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On the cover: members of the Class of 2018, King Hall’s 50th class. Front: Karen Leung, Sara Ehsani-Nia, 46 Photo Gallery Paolo Hermoso; middle: Sarah Oh, Ken Wang, Hannah 46 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean Bogen, Adam Bouka, Kara Hetrick; back: Chip Becker, Cimone Nunley, Payslie Bowman, Kyle Edgerton 2 3 NEWS & NOTES

UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW IMPROVES FIVE SLOTS IN UC Davis School of Law Honored LATEST U.S. NEWS & WORLD with Assembly Resolution in REPORT RANKINGS UC Davis School of Law improved five slots Recognition of 50th Anniversary in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, The California Legislature recognized the 50th anniversary of placing at 31 in the overall ratings of more UC Davis School of Law with a resolution during its session on than 200 American Bar Association-approved August 27, 2015. Dean Kevin R. Johnson and Senior Associate law schools. The School of Law ranked even Dean Madhavi Sunder were invited as special guests to accept the higher in the assessments by legal educators resolution on the Assembly floor. and practitioners, placing 24th in the scores given by lawyers and judges and 25th in the assessments made by deans and professors at other law schools. King Hall also placed 23rd in the U.S. News rankings of “Most Diverse Law Schools,” once again proving to be one of the few schools ranking in the top 40 for both Commencement Ceremony Celebrates overall quality and diversity. In rankings based on median grant amounts, UC Davis School of King Hall Class of 2015 Law placed first in theU.S. News assessment of the generosity of financial aid at public law Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Student speaker J.P. Wallis said he felt privileged to have schools. Supreme Court delivered the commencement address and been able to serve in the military in Iraq prior to coming “UC Davis School of Law is making great Victoria Wong ’15 was awarded the Law School Medal for to law school and to have been a member of the King Hall strides,” said Dean Kevin R. Johnson. “In outstanding academic achievement at the UC Davis School Class of 2015. Wallis praised his classmates for “the level of Law 2015 Commencement Ceremony held May 15, 2015 of compassion and understanding you have for others, and recent years, we have added outstanding Assemblymember Jose Medina, Assemblymember Luis Alejo ’01, Assemblymember James Gallagher ’07, Senior Associate Dean Madhavi Sunder, Dean Kevin R. Johnson, and at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The event your drive to use your knowledge and skills to help others in professors to our already excellent faculty, Assemblymember Bill Dodd also included remarks from Dean Kevin R. Johnson, UC need.” expanded opportunities for students with new Davis Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter, Professor Bhagwat talked about the leadership role courses, clinics, and certificates, and recruited Professor Ashutosh attorneys play in American society, pointing out that “lawyers an excellent and diverse student body. While it Bhagwat, and John exercise power and authority in our society more than any is important not to place undue emphasis on The resolution praises the School of Law’s 50 years of achievement. It is signed by three people with close ties to the

Paul Wallis ’15. A other group, and have done so throughout our history.” He rankings, the latest U.S. News & World Report UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW Law School: Assemblymember Luis Alejo ’01, Assemblymember total of 186 J.D. and encouraged the Class of 2015 to be “active citizens working assessment is a welcome recognition of King 58 LLM students with others to advance the causes you believe in.” James Gallagher ’07, and Senator Lois Wolk, a longtime supporter Hall’s upward trajectory.” of King Hall whose husband Bruce Wolk is a former Dean of the participated in the In his commencement address, Justice Cuéllar told the Dean Johnson stressed the importance ceremony. inspirational stories of Alexander Hamilton, “an immigrant Law School. of taking a long-term view when assessing Acting as master lawyer who became nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury,” Assemblymember Alejo presented the resolution to Deans law school quality. “Even the best-conceived of ceremonies, Dean and Sally Armendariz, whose Supreme Court battle to Johnson and Sunder. rankings capture only a snapshot in time, and Johnson welcomed establish disability benefits for pregnant women contributed “I would not be standing where I am if it weren’t for my the students along to major changes in state and federal law. He also spoke sensible readers will want to look at a longer professors and their support, and for that, I thank them. They with the many about Hong Yen Chang, who was denied a license to practice track record,” he said. “UC Davis School of include Cruz Reynoso, Kevin Johnson, and Amagda Pérez,” said friends and family in California more than a century ago on the basis of laws Law consistently has ranked among the top Alejo. “I commend the University of California, Davis, School of Law for its 50th anniversary, its dedication to bettering the legal KING HALL COUNSELOR tier of American law schools, and recent Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar in attendance. that discriminated against Chinese immigrants but was He talked about admitted to the bar earlier this year thanks to the efforts of years have seen a trend toward even greater community and the community at large, and for the invaluable the wide-ranging the UC Davis School of Law Asian Pacific American Law achievement and a rising national profile. With contributions made to the intellectual and social growth of its students.” experiences and interests of the Class of 2015, and praised Students Association (APALSA) and their faculty advisor, the outstanding additions to our faculty, our In his remarks, Alejo also made reference to fellow King their commitment to public service, noting that half the Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin. newly expanded and improved facility, and our members of the class completed the Law School’s Public “I believe in these lives you can hear a song, a song that Hall alumni who previously served in the Legislature, including exceptional and diverse community, we expect Darrell Steinberg ’84, Dario Frommer ’92, Charles Calderon ’75, Service program. “We have a great law school because we echoes in your own life,” said Justice Cuéllar. “And it is even greater things in the years to come.” have great students,” he said. “The Class of 2015 is nothing through your song, blending notes of shrewdness and fealty, Pedro Nava ’77, and Art Torres ’71. less than remarkable.” you will show the world what it means to be alive.”

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Jay Carlisle ’69, Professor of Law at Pace Law KING HALL GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT RATE Class of 2014 Bar Passage Alumni School in White Plains, New York, has been CONTINUES TO IMPROVE named as one of the New York Law Journal’s Building on a strong performance the previous year, Rate Tops 86 Percent, Ranks Highlights “Lawyers Who Lead by Example.” Carlisle was the UC Davis School of Law Class of 2014 posted another honored in the award’s Public Service category. Luis Alejo ’01 was named by significant improvement in post-graduate employment numbers. Felix de la Torre ’99 has been appointed Among Best in State the National Association of Social According to statistics reported to the American Bar Association general counsel at the California Public Members of the UC Davis School of Law J.D. Class of 2014 achieved an Workers-California as its 2015 (ABA), more than 80 percent of King Hall alumni who Employment Relations Board. Previously, he outstanding 86 percent pass rate on the California Bar Exam and were also Public Citizen of the Year. The graduated in May 2014 were employed in full-time positions was chief counsel at the Service Employees completely successful on the exams taken in other states, according to statistics award recognizes his work as where bar passage is required or a J.D. degree provides an International Union, Local 1000. from the State Bar of California and other state bars. a California Assemblyman in advantage nine months after graduation. Of the 146 UC Davis School of Law Class of 2014 graduates who took authoring legislation to increase Roberta Hayashi ’82 was appointed by The statistics represent a gain over the placement record of the California exam in July, 125 passed. The California passage rate of 85.62 the minimum wage (AB10) and California Governor Jerry Brown to a judgeship the Class of 2013, which was already well above the state and percent reflects an increase of about one percent from the Class of 2013 and to offer undocumented adults the in the Santa Clara County Superior Court. national averages. ABA statistics showed that the Class of 2013 is particularly impressive given that the average pass rate of all first-time test opportunity to become licensed to had 73.5 percent of its members in full-time legal employment Kris Knaplund ’77 has been honored with the nine months after graduation. takers who graduated from American Bar Association (ABA)-approved law drive (AB60). Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence, schools throughout California dropped about 7 percent from the previous The improved employment prospects for UC Davis graduates Monterey County Superior Court a campus-wide award at Pepperdine University, year to 69 percent—the lowest rate in several years. King Hall’s California reflect, among other things, recent investments made by the UC Judge Marla O. Anderson ’86 where she is a professor in the School of Law. performance thus places it almost 17 percent higher than the average pass rate Davis campus and the School of Law in Academic Success and was honored by the Monterey of California’s ABA-approved schools. All eight members of the 2014 class who Marc Levinson ’73 was named by American Career Services. The King Hall Academic Success office has County Women Lawyers took bar exams Lawyer as a “Dealmaker of the Year” for leading been able to provide additional assistance including practice Association with the Lady Justice in states other the legal team that advised the City of Stockton exams, tutors, and other resources to graduates studying for the Lifetime Achievement Award for than California in its bankruptcy case. A partner at Orrick, bar examination, contributing to the Class of 2014’s bar pass Legal Advocacy and Community also passed, Levinson is resident in the firm’s Sacramento rate of 86 percent—fourth best among California law schools— Service. resulting in an office. which in turn helps graduates land jobs. The Dean’s Office overall passage Charles Bird ’73, partner in Ross Moody ’89 was appointed by California and the University also have bolstered the resources of the Law rate of 86.36 McKenna Long & Aldridge’s San Governor Jerry Brown to a judgeship in the San School’s Career Services office by, for example, hiring a new percent for the Diego office, has been named Francisco County Superior Court. Associate Director for Public Interest & Public Sector Careers, Class as a whole. 2015 President for the American expanding the post-graduate fellowship program, and increasing Frank Ochoa ’75, Santa Barbara Superior Court The Class of Academy of Appellate Lawyers the number of job fairs and Judge, has been honored by the Santa Barbara 2014’s impressive (AAAL). Bird will lead the networking events for students. County Bar Association with the John T. Rickard performance meant that King Hall had the fourth-best success rate of 21 ABA- Academy’s efforts to connect with The fellowship program has Judicial Service Award for his contributions UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW approved law schools in California, placing just behind UC Berkeley (88.3%), and create state appellate-lawyer been remarkably effective, not to the judiciary, the court system, and the Stanford (87.6%), and USC (86.6%). groups to expand the appellate only in helping recent graduates community. “Congratulations to our Class of 2014 for an excellent performance on this practice specialty. to find legal employment but also in placing them in situations year’s California Bar Exam and other state examinations,” said Dean Kevin R. Steve Boutin ’72 has been Elisabeth Semel ’75 received UC Berkeley where they can learn from Johnson, speaking at the Class of 2014 Swearing-In Ceremony held in the honored as the Sacramento School of Law Rutter Award for Teaching outstanding mentors. Stephanie Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom on December 5, 2014. “With the support of County Bar Association’s 2015 Distinction. Semel, a clinical professor at Hall ’14 said she benefited our outstanding faculty and staff, your hard work, talents, and determination Distinguished Attorney of the Year. Berkeley, is the founding director of the school’s resulted in a truly first-rate bar passage rate that continues the King Hall Death Penalty Clinic (DPC), which launched in enormously from her fellowship Charles Calleros ’78, a Professor tradition of exceptional bar exam success, a tradition that is especially 2001. working with U.S. District Judge at Arizona State University College important in these times when bar passage is so often linked to employment Stephanie Hall ’14 Troy L. Nunley. of Law, recently earned awards for Eric Toscano ’09 was honored by the San prospects.” “The invaluable experience I KING HALL COUNSELOR his work as a teacher and mentor, Francisco Bar Association with the 2014 Barrister Other factors contributing to the high bar passage rate include the Law gained through this fellowship including Outstanding Professor of the Year Award. With fellow King Hall School’s Academic Success Program and extensive bar preparation resources, working in Judge Nunley’s chambers has helped me build of the Year 2015, Outstanding graduates Mikayla Gow Kellogg ’09 and Kelly Dean Johnson added. King Hall’s comprehensive bar preparation program confidence,” said Hall. “Judge Nunley has been an extraordinary Faculty Coach 2015, and the Van Aken ’10, Toscano is co-founder of Toscano, includes innovative bar skills courses, workshops, writing programs for mentor, consistently providing guidance regarding my writing, inaugural Charles R. Calleros Kellogg & Van Aken LLP in San Francisco. students and new graduates, and opportunities for tutoring, as well as research, and advocacy skills, as well as my overall outlook Campeon de Justicia award, a new Rubén A. Villalobos ’98 was appointed by presentations by faculty, State Bar representatives, instructors from leading bar on the law and the judicial system. I genuinely could not have annual award named after him by California Governor Jerry Brown to a judgeship review programs, and King Hall graduates who have advice for tackling the asked for a better start to my legal career.” the Chicano/Latino Law Students in the Stanislaus County Superior Court. exam. Association. 6 7 NEWS & NOTES

UNDOCUMENTED LEGAL SERVICES educational travel applications, and in-depth consultations King Hall Places First in U.S. News & World CENTER HONORED BY WHITE HOUSE and direct representation in immigration court or before The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence immigration agencies. Report Generosity of Financial Aid Rankings for Hispanics has chosen the University of “UC Davis School of Law is proud to host California Undocumented Legal Services the Undocumented Legal Services Center, UC Davis School of Law ranked first in the most recent option for students looking to practice in California. Of the Center for inclusion in “Bright Spots in which is playing such an important role U.S. News & World Report assessment of the generosity of top-tier California law schools, King Hall has the lowest Hispanic Education,” a national online in providing the high quality legal financial aid at public law schools. No public law school room-and-board costs, the most generous financial aid, catalogue of more than 230 programs assistance students need in order offers a higher median grant than UC Davis School of Law, and the lowest average graduate indebtedness. At UC Davis that invest in key education to complete their educational and King Hall students graduate with lower average debt School of Law, roughly one-third of all student fees are priorities for Hispanics. journey and become our state’s totals than students at other top-tier California law schools, returned to students in the form of financial aid. Operating out of UC Davis next generation of entrepreneurs, according to rankings. “Our goal is to prepare students to become excellent School of Law, the Undocumented engineers, and community “The investment students make in a legal education is lawyers and leaders in the public, government, and private Legal Services Center provides leaders,” said Dean Kevin R. significant— sectors,” Mercado said. “By supporting students through high-quality legal assistance Johnson. “It is very gratifying to academically, our aid program, we enable them to make career decisions to support the needs of learn that this groundbreaking personally, and based upon their goals, skills, and talents, rather than solely undocumented and AB 540-eligible program has been honored by the financially,” based upon six-figure indebtedness graduates of other top- students and their families at UC White House Initiative on Educational said Kristen ranked law schools often face. Looking at the impressive campuses without law schools: UC Excellence for Hispanics.” Mercado, accomplishments of our alumni, it’s easy to see why we make Merced, UC San Francisco, UC Santa The White House Initiative on Assistant Dean this investment year after year.” Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, and Educational Excellence for Hispanics was of Admission “A UC Davis School of Law education prepares students UC Riverside. Under Executive Director María established in 1990 to address the educational and Financial for myriad career settings, areas of law, and geographic Blanco, the groundbreaking program offers legal advice and disparities faced by the Hispanic community. It seeks to Aid. “With locations,” added Mercado. “Whether a student wants to representation, informational and know-your-rights sessions, leverage the Bright Spots to encourage collaboration between our generous work in the tech world of Silicon Valley, the financial sector legal support for campus clinics, and workshops to assist stakeholders focused on similar issues in sharing data-driven financial aid awards, UC Davis School of Law seeks to honor in San Francisco or Los Angeles, in state government, in with applications for benefits available under the Deferred approaches, promising practices, peer advice, and effective our students’ commitment by making a reciprocal investment immigration law, environmental law, wine law, or any of Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Deferred Action for partnerships, ultimately resulting in increased support for in them for three years.” the other areas in which UC Davis excels, King Hall offers Parental Accountability (DAPA), and other immigration- the educational attainment of the Hispanic community. UC Davis School of Law presents a particularly attractive exceptional value for their investment.” related relief programs, assistance in filing humanitarian and UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW

license to practice law in California more Professor Angela P. Northern California-based conservation Professor Elizabeth Professor Brian Soucek’s Faculty Honors than a century ago as a result of laws that Harris was appointed organization Restore Hetch Hetchy. Joh has been selected article, “Perceived discriminated against Chinese immigrants. the Boochever and Bird Professor David Horton’s article as an Affiliate Scholar Homosexuals: Looking Gay Professor Karima The Court posthumously granted a law Endowed Chair for the of the Center for Enough for Title VII,” has Bennoune was appointed “In Partial Defense of Probate: license to Chang in March 2015. Study and Teaching of Freedom Evidence from Alameda County, Internet and Society (CIS) at been selected for a Dukeminier Award, by the United Nations and Equality at UC Davis School Stanford Law School. which recognizes the best sexual Human Rights Council as Professor William S. Dodge California” (Georgetown Law has been chosen to serve as of Law. (See full story, page 14) Journal) was selected as the winner of Dean Kevin R. orientation and gender identity legal its Special Rapporteur in the field of scholarship published in the previous human rights. (See full story, page 13) an advisor for a new project Professor of the 29th annual Association of American Johnson has been launched by the American Law Environmental Practice Law Schools (AALS) Scholarly Paper honored with the year. Professor Gabriel “Jack” KING HALL COUNSELOR Institute (ALI), the nation’s most important Richard M. Frank Competition. Centro Legal del la Professor Madhavi Sunder Chin was honored by the non-governmental organization of legal has been elected Raza Outstanding Achievements was appointed Senior Asian/Pacific Bar Association Professor Lisa Ikemoto was reform. The “Restatement of the Law Third, to the American College of honored with the Law Students in the Law Award. The honor Associate Dean for Academic of Sacramento and the Asian Conflict of Laws” project will survey torts, Environmental Lawyers. Frank was recognizes Dean Johnson’s Affairs, becoming the first Pacific American Bar Association of for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) property, contract, business organizations, also chosen as a California Lawyer Outstanding Faculty Award. She continuing leadership and woman to hold that position at UC Davis Los Angeles County for his leadership family law and other status questions, magazine 2015 California Lawyer contributions to the Latino School of Law. She also published a new in the successful effort to petition the was also selected by the Center for Genetics and trusts and estates, as well as choice- of the Year, and selected to receive and Society as one of three new fellows. community. book, The Luxury Economy and Intellectual California Supreme Court on behalf of of-law issues and make recommendations the Stephen Mather Visionary Property (Oxford University Press). Hong Yen Chang, who was denied a regarding potential reforms. Award from the nonprofit,

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‘CELEBRATING KING HALL’ HONORS more than 30 years on the King Hall faculty. “On behalf of PROFESSOR HORTON, SCHOLARSHIP the King Hall community, I would like to say ‘thank you’ for Congressman John Garamendi Speaks on DONORS AND RECIPIENTS all that they have done throughout the years,” Dean Johnson Professor David Horton was honored with the said. U.S. Foreign Policy at King Hall Distinguished Teaching Award at “Celebrating King Hall,” a The dean also thanked the donors in attendance for special event recognizing scholarship recipients and donors, their support of student scholarships. “Scholarships enable Congressman John Garamendi delivered a talk on U.S. undermine that growth by “creating and building peace, one paying tribute to excellence in teaching, and celebrating the law school to continue to offer the best in public legal foreign policy at King Hall on September 2, 2015 that drew a village at a time.” the King Hall community. The March 5, 2015 gathering education to deserving students of all backgrounds,” he said. large turnout of faculty, students, Garamendi talked at included remarks from Dean “Scholarships help us compete for the King Hall students and community members to length about the Obama Kevin R. Johnson, Dean’s Merit who are true to our community of excellence and diversity. the Kalmanovitz Appellate administration’s attempts Scholarship recipient Tiffanie Thanks to all our supporters who have helped with student Courtroom. Garamendi, who to broker an agreement to de la Riva ’15, Professor scholarships.” represents California’s District prevent Iran from developing Edward Imwinkelried, and De la Riva also spoke of the importance of scholarships, 3 and serves on the House nuclear weapons, and answered Professor Horton. focusing on the ways in which they enrich the student Armed Services Committee, numerous audience questions, Dean Johnson welcomed experience by allowing recipients to worry less about tuition focused on the importance of which included queries about the audience, acknowledging and explore the many opportunities offered by King Hall. diplomacy in avoiding armed the proposed Trans-Pacific the members of the UC “Because I had help with the financial burden of law school, conflict, often framing his Partnership trade agreement, oil Davis School of Law Alumni I was able to throw myself into King Hall life,” said de la Riva. remarks by harkening back to drilling the Arctic, and effects of Board, faculty members, and Professor Imwinkelried introduced Professor Horton. He his experiences working for the China’s devaluing its currency. donors in attendance. He spoke of how the King Hall faculty has changed over the Peace Corps in Africa during the He closed with remarks about years, becoming bigger, more diverse, and more renowned 1960s. a “new trillion dollar arms Professor David Horton briefly summarized recent accomplishments of the School for its scholarship. “Through all these changes, there has “How do you deal with race,” as the world’s nuclear of Law and been one constant at this law school, and that constant violent extremist groups?” powers seek to develop a new recognized the has been a commitment to classroom teaching,” he said. Garamendi asked. “Do a whole generation of stealth nuclear contributions of Professor Horton, Imwinkelried said, “represents the best of lot more of what we were doing weapons that cannot be detected the teaching tradition at this law school.” in the ’60s with the Peace Corps: “until you see the bright light.” Professor Alan Dean Kevin R. Johnson, Senior Associate Dean Madhavi Sunder, Horton gave an often humorous presentation of various building communities.” Still, Garamendi said he Brownstein and Congressman John Garamendi Professor Leslie “tricks learned over the years” as a law professor, and Garamendi said that social remained optimistic about the Kurtz, both of then spoke seriously about his gratitude in receiving the problems such as poverty, lack future, referencing the song whom recently Distinguished Teaching Award. “It is joyous to teach at King of educational opportunity, and poor social mobility in Africa “Tomorrow” from the musical Annie. “The sun will come retired after Hall,” Horton said. “Thank you so much for this tremendous and the Middle East provide fertile conditions for the growth up tomorrow, and I’m optimistic that we’ll make the right

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KING HALL HALO and Immigrant Center for Education Participating in the 2015 trip to San such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and as they met with detainees who were treating them like a human being,” she STUDENTS HELP DETAINED and Legal Services (RAICES) to observe Antonio were Dean Bubar ’16, Max Honduras. All of the HALO students granted bail, providing necessities and said. IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN court hearings, investigate allegations Calehuff ’17, Laura Flores ’15, Erin did some “court watching,” attending explaining the legal proceedings they Sarah Woolston said that the SAN ANTONIO of abuse, and provide other services. Gunter ’17, Connor Karen ’17, Jamie hearings in which immigration officials would soon experience. experience taught her valuable lessons Students in the UC Davis School Founded in 2006, HALO is a Knauer ’17, Hope Kwiatkowski ’17, sought to determine if the women Katie Rogers said that meeting the she will bring to her legal practice in of Law Humanitarian Aid Legal student organization that assists Adam McIntyre ’17, John Miller ’17, had a credible fear of violence or detainees helped to “put a human the years to come. “I think working KING HALL COUNSELOR Organization (HALO) traveled to and raises awareness of underserved Katie Rogers ’17, Kelsey Santamaria persecution if returned to their home face” on immigration issues and with a nonprofit, you see how vital San Antonio, Texas during the 2015 communities. Each year, HALO raises ’17, Holly Snead ’17, Sarah Woolston countries. Among the various services policies. “Every woman or child that I pro bono attorneys are,” she said. spring break to provide support and funds for a spring break legal aid trip, ’17, and Antonia Wong ’16. provided, HALO students worked with came across was so grateful for every “It’s great to have organizers and assistance for immigrant women in which UC Davis law students travel Students worked with RAICES in RAICES to file Freedom of Information small thing, whether it was playing activists, but you really need to have and children detained in the Karnes to provide aid to underserved groups various capacities to serve detainees Act requests to government agencies with a little boy or helping change a lawyers involved. When you can help County Residential Center. Fourteen in different parts of the country. Past at the Karnes facility, many of whom investigating detainees’ complaints diaper, or even just sitting and talking. them solve their legal problems, it’s King Hall students worked with the trips have been to New Orleans, Biloxi, came to the United States to escape regarding the Karnes facility and They were so grateful to have some incredibly impactful.” immigration assistance group Refugee East St. Louis, and other cities. violence and persecution in countries accompanied RAICES representatives interaction with somebody who was

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PROFESSOR NATHANIEL PERSILY New Professors Join King Hall Faculty DELIVERS CENTRAL VALLEY LECTURE Two distinguished new faculty Nathaniel Persily, the James B. McClatchy members have joined UC Davis Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a School of Law: William S. Dodge, nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law, most recently the Honorable Roger election law, and the democratic process, delivered J. Traynor Professor of Law at UC the Central Valley Foundation/James B. McClatchy Hastings College of the Law, and Lecture on the First Amendment in the Kalmanovitz Jasmine Harris, previously at American Appellate Courtroom on October 29. University, Washington College of Law. Speaking to a large audience that included In an era in which law school Central Valley Foundation co-founder Susan faculty hiring has been stagnant, UC McClatchy, Persily spoke on the need to rethink Davis School of Law has been fortunate campaign finance regulation in light of new online Professor Karima to be in a position to expand its roster technologies that are overtaking television as the of outstanding scholar-educators. The primary medium of political expression. Bennoune Appointed successful recruitment of Professors “Whether you’re looking at the jurisprudence Dodge and Harris continues the hiring or the regulatory framework, a lot of what we think as United Nations of stellar lateral faculty from leading of as campaign finance law assumes the 30-second schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and Professor William S. Dodge Professor Jasmine Harris television ad as being the principle means of Special Rapporteur on UC Berkeley, among others. Professor political manipulation and persuasion on behalf of Dodge is the fourth tenured member parties, groups, and candidates,” said Persily, “but Cultural Rights of the UC Hastings law faculty to move that’s going to change.” The United Nations Human Rights Council, the UN’s to UC Davis School of Law in recent William A. Norris of the U.S. Court of was the Counselor on International As voters increasingly get information from top human rights body, has appointed Professor Karima years. The School of Law continues to Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. targeted advertisements, on-demand video, blogs, Bennoune as its Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural recruit and expects to fill two faculty for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the Department of State. and other online sources, Persily said, internet- rights. In her role as Special Rapporteur, Professor Bennoune vacancies during the 2015-2016 U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Harris will teach evidence based campaign tools have the potential to will make official visits to countries; observe and report on academic year. Professor Dodge is an influential and disability law. She graduated exacerbate problems such as anonymous campaign the promotion and protection of cultural rights at the local, “We are extremely pleased to international law scholar. He serves from Dartmouth College with a B.A., spending. The U.S. Federal Election Commission national, regional and international levels; identify possible welcome Professors Dodge and Harris as a Co-Reporter for the American magna cum laude, in Latin American is ill-equipped to deal with an online information obstacles to the promotion and protection of cultural rights, to UC Davis School of Law,” said Dean Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of and Caribbean Studies and earned system that is globally based, often anonymously

and make recommendations to the Council on possible UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW Kevin R. Johnson. “It is exciting to Foreign Relations Law: Jurisdiction and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where sourced, blurs the distinction between campaigners actions. She will also present reports to the Human Rights see our faculty, which is already one as a member of the State Department’s she served as Senior Editor of the Yale and media, and utilizes a wide array of delivery Council and the UN General Assembly each year. of the most highly regarded, most Advisory Committee on International Law & Policy Review, as Public Service platforms, he continued. Regulation, if it is going to “I am truly delighted to have this opportunity to contribute productive, and most-cited of any law Law. He is a co-author (along with Chair of Yale’s Latino Law Students occur, may have to come from internet portals such to the advancement of human rights, especially in the current school, continue to progress in ways former Yale Law School Dean Harold Association, and as a consultant for as Google and Facebook, Persily said. challenging global context,” said Professor Bennoune. “As that directly benefit our students, Koh and two others) of the casebook the World Bank’s Legal & Judicial Professor Persily’s lecture was the sixth in a Special Rapporteur, I will work tirelessly to promote the legal scholarship, and our King Hall Transnational Business Problems (5th Reform Practice Group. After law series established by the Central Valley Foundation human right to culture. The struggle to defend cultural rights community.” ed. Foundation Press 2014) and a co- school, Professor Harris clerked for to promote discussion and understanding of First is of global, national, and personal significance everywhere.” Professor Dodge’s scholarly interests editor of International Law in the U.S. the Honorable Harold Baer, Jr. in Amendment issues. Previous speakers include Professor Bennoune is an author, scholar, and teacher include international law, international Supreme Court: Continuity and Change the Southern District of New York, Pamela S. Karlan, Professor of Law and Co-director in the field of international human rights. She recently was transactions, international dispute (Cambridge University Press 2011), and then worked at Wilmer Cutler of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford

KING HALL COUNSELOR awarded the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize and is the resolution, and contracts. He earned which won the American Society of Pickering Hale & Dorr before joining Law School; Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. first Arab-American to be honored with the Derrick A. Bell his B.A., summa cum laude, in History International Law’s 2012 certificate the Advancement Project, where Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Akhil Amar, Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association from Yale University and his J.D. from of merit. He has authored more than she was as a staff attorney with the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at of American Law Schools. Her TED talk on religious Yale Law School. Following graduation, 40 other publications in books and Schoolhouse to Jailhouse and Quality Yale University; Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward extremism has received more than 1.3 million views. Professor Dodge clerked for Judge law reviews. From 2011 to 2012, he Education projects. H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the A dedicated mentor, Professor Bennoune hopes to University of Chicago Law School; and Jack M. integrate UC Davis law students into her work as UN Special Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law Rapporteur. and the First Amendment at Yale Law School.

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she found numerous faculty and students who shared her both as a human being and as an institutional agent that interests, and worked with Professors Gabriel “Jack” Chin there is always room to humanize our legal education and and Rose Cuison Villazor to found the Aoki Center for our legal services.” Critical Race and Nation Studies at King Hall. “I think in the legal profession, everyone is stressed, from “We realized there was really a deep well of expertise in the bottom up,” said Victoria Wong ’15. “In the mindfulness this faculty around issues of race, ethnicity, immigration, course, a common theme among the students was that we and citizenship,” said Harris. “So part of the impetus was hadn’t really taken the time to think about why we had wanting to figure out how we come to law school, how the could capitalize on that expertise experience was changing us, and do things that would bring “I try to encourage students to think and what we need to keep in the group together for some joint about their professional trajectory mind going forward. Learning initiatives.” and the values they want to keep in some techniques to reduce One such project has been mind in order to keep themselves stress, and just taking the time the Aoki Center’s “Critical to think about all of that was Perspectives on First-Year healthy, effective, and grounded.” really useful. I would definitely Courses,” a series of presentations - PROFESSOR ANGELA P. HARRIS recommend the class to other looking at Civil Procedure, students.” Property, Constitutional Law, Harris said the mindfulness and other first-year staples from a critical perspective. course is part of a “broadening of the law school curriculum” The program has been popular with students, Harris said, from its relatively narrow focus of 50 years ago. “We’ve seen perhaps because it helps them to connect their first-year critical race theory emerge, courses on law and economics, studies to real-world contemporary problems. law and science, law and policy, and legal theory explode, “I think it helps keep a lot of the 1Ls grounded,” said and I think that larger vision of what law is all about is part Harris. “They may have come into law school with an of the reason we have this course today.” interest in social justice, and then the first-year experience Harris said that she is “thrilled” to be able to continue her can be very technical and doctrinal, and these presentations scholarship and teaching with support from the Boochever connect what they’ve been studying with some of the social and Bird Chair. Held until his recent retirement by Professor issues and concerns they may have had coming in.” Alan Brownstein, the chair was created with funding from Harris has also put together an innovative seminar on Charlie ’73 and Charlotte Bird and named for the Honorable “Mindfulness and Professional Identity.” Developed with Robert Boochever of the Supreme Court of Alaska and Legal education has gone through profound changes since setting off a basic change in the way scholars, teachers, and Stephanie Phillips, a professor at SUNY Buffalo Law School, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for

UC Davis School of Law admitted its first class of students students look at race, law, and society. while Harris was teaching there as a visiting professor during Elizabeth J. Bird and Donald G. Bird. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW 50 years ago, and King Hall faculty have both reflected Critical race theory, Harris explains, is “about recognizing 2009-2010, the course explores the impacts of stress as well Asked about her appointment to the prestigious and driven many aspects of that transformation. Consider that race has really shaped our country’s approach to the law as meditation, yoga, and other techniques for mindfulness chair, Harris’ response was two-fold. “First, I have been Professor Angela P. Harris, one of the nation’s foremost and justice, defining who’s included and who’s excluded. and stress reduction. There is a unit on “professional touched by the respect, affection, and generosity of my critical race theory, feminist legal theory, and civil rights It’s about recognizing that our history as an explicitly identity,” or how legal practice can intersect with personal King Hall colleagues,” she said. “Several of my colleagues scholars and the new Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study racialized country still has resonance for us today. Although values, and another that explores how experienced independently approached me to ask if it would be OK if and Teaching of Freedom and Equality. we like to think we are living in a ‘post racial’ society, in professionals deal with the “close contact with suffering” that they nominated me for the chair. Collectively, they voted To begin with, Harris is part of an influx of women and fact discrimination has not gone away. We continue to have can be a regular part of working as an attorney, Harris said. for my appointment—a tremendous affirmation from this people of color who have entered legal education in recent institutions that reinforce stereotypes that get in the way of “The class has been welcomed by students, partly because amazing community.” decades and transformed a profession that was almost our being united as a country. Critical race theory looks at they’re under a lot of pressure, and it’s useful for them to “Second, I was not only excited but deeply moved when exclusively the domain of white men. Yet her influence the influences of the past, how these processes continue, and learn some techniques for dealing with that,” said Harris. I read the description of the chair,” Harris continued. “It

KING HALL COUNSELOR extends far beyond demographics to scholarly works and how we can intervene in them.” “Along the way I try to encourage students to think about is an amazing opportunity and honor to be charged with activities that have broadened the curriculum in ways that Harris, who earned her J.D. from the University of their professional trajectory and the values they want to keep ‘preserv[ing] and expand[ing] the understanding of the could barely have been imagined 50 years ago. Chicago and began teaching at UC Berkeley School of Law in mind in order to keep themselves healthy, effective, and virtues necessary to a great Republic,’ and to see among High up on her list of contributions would be the in 1988, has played an active role in promoting community grounded.” those virtues ‘the promise of fairness made in the Fifth and canonical article “Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal among critical legal scholars, having helped to found LatCrit, Eduardo Ramirez Castro ’16 was enthusiastic about his Fourteenth Amendments,’ and ‘the principle of equality Theory” (published in 1990 in Stanford Law Review), which Inc., a nonprofit organization that supports Latino critical experience with the course. “I learned how mindfulness and expressed in the Fourteenth Amendment.’ The generous has been identified as one of the most cited law review race studies, and Classcrits, a network of scholars and meditation provide for me a system of self-care and an ability donors who endowed this chair have recognized the beauty articles of all time. It’s no exaggeration to say that the work activists interested in critical analysis of law and the economy. to be intentionally compassionate in the services I provide to of these constitutional values, and understand the unceasing helped establish critical race theory in the legal curriculum, When she joined UC Davis School of Law in 2011, our communities,” he said. “I have a heightened awareness work necessary to ensure that they thrive.”

14 15 KING HALL In the short span of 50 years, UC Davis School of Law has become firmly established as one COMMUNITY of the world’s great law schools, distinguished CELEBRATES by its commitment to the highest standards of excellence, unique sense of community, diversity, and dedication to the ideals of social justice espoused by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the hope that the story of this swift ascent into the top tier of legal education is best told by the people who helped to make it happen, we offer the following memories and reflections from members of the King Hall community. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW KING HALL COUNSELOR

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FIFTY YEARS AGO: EARLY Thelma Kido. “Dean Kido,” as the law students who came Fessler was an outstanding contracts teacher who later affectionately called her, was one of the nicest people asked students to stand when answering a question. DAYS OF THE LAW SCHOOL I ever met. And one of the most efficient. Dean Barrett was Because his first visit to Davis was in the late November BY PROFESSOR FLOYD FEENEY also on the hunt for outstanding faculty. Dan Dykstra, a rainy season when there was water on both sides of November 1963. The UC Regents authorized the creation brilliant corporations professor who had served as academic the causeway that runs from Davis to Sacramento, he of a new UC law school. A few months later, the UC Davis vice-president at the University of Utah and as dean of that claimed that he thought Davis was on the coast. Another chancellor announced university’s law school, decided to come to Davis. So did early faculty member was Jim Hogan. In his student the appointment of Edgar Bodenheimer, a leading jurisprudence scholar and a days, he was a key member of the team that won the Edward L. Barrett, Jr., as member of the Nuremberg prosecutor’s staff at the end of national moot court competition. As a young D.C. the first dean. A leading World War II. One of the first foreign law books translated lawyer he had a brilliant career both in the courtroom Professor Brigitte Bodenheimer, 1973 criminal procedure and into Chinese at the end of the cultural evolution was his and as a sometime-professor at the Georgetown law constitutional law scholar, history of jurisprudence. Brigitte Bodenheimer, Edgar’s wife school. He kept an Irish flag in his office, passed out Berkeley Professor Barrett and a fine family law and conflicts of scholar, was for a time Irish Spring soap on St. Patrick’s Day, and was the first was a superb choice. Among prevented by nepotism rules from joining the law faculty. winner of the law school’s Distinguished Teaching many other achievements, After the university relaxed these rules and she joined the Award. faculty, she developed a brilliant plan for dealing with the The law students who came to Davis in the fall of the American Law Institute Dean Edward L. Barrett, Jr., 1977 had just asked him to difficult problem of parents who abduct their children 1966 did not go to classes in King Hall. That building play a leading role in to other countries or states. Her work led to a Hague was not completed until the fall of 1968. In the the development of a Conference treaty now adopted by 93 nations and a federal early days, the law school was housed in small, drab Professor Floyd Feeney, 1970 Model Code of Criminal statute for dealing with interstate abductions. temporary buildings located near the Silo. The first law Procedure. Earlier, at the Another early member of the law faculty was Homer school class consisted of around 75 students willing to request of the U.S. Attorney Angelo—half Nevada cowboy and half sophisticated take a chance on the new venture. When Martin Luther Law Librarian Mortimer Schwartz, 1966 General, he had spent many international lawyer. Decorated by the Dutch queen for his King was assassinated in the spring of their third year, months in Washington work in helping to reestablish the rightful Dutch government law students were the first to recommend that the school helping to develop the Civil at the end of World War II, he was part of the generation of building be named in his honor. Rights Act of 1957. American attorneys who helped establish close business and Students and faculty relationships in these early Wasting no time in legal relationships between the United States and Europe days were extremely close. There were many events getting the law school in the post-war era. His client list included the Dutch and that brought students and faculty together outside the started, Barrett quickly Belgian national airlines and Norwegian interests involved classroom. These contacts and the close relationships hired a leading law librarian in developing the North Sea oilfield. Ed Rabin was another helped to build a friendly, cooperative spirit. That spirit (Mort Schwartz) and one superb law teacher who chose to move to Davis. He brought has endured and has ever since been an important part of the Davis campus’s most sophistication to the classroom and made many important of King Hall. Professor Floyd Feeney, 2014 talented staff members, contributions to the development of the law school. Dan Professor Dan Dykstra Registrar Thelma Kido Prof. Feeney memory continued on next page...

1962 - Regents 1963 - Law School 1964 - Professor 1965 - Professor Daniel J. Dykstra, Librarian 1968 - Law 1969 - Law School building completed and 1971 - Professor 1972 - First issue of of the University planning committee, Edward L. Mortimer D. Schwartz and Dean’s Assistant and School receives named for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Daniel J. the Alumni Reporter, of California which includes Barrett, Jr. Registrar Thelma H. Kido recruited. ABA accreditation. Dykstra later named King - Building dedication ceremony authorize Berkeley Law appointed named Hall Quarterly and - First faculty meeting held. with Chief Justice of the U.S. Earl KING HALL COUNSELOR establishment of Professor Edward L. first Dean. Warren. Dean. King Hall Counselor UC Davis School Barrett, begins work. - Library established in alumni magazine. of Law. temporary building, begins - First issue of UC Davis Law acquiring books. Review.

1965 1966 1967 1969 - First class of 1972 - Law School receives 340 applications - Professors Edgar - Groundbreaking students graduate. - Law Students Association generates revenue for admission to the first entering class. Bodenheimer, Brigitte M. Bodenheimer, ceremonies for Law from pinball machines in the student lounge. Edward H. Rabin, and Frank B. Baldwin hired. School building. - Founding class enters with 78 students. 18 19 KING HALL COMMUNITY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

My first contact with the law LIGHT AND MAGIC school came in the fall of 1967. At BY PROFESSOR JOEL DOBRIS the time I was working in the U.S. State Department in Washington, I came to King Hall on July 1, 1976, almost 40 years ago. What’s changed? Less than one might think. We have a D.C. I received a phone call from I was very much the greenhorn. Now, I am very much the wonderful new building. Costs for students have soared. Dean Barrett. He asked, “How would old timer. The school has become a very cosmopolitan place. We have you like to come to Davis to teach?” What did I find back then? a large international student body. More research is required Thinking quickly, I responded I found a place that was rather like a musical about going of faculty. Faculty are expected to present their research at brilliantly, “Where is that?” I quickly to law school in Northern California. There was a strong other institutions. We have PhDs on the faculty. A number of discovered that Davis was one of dedication to public service. There was a large population of faculty live in the Bay Area. (In 1976, you pretty much had the great agricultural universities square dealers. There was to live in Davis. It was of the world and that Dean Barrett an amazing commitment nonnegotiable.) was a highly respected scholar. I to teaching, research, and Some years ago, a also learned that Dean Barrett and minority concerns. The famously hard-charging, the campus were (with the help of law school administration East Coast law professor UC Davis School of Law Faculty, 1970 the Ford Foundation) in the process was very frugal. The asked me what one word of establishing one of the nation’s Chancellor was interested best described our law first major criminal justice research in what the law school school. I thought for a centers. was doing. The law moment and then I said, Dean Barrett had long had a school had a show called “Nice.” He was puzzled. close relationship with Chief Justice Cardozorama. The school I felt, and I feel, that I hit Warren, and Earl Warren had a close had more tenure-track the nail on the head. relationship with the Davis campus women teachers than So, I found myself in that predated his appointment as any other law school in 1976 in a nice place to Chief Justice. In the spring of 1968 the country. There was become a professor, and Professor Joel Dobris, 1980 Professor Joel Dobris, 2012 Earl Warren was the marshal for a special institutional now I find myself in a the Picnic Day parade. Dean Barrett capacity to discover talent nice place to be retired. persuaded him to give a breakfast in faculty, students, and Or, in the words of a talk to the UC Davis law, medical, staff. There was a solid core of enthusiastic, new, young gently mocking Cardozorama song of long ago, “Davis, City and veterinary students. The teachers. It was a great place to become a good teacher, of Light, City of Magic ….” following year, Chief Justice Warren thrive professionally, establish a body of research, raise a kid, Happy golden anniversary, King Hall—Davis, law school came back to give the dedication and live a happy married life. of light, law school of magic. speech for the original King Hall. UC Davis School of Law Faculty, 2015 Sound familiar?

1974 - Professor 1975 1976 - School of 1978 1978 - King 1980 - Professor 1983 - Gloria Pierre R. - Prison Law Law moves from - Controversy Hall Legal Florian Bartosic Steinem speaks at Loiseaux Clinic established. quarter to semester surrounds Foundation named Dean. Bodenheimer lecture. named system. commencement formed. - UC Davis Law Review Symposium helps to establish the public Dean. speaker California trust doctrine in environmental law, influencing the California Supreme Court 1979 Supreme Court’s historic decision to save Mono Lake. Justice Stanley Mosk, - Entering class author of the Bakke tops 204 students. decision.

1980 - 1981 - Coretta Distinguished Scott King delivers Teaching Award commencement established with address. funding from - Immigration Law William and Clinic established. 20 Sally Rutter. 21 KING HALL COMMUNITY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

SMALL IS GOOD occasions, in the second semester when I referred to one I had a few years ago with a student in a conversation with another student, the second professor from an eminent law BY PROFESSOR EDWARD J. IMWINKELRIED student would ask, “Who’s that?” I would have to explain school who delivered one of Every seven years, a law school is inspected by the that he or she had sat with that student in a large classroom our endowed lectures. Since I American Association of Law Schools and the American Bar for four months in the prior semester. At King Hall, by the had followed his scholarship for Association. In the year preceding the inspection, the law end of the 1L year every student knows virtually every other years, I asked the dean whether school prepares a self-study. Several inspections ago, the student in their class. I could attend the post-lecture dean asked me to draft our self-study. Since I chaired the However, Ed didn’t simply design the building to enhance dinner. At one point during the self-study committee, when the visitors arrived, I had dinner collegiality. In addition, he carefully picked founding faculty dinner, the conversation turned with the inspectors. members who were as dedicated to their classroom teaching to the question of how much Professor Jim Hogan, 1970 I can remember sitting across from the chair of the as they were to their scholarship. There have been a large stress a law school ought to inspection committee, the Tennessee law school dean. He number of legendary teachers at King Hall–professors such place on teaching. The professor explained that earlier in the day the committee had met as Floyd Feeney, Dan Fessler, Dick Wydick, Margaret Johns, stated that he had just stepped with King Hall students as well as alumnae and alumni. Bob Hillman, Alan Brownstein, Marty West, Joel Dobris, and down as associate dean at his He said that he could not believe how happy the students Evelyn Lewis. But my hero has always been Jim Hogan, the law school. He said that at one were to be at King Hall or how fond the alums appeared Professor Edward J. Imwinkelried, 1993 Professor Edward J. Imwinkelried, 2014 most beloved teacher in the history of King Hall. point, several students reported to be of the law school. He said that he had participated in Everyone has their favorite Hogan story. This is mine. to him that one of his colleagues a number of inspection visits and that at some schools, he Late in the second semester of the academic year, the was not only bringing his cell had found reports of cutthroat competition among students What accounts for this? One of the factors is the small administration distributes a list of the classes to be offered phone to class but also answering and strained relations between the students and faculty. As size of the school. This is the smallest law school that I in the next school year. Once when I was browsing through “important” phone calls during I recall, he concluded by saying, “If you could bottle your have taught or visited at. Small is good. That was certainly the list, I noticed that Jim was scheduled to teach Remedies– class. After receiving that report, Professor Jim Hogan, 1994 school’s spirit, you could make a fortune. I’ve been on several the view of our founding dean, Ed Barrett. Ed admired the not Evidence or Civil Procedure or Products Liability, but the professor went straight to of these inspections, and I’ve never met with students or collegiality at Stanford, and he wanted to build a law school Remedies. To the best of my recollection, Jim had never the dean. He asked the dean to alums who were as satisfied with their law school.” on the same, modest scale. There is an apocryphal story that taught Remedies or expressed any interest in doing so. I “counsel” their colleague that his conduct was disrespectful During my 42 years of law teaching, I have been Ed designed the original building to ensure that it would walked up to his office and asked Jim whether there was a to the students. The professor was stunned when the dean something of a vagabond. Before joining the UC Davis be difficult to subsequently expand the law school and its mistake in the schedule. At that point Jim became visibly informed him that since the colleague was a prolific scholar, faculty, I had been a full-time faculty member at two other student body. (It took Ed’s successor deans several decades to angry. He proceeded to explain that he was upset that for the dean was not going to admonish the colleague. In the law schools, and during those 42 years, I have visited at develop a feasible design and find the funding to expand Ed’s years, Remedies, a bar course, had been taught exclusively by dean’s mind, classroom teaching was not a priority. three other law schools. That experience convinces me that building.) adjuncts. He emphatically said, “Our students deserve better. None of the King Hall deans I have known would have the Tennessee law dean was right: King Hall is a special I think that Ed was absolutely right. At one of the And if no one else will teach the course, I’ll learn the course tolerated that conduct. Jim Hogan would have gone into law school, and the vast majority of the members of this schools where I formerly taught, I usually had a 120-student to teach it.” That remark showed how committed Jim was to orbit if he had heard a similar report about one of our law school community–alums, students, staff, and faculty– Evidence class in the first semester and another 120-student our students. colleagues. Especially after those two conversations, I feel consider themselves fortunate to be associated with King Hall. Legal Ethics class in the second semester. On many I contrast that conversation with Jim with a conversation privileged to have taught at King Hall for 30 years.

1986 - Barrett 1987 1987 - - 1990 1991 1992 - 1993 - Professor 1994 - Inaugural 1996 Lectureship in Dr. Martin Luther Associate Justice of - Anonymous - Professor Pro Bono Bruce State Capitol - U.S. Attorney Constitutional Law King, Jr. statue the U.S. donation of Ellen R. Program A. Wolk Reception, now an General Janet established. unveiled. Supreme $107,000 received Jordan established. named annual event. Reno delivers Court as challenge to named Dean. commencement William establish first Chair. Dean. address. J. Brennan, Jr. delivers commencement address.

1993 - Civil Rights Clinic established.

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REFLECTION ON (NEARLY) The second insight came from I became a full-time academic in 2006. At King Hall, I have the privilege PROFESSOR informal conversations with my to teach environmental law and related courses to the current generation of MARGARET JOHNS 50 YEARS AT KING HALL federal office mates over lunch or UC Davis law students. I also direct the California Environmental Law & I have tons of BY PROFESSOR RICHARD M. FRANK ’74 after work. Almost to a person, Policy Center, an environmental “think tank” and policy organization. great memories Birthdays and anniversaries provide the occasion they told me they’d disliked or I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing at this stage of my career. from all my years to reflect and assess, and celebrating the 50th entering even hated their three years of As we welcome the 50th class of law students to King Hall, some at King Hall, but class at King Hall is certainly no different. As I reflect law school. It was an unpleasant, things are quite different from my own student days here in the early the most surprising on the history—and future—of King Hall, I do so expensive but necessary means ’70’s, while others remain very much the same. Instead of the new and thing to me about it was the faculty’s wearing two very different hats. to an end, they confided. I was little appreciated law school it was in those days, today King Hall ranks devotion to teaching. This little story, The first is as a proud, long-time alum of King surprised, since I actually enjoyed among the top-rated law schools in the nation. In addition to providing I think, captures that: Hall. I was actually a member of the law school’s sixth Professor Richard M. Frank, 1971 my own law school experience a world-class legal education to the law students of the 21st century, One day, decades ago, I was graduating class, beginning my legal education at at King Hall: the professors it has developed special expertise and stature in critically important walking down the hallway in the this then-fledgling institution in the fall of 1971 and were friendly and accessible, as legal areas including international law, intellectual property and—yes— faculty wing. The door to Professor graduating in 1974. well as excellent teachers and environmental law. King Hall’s distinguished alumni include the Chief Dick Wydick’s stylish and immaculate And a great legal education it was. But I confess mentors, and the administration Justice of California, an array of other federal and state judges around office was open, and he called out, that I didn’t fully appreciate how special a law school cultivated a collaborative (rather the country, members of Congress, the former President of the California “Margaret, would you please come in this is until I left King Hall to begin my legal career as than competitive) law school State Senate, and respected leaders of America’s top law firms. Foreign for a minute?” Of course, I did. Now, an attorney for the federal government in Washington, environment. When I checked students from around the globe now flock to King Hall, eager to obtain this was long before PowerPoint or D.C. in 1974. There I found myself working shoulder in later with my King Hall ’74 the world-class legal education that’s available to them here at UC Davis. even whiteboards, when teachers to shoulder with a number of similar, newly minted classmates—a number of whom And King Hall itself has evolved from a functional, basic campus building who wanted to make a chart or law school graduates from the nation’s top law became some of my closest friends, to a modern, spacious, state-of-the-art law school with all the latest schools: Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Yale, and graphic illustration for their class Professor Richard M. Frank, 2013 and remain so to this day—I technological innovations designed to maximize the learning experience. Michigan, among others. I confess that I initially drew it on the blackboard with chalk. found that my sense of law school At the same time, King Hall retains the unique “vibe” that began worried whether I, from a new, small, and relatively He was gluing pipe cleaners onto at King Hall tracked theirs: that to develop here a half century ago. The law school continues to be a unknown law school at UC Davis, could keep up with 8½” x 11” sheets of cardboard. He our three years at King Hall were relatively painless, intellectually welcoming educational environment, where the faculty remains fully my fellow entry-level attorneys from the Ivy League. handed me one and asked, “What do stimulating, and a great deal of fun. engaged, committed to teaching, accessible, and friendly. King Hall It turns out I needn’t have worried. Possessed of a you think this is?” I wasn’t sure, but Only later would I fully appreciate the fact that it’s the “King students still learn the law in a collaborative, upbeat setting. And law top-flight legal education, I found myself easily able to I guessed, “A plant? Some kind of Hall experience” that’s the exception, rather than the norm. Unlike school at UC Davis remains a place where our students forge friendships keep up with, and eventually exceed, the quantity and grass?” With his customary economy most law school experiences, King Hall alumni tend to look back that can and will last a lifetime. quality of legal work generated by my peers from more of words, Professor Wydick said, fondly on their law school days. So—wearing both of my King Hall hats—let me offer a heartfelt “prestigious” law schools. My King Hall professors had “Good. It’s wheat. Thanks. I have Fast forward four-plus decades. welcome to King Hall’s 50th entering class. I hope and trust that you’re prepared me quite well for my legal career—at least a blind student in my class.” The Today I find myself back on the UC Davis campus and at King delighted to be here, confident that you’ve made the right choice in as well as Harvard, Yale, etc., had prepared my fellow Hall, but wearing a different hat: now I’m a member of the law school discussion was over, so I left. In awe. government attorneys. choosing King Hall. And we’re extremely fortunate to have you as the faculty. After a 32-year career practicing environmental law, newest but a nonetheless integral part of our King Hall community.

1998 - 2000 - King 2001 - New Master’s Degree in International 2004 - New King 2006 2006 - Law Library 2007 - 2009 - Professor Hall receives Commercial Law receives approval. Hall Expansion and - Major gifts totaling named Mabie Law Groundbreaking - California International Rex R. Diversity Award Renovation Project just under $3 million Library in recognition on King Hall Law Center at King Hall - Business Law Journal launched. Perschbacher from California announced. received for the King of the William and Expansion and is founded. named Dean. - King Hall Outreach Program (KHOP) Hall Expansion and Renovation Project. Minority Counsel Inez Mabie Family - Cal. Senate President established. Renovation Project. - Family Protection and Legal Assistance Program. Foundation gift of pro Tem Darrell Clinic established. $1.5 million to the Steinberg ’84 delivers King Hall building commencement campaign. address.

2001 - Largest class enters with 214 students. 2005 - First class gift. 2008 - Professor - First King Hall Briefs alumni e-newsletter. Kevin R. Johnson named Dean. 24 25 KING HALL COMMUNITY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

ANIMAL LAW AND STUPID LAW STUDENT TRICKS the letter “L” in “Public” throughout JAY C. CARLISLE, ’69, LAW PROFESSOR AT the entire essay answer. Needless to BY PROFESSOR LISA C. IKEMOTO ’87 PACE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW say, this omission changed the analysis The first class taught to the Class of 1969 was taught by then-Dean In our first week of law school, Professor Poulos (now, my legal reasoning skills. considerably And he never did get to Edward L. Barrett. He began by stating, “Look to the left and then to John) assigned a larceny case involving ferrets in Criminal I went astray, however, the fox. the right. Chances are one of you is a Phi Beta Kappa.” There was no Law. He asked his first question—what do ferrets do? Then when I entered academics. You’d think I would have learned King Hall until our third year. We were taught in various buildings and he called on me. My highly distilled response? “They ferret.” It turns out that deans my lesson. Instead, I returned to King bungalows all over the Davis campus. Our first-year teachers included Ed I’d now like to say to my classmates, “You are most do not check transcripts Hall in 2006, after having taught Barrett, Dan Dykstra, Frank Baldwin, Ed Rabin, Mort Schwartz, and Edgar welcome.” I set the bar and I set it low. Thanks to me, you before giving teaching at several other law schools. Here’s Bodenheimer. could relax; you could do no worse. In my defense, I was assignments. In my first what I’ve discovered. Our former raised in a Los Angeles neighborhood whose residents tenure-track job, I was professors, now my colleagues and would have viewed a squirrel as exotic fauna, had one ever assigned to teach Property friends, along with many others at appeared. Until I read that case, I thought “ferret” was a verb Law. The textbook used a King Hall, have fostered the best law and only a verb. When I prepared for class, the dictionary whaling case instead of the school community ever. Forgiveness told me that the noun “ferret” means a mammal related to fox case. Because this law and, perhaps, memory loss have erased NEGIN YAZDANI ’12, LEGAL COUNSEL, DIMENSION DATA the weasel, and that the verb means “to act like a ferret.” Professor Lisa Ikemoto, 1984 school was 1,000 miles my Property Law grade and all of our In the summer of 2012, I studied for the California Bar Exam with So there. from the ocean, I gave idiocies. I cannot remember which three of my favorite King Hallers: Rebecca Lovell, Denise Mendez, and Very shortly after, Professor Dobris (now, Joel) assigned the students background student omitted both the “L” and the Jenni Gomez. We met every day in a small room in the basement of a Property Law case about fox hunting. I prepared! A fox is reading on whales. More fox in that essay. Nor, in the spirit of King Hall, where there were no windows and little air conditioning, and a “noxious beast” that eats chickens owned by others, as per specifically, I had them read King Hall, do I want to. studied every day together. We helped each other survive Bar study that Pierson v. Post. Instead, Joel asked about the pros and cons a chapter from Moby Dick. But animals remain a recurring summer, constantly reminding each other that we would pass, laughing so of using hunting custom versus public policy—getting rid This assignment provoked theme. In my Bioethics class, I ask, much every day, bringing food and candy to share, and of course taking of noxious beasts!—as the basis for legal rules. Perhaps not some of the highest and what is it that makes us “human”? turns having the occasional freak out! These sweet friends even threw a surprisingly, I received one of my lower grades in Property. even more of the lowest What is it that sets us apart from surprise birthday party for me two weeks before the exam and invited all Thus, by process of elimination, I sought my career path. teaching evaluations I the other animals? The discussion the other sleep-deprived basement-studiers to celebrate. (We had a whole From Leslie Kurtz, in Torts, I learned that I was not the received that year. goes something like this. “We have crew.) We all passed on our first try and I have such good memories of reasonably prudent person. I gleaned a great deal about the Later, I used a book with intelligence.” So do dolphins, apes, those days with my precious friends. Three years later, we are still very importance of process to fairness from Rex Perschbacher, but the fox case. I wrote an and octopi. “We have emotion.” As do close. In fact, we celebrated Denise and Jenni’s weddings together last never could remember the actual rules of Civil Procedure. Professor Lisa Ikemoto, 2013 exam question that included elephants. “We create.” Bower birds summer! I am thankful for many things I took away from my time at King Floyd Feeney called on me every other class in the vain facts about a foxhunt on do, too. “We seek the truth through Hall, but it was my friendships that have meant the most! hope that I would provide an accurate answer, and instead a beach, just below the philosophy, religion, and even law; prompted me to forgo a career in Criminal Procedure. mean high tide line. These facts implicate the Public Trust we search for meaning.” In short, Margaret Johns taught me, with gracious patience, most of Doctrine. That issue so excited one student that he omitted we ferret. So there.

2010 - New expansion wing of King Hall opens. - 2012 2013 - Renovation of original wing of 2015 - King Hall hosts special King Hall is completed. - Class of 2018 enrolls–the School of - California Environmental sitting of the California Law’s 50th class. Law & Policy Center is - Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Supreme Court. founded. Studies is officially launched, honoring the - California State Assembly honors - School of Law completes the late Professor Keith Aoki. 50th anniversary of the School of - Central Valley Foundation /James B. McClatchy Lecture on the First most successful fundraising Law with legislative resolution. Amendment established. year in its history, garnering $4.3 million in private support during the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

2010 - School 2011 2011 - King Hall hosts special sitting of the U.S. Court 2013 - Former 2014 - University of California of Law joins - Center for Science & of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Speaker launches Undocumented Legal UCDC program. Innovation Studies is founded. of the House Nancy Services Center, based at King Hall. - Chief Justice of California Tani Cantil- Sakauye ’84 delivers commencement Pelosi delivers address. commencement address. 26 27 KING HALL COMMUNITY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

35 YEARS AT KING HALL was accomplished in the next 10 years, SCOTT JUDSON ’12, including hiring wonderful faculty BY PROFESSOR REX R. PERSCHBACHER LITIGATION AND TRIAL ATTORNEY, members: Madhavi Sunder, Lisa Pruitt, EHLERS LAW CORPORATION I first arrived at King Hall in the late summer of 1981, government. The only active faculty member then who Anupam Chander, Courtney Joslin, Bill The memory that best describes the nearly 35 years ago, as part of an influx of six new untenured remains on the faculty today is the wonderful Floyd Feeney. Ong Hing, Cruz Reynoso, Chris Elmendorf, King Hall experience and community faculty members: Alan Brownstein, Bob Hillman, Leslie The law school we came to was vastly different in every Elizabeth Joh, Donna Shestowsky, Carlton to me is of something that was said Kurtz, Rick Seltzer, Floyd Shimomura, and me. It appears way from where we are today. The then-new dean, Florian Larson, Albert Lin, Afra Afsharipour, Lisa on, I believe, the first day of my now that four of us will be here until we retire; Alan and “Bart” Bartosic, came to the school from the Teamsters Union Ikemoto, Peter Lee, and Dennis Ventry; orientation. My new classmates Leslie have already retired; I will retire after this year; and in Washington, D.C., after nearly 10 years on the faculty of rehiring Vik Amar; and some faculty who and I were sitting in a room at the Bob does not seem to be going anywhere. Rick Seltzer left Wayne State Law School in Detroit, Michigan. He exercised sadly have since left the school, such as Mondavi Center and Dean Kulwin the faculty to resume his private practice in Albany, and thorough-going control over the school and its faculty. Spencer Overton, Angela Onwuachi- took to the podium. After a few tragically died a few years ago; Floyd Shimomura left the The school was dominated by what seemed to us a “senior Willig, Rob Merges, and Rob Mikos. Fully Professor Rex R. Perschbacher, 1982 remarks, she did not use the line that faculty and has had a distinguished career since in state cohort” of faculty including Dan Fessler, Fritz Juenger, Carol half of those hired were women, many supposedly signifies the rigors of Bruch, and Gary Goodpaster, and it seemed the were minorities. But possibly the second- being at a top law school: “Look to school had been in existence basically “forever” most important change in those years was your left, look to your right, because although that was not true. The building was small securing the state contribution to the King one of you won’t be here by the end and cramped even then, about one-third to one-half Hall Expansion and Renovation. of the year.” Instead, Dean Kulwin the size it is today, with few student-friendly areas It would take Kevin Johnson’s deanship stated something to the effect of, if outside the library. For me at least, the School of to realize the newly-expanded King Hall, not exactly, “Look left, look right. Law was not always a happy place. which has added faculty offices, new suites These are your colleagues for the rest Today, everything has changed. The leader of this for Admissions, Career Services, External of your career. Be nice to them, help change was Bruce Wolk, who became dean in January Relations, and a Dean’s Suite; and many them when they ask. If they need 1993. He changed the culture of the school, opening wonderful student spaces throughout. Dean notes from a missed class, provide up advancement opportunities to faculty, opening Johnson has also added wonderful new them. You are all in this together.” up faculty conference and meeting possibilities, faculty including Angela Harris, Miguel It was that statement that I believe strengthening the faculty’s research motivations, and Professor Rex R. Perschbacher, 2011 Méndez (since retired), Ash Bhagwat, Rick set the tone for an amazing three bringing a sense of fresh air to the school overall. Frank, Mario Biagioli, Karima Bennoune, years at King Hall—three years that We started to do some faculty hiring, something Jack Chin, Andrea Chandrasekher, Katherine Florey, David Horton, John culminated with arriving at the Bar that seemed lacking in the previous years, although Hunt, Lesley McAllister, Leticia Saucedo, Darien Shanske, Brian Soucek, Exam and knowing that I was not some wonderful faculty were hired in that period, Bill Dodge, and Jasmine Harris. There is now a robust contribution by alone, and that my classmates were including Marty West, Ed Imwinkelried, Evelyn faculty to scholarship, and a steady ascent in the U.S. News & World supporting me and that I was giving Lewis, Kevin Johnson, and Thomas Joo. Report law school rankings. King Hall is a beautiful place with strong that same support back. back, l-r: Floyd Shimomura, Leslie Kurtz, Rick Seltzer, Dean Florian Bartosic, Robert Hillman Bruce Wolk stepped down in 1998, and I student support in every way; happy faculty; and a wonderful, supportive front, seated: Alan Brownstein, Rex Perschbacher, 1981 became dean of the law school. A great deal dean who seeks to expand each of these areas.

LORRAINE CAPRIO ’92, was a campus unto itself. No separate on campus, but I knew Professor PROGRAM MANAGER, CHANGE CONTROL bookstore, just a room where you Imwinkelried could give him a run for LEAD, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA bought your very expensive and large his money. I still think about the little DEPTARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES textbooks. Lockers! I hadn’t used a boy from Professor Johns’ Torts class. locker in 4 years! Trying to answer Dean Johnson’s Erie Taking notes by hand, book briefing, I admit, I re-read One L and Doctrine questions. Ugh! And Professor grease pencils, getting lost looking remembered The Paper Chase before Lewis should be proud because I can for my carrel, IRAC, WordPerfect and my first year, so I was a little nervous. still recite the components of Adverse Gilbert’s Outlines. Barbri or PMBR?? However, King Hall was a wonderful Possession! It is the people that make Those just a few things to come to mind surprise. While I had great professors King Hall special. Their dedication when I think of King Hall. during all of my years, I think it was and support. The staff, professors, and I was a UC Davis undergrad. This my first year professors that made having great friends who loved playing transition should be easy, I thought, a deep lasting impression. They set hearts in the courtyard as stress release. just moving from one part of campus to the tone. No, John Houseman wasn’t Thanks King Hall, and “Go AGS!” 28 another. I didn’t realize that King Hall King Hall, 1971 King Hall, 2011 KING HALL COMMUNITY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

DEAN KEVIN R. JOHNSON THE DUALITY OF mind, a duality of excellence and again I’ve witnessed faculty reject changes that might and caring reigns superior. sacrifice the goal of giving students superior teaching, One of my first experiences working with students at King Hall EXCELLENCE Excellence is more than striving even when such changes favored faculty scholarship was working with La Raza Law Students Association (LRLSA). for perfection and caring is more interests. Moreover, faculty support each other, causing During law school, I had been tangentially involved with La AND CARING than compassion. High degrees the quality of both scholarship and teaching to be upped Alianza, the student organization of Harvard Law students. It was a BY PROFESSOR EVELYN LEWIS of perfection and kindness are, by the environment of safety and support created. As for small group. LRLSA, in contrast, was a large and active organization. Portions of the following are drawn from comments at of course, subsets of excellence our marvelous students, their “teach me, even if it’s hard, so Besides the annual Lorenzo Patiño banquet honoring a beloved alum the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Awards. and caring, but they’re not the I’m prepared” ethos is real as a culture of excellence in our who died much too young, LRLSA also organized an annual César UC Davis School of Law is distinctively same. Perfection is an objective student body. Our students are also appreciative and give Chávez week with speakers and a community that strives for excellence evaluation that’s inherently static back through amazing levels of public interest volunteerism. activities focusing on the social while still being caring to others. Each because it’s defined andconfined Our wonderful alums help to perpetuate the culture of justice mission of the UFW legend. attribute—excellence or caring—can by what’s known or is the norm excellence and caring they enjoyed by consistently saying One of the leaders of LRLSA, an be independently pursued. But to my Professor Evelyn Lewis, 1996 at a given moment or period of “yes” to helping with school programs and initiatives. Our incredibly respectful and reserved mind, King Hall has found a way to blend time. In contrast, excellence is extremely capable staff strives to serve the needs of students student, came to visit me in one of excellence and caring into a unified duality. a subjective perception that’s and faculty at the highest levels, and faculty and students my first days at King Hall. She told Such a blend is rare, and even rarer still interactive, dynamic, and consistently show them they are valued and appreciated. me about LRLSA and invited me as a characteristic of an entire community, expansive. It’s opinion borne of Finally, the School of Law has been blessed with great to the next meeting. Her name was particularly one with a diverse membership an evaluator’s judgment. It can leadership from deans and associate/assistant deans over Amagda Pérez ’91. Her invitation of faculty, students, staff, administrators Kevin R. Johnson and Amagda Pérez, 2000 transcend time as contours of the years. “Hats off” to those who held this ship steady in began my long relationship with and alumni whose interests sometimes the evaluator’s creativity and troubled waters and to those who led it to faster waters LRLSA. naturally diverge. imagination take hold in the as opportunities presented themselves, even when those I came to know Amagda well. She took my Public Interest Law I know from my 25-plus years at the moment and then mature to new opportunities came with risks. These leaders were inspired Seminar and we met during office hours on a number of occasions; school that this mixture of excellence and levels over time as appropriate. by the desire to keep the culture of excellence and caring I encouraged her to share her thoughts with her classmates and caring is the product of hard work. It’s Similarly, kindness is not thriving. In my many years here, they helped to stave off enjoyed marginal success. She graduated and we stayed in touch. deliberately and meticulously cultivated, necessarily interactive or dynamic. administrative and political wolves who would have changed Amagda now is the Executive Director of California Rural Legal marinated, preserved, and fostered by the Professor Evelyn Lewis, 2012 Someone can be internally kind by the School of Law into a commercial machine, lacking heart. Assistance and a professor in our Immigration Law Clinic. As she community’s members. Maintaining the being understanding and feeling The UC Davis School of Law community represents was as a law student, she is a collective conscience of the School of duality requires constant balancing and re- compassion. But to my mind, the word “caring” connotes a wonderful melding of its component parts to deliver Law and has mentored countless students. We both serve as faculty balancing of interests and considerations, reaching out to others to give help and support in whatever excellence and caring on a consistent basis. Anyone wanting advisors to LRLSA and worked together to convince Cruz Reynoso to including sometimes honoring tensions as way one can. to invest time or money in a place where the duality of leave UCLA and join the UC Davis law faculty. One of my favorite— opportunities rather than obstacles. Each constituent group of the School of Law community excellence and caring currently thrives and gets transmitted and most impactful—memories of King Hall is meeting with Amagda Admittedly, there are other truly constantly reaches out to support each other’s efforts towards forward to future generations can trust that King Hall is such Pérez and working with her for a generation to help LRLSA students laudable characteristics—like integrity, excellence. The faculty values excellence in teaching. Time a place. make their mark on the world. courage, vision, tenacity, etc. But to my

AMAR NAIK ’15, people’s nerves. whether the 49ers were making the ASSOCIATE AT SHEPPARD MULLIN But I soon realized that it wasn’t right decision at quarterback. just a marketing ploy. As the first Over my three years at King Hall, While many experiences made my semester unfolded, I was given several other events reinforced this King Hall experience memorable (e.g., plenty of unsolicited academic, theme. The KHLF Auction, Aokirama, especially the late nights in the Law career, and personal advice by upper Law Cappella concerts, and countless Review office), one thing consistently classmen. When I missed classes due others brought out the best in King reminds me of why King Hall is such to an illness, classmates flooded my Hall. Moreover, they made King Hall a great place. Before I started my first inbox with notes. The faculty were feel like a community that nurtured year, many students, professors, and consistently available for office hours, student interests, supported our staff emphasized the importance of and many entertained impromptu personal goals, and cared for us as “community” at King Hall. At first, it conversations on topics ranging from people. seemed like a buzzword used to calm the scope of certain tort doctrines to For that, I am truly grateful.

Moot Court Board, 1982 Moot Court Board, 2011 FEATURED STORY Perfect Union HOW THE PERFECT TENDER INFANT CARE CO-OP FOUND 1991 A HOME AT KING HALL 1989

1999 2015 1987 1986

UC Davis School of Law has always been defined by its When the memo was shared with faculty and students, people take it for granted that there will be child care on community. Bianca Duenas ’16, current President of the sense of community, and few stories better exemplify the support was immediate. The Women’s Caucus formed a campus, but that wasn’t the case then. We were one of the Friends organization, said the co-op was an important factor spirit of that community than the founding of the Perfect support group, candidates in the Law Student Association first female-majority classes at any law school, and it was still in her choice of law schools. In comparing law schools where Tender Infant Care Co-op. Spearheaded by Lucy Lofrumento elections campaigned on the need for infant care, students considered somewhat unusual for a woman to want to be an she had been accepted, “none of them had anything like the (Alberts) ’84 and Andrea Rosen ’84, the effort touched almost signed petitions, and some faculty lobbied the dean. attorney. Child care was a major issue.” nursery at King Hall.” everyone associated with the School of Law during the early Crucially, Professor Floyd Feeney offered the use of the After long negotiations, university officials agreed “I think it’s really important that King Hall has this ’80s and established a vital resource that benefits students Criminal Justice Center’s storage room: Room 103 in the to allow the co-op to convert a portion of the student facility, especially because so many students today are and their children to this day. “old” King Hall. lounge for its use, providing several conditions were met, coming to law school a little bit older, and already have “It took a village,” said Lofrumento. “It was a cause that By the summer of 1981, the co-op had everything it including demonstrated approval families,” said Duenas, who entered almost everyone at the Law School could get behind. It was so needed—except approval from UC Davis administration, from students and the raising of law school with an infant daughter logical, and it just seemed to fit with which proved reluctant. University $16,000 to cover costs. The Friends and gave birth to a son during the supportive atmosphere that was officials raised concerns about obtained signatures of 90 percent her third year. “It makes it much already in place at the School of Law.” “We were one of the first female- insurance, licensing, and other of the student body in support of more feasible to take on a huge

During her first semester the majority classes at any law issues, but Lofrumento and her the co-op, and through a series of commitment like law school when UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW Fall of 1980, Lofrumento learned school, and it was still considered supporters persisted, and the co-op fundraisers involving virtually the you know that you can care for your she was pregnant and discovered to somewhat unusual for a woman to was given permission to operate for entire King Hall community, they baby at the law school itself, without her surprise that UC Davis had no want to be an attorney. Child care one year in Room 103. When the secured the necessary funding. having to take on more debt so that on-campus infant care. Going off- was a major issue.” first infants arrived during the fall In October 1983, the Friends you can pay for outside care.” campus wasn’t an option, she said. of 1981, “People loved having the celebrated the opening of a new Jenny Alberts ’06–the “original co-op baby”—Prof. “Helping to establish the co-op is - ANDREA ROSEN ’84 “Honestly, I didn’t have two nickels babies around,” said Lofrumento. home for the co-op adjacent to the Marty West, and Lucy Lofrumento (Alberts) ’84, 2006 probably one of the most rewarding to rub together,” said Lofrumento. “It was a stress reliever to visit them, student lounge, where it operated things I’ve done in my life, because “But I wasn’t about to give up my legal education, and I and a humanizing element at the School of Law.” until it was remodeled during the it has helped so many people,” said wasn’t about to give up my baby. I decided I was just going The following year brought new challenges—and new King Hall Expansion and Renovation and designated as the Lofrumento, who in 2006 was able to watch her daughter to figure out some way to make it work.” supporters. Rosen met Lofrumento through the Big Sib Little Nancy Coan Torres ’86 and Michael Torres Perfect Tender Jenny, “the original co-op baby,” graduate from King Hall.

KING HALL COUNSELOR Lofrumento learned of two other students who were also Sib student mentor program and quickly realized the need for a Co-op Room in honor of their naming gift. “I know how hard it is to be a law student. I know how pregnant, and together they formulated a plan for an infant permanent home and more organizational structure. Drawing “The Perfect Tender Co-op has always held a special place hard it is to be a parent. To try to be a parent in law school care co-op. Lofrumento drafted a memo to Dean Florian on her background as a community organizer and public in my heart,” said Nancy Coan Torres. “When I came to King is a huge undertaking, and having the infant care co-op “Bart” Bartosic outlining the proposal and asserting that health planner, Rosen drove the effort to establish the Friends Hall, my locker was right next to the co-op. Having just left on campus is an incredible benefit for students who are the co-op would “demonstrate the school’s commitment to of the Perfect Tender Infant Co-op as a nonprofit corporation. my position as a social worker working with children with struggling to keep it all together.” diversity and equal educational opportunity.” The memo “The overall context was that in the ’80s there was a rising developmental disabilities, I was having withdrawal pains. “I think it has been a great asset for King Hall,” said addressed insurance, licensing requirements, and other demand for quality child care, and like many institutions It made my day to go into the co-op and hold a baby or two Rosen. “We saw it as part of our vision for the way education potential concerns and concluded that the only real barrier at the time, the university was slow to react,” said Rosen, between classes.” should be structured to all kinds of students, including was space: the School of Law would need to provide a room. who had a child during her third year at King Hall. “Now, The co-op remains an important asset for the King Hall disabled students, and student parents of both genders.”

32 33 FEATURED STORY Twenty-Five Most Cited UC Davis Law Review Articles

1. Joseph L. Sax, Liberating the 14. Carl T. Bogus, The Hidden Law and Management.” Public Trust Doctrine from History of the Second Professor of Environmental Practice Richard Its Historical Shackles, 14 Amendment, 31 UC Davis L. M. Frank explained why these articles and UC Davis L. Rev. 185 (1980) Rev. 309 (1998) the symposium that produced them were so 2. Morrison Torrey, When Will 15. Ralph W. Johnson, Public important in a piece for Volume 45, Issue We Be Believed? Rape Myths Trust Protection for Stream and the Idea of a Fair Trial Flows and Lake Levels, 14 3, “The Public Trust Doctrine: Assessing Its in Rape Prosecutions, 24 UC UC Davis L. Rev. 233 (1980) Recent Past & Charting Its Future.” According Davis L. Rev. 1013 (1991) 16. John A. Powell & Eileen B. to Frank, the 1980 symposium issue was one 3. Jan S. Stevens, The Public Hershenov, Hostage to the of “two critically important developments” Trust: A Sovereign’s Ancient Drug War: The National most environmental scholars cite “as the basis Prerogative Becomes the Purse, the Constitution and People’s Environmental the Black Community, 24 UC for converting the public trust from an arcane Right, 14 UC Davis L. Rev. Davis L. Rev. 557 (1991) principle of Roman, Spanish, and English 195 (1980) 17. Kevin R. Johnson, Free property law into a cornerstone of modern 4. Kathleen M. Sullivan, Trade and Closed Borders: environmental law.” (The other was a 1970 Political Money and Freedom NAFTA and Mexican Michigan Law Review article by Sax.) of Speech, 30 UC Davis L. Immigration to the United Rev. 663 (1997) States, 27 UC Davis L. Rev. In fact, wrote Frank, “In 1983 the California 937 (1994) 5. The Supreme Court responded by issuing what was Patrick J. Borchers, Death of the Constitutional 18. Judith L. Maute, Allocation perhaps the nation’s most important public trust Law of Personal Jurisdiction: of Decisionmaking Authority decision in nearly a century — the iconic ‘Mono From Pennoyer to Burnham Under the Model Rules of Lake’ case . . . . Critically, the court’s landmark and Back Again, 24 UC Professional Conduct, 17 UC Davis L. Rev. 19 (1990) Davis L. Rev. 1049 (1984) Written by Sue Jones opinion cited to the articles contained in the 6. Charles F. Wilkinson, The 19. Russell J. Weintraub, A 1980-81 UC Davis symposium issue devoted Public Trust Doctrine in Map out of the Personal At the avis aw eview’s 2008 end-of-the-year Hopkins Banquet, Volume 41 Editor in Chief UC D L R to public trust principles on no less than eight Public Land Law, 14 UC Jurisdiction Labyrinth, 28 Megan Knize ’08 shared a story. The editors and members had, as usual, been racing to meet a separate occasions.” Davis L. Rev. 269 (1980) UC Davis L. Rev. 531 (1995) deadline. They were typing away on their laptops in the Law Review’s basement office when a 7. Akhil Reed Amar, 20. John D. Leshy, Unraveling power outage hit the campus. Suddenly the students found themselves sitting in darkness. Reinventing Juries: Ten the Sagebrush Rebellion: High Profile Lecturers Suggested Reforms, 28 UC Law, Politics and Federal The typing continued. Davis L. Rev. 1169 (1995) Lands, 14 UC Davis L. Rev. Two of the top 10 articles grew out of 317 (1980) 8. George A. Martinez, Legal the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Lectureship on Indeterminacy, Judicial 21. George P. Smith II, All’s Constitutional Law. The prestigious lecture Discretion and the Mexican- Well That Ends Well: series has brought many of the nation’s top American Litigation Toward a Policy of Assisted Experience: 1930-1980, 27 Rational Suicide or constitutional scholars to King Hall. UC Davis L. Rev. 555 (1994) Merely Enlightened Self- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW Fourth most-cited goes to Kathleen M. Determination, 22 UC Davis Since its first volume in 1969, Law Review has been Review articles according to HeinOnline (see sidebar). To 9. William K. S. Wang, Some Sullivan’s “Political Money and Freedom of Arguments That the Stock L. Rev. 275 (1989) known to elicit this kind of single-minded dedication. illuminate why the top 10 articles have been so influential, Speech,” based on her 1997 lecture. “One of the Market Is Not Efficient, 19 22. Harold Hongju Koh, Paying Editors and members devote late nights (that turn into King Hall faculty explain each article’s impact on their UC Davis L. Rev. 341 (1986) Decent Respect to World most important issues facing the United States Opinion on the Death mornings) to editing, cite-checking, Bluebooking, and specific field of law. 10. Samuel Issacharoff, Class and other modern democracies today is that of Penalty, avis ev writing their own notes and comments. Most will admit that Action Conflicts, 30 UC 35 UC D L. R . how political campaigns should be financed,” 1085 (2002) at some point, no matter how committed they were, they Davis L. Rev. 805 (1997) explains Professor Floyd Feeney. Sullivan’s 23. Ann E. Carlson, Federalism, asked the same question: “Why am I doing this?” The Issue that Saved Mono Lake 11. Julie E. Cohen, Creativity “statement of the central problem has never and Culture in Copyright Preemption, and Greenhouse In answer, many would cite improved career prospects or No one interested in environmental law will be surprised Gas Emissions, 37 UC Davis been surpassed: ‘Whether outlays of political Theory, 40 UC Davis L. Rev. loyalty to the editing team that depends on their work. Some to learn that three of the top 10 articles were published in a L. Rev. 281 (2003) money more resemble voting, on the one hand, 1151 (2007) might even point out that the quality of the UC Davis Law single issue. The most-cited UC Davis Law Review article is 24. Donna Coker, Shifting Power KING HALL COUNSELOR or political debate, on the other.’ One person, 12. Cynthia A. Williams, Review affects King Hall’s academic reputation. Joseph L. Sax’s “Liberating the Public Trust Doctrine from Its Corporate Social for Battered Women: Law, one vote versus unlimited speech.” Responsibility in an Era of Material Resources, and Law Review authors, however, do not spend months Historical Shackles.” The third most-cited is Jan S. Stevens’s Poor Women of Color, Akhil Reed Amar’s “Reinventing Juries: Economic Globalization, 35 33 UC wrestling their articles onto the page so that students can get “The Public Trust: A Sovereign’s Ancient Prerogative Becomes Davis L. Rev. 1009 (2000) Ten Suggested Reforms,” based on his 1994 UC Davis L. Rev. 705 (2002) jobs and rankings will soar. So how much impact have the the People’s Environmental Right,” and the sixth is Charles F. 25. Richard W. Wright, lecture, is the Law Review’s seventh most-cited 13. Michael S. Wald, Children’s UC Davis Law Review’s articles had on legal scholarship? Wilkinson’s “The Public Trust Doctrine in Public Land Law.” Rights: A Framework for Allocating Liability Among piece. Professor Carlton Larson explains its Multiple Responsible Causes: In summer 2015, Reference Librarian Susan Llano and All of these appeared in Volume 14, Issue 2, the collection of Analysis, 12 UC Davis L. importance: “Akhil Reed Amar is America’s A Principled Defense of Head of Library Services Peg Durkin of the Mabie Law articles based on the Law Review’s seminal September 1980 Rev. 255 (1979) foremost champion of the jury as a fundamental Joint and Several Liability Library compiled a list of the 25 most-cited UC Davis Law symposium, “The Public Trust Doctrine in Natural Resources for Actual Harm and Risk Exposure, 21 UC Davis L. Continued on next page... Rev. 1141 (1988) 34 35 ALUMNI PROFILE

issues, human rights, and the community. And it included my future husband, John Adkisson.” 1990-91 Editorial Board 1985-86 Editorial Board Peerless Leader After law school, Stausboll worked for a legislative task force studying pay equity for women, then joined ANNE STAUSBOLL ’84 a Sacramento law firm specializing in employment discrimination. She was recruited to the CSEA legal team component of our constitutional order. The reforms According to Professor Rose Cuison Villazor, the piece and then to the CalPERS legal office, where she worked To say that Anne proposed in this provocative Barrett Lecture have played “highlight[ed] the experiences of Mexican Americans that until California State Treasurer Phil Angelides offered her a Stausboll ’84 took over as a significant role in the ongoing national debate on the had been marginalized in traditional legal scholarship. position as his General Counsel and then as Chief Deputy Chief Executive Officer continued vitality of the jury.” Exploring several cases that revealed the extent to which Treasurer. After five years, Stausboll returned to CalPERS of the California Public judges used their discretion to rule against Mexican as Chief Operating Investment Officer, then was appointed Employees’ Retirement Americans, Professor Martinez’s article revealed the distinct CEO at a time when CalPERS was in crisis. System (CalPERS) under Eclectic Reading ways in which language, ancestry, and immigration “It was a confluence of challenges, so I did several things,” difficult circumstances What’s most striking about the remaining articles is their intersected with race to subordinate Mexican Americans Stausboll said. “I had to rebuild the executive team, and I feel would be putting it mildly. eclecticism. At number 10, “Class Action Conflicts,” Samuel in the context of housing, education and places of public very proud that I’ve been able to hire some fantastic people. “When I became CEO Issacharoff’s 1997 piece, “has been influential for raising in accommodation.” My goal has been to increase transparency and restore trust in January of 2009, we a systematic way particular concerns about conflicts in class The fifth most-cited article takes us to civil procedure. in the system. We launched a comprehensive independent were just coming out of action practice,” according to Professor Rex Perschbacher. Professor Katherine Florey says of Patrick J. Borchers’s, “The investigation of the ethical situation and left no stone the market crash of 2008,” “His concerns, including inherent conflicts of interest of Death of the Constitutional Law of Personal Jurisdiction: unturned. In the wake of that investigation, we introduced a said Stausboll, the first lawyers representing classes, were amplified in the Supreme From Pennoyer to Burnham and Back Again,” published sweeping package of ethical reforms and controls.” female CEO in the 84- Court cases of Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor (cited in in 1990, “Borchers’s article opens with the controversial In addition to a series of internal reforms, Stausboll also year history of the nation’s the article) and Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp. in 1999; and the claim that personal jurisdiction has little to do with the Due supported legislation that places new reporting requirements largest public pension rejection of the proposal to amend Rule 23 to add specific Process Clause at all. His article’s wide influence, however, on “placement agents” who lobby CalPERS on behalf of fund. “We were dealing authority for settlement classes. In many ways he anticipated stems not merely from that argument, but from the evidence private equity funds. All the while, she also pushed for a with ethical breaches that the modern concerns regarding settlement classes and he uses to support it — a detailed historical analysis that is policy to consider environmental, social, and governance had occurred with some former CalPERS officials. Our state the more recent Congressional amendment to 28 U.S.C. as meticulous as his thesis is bold.” issues in the investment portfolio. and local agencies were having budget crises. The public sec.1332 driving most class actions into federal courts.” That leaves the Law Review’s second most-cited article: “Our first responsibility is to manage the portfolio and sector and pension systems were under attack across the Then the list veers over to William K. S. Wang’s Morrison Torrey’s “When Will We Be Believed? Rape Myths earn the best possible return, but CalPERS is a very long country. It was kind of a perfect storm.” 1986 article, “Some Arguments That the Stock Market and the Idea of a Fair Trial in Rape Prosecutions” from 1991. term investor,” Stausboll said. “We look through a filter of Fortunately for the 1.7 million California public Is Not Efficient,” for ninth most-cited. Professor John Professor Lisa Pruitt explains, “In this early exemplar of risk, and issues like climate change and water scarcity and employees who rely on CalPERS to manage more than Hunt describes Wang as “an early critic of the efficiency interdisciplinary scholarship in a law journal, Torrey draws human rights issues pose risks that can be material to the $300 billion in assets, Stausboll was well-prepared for the assumption” and explains, “The article’s intellectual honesty on empirical work from sociology and psychology to debunk bottom line, so we want the companies that we invest in to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW challenge. She had a background that included experience and the originality of its contribution no doubt help explain rape myths. She also makes a compelling case for the use of be managing those issues.” working with the California State Treasurer and in the why many, probably most, of the leading figures in capital- such empirical studies to educate jurors in rape trials about CalPERS has won widespread acclaim for the Sustainable CalPERS legal office, labor law practice with a private firm markets regulation have engaged with Wang’s findings over those jurors’ own likely biases.” On a sobering note, Pruitt Investment Research Initiative (SIRI), launched in 2013 and with the California State Employees Association (CSEA), the years and why the piece continues to be cited by up- adds, “Sadly, a quarter century after its publication, the article in partnership with the UC Davis Graduate School of and a legal education from UC Davis School of Law. and-coming scholars writing in fields as disparate as investor remains timely and relevant because the very myths that Management and Columbia University. Through the Stausboll discovered an interest in law while working protection and financial crisis regulation.” Torrey so boldly refuted have nevertheless proved enduring.” initiative, CalPERS has been recognized for promoting as a paralegal and decided to apply to King Hall, attracted From the stock market, the list then jumps to critical All of the articles, so divergent in subject matter, are reforms including financial market reforms, responsible to the relatively small class sizes, the progressive approach, race theory with George A. Martinez’s 1994 article, “Legal united by their enduring timeliness. For fifty years theUC environmental policies, and fair labor practices. Meanwhile, specialty course offerings, and internship program. Stausboll Indeterminacy, Judicial Discretion and the Mexican-American Davis Law Review has been moving the law forward, word by the CalPERS investment fund has grown by more than 80 took full advantage of these opportunities, taking courses Litigation Experience: 1930-1980,” as eighth most-cited. word, cite by cite. percent during Stausboll’s tenure. such as Professor Marty West’s Employment Law class and In addition to these impressive accomplishments, interning with both Equal Rights Advocates and California Stausboll has also been a trailblazer for women in the male- State Senator Bill Lockyer. dominated financial industry. “There were lots of great professors and classes, and a lot “Things have changed somewhat for women since I of great people that came out of that Class of 1984,” which entered the work force, but not enough, I’d say,” Stausboll includes Chief Justice of California Tani Cantil-Sakauye and reflected, citing the dearth of women in leadership roles former California Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, among Fortune 500 companies. “It’s really about diversity of among others, Stausboll noted. “It was a very small, very thought and inclusion, and having competent leaders who engaged, activist class that cared passionately about policy ask the right questions.”

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“I always wanted to teach, even as a kid,” recalls Bruce Wolk, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of UC Davis School of Law. “The only question was: what?” As a student, Wolk thought Physics might be his subject. After earning an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Antioch College, he went on to study Physics at Stanford. “I was really interested in theoretical physics,” Wolk said. “My goal was to discover the secrets of the universe. But after a while it all started to seem so abstract, so removed from reality, that I started to look for something that would feel a little more connected.” That connection came via a friend whose glowing reports about law school piqued Wolk’s interest. Wolk applied to and was accepted at Harvard, earning his J.D. in 1975. He practiced for three years at a large firm in Washington, D.C., Associate Dean Rex Perschbacher, Dean Bruce Wolk, Assistant Dean where he discovered an affinity for tax law. Antonia Bernhard, 1993 “I just fell in love with it,” Wolk recalls. “I enjoyed the people, enjoyed the work, and at that point I decided I was a tax lawyer. But teaching was always in the back of my mind.” it,” said Wolk. “It was a challenge, and I learned a lot from it. After three years in practice, Wolk applied for teaching I was glad I did it, but when I took my sabbatical I thought it positions at a number of law schools and visited several was over. Little did I know!” potential employers. King Hall was his last stop. Wolk spent the 1985-86 academic year in Munich on a “By that time, I could compare the experiences I’d had Fulbright senior research fellowship. After he returned, he at various schools, and Davis really impressed me,” Wolk was eventually called upon to serve as Associate Dean for said. “I had two young kids, and I wanted a nice community, Academic Affairs, Acting Dean in 1990-91, and then Dean in so the town was very much what I was looking for. But 1993-98. what really impressed me were the people at King Hall. The These were “transitional years” for the School of Law, faculty were interesting, and even more than that, I liked the Wolk said. For the first time, budget problems necessitated students. Also, unlike the other schools where students had the implementation of professional fees. California’s no role in the recruitment process, the Davis students were Proposition 209, which banned state institutions from heavily involved, and I spent a lot of time with them.” considering race, gender, or ethnicity, forced a recalibration

Wolk joined King Hall in 1978, teaching various tax of hiring and admissions processes. Then-Governor Pete UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW courses and researching in the field of pension and employee Wilson proposed closing one of the state’s four public law benefits. He was a popular teacher and won the School of schools, a move Wolk and the Berkeley, UCLA, and Hastings Law’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987. His casebook, deans successfully opposed. Pension and Employee Benefit Law (co-authored with “Those were some difficult years, but fortunately we had Professor John Langbein of Yale), was a leader in the field, a great Dean’s Office: Rex Perschbacher was Associate Dean, and Wolk was admitted to the prestigious American Law Antonia Bernhard was Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, and Institute. He became a fixture of the King Hall community, Mary Grivna was Assistant Dean for Administration,” said Wolk. and, with Professor Joel Dobris, participated in some of the Since retirement, Wolk likes to spend time bicycling, more memorable skits in the history of the Law School’s taking care of his grandchildren, and operating the databases Since his retirement from annual Cardozorama talent show (since renamed Aokirama). for his “family politicians”: his wife, California State Senator

KING HALL COUNSELOR teaching, Professor Emeritus “A lot of it was ripped straight from Saturday Night Live Lois Wolk, and son, Dan Wolk, the Mayor of Davis and UC Bruce Wolk has been able skits,” Wolk said. “One year, Joel and I were ‘Hans and Berkeley School of Law graduate who is running for the to enjoy spending time Franz.’ We also did a take-off on Mel Brooks’s ‘2,000-year-old California Assembly. He’s also renewed his interest in math cycling, looking after his man.’” and physics, taking a few UC Davis courses to “fill in some grandchildren, and operating In 1981, Wolk was “drafted” by Dean Florian Bartosic to gaps” in his knowledge. the databases of his “family be Associate Dean. “I didn’t especially want to be involved in “Occasionally, I do miss teaching,” said Wolk. “I’m a ham politicians,” California State administration, but some people thought I might be good at at heart, and I always enjoyed being in the classroom.” Senator Lois Wolk and Davis Mayor Dan Wolk.

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mental health services, founding the Steinberg Institute for Advancing Mental Health Policy and accepting a position as Director of Policy and Advocacy for the new UC Davis Behavioral Health Center of Excellence. Steinberg said his UC Davis School of Law education has been integral to his success. “The values and lessons I learned at King Hall have been with me throughout my career and have shaped my career in many Duncan Monique Ho ’99. To help her overcome her nervousness ways,” said Steinberg. “In fact, had I not gone to King Hall, Crabtree-Ireland while waiting to argue in the Jessup Competition, Crabtree- I probably would not have come to live in Sacramento, and doesn’t get Ireland serenaded her with “Whitney Houston’s ‘One things could have been very different.” bored. As Chief Moment in Time’ at full volume,” Crabtree-Ireland recalled. Sacramento was the “perfect place to settle,” Steinberg Operating Officer “It worked.” said, because “it was large enough to where there was a lot and General Crabtree-Ireland was very active in the King Hall going on, but small enough that you felt like you could get Counsel for the community. He was Law Student Association President and involved and really make a difference.” During his years as Screen Actors Treasurer, and was also Treasurer for the King Hall Legal a CSEA attorney, Steinberg became active in neighborhood Guild-American Foundation, ABA student representative, and active in Moot groups and in the Jewish community. Eventually, he “caught Federation of Court and LAMBDA. that virus, the political bug” and ran for City Council, Television and “LAMBDA was incredibly important to me because for where he served from 1992-1998. He went on to represent Radio Artists LGBT people, things were not then what they are today,” the Sacramento area in the Assembly (1998-2004) and the (SAG-AFTRA), he said. “Twenty years ago there were a lot of questions as Senate (2008-2014). he shoulders to whether people should be out in a professional setting. Former State Senate President pro Tem and current Steinberg’s achievements as a lawmaker are too numerous responsibility for operational oversight, legal affairs and There wasn’t a large, open LGBT community at King Hall like Greenberg Traurig shareholder and Sacramento mayoral to list. He is perhaps best-known for the California Mental strategy, governmental affairs and public policy, international there is now, so the people who were a part of LAMBDA were candidate Darrell Steinberg ’84 made a big impression at UC Health Services Act, a 2004 initiative that raised taxes on affairs, Equal Employment Opportunity and diversity really important to have as members, allies, and as a strong Davis School of Law, and King Hall made a big impression million-dollar-plus incomes to fund mental health services. matters, and more for the world’s largest entertainment and support network.” on him. As a student, he is well-remembered for leading Other highlights include the “Tosco bill,” AB 1127, that gave media artists union. Today, Crabtree-Ireland is considered a leading advocate a campaign to convince school administrators to install a prosecutors more power to indict violations of worker safety “Every day working for SAG-AFTRA is different, and I get for LGBT equality in the entertainment industry. He is a past wheelchair lift in the Wilkins Moot Courtroom years before laws in the wake of a fatal accident at the Tosco Refinery near to be a problem solver,” he said. “I never get bored. That’s Co-President of the Lesbian & Gay Lawyers Association of the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. Martinez, a landmark bill (SB 375) that required coordinated my number one criteria: if you have a job and work there for Los Angeles and co-founded SAG-AFTRA’s LGBT Committee. “Working together with my classmates land-use and transportation planning as a means to reduce 15 years, and have never been bored, then that’s a good place He is also credited with conceiving and advocating for on that issue was something I’ll never greenhouse gas emissions, and several bills designed to reform to work! It also helps to be doing work that you truly believe the first academic study of LGBT discrimination in the forget,” said Steinberg. “It was a spark of the state’s foster care system and improve K-12 education. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW in. It makes you feel good to come to work every day.” entertainment industry, which was commissioned by the SAG inspiration for me, and it began to teach His present work with the Steinberg Institute and UC Davis School of Law was one of the keys to his Producers Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund and me not only how to be an advocate but Behavioral Health Center is an extension of his advocacy for career success, Crabtree-Ireland said, citing formative conducted by the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School. also why advocacy was important.” mental health services. “I recognize that I have a voice and experiences with Professor Edward Imwinkelried’s Contracts He is also an enthusiastic supporter of King Hall. After law school, Steinberg a history with these issues, and I can help motivate others and Advanced Trial Techniques courses and Professor Joel Crabtree-Ireland has made several gifts to UC Davis School continued to advocate on behalf of the and hopefully persuade our political leaders to make mental Dobris’s Trusts, Wills & Estates class, among others. Also of Law, supporting priorities including the Bill Smith rights of others, first as a California health issues more of a priority,” said Steinberg. important was his work with fellow students in the Jessup Memorial Fellowship, which supports students doing Steinberg, 1984 State Employees Association (CSEA) Leaving the Legislature was “an adjustment,” Steinberg said, Moot Court Competition. summer legal work in LGBT and/or disability rights law, the attorney, then as a Sacramento City admitting that he missed politics. “I would like to serve in “From a career point of view, it was incredibly helpful, King Hall Expansion and Renovation Project, the Daniel J. Council member, and most famously, as one of California’s public office again at some point, and maybe in the future because it taught me oral advocacy, time management, and Dykstra Chair, and the King Hall Annual Fund. most respected and effective lawmakers. As a member of the that opportunity will present itself.” project management skills,” he said. “Managing a group “I give to King Hall because it is a magical place, and like KING HALL COUNSELOR Assembly and as President pro Tem of the Senate, Steinberg Shortly before this issue went to press, Steinberg was of people to get a 60-page brief done was a major growth all magical places, must be tended in order to survive and authored landmark bills on mental health services, K-12 presented with just such an opportunity. Sacramento Mayor experience for me.” thrive,” he said. “As all alums know, King Hall is a different education, workplace safety, and many other issues, and Kevin Johnson announced he would not seek reelection after Many of Crabtree-Ireland’s favorite King Hall memories kind of law school, where collaboration and commitment to played a leadership role in steering the state through one of his terms ends in 2016, and shortly thereafter Steinberg took place outside of the classroom, however. He thoroughly service are the norm and not the exception. Keeping King the most difficult fiscal crises in its history. announced his candidacy. In an October 28, 2015 event, he enjoyed performing with lAwBBA, a group of law students Hall strong and making sure it is available and accessible to Since being termed out of the Legislature, Steinberg reminded a crowd of more than 200 supporters of his history who lip-synced ABBA tunes at the annual Cardozorama the next generation of California lawyers is a key to a better has joined the Sacramento office of Greenberg Traurig as a as an advocate for mental health care and youth services and talent show and other law school events. Crabtree-Ireland future, for all of us.” shareholder and Chair of the California Government Law pledged to tackle the city’s biggest challenges. also fondly recalls a solo performance he gave for teammate & Policy Practice. He also has continued to advocate for “We will lead with our hearts and with our heads,” Steinberg said. 40 41 VOLUNTEER PROFILE Rising to the Challenges KAREN G. JOHNSON- M c KEWAN ’85

It didn’t take long for Karen G. Johnson- McKewan ’85 to realize that the training she had as a student at UC Davis School of Law was helping her win in the courtroom. As a second-year associate in a Bay Area firm, she was given the opportunity to argue the jury instructions in a suit and found herself succeeding against a much more experienced plaintiff’s attorney. The intellectual challenges she had experienced as a King Hall than $200 million for medical research at the University of student prepared her well for a career as a business litigator, California, said Johnson-McKewan, but she’s equally proud she said. of many of her lesser known cases, including her current “At King Hall, I was challenged intellectually in a way representation of Oracle Corporation. I never had been before,” said Johnson-McKewan, now a Recently, Johnson-McKewan returned to King Hall to partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco. “I interview students as part of the On Campus Interview (OCI) was required to think in a different and much more rigorous program, in which law firms, government agencies and way, and I learned how to think about the law. The UC Davis public interest organizations come to UC Davis to interview faculty are really excellent at that.” second- and third-year students. Since then, Johnson-McKewan has represented clients in “As an alum, I know the quality of education provided at a broad range of commercial matters, including some that Davis,” she said. “I knew there was an untapped resource at made national and international news, such as her defense UC Davis and volunteered to spend a day interviewing there. of the trustees of the $600 million trust of DHL Worldwide Every student I met during OCI at Davis was well-prepared. Express founder Larry Hillblom. That case “makes for They were thoughtful, asked good questions, and seemed the best cocktail conversation” and helped preserve more eager to start their legal careers.”

Interested in participating in the On Campus Interview program? Please contact Kim Thomas at [email protected] or (530)754-5719, or visit law.ucdavis.edu/career-services/oci for more information.

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The following lifetime giving societies Hispanics in Philanthropy David L. Hyman ’80 & UC Davis School of Law is proud to recognize the OTHER FUNDS AND AWARDS Charity Kenyon ’77 & Farah Jimenez Jun Aoki Book Award represent individuals and organizations Michael R. Eaton Daniel J. Ichinaga ’83 extraordinary contributions that friends, alumni, California Law Revision Fund who have chosen to support the School of Dr. Maximilian & Martha The Honorable Dale L. Ikeda faculty, and staff have made to support endowments Class of ’69 Endowment Fund Koessler Estate ’76 & Ms. Deborah J. Ikeda Thomas W. Corn Memorial Law in significant ways. Rachel R. Krevans ’84 Jackson Lewis LLP and scholarships and other privately raised funds Endowment Fund Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann Thelma H. † & Hiroshi Kido C. Michael Cowett Award and Girard established to benefit the School of Law. Each of these PLATINUM SOCIETY Margaret Z. Johns ’76 Mae Lee Estate Davis Law Students Medalist Prize Sally Lu Lake ’77 & $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Russell D. Jura ’74 & Kathy Jura Professor Francine J. Lipman dedicated funds provides invaluable support and Daniel J. Dykstra Faculty Excellence Fund William R. Crawford Kalmanovitz Charitable Taras Kick ’93 & Mr. James Williamson Environmental Law Endowment Fund Mars Incorporated is critical to the future of King Hall. Thank you to Foundation Clement J. ’75 & Melinda Kong Carol Leacox Livingston ’80 Richard M. Frank Environmental Dr. Patrick & Jean Mullen William & Inez Mabie Law School Admission Council Nancy Lucke Ludgus ’78 & everyone who contributed so generously to make these Writing Prize Family Foundation Carmen P. O’Rielly Estate Lawrence J. Ludgus Barbara J. ’76 & supporting funds a reality. Patrick J. Hopkins Memorial Fund William E. Mantle ’74 Robert E.’71 Leidigh Resources Legacy Fund Steven N. ’74 & Susan King Hall Alumni Association Award Foundation Machtinger Philip G. ’75 & Jennifer A. Satre Ron Lovitt King Hall Annual Fund Gary D. Solis ’71 & John A. ’99 & Angelina LECTURES Dennis M. Chandler Memorial Scholarship King Hall Legal Foundation Scott H. McNutt ’82 & Andrea C. Haslinger McKinsey GOLD LEGACY Lee Manus McNutt Dean Edward L. Barrett, Jr., Lectureship on John F. Cheadle Memorial Scholarship (an independent 501 (c) (3)) Katherine & Chris Thomson Lynn A. Miyamoto ’86 & Constitutional Law SOCIETY Joseph S. Melchione ’74 † Joel Dobris Student Support Fund King Hall Veterans Support Fund $500,000 - $999,999 James R. ’72 & Linda Woods Kevin B. Kroeker ’86 Professor Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture Katy I. ’98 & David Orr Christine M. Doyle Scholarship Moses Lasky Anti-Trust Prize Richard H. ’69 & Andrew H. ’89 & Sydney Wu Occidental Petroleum on Family Law Mark Perry ’80 & Melanie Peña Samuel S. Foulk Memorial Scholarship Theodore M. Pritikin Memorial Fund Susan Avanzino Charitable Foundation Central Valley Foundation / Professor and Dean Emeritus Deborah J. Frick Memorial Scholarship Public Interest Law Fund William A. † & Sally Rutter PATRON The Honorable Elizabeth L. James B. McClatchy Lecture on the Rex R. Perschbacher & Megan E. Glanville (MEG) Scholarship John and Mary Quirk Environmental Award Sue R. Wilkins † $25,000 - $49,999 Perris ’75 & Ms. Beverly S. First Amendment Professor Debra Lyn Bassett ’87 Schnabel Immigration Law Scholarship William A. & Sally Rutter Distinguished American Law Institute Rosenthal & Company Mary Beth S. Rehman Dittu Imwinkelried-Clark Scholarship Teaching Award CENTURY CLUB Yeoryios C. ’72 & CHAIRS AND Paul C. ’75 & Carla P. Rosenthal PROFESSORSHIPS Jackson Lewis Employment Law Scholarship Trial and Appellate Advocacy Fund $100,000 - $499,999 Nancy Apallas Remy Moose Manley, LLP Thom R. ’73 & Georgia Russell D. Jura Scholarship UC Davis Law Review Endowment Fund Wayne A. ’71 & Dean Emeritus Florian Frank L. ’78 & Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Angelo Schuttish Jacque A. Bartholomew Bartosic† & Deborah H. Rugani Professorship and Fund for International Thelma and Hiroshi Kido Scholarship Donna S. Selnick ’77 Legal Communication Studies 21ST CENTURY CLUB Helen Bates Estate Ms. Alberta Chew Robert A. Rundstrom ’71 † Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholarship Tom W. ’75 & Meg S. Stallard John D. Ayer Bankruptcy Chair The following donors have provided Joseph E. Bernstein ’74 Ronald M. Boldt ’77 Scaife Family Foundation King Hall Academic Excellence Scholarship State Bar of California Professor Edward L. Barrett, Jr., for UC Davis School of Law through Charles A. ’73 & Boutin Jones Inc. Anne J. Schneider ’76 † King Hall Scholarship Professorship bequests and other planned gifts. Charlotte S. Bird Professor Emeritus The Honorable Trena H. Patricia Schuler Schimbor ’76 Joseph Lake & Jan Cutter Lake Scholarship David A. Traill Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Anonymous William N. Brieger ’85 & Burger-Plavan ’78 & Kelly Shea ’05 & Trevor Foster Albert J. Lee and Mae Lee Scholarship Teaching of Freedom and Equality Richard H. ’69 & Susan Avanzino Sarah Krevans Verizon Foundation Mr. Frank P. Plavan, Jr. ’72 Nathaniel ’70 & Marcia Sterling William & Inez Mabie Family Foundation Daniel J. Dykstra Chair Wayne A. ’71 & Jacque A. Bartholomew Professor Jay C. Carlisle ’69 Professor Emeritus Richard C. Candace E. Carlo ’78 & Joan H. Story ’77 & Scholarship

Wydick & Judy Wydick Fair Business Practices and Investor Jay C. Carlisle ’69 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, SCHOOL OF LAW Central Valley Foundation Robert S. Chapman ’76 Robert F. Kidd ’77 Harry M. “Hank” Marsh Memorial Advocacy Chair Gina E. Dronet ’79 Professor James P. Chandler ’70 Chevron Corporation Professor Clayton Tanaka & Scholarship Mabie-Apallas Public Interest Chair Ronald P. Erickson ’74 & Ms. Elizabeth Chandler BENEFACTOR The Cowett Family Ms. Christine Aoki Edward Peña Scholarship $50,000 - $99,999 David D. Hicks ’72 Arthur Chinski ’70 & Garrett C. Dailey ’77 Jeffery Anne Tatum ’78 Rex R. Perschbacher Scholarship Professor Emeritus SCHOLARSHIPS The Honorable Joan K. Irion ’79 & Eric B. Chinski Ellison, Schneider and Thomas Law Group Michael H. Remy Memorial Scholarship Homer G. Angelo † & Alumni Association Founders Club Mr. Jon M. Seitman Nancy S. Coan Torres ’86 & Harris LLP Michael A. Van Horne ’75 Cruz and Jeannene Reynoso Scholarship Ms. Ann Berryhill Angelo † Scholarship Margaret Z. Johns ’76 Michael A. Torres Catherine Leacox Farman ’85 & Pamela K. Webster ’82 for Legal Access Robert D. Bacon ’76 Richard Archibald Memorial Fund Russell D. ’74 & Kathy Jura Hugh and Hazel Darling Charles S. Farman ’85 Professor Emerita Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum Foundation Dean Emeritus and Professor Floyd F. Feeney Edward L. Barrett, Jr., Scholarship Scholarship Nancy Krop ’87 & Mike Hedblom Professor Emeritus Martha S. West Helen Bates Scholarship Satre Family Scholarship Sally Lu Lake ’77 Patrick W. ’74 & Allison Emery Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Eileen M. Feild The Honorable Nancy David and Mariana Beatty Scholarship Maggie Schelen Public Service Scholarship Dean Emeritus & Professor Rex R. Ronald P. Erickson ’74 Marc A. ’83 & Fenwick and West LLP Wieben Stock ’76 & Stephanie J. Blank Memorial Scholarship Perschbacher & Ms. Debra Bassett ’87 Henry S. H. Fong ’69 † & Christine A. Beilinson Anna E. Foulk Mr. Ronald C. Stock ’75 Schimbor Family Scholarship KING HALL COUNSELOR Brieger-Krevans Scholarship Professor Lisa R. Pruitt Julita Fong, M.D. Stephen F. ’72 & Margaret M. Foulk Dean Emeritus Bruce Wolk & Bill Smith Memorial Scholarship Donna S. Selnick ’77 Ford Foundation Linda T. Boutin Samuel S. Foulk ’80 † State Senator Lois G. Wolk California Law Reform Scholarship The Martha West Social Justice Scholarship Judith Strum Schuler ’73 Daniel C. Girard ’84 Elizabeth Cabraser Dr. Robert Giometti Bruce R. ’74 & Cannata Cunningham Memorial Scholarship The Honorable Philip C. Wilkins Memorial Anne T. Worthington The Honorable Tom W. Stallard ’75 & Brad Glanville, Kris Zappettini, David & Lucile Packard Kathleen E. Glanville Celestial Summer Dove Cassman Scholarship Paul R. Zappettini ’80 & Scholarship Ms. Meg S. Stallard & Jeffrey Wilson Foundation Thomas R. Goin ’76 Bruce Wolk Scholarship Erin Dealey-Zappettini Central Valley Foundation / William D. Strickland ’97 Google Gordon K. & James & Olivia Guthrie Wydick Family Scholarship Diane E. Flanagan Zipperstein ’83 John B. McClatchy Scholarship Professor Emeritus Richard C. Wydick & The Honorable Joan K. Irion ’79 Carolyn S. Davidson Alan Harlan & Steven E. Zipperstein ’83 Judy Wydick & Mr. John M. Seitman Downey Brand Attorneys LLP The Class of ’84 Scholarship Fund † Deceased

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“When Martin Luther King was assassinated in the spring of 1968, law students were the first to recommend that the school building be named in his honor.” - Professor Floyd Feeney -

See our special 50th Anniversary feature on page 16 to read the rest of Professor Feeney’s essay about his memories from King Hall’s first 50 years, as well as additional memories from the past half century as told by other members of the King Hall Community.

2016 CALENDAR OF EVENTS FEBRUARY 27, SATURDAY MARCH 11, FRIDAY MAY 14, SATURDAY Planning Environmental Law Class of 2016 JANUARY 7, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5, FRIDAY Conservation League Society Symposium Commencement Annual Symposium hanging cean onditions Association of Journal of C O C Mondavi Center, King Hall, UC Davis and Emerging Legal Challenges American Law Schools International Law & Along the California Coastline UC Davis Conference Policy Symposium MARCH 4, FRIDAY King Hall, UC Davis JUNE 13-16, New York, New York Public and Private nternational aw esponses Journal of Juvenile MON-THURS I L R MARCH 31, THURSDAY to Changing Technology Law & Policy JANUARY 29, FRIDAY Bodenheimer Lecture Summer Tax King Hall, UC Davis Symposium Institute Law Review feat. Melissa Murray, Berkeley Law Symposium Childhood Arrivals and their King Hall, UC Davis FEBRUARY 20, SATURDAY American Dream King Hall, UC Davis State Efforts to Regulate Marijuana Pathway to Law King Hall, UC Davis APRIL 3, SUNDAY King Hall, UC Davis School Summit King Hall, UC Davis MARCH 5, SATURDAY Dr. Ives Basketball Please visit the Law School Patiño Banquet Tournament web site at law.ucdavis. FEBRUARY 4, THURSDAY edu and navigate to “News Barrett Lecture FEBRUARY 26, FRIDAY Pavilion, UC Davis & Events” for details and MARCH 10, THURSDAY additional event listings. feat. Heather Gerken, Yale Law King Hall Legal Foundation Spring Celebrating King Hall APRIL 21, THURSDAY King Hall, UC Davis Auction Featuring The Distinguished Public Service Graduation Teaching Award ARC Ballroom, UC Davis King Hall, UC Davis ARC Ballroom, UC Davis