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State roll call Alumni Lawmakers Here late in May, finals have come and fund an expansion to King Hall, and to better serve our gone, the Commencement ceremony is community. I am saddened by the loss of public funding over, and I have a moment to reflect on for the University of California’s professional schools, and these past 10 years as Dean of the School the challenges this presents, especially to our students. of Law. The changes to King Hall over Together we have acted to maintain access to our School this time have made the School stronger for all qualified students by enhancing support for those in every important way. And the best who need it. There is much that remains to be done, and years for King Hall are yet to come. while I understand that public funding will never return to What is most impressive about the structure of the past, I will always encourage initiatives our great Law School are the things to reverse the effects this decision has had on public legal that endure. Since its founding by Dean Ed Barrett, the education. I hope you will join me in this endeavor. School’s faculty have been its greatest strength. From As I prepare to step aside and take up a temporary the first day of classes in 1966 to today, King Hall has office during King Hall’s construction next year, I am attracted leading scholars, great teachers, and community heartened by the knowledge that the School could not be builders to serve on its faculty. The 26 ladder-rank faculty in better hands than those of its new dean, Kevin Johnson. members hired these past 10 years have built on this Kevin has been a good friend, great colleague, and my strength. They are fine teachers publishing in leading trusted advisor over these past 10 years. The School’s academic journals and have brought new national and accomplishments have been his as much as mine. He international prominence to UC Davis. knows King Hall, and loves the community and spirit it Our accomplished and diverse faculty are dedicated was built upon. Kevin will meet future challenges with to providing King Hall’s students with the very best legal hard work and compassion and will take King Hall to education and preparing them for satisfying and successful even greater excellence and visibility in the legal academic careers in both the private and public sectors. The Law community. School staff, in every office and every department, are During this next academic year, I will focus on my committed to serving the School, its students, faculty, and teaching and writing. I look forward to concentrated time alumni. Our talented students are broadly engaged in to think about current and pressing legal issues. There is the law, studying and entering emerging areas of practice much to write about in civil procedure, legal ethics, and and attending to the pressing social, economic, and legal the administration of law schools. I know I will have issues of our times. Our students remain fully dedicated plenty to do. to community service as evidenced by this year’s Public My time serving as Dean has truly been an honor and Service graduation ceremony that included over one-half a joy. I cannot adequately express my deep gratitude to of the 2008 graduating class. Our alumni are united everyone who has stood beside me, inspired me, and in their loyalty to King Hall and support our School in challenged me during my tenure as dean. many, many ways. They are the face of the School in law practice and in their communities here and abroad. Thank you all. This past decade has brought both triumphs and challenges to King Hall. I am enormously encouraged by the way the faculty, staff, students, alumni, and Rex R. Perschbacher our friends rallied with me to create new programs, to Dean

2 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 Rex R. Perschbacher, dean of the UC Davis School Act and was the only University of California law dean of Law during a decade that witnessed a 30-percent to speak out before the Regents against increases in growth in the School’s full-time faculty and the launch professional school fees. of a $30-million King Hall renovation and expansion “Over the last decade, Dean Rex Perschbacher has project, will step down from his post on June 30. led nothing less than an intellectual renaissance at the Following a year’s sabbatical, Perschbacher plans to UC Davis School of Law,” said Kevin R. Johnson, dean return to King Hall as a professor. designate of the Law School and the Mabie-Apallas “Rex has left an indelible mark on the Law School, Professor of Public Interest Law. contributing richly to its special character and its many Perschbacher was instrumental in pushing through accomplishments,” Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef said. the School’s first major building improvement since “His values and principles, eloquently articulated, 1968, leading a campaign for $8 million in private always seem to me to be unwavering. You know where support and lobbying at the state Capitol for needed he stands. And you know, too, that he’s a fine, fine public funding. The new addition will be completed person.” next fall with the renovation of the existing building to As dean, Perschbacher hired 28 new faculty follow. members who have advanced the School’s scholarship Faculty and students credit Perschbacher with and diversity, expanded the School’s clinical programs, fostering a familial atmosphere that celebrates cultural established a master’s degree program in international diversity and academic excellence. commercial law and developed an outreach program “Rex has helped set a tone other schools should for underserved college students. The School added five envy,” said former California Supreme Court Justice endowed chairs and professorships during his tenure, Cruz Reynoso. Perschbacher recruited Reynoso as the bringing the inaugural holder of the Boochever and Bird Chair for total number the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality. of seats to six, and saw a more Said law professor Madhavi Sunder, one of than tenfold Perschbacher’s recruits: “He has shown how a great increase in public law school can infuse its entire study of law, from private giving. environmental law to intellectual property, immigration and corporate law, with concerns for social justice and To help ensure that a law degree from a California public service.” public law school remains within the financial reach of all qualified California students, Perschbacher expanded For his part, Perschbacher says the School “faces the School’s loan forgiveness program for students who real challenges ahead. But we’re up to it. We’re stronger take jobs in public interest and increased financial aid than ever.” and scholarships. He also lobbied for Congressman Excerpted from original article written by Claudia Morain, Senior Public George Miller’s ’72 College Cost Reduction and Access Information Representative, UC Davis News Service, Dateline, May 9, 2008.

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Managing Editor 3 News & Notes Judith P. Cook

Writer & Editor Charlene Logan Burnett 10 New Chaired Professors Professors Perschbacher and Brownstein Designer Sam Sellers 12 Building a Community of Photography by UC Davis School of Law Learning—Brick by Brick King Hall Expansion and Renovation Program Offices of Forever King Hall External Relations Project Donors Alumni Relations, Development, & Marketing 15 The Year of the Advocates Director, Marketing and Public Relations Judith P. Cook 16 Embracing Human Rights Senior Editor, News & Publications Charlene Logan Burnett 21 The Road to Law School Hard Work, Determination, and “Camp” Events Coordinator Deb Matsumoto 22 Notes from Kirkuk Graphic Designer & Photographer Sam Sellers 24 State Roll Call Director, Giving Programs Alumni Lawmakers Jean Korinke Associate Director, Alumni Relations 26 The Feeney Commitment Ginger Welsh Distinguished Teaching Award Development and Marketing Assistant Faye Gonzales 28 Giving UC Davis School of Law Legacy Giving 400 Mrak Hall Drive Dean’s Leadership Circle, 21st Century Club Davis, CA 95616 Preliminary 2007-2008 Annual Giving Class Participation 530-754-5328 530-754-5327 (fax) [email protected] 31 Photo Gallery www.law.ucdavis.edu Photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,: Corbis. A New Dean for King Hall The University of California Board of its mission of scholarly excellence and Associate Dean Kevin Johnson Regents confirmed his appointment in May. public service. As I transition from the has been named to succeed Rex R. Dean Perschbacher is very pleased position of dean, I leave knowing that the Perschbacher as Dean of the UC Davis Johnson was selected, “I have had the Law School is in good hands.” School of Law. Chancellor Vanderhoef pleasure to work with Kevin at King Hall Dean Designate Johnson will assume stated, “Professor Johnson is a highly since 1989. I know Kevin to be a strong the position on July 1, 2008. The fall respected member of the School of Law scholar, visionary, creative leader, and 2008 issue of the King Hall Counselor faculty who emerged as the candidate of nationally known public intellectual. Most will have a full feature story on the choice after a national search generated a important, Dean Johnson is absolutely School’s new dean. strong pool of applicants.” dedicated to UC Davis School of Law and

Dear King Hall Alumni and Friends, However, we need more funding to renovate the existing Martin Luther King, Jr., Hall so that it has the space and amenities befitting an I am truly honored to have the opportunity to serve as the next dean extraordinary national and international law school. You will soon hear of the UC Davis School of Law. Thank you for all of the support over the from us on how your assistance (financial and otherwise) in this effort years. can have a tremendous impact. In my nearly 20 years at King Hall, I saw Deans Bruce Wolk and Rex In the long term, we must focus on increasing funding for Perschbacher elevate the stature of the Law School to new heights and scholarships to keep King Hall accessible and loan forgiveness for those create a strong foundation of private support. I have great admiration for who want to pursue careers in public service. Our students are our my friend Dean Perschbacher’s deep and enduring dedication to ensuring future, and we must do what we can to ensure they have full access to that, in the face of quickly rising professional school fees, the School of the doors of King Hall and a career of their choosing in the law. Law remains accessible to everyone. We also must expand our chairs and professorships to hire and retain UC Davis School of Law has a truly extraordinary faculty, staff, the best law faculty in the United States. Under Dean Perschbacher’s and student body. In his decade as dean, Rex Perschbacher did leadership, the School of Law’s hiring has been unparalleled in terms an outstanding job in overseeing nothing less than an intellectual of scholarly excellence; no law school in the United States has matched renaissance at the Law School, which included the hiring of an this faculty hiring success. We must do what we can to retain and extraordinary group of the most diverse and excellent scholars in the reward the excellent faculty built over the last decade. United States. My modest hope is to build on his achievements while You, our alumni and friends, have been, and will continue to be, maintaining the King Hall community that we all know and love. pivotal to the success of UC Davis School Specifically, I promise to do all I can to ensure that the Law of Law. I am looking forward to meeting School remains a top public law school in times of tight budgets and with as many of you as possible over increasing fees. We must do what we can to attract and retain the best the coming months to listen to and brightest faculty and students from a diversity of backgrounds your concerns, talk about our and perspectives. In my mind, this is the challenge facing all public collective goals for King Hall, and universities in the 21st century. collaborate on ways we can work The state of California struggles with funding its public universities, together. I also welcome your input which in turn must seek to maintain their high quality with shrinking state by telephone or e-mail. Together, support. I personally am the beneficiary of a public university education we will build on the solid foundation and know just how important it is that we maintain a public legal education created by the great deans who came that is accessible to all students of all socioeconomic backgrounds. before me. With your help, I believe that we can remain a truly accessible, top tier public law school. Working together, we also can advance the School’s scholarly mission, elevate the national and international stature of the School, and attract and retain the best and brightest students and faculty. There obviously is much to be done. In the short term, we need to complete the funding to renovate King Hall. The building will be Kevin R. Johnson expanded through private, campus, and public funds that already Dean Designate have been secured. Construction begins as this edition of the King Hall Counselor goes to press. I echo Dean Perschbacher’s hearty thanks to all who have made the expansion possible. UC Davis Law Review Essay Professor Johnson New Book on Profiled in New York Times publishes Book on Establishment Clause by The New York Times profiled a Immigration and professor brownstein UC Davis Law Review essay entitled, Civil Rights The anthology, “‘Followed Rates’ and Leading State Cases, Dean Designate Kevin Johnson The Establishment 1940-2005.” According to the study, co- published his fifth book,Opening the of Religion Clause: authored by Chief Supervising Attorney Floodgates: Why America Needs to Its Constitutional of the California Supreme Court and UC Rethink its Borders and Immigration History and the Davis School of Law alumnus Jake Dear Laws. The book has spurred national Contemporary ’83, the California Supreme Court is the dialogue on immigration, and Johnson Debate, edited by most influential state court in the nation, has been interviewed extensively by radio Professor of Law with more than 1,200 decisions followed stations and quoted by many national Alan Brownstein, by other states since 1940. publications. was published by Seeking to re-imagine the meaning Prometheus Books. The book is organized Professors Dobris, and significance of the international around three central areas. First, several Doremus, Imwinkelried, border, Opening the Floodgates makes articles provide divergent accounts of the Johnson among Most Cited a compelling case for eliminating the history of the Establishment Clause from Legal Scholars border as a legal construct that impedes colonial America to the adoption of the the movement of people into this country. Fourteenth Amendment. Second, various Professors of Johnson offers an alternative vision of perspectives are presented on government Law Joel Dobris how U.S. borders might be reconfigured, endorsement of religious messages, (Wills, Trusts, grounded in moral, economic, and typically through state-sponsored & Estates), policy arguments for more open borders. religious displays or state-directed prayer. Holly Doremus Importantly, liberalizing migration Third, a range of viewpoints address the (Environment through a more open borders policy issue of government funding of religious Law), Edward would recognize that the enforcement institutions providing educational or Imwinkelried of closed borders cannot stifle the social services. (Evidence), and strong, arguably irresistible, economic, Kevin Johnson social, and political pressures that fuel (highly cited News from the Bench international migration. scholar) were Judge David Rosenberg ’74 was elected Controversially, Johnson suggests that ranked with top as the Presiding Judge of Yolo Superior more open borders are entirely consistent scholars in their Court for 2008. Rosenberg was appointed with efforts to prevent terrorism that have fields for scholarly to the bench on October 3, 2003. During dominated immigration enforcement impact in a new his tenure, Judge Rosenberg has heard since the events of September 11, 2001. study by Brian the full panoply of cases which come More liberal migration, he suggests, Leiter. before the Superior Court, including jury would allow for full attention to be paid The listings trials, preliminary hearings, settlement to the true dangers to public safety and were drawn from conferences, felony and misdemeanor national security. data collected in criminal matters, civil, family, juvenile Johnson’s other books include Mixed July 2007 about dependency and juvenile delinquency, Race American and the Law: A Reader and citations to faculty probate, and drug cases. Rosenberg is The Huddled Masses Myth: Immigration and since the year one of six judges on the criminal team Civil Rights. 2000 that were handling misdemeanors and felonies in a incorporated into direct-calendar system from arraignment the Ranking of Law Schools by Scholarly to resolution, including trials, and is Impact released on September 1, 2007. a member of the Appellate Division of the Yolo Superior Court. He is also

4 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 a member of the Criminal Law Education Committee, Civil Law and Small Claims Advisory Committee, Judges Association Standing Committee on Legislative Relations, and a former faculty member of the California Judicial College. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Rosenberg was a Yolo County supervisor for the 4th District and served as chairman of the Board of Supervisors in 1997 and again in 2002. He also served as a Davis city councilman, including two terms as the mayor. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Peterson ’71 was named the Wilmont Sweeney Juvenile Court Judge of the Year by the Juvenile Court Judges of California. Peterson received the award at the state’s annual Juvenile Court Institute on March 18 in Long Beach. Governor Schwarzenegger also appointed HALO Returns to The HALO students’ trip was three UC Davis Law alums to judgeships. Gulf Coast hosted by Mississippi Center for Antonino J. Agbayani ’81 was appointed Over Spring Break, 22 UC Davis Justice (MCJ), a public interest law to a judgeship in the San Joaquin County School of Law students, members firm committed to advancing racial Superior Court on October 3, 2007. Agbayani of the School’s Humanitarian Aid and economic justice. After an has served as a commissioner for the San Legal Organization (HALO), worked orientation, students worked with Joaquin County Superior Court since 2006. in Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, Restoration Point on painting and He previously served as a trial attorney with helping residents still devastated tiling the interior of two homes. the Agbayani Law Office, also known as by Hurricane Katrina. HALO Students then split off into teams Agbayani & Parker, from 1992 to 2006. Prior coordinated the trip through the to work with Back Bay Mission on to that, Agbayani served as a deputy district Student Hurricane Network, a non- housing-policy research, Community attorney for the San Joaquin County District profit organization of law students Land Trust on surveying Gulfport Attorney’s Office from 1983 to 1992. He fills dedicated to assisting and solving residents on a proposed port cargo one of the new positions created by Senate legal problems created by Hurricanes terminal in their neighborhood, and Bill 56. Agbayani has also served as a member Katrina and Rita. “It’s been two years MCJ on reviewing files to find stories of the UC Davis School of Law Alumni since my last community service of contractor fraud, FEMA evictions, Association Board of Directors. activity here,” wrote Eric Yau ’10 mold and formaldehyde poisonings, Willie Lott, Jr., ’72 was appointed to a after the students flew into New and landlord and tenant abuses. judgeship in the Alameda County Superior Orleans and took a van through the UC Davis Law students posted Court. Lott has served as a commissioner for city, heading for Mississippi. “The to the Law School’s HALO blog the Alameda County Superior Court since first building that I saw was the during their trip. Blog entry after 2002. Previously, he served as deputy county abandoned hotel in which I slept blog entry, students wondered how counsel for the Alameda County Counsel’s during my last visit.” It was still this devastation could be allowed to Office from 1979 to 2002 and deputy city abandoned, but now the windows continue. attorney for the San Jose City Attorney’s Office were broken and the parking Finella Murphy ’10 wrote, from 1974 to 1979. structure was filled with trash. “Two-and-a-half years later, the lives My-Le Jacqueline Duong ’94 was named Post-Katrina restoration progress of Mississippians should not be to the Santa Clara Superior Court. Duong has in Mississippi seemed no further burdened with the raw remains of served as lead and deputy county counsel for along. People still lived in FEMA Katrina.” Santa Clara County since 1999. Previously, trailers. A dilapidated hospital To read more about their trip, visit she was a deputy public defender in the same remained useless. House lots, swept students.law.ucdavis.edu/halo/ county from 1996 to 1999, and an associate barren by 30-foot waves, remained with the Law Offices of J. Thomas Sherrod in vacant, sometimes with just a 1996. staircase leading nowhere.

COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 75 UC Davis Law Students Land Dean Rex Perschbacher commented, President Judicial Clerkships “It is an indication of the great leadership William H. Students in the Class of 2008 have strength of the UC Davis law faculty that Neukom. secured judicial clerkships in federal we have two faculty members from one of “Although and state courts around the country. the smallest schools on the Davis campus much progress After graduation Tammy Chang ’08 serving in such important university-wide has been made will clerk for the Honorable Sen Tan leadership capacities.” to reduce bias of the Alaska Superior Court; Sarah in this area, Christian ’08 will clerk for the Honorable Reynoso Honored by numerous Michael Douglas of the Supreme Court Latina/o Law Professors studies demonstrate that lesbian, gay, bisexual, of Nevada; Emily Churg ’08 will clerk Professor of Law Emeritus Cruz and transgender people continue to face for the Honorable James Otero of the Reynoso was honored at the 2008 Annual pervasive discrimination within the legal U.S. District Court, Central District of Latina/o Law Professors Dinner on profession, as they do in many other CA; Kathleen Doty ’08 will clerk for the January 4, at the Association of American walks of life.” Honorable Alexa Fujise of the Hawaii Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting in Neukom noted that last February the Court of Intermediate Appeals; Sara New York City. The meeting is the largest association amended its Goal IX, which Fischer ’08 will clerk for the Honorable annual gathering of legal educators in was adopted in 1991 and promotes Garland Burrell of the U.S. District Court, the world. Reynoso was honored for his full and equal participation in the legal Eastern District of CA; Ryan Holte ’08 many years of scholarship, teaching, and profession by minorities, women, and will clerk for the Honorable Loren Smith service to legal education. persons with disabilities, to include of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; Reynoso has received many awards persons of differing sexual orientations Natalie Johnston ’08 will clerk for the and distinctions this past year, including and gender identities. He said the Honorable John Suddock of the Alaska the UC Davis Medal, a Chancellor’s new commission will be the vehicle to Superior Court; Krista Maher ’08 will Achievement Award for Diversity and implement the amendment. clerk for the Honorable Steven Bernard of Community, and the ABA Kutak Award. Professor Joslin’s areas of interest the Colorado Court of Appeals; Christine The UC Davis School of Law honored include family and relationship Olson ’08 will clerk for the Honorable Reynoso at a celebration of his career at the recognition, particularly focusing on James Selna of the U.S. District Court, Mondavi Center in September, 2007. Central District of California; and Erin same-sex and nonmarital couples. Wallace ’08 will clerk for the Honorable Joslin Appointed to ABA Russell Carparelli of the Colorado Court Commission Professor Johnson Named of Appeals. Chicana/o Studies Professor Courtney Joslin was Scholar of the Year appointed to the newly created American The National Association of Chicana Professor Bar Association (ABA) Commission on and Chicano Studies (NACCS) named Oakley Elected Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Dean Designate and the Mabie-Apallas to UC Academic The Commission works to eliminate bias Professor of Public Interest Law and Senate and discrimination against persons of Chicana/o Studies Kevin R. Johnson as Professor John B. differing sexual orientations and gender a 2008 NACCS Scholar. The association Oakley was elected identities in the legal profession, the honored Johnson at a ceremony on as one of three UC justice system, and society. Friday, March 21, in Austin, Texas. Davis representatives “The ABA’s commitment to equality of The Award was established in 1981 to the University of opportunity is reflected in many policies to recognize “life achievement” California Assembly of opposing discrimination on the basis of contributions of scholars to Chicana and the Academic Senate. Oakley will serve a sexual orientation and gender identity in Chicano studies. Johnson was noted two-year term from September 1, 2008, many contexts, including employment, for “deftly weaving prolific scholarship through August 31, 2010. Professor Daniel housing, public accommodations, legal alongside teaching, mentoring, and Simmons currently serves as a UC Davis education, and child custody, adoption community activism.” representative through August 31, 2009. and foster care decisions,” said ABA Free Speech and Privacy annual symposium, this year highlighting if it materially disrupted the school’s Some of today’s top legal minds led First Amendment issues in public schools. educational mission or impinged on the discussions on the UC Davis campus The first symposium was part of an rights of other students. In a recent case, and at the Law School on the First effort to educate, as well as to encourage Starr successfully argued on behalf of a Amendment, with all of its constitutional an open dialogue about the nature of free school that it was justified in suspending a complexities and interpretations. speech, including hate speech. Reynoso student for displaying a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” Speaking about the challenges that contributed his expertise in civil rights and banner at a televised U.S. Olympics torch face free speech in schools and across government reform to a topic that is facing relay. the nation were Cruz Reynoso, professor new kinds of scrutiny in a media age “One of the central battlegrounds of law emeritus and a civil rights driven by open communications. of America’s culture wars is the public champion for decades; Alan Brownstein, The second event, entitled “First schools, and First Amendment doctrine a noted professor of constitutional law Amendment Rights in America’s Public is part of the rules of engagement for this at UC Davis; and Kenneth Starr, dean Schools: From the Schoolhouse Gate to conflict,” said Brownstein. of Pepperdine University Law School the Courthouse Steps,” focused on the The final School lecture, “What We and onetime independent counsel on role the First Amendment plays in relation Talk About When We Talk About Privacy: the Whitewater investigation during the to expression of religion and student The Politics of Mass Surveillance and Clinton administration. expression within the classroom. Profiling,” was held April 22. Presenting Reynoso, a former associate justice “Since the 1960s, it has been clear speaker Siva Vaidhyanathan, recent author of the California Supreme Court and that the constitutional rights of students of The Anarchist in the Library, is a fellow vice chair of the U.S. Commission on do not end at the schoolhouse gate,” said at both the New York Institute for the Civil Rights, was the keynote speaker at Brownstein, faculty co-sponsor of the Humanities and the Institute for the Future the UC Davis symposium entitled, “R U event. “What is far less certain is the scope of the Book and also Associate Professor of Offended?!!? Why We Defend the Speech of those rights and the proper role of the Media Studies and Law at the University of We Hate” on February 26. A week later, federal courts in enforcing them.” Virginia. He has written for MSNBC.com Starr and Brownstein In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court and appeared on The Daily Show. participated in the UC determined that school authorities could Davis Law Review’s restrict student speech only

UC Davis Law Review Symposium speakers: Kenneth Star, R. George Wright, Vikram Amar, and Carlton Larson.

American Bar Association On February 16, UC Davis School of Additionally, student Lorin Kline ’10 Law Student Division Law hosted the American Bar Association was elected as the 2008-09 Fourteenth Honors UC Davis Fourteenth Circuit’s Spring Meeting. Circuit Governor, the highest elected At the meeting, the Fourteenth Circuit office in the circuit. The day-long recognized King Hall for having the Fourteenth Circuit meeting was attended highest percentage increase in ABA by law students from northern California membership of all schools within the and Nevada. UC Davis Professor of Law circuit. Circuit Governor Patrick Boice Emerita Martha West, UC Davis School of presented UC Davis Law Students Law Alumni Association President Tom Association President Sarah Asplin Stallard ’75, UC Davis Professor John ’08 and American Bar Association Oakley, and Yolo County Clerk Recorder Representative Eric Toscano ’09 with the Freddie Oakley addressed the students at Silver Key award— the highest honor a the meeting. Toscano ’09 and Asplin ’08 Circuit Governor can bestow—for their contributions to the Fourteenth Circuit.

COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 7 American Lawyer Honors sponsored the College Cost Reduction Insurance and a deputy San Francisco Rachel Krevans ‘84 and Access Act, which was signed into city attorney, Hernandez is widely Morrison & Foerster Partner Rachel law September 2007 and provides the recognized as an expert in insurance Krevans ’84 helped elevate the firm into largest increase in student aid since the regulatory and administrative law. the top Intellectual Property litigation GI Bill of 1944. Hernandez was selected as one of ranks in the United States. The American Rachel Krevans ’84 also received a the most influential Hispanics in the Lawyer magazine named her team the 2008 California Lawyer Attorney of the United States as part of Hispanic Business “Litigation Department of the Year.” Year Award. Krevans, a partner with magazine’s “100 Influentials List 2006.” Krevans and the Morrison & Foerster Morrison & Foerster, was recognized In addition, Hernandez was featured team were featured on the cover of the for her preparation work in defending in Diversity & the Bar in the November/ magazine. two subsidiaries of satellite television December issue as one of the nation’s The editors selected Morrison & company EchoStar Communications leading law firm rainmakers. Hernandez Foerster’s Intellectual Property litigation against a patent-infringement claim before started up Sonnenschein’s regulatory practice as one of three finalists, and the a Texas jury. After a weeklong trial and insurance group 10 years ago as its only firm’s overall litigation practice received about an hour of deliberation last June, lawyer. Today, he heads up 20 lawyers Honorable Mention. The American Lawyer the jury returned a unanimous verdict in and hopes to have 20 more within the recognized the firm for providing clients EchoStar’s favor. next five years. “the depth, breadth, and talent to win high-stakes disputes,” and noted that Hernandez ’84 Received Bernstein ’74 Elected “with outstanding results for clients... Prestigious Award President of $300 Million MoFo has vaulted itself into the top Gary Hernandez ’84, chair of law Project in Israel IP ranks.” Krevan’s superb lawyering firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal Joseph Bernstein ’74 was elected saved her client $205 million in a patent LLP’s national Insurance Regulatory President of Israel’s tourist initiative, infringement case. Practice Group, was selected by the “AQUARIA Entertainment City.” He will Krevans is listed as one of Northern San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of be primarily responsible for construction California’s Super Lawyers in Intellectual Commerce (SFHCC), San Francisco of the project and its grand opening Property Litigation, and she is among Business Times, Wells Fargo, and other in 2012. Upon his appointment as the 10 women attorneys in the Bay Area’s community organizations to receive the President, Bernstein said, “A world Most Influential Women in Business by Latino Business Leadership Award for class ‘entertainment city’ in Israel will the San Francisco Business Times in May 2007. Hernandez was also recognized by soften the international image of Israel, 2005 and 2006. The San Francisco and the group in 2005. promote the country as a global leisure Los Angeles Daily Journal selected Krevans Hernandez, who is based in destination, and fortify Eilat in its as one of the “Top Women Litigators in Sonnenschein’s San Francisco office and competition with Taba, Sharm-El-Sheikh California” in 2005 and 2006. serves on the firmwide management and Aqaba in Eilat’s strategy to become committee, was honored at the Latino the ‘Heart of the Red Sea Riviera.’ The King Hall Alums Receive Business Awards Dinner on September 28 project will have entertainment for California Lawyer Attorney at the Hyatt in San Francisco. The event every member of the family, based on of the Year Awards acknowledged the 33 most influential popular attractions at Disney World, U.S. Representative George Miller Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area in MGM, EPCOT, and Universal Studios. ’72 was named a 2008 California Lawyer the areas of corporate, emerging leaders AQUARIA is intended to spark Eilat and Attorney of the Year (CLAY) by California under 40, entrepreneurship, health, inject more than $1 billion into the Israeli Lawyer magazine. The award recognizes nonprofit/philanthropy, and public sector. economy by creating thousands of jobs attorneys across the state whose A former deputy insurance and attracting hundreds of thousands achievements have made a profound commissioner and chief of enforcement of new vacationers each year. This is a impact on the law. Representative Miller for the California Department of project whose time has come!”

8 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 Bernstein was raised in Israel Sterling ’70 Appointed to State Alumni Participated in before immigrating to the United Commission Career Week States. In 1981, together with his Nathaniel Sterling ’70 was appointed to A number of alumni participated brother, Ralph Bernstein, he founded the Commission on Uniform State Laws by in the first UC Davis School of Law a private real estate concern that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Career Week, hosted by the Career has developed over $1 billion in Sterling has served on the commission since Services Office and the Career Services commercial projects in New York, February 2007. A Democrat, he worked as an Student Advisory Committee, January including Americas Tower and the attorney and executive secretary for the California 14-18. A series of workshops, panels, US Headquarters to Bank Hapoalim. Law Revision Commission from 1970 to 2006. and roundtables provided law students Bernstein is a co-developer of Prior to that, he was a reference clerk for the with information on legal careers in another tourist project in Israel, a Government Documents Library at the University private practice and public interest law. five-star, $150 million golf resort and of California, Berkeley from 1965 to 1967. Alumni participants included spa to be built on Mt. Arbel in joint Sterling is a former member of the UC Stephen Boutin ’72, president elect venture with Moshav Kfar Hittim. Davis School of Law Alumni Association of the Alumni Association Board of Board of Directors. Directors, Grace Arupo ’02, Lisa Carlock ’97, Jason Cooksey ’00, Kevin Davis ’07, James Delaurier ’05, Valerie Feldman ’00, Kari Fisher ’06, Bart Hightower ’99, Daniel Hutchinson ’04, Elizabeth Linton ’03, John McKinsey ’99, Nicole L. Moscini ’04, Jennifer Paredes ’03, Matthew Post ’05, Eric Ratinoff ’93, Theresa Huberty Ravandi ’94, Emmanuel Salazar ’05, Kara Ueda ’00, Kyanna Williams ’06, and Esther Wright ’04.

Larsen ’74 Honored with Humanitarian Award James Larsen ’74 received the San Joaquin County Bar Foundation’s inaugural Humanitarian Award on October 12, 2007, for his work with the local legal community. Larsen is chief of the San Joaquin County Public Defender’s Office. He Dean Designate Johnson the world, and a global leader in the was born in Santa Cruz and raised in Welcomes Petrobras development of alternative energy and nearby Boulder Creek. He attended Lawyers from Brazil fuel sources. With its recent expansion California State University, Chico, and served in the Army for two years In March, Dean Designate Kevin to 700-plus lawyers, the Petrobras before law school at UC Davis. Johnson and International Programs Legal Department will soon be the In 1976, a job in the county’s Executive Director Beth Greenwood largest law “firm” in Latin America. The Public Defender’s Office brought him welcomed 22 lawyers from the School of Law and UC Davis Extension to Stockton. For two decades, he Petrobras Oil Company in Brazil to the have partnered with Petrobras to has led the office of attorneys who UC Davis School of Law for a two-week provide training for Petrobras lawyers represent criminal defendants too training program. The program is part on contracts, dispute resolution, tax, poor to hire private attorneys. of a partnership between the School of and finance law. In 2008, more than Law, UC Davis Extension, and Petroleo 100 Petrobras lawyers will attend Brasileiro S.A.—Petrobras, the largest training programs in Davis and oil company in Brazil, the seventh Rio De Janeiro. largest publicly traded oil company in

COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 9 p e r s ch b ach e r and b r o w n s t e i n na m e d chaired professors

Dean Perschbacher received his J.D. degree from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he was Articles Editor of the California Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduation, he served as law clerk to The Honorable Alfonso J. Zirpoli of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Later, he entered private practice with Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in San Francisco. He has taught at UC Berkeley, the University of Texas, Santa Clara University, and the University of San Diego law schools. Dean Perschbacher has published articles in the areas of civil procedure, professional responsibility, and lawyers’ negotiations. He is co-author of United States Legal System: An Introduction (1st and 2d eds.); Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (1-5th eds.); California Civil Procedure; California Legal Ethics (1-6th eds.), and Problems in Legal Ethics (3-8th eds.). He has been involved in law school accreditation activities having served for six years on the American Bar Dean Perschbacher is the Rex Perschbacher is Dean and Association’s Accreditation Committee; first holder of the Daniel J. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. He has been Dean since 1998 and and on two separate standing committees Dykstra Endowed Chair of Law, before that served as Associate Dean of the Association of American Law established to provide service to from 1993-1998. He has taught at UC Schools and two section executive the School of Law in the spirit Davis since 1981 with an emphasis on committees. of the late Professor Daniel the areas of Civil Procedure, Professional Currently, he is Chair of the AALS Section of the Dean. From 1990-1996, J. Dykstra and to support the Responsibility, and Clinical teaching. He he was on the Board of Directors of the research, scholarly, and other received the Law School’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992, and a Special Legal Services of Northern California and public service activities of the Citation Affirmative Action and Diversity two related boards. He also served on holder of the endowed chair in Achievement Award, 2001. the Governing Committee on Continuing the School of Law. Education of the Bar from 2000-2003.

10 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 Professor Brownstein is the new Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality. The Chair was established to preserve and expand the understanding of the virtues necessary to a great Republic, including the freedom of conscience embodied in the liberties of political, religious, informational, and artistic expression of the First Amendment; the promise of fairness made in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments; and the principle of equality expressed in the Fourteenth Amendment. The Chair was named in honor of The Honorable Robert Boochever, whose writings for the Supreme Court of Alaska and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit keep these virtues alive. The chair is also in honor a Case Editor of the Harvard Law Review), activities include a panel discussion of Elizabeth J. Bird, teacher, who Brownstein was an attorney in general on “Church and State in the Public lived and taught these virtues and litigation and corporate practice with the Workplace” at the State Bar Public Sector Donald G. Bird, businessman, law firm of Tuttle & Taylor in Los Angeles Labor and Employment Conference before joining the UC Davis law faculty. and a panel on “Religious Liberty and whose investments in his son From 1977-78, he clerked for the Honorable Recent Developments in Supreme Court made the gift possible. Frank M. Coffin, Chief Judge of the U.S. Jurisprudence” at Princeton University’s District Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit Law and Public Affairs Eighth Annual Alan Brownstein, a nationally in Portland, Maine. Brownstein received Continuing Legal Education Conference. recognized Constitutional Law scholar, the UC Davis School of Law’s Distinguished He has a strong commitment to the teaches Constitutional Law, Law and Teaching Award in 1995. community. He has testified on several Religion, and Torts at UC Davis School He is a frequent invited lecturer at occasions before various California Senate of Law. While the primary focus of his academic conferences and regularly Committees on legislation promoting scholarship relates to church-state issues participates as a speaker or panelist in religious liberty and bills that raise and free exercise and establishment clause law related programs before civic, legal, Establishment Clause concerns. His doctrine, he has also written extensively on religious, and educational groups. As one assistance is often sought by advocacy freedom of speech, privacy and autonomy notable example, for the last 17 years he groups on issues relating to religious liberty rights, and other constitutional law has presented an annual review of the and equality. He is a member of the Board subjects. His articles have been published Supreme Court’s recent constitutional of Directors of Congregation Bet Haverim in numerous academic journals including law cases to the Federal Bar Association, (second term) and serves on the Legal the Stanford Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Sacramento Chapter. His most recent Committee of the Northern California and the UCLA Law Review. His most recent appearances include a Harvard Law ACLU. He has served as an advisor to the undertaking was editing the anthology, School roundtable discussion on Religion, California Interfaith Coalition for the Free The Establishment of Religion Clause: Its Citizenship and Multiculturalism, and the Exercise of Religion and as a member of the Constitutional History and the Contemporary UC Davis Law Review Symposium, where he Sacramento Jewish Community Relations Debate published by Prometheus Books. presented a paper on the First Amendment Council. A graduate of Antioch College and rights of public school students. Upcoming Harvard Law School (where he served as COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 11 The richness of the School of Law’s The King Hall building is integral Law School building must continue to past continues to inspire our future. to the School’s activities. It is more than educate the next generation of lawyers. Over 40 years ago, the founding faculty brick and mortar; it is the cornerstone The building’s design—state of the art and students infused King Hall with an of our School—it is the heart, and our in the 60s and 70s—reflects an earlier indelible community spirit that continues people and programs are its soul. The era that no longer embodies the vibrant to grow stronger and reach well beyond expansion and renovation of King Hall spirit of our millennial law students. its brick walls. In the School of Law’s is our School’s critical next step, the Prize-winning architect Allan Greenberg brief history, the School has risen to linchpin needed to achieve our present said, “A campus is an edited statement national and international prominence as and future academic and public service of the institution’s self image.” If we are a result of the scholarship produced by its aspirations. to celebrate our students and faculty scholar-teachers and its alumni, who have Forty years ago, the new building, members’ aspirations, our renovated achieved legal note in judicial chambers, named for the late Dr. Martin Luther building must speak to its own image and government office, international courts, King, Jr., was an enduring symbol to communicate meaning, character, and corporate law offices, public law firms, the founding faculty and students. The significance. and non-profit organizations. Our School of Law was a true community, The King Hall expansion and students, despite demanding academic anchored on the banks of Putah Creek renovation designs by Thomas Hacker schedules, continue to engage in publicly at the gateway to campus. But a new Architects Inc. fuses light, glass, and directed activities, evident by the number millennium is upon us, and the brick to inspire our next generation of of active student organizations, clinicals, and public works internships.

12 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 Our Forever King Hall program gives you the opportunity to associate your name, or those you wish to honor, with the UC Davis School of Law – forever.

King Hall Paver King Hall Bench Personalize a paver in the new King Hall Benches designed by Thomas Hacker courtyardForever with your inscription or an inscription ArchitectsForever Inc. will grace the new entrance in honor or in memory of someone special. to King Hall and the new courtyard. Thomas The new addition will enclose and enlarge the Hacker Architects Inc. is known for designing current King Hall courtyard. The new courtyard buildings with an understated dignity based will be beautifully designed with large pavers on the natural beauty of materials and carefully creating an open space that is inviting to all. crafted construction. The benches will be designed and built to match the architecture Courtyard paver, including and quality of the new King Hall addition. personalized inscription. $100 each Artist rendition A personalized inscription or an inscription to showing the new honor or in memory of someone special will King Hall courtyard. King Hall adorn these benches for a lifetime and beyond. Seat Plaque Forever Bench, including personalized inscription. lawyers. The plans meld the old Personalize a classroom or courtroom seat in $5,000 each bench architecture with the new, bringing King Hall. A permanent plaque will be placed There are a limited number of benches available for personalization. to light the spirit of King Hall and at a designated seat in a King Hall classroom, the new Appellate Courtroom, or the Wilkins all it represents to our alumni, Moot Courtroom. Inspire current and future faculty, and students. Naming Opportunities students and the School’s many guests with The hallmark of the UC Davis Donors may also choose to “name a room” within your personalized inscription or an inscription School of Law is its commitment King Hall honoring themselves, their family, or an in honor or in memory of someone special. to academic excellence and the honored person or group. Options include: community. The new King Hall Classroom seat plaque, including personalized • Faculty Offices will foster collaborations and inscription. $500 each provide the infrastructure for • Student Journal Offices Appellate Courtroom or Wilkins Moot investments in new programs. • Group Study Rooms Courtroom seat plaque, including personalized New research centers and think • Law Review Offices inscription. $1,000 each tanks will promote collaborations For information on these or other naming with scholars, practitioners, opportunities, please contact Jean Korinke at state government, agencies, and To reserve your place in the Forever King Hall program, please complete the form included 530.754.5328 or [email protected]. the local bench and bar. These in this issue of the King Hall Counselor.

COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 13 king hall expansion & renovation project donors collaborations will be strengthened Pledge and gift totals are as of March 27, 2008 with additional faculty, lecturers, and visiting professors who enrich the Building Platinum Professor Alan E. Brownstein & Jonathan S. Lieberman ’10 Society Ms. Elizabeth L. Brownstein Professor Albert C. Lin School’s curriculum and the student $1,000,000 & Above Professor Jennifer M. Chacón & Peter J. ’75 & Carol L. Lucey Mr. Jonathan Glater experience. William & Inez Mabie Family Eric L. Lunsford ’10 Foundation Professors Anupam Chander & The curriculum will be further Madhavi Sunder Melinda M. Luthin ’07 & John A. Lyddon expanded with emerging practices Lowell Chow ’10 Building Century John Ly ’06 Club Ho-Young Chung ’10 in legal education, small-course Rosita Martinez ’06 $100,000 - $499,999 David E. Cranston ’85 offerings, and strong trial and Sarah M. McBride ’09 Joseph E. Bernstein ’74 David A. ’01 & Catherine C. Diepenbrock Merle C. Meyers ’75 appellate advocacy programs. Nancy S. Coan Torres ’86 & Michael Torres Joel L. Diringer ’80 Professor Robert A. Mikos & These programs will include Ms. Cindy D. Kam Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation Professor Joel C. Dobris & new and expanded moot court Ms. Linda S. Dobris Gregory M. O’Leary ’75 Clement J. ’75 & Melinda Kong competitions, trial practice classes in honor of Stuart R. Korshak ’75 Professor Holly D. Doremus & Kenneth A. Olmsted ’80 Mr. Gordon E. Anthon and competitions, and appeals court Mark Perry ’80 & Melanie Peña Gail Osherenko ’75 & Oran Young Keegan Dresow ’10 Philip G. ’75 & Jennifer A. Satre Yoonjin Park ’06 classes. With this type of applied- Professor Christopher S. Elmendorf Tom W. ’75 & Meg S. Stallard The Honorable Elizabeth Perris ’75 skills training, graduates will advance Professor Floyd F. Feeney Sue R. Wilkins P. Kurt Peterson ’75 to legal careers with experience in Hector Ferreira ’08 David W. ’71 & Susan V. Post areas critical to the practice of law. Building Benefactor The Fletcher Jones Foundation Mary Beth Rehman Dittu $50,000 – $99,999 Michael A. ’83 & Denise M. Rocha ’80 The student experience will Armelle V. Futterman Charles ’73 & Charlotte Bird Paul C. ’75 & Carla P. Rosenthal be further enhanced through an Professor Arturo Gándara & Patrick W. ’74 & Allison Emery Ms. Linda Gándara Lia K. Ruggeri ’10 expanded program of student Russell Jura ’74 Robin Day Glenn ’75 & Steven B. ’80 & Luanne Sacks organizations, legal journals, and Dean Rex R. Perschbacher Forrest Beeson John C. ’72 & Katherine Schick clinicals. The Mabie Law library Thom ’73 & Georgia Schuttish Shannon Going ’10 Professor Timothy M. Schooley & Ms. Professor Emeritus Sue E. Schooley will serve students and visiting Building Patron George S. Grossman Sarah L. Scott ’10 scholars with increased volumes $25,000 – $49,999 Kristine Hernandez ’06 Elizabeth Semel ’75 and electronic services. And perhaps Steven N. ’74 & The Honorable Judy H. Hersher ’84 & Professor Donna Shestowsky Susan Jackson Machtinger Mr. Michael E. Hersher Professor Daniel L. Simmons ’71 & most important to the student Yoshinori Himel ’75 Ms. Charlene L. Simmons experience, the new King Hall will Building Supporters Professor Bill O. Hing & Gary D. Solis ’71 Ms. Lenora Fung have more convivial gathering spots Up to $24,999 Scott M. Stanton ’93 Anonymous ’86 David L. Hyman ’80 & The Honorable Nancy Wieben Stock for impromptu faculty, student, and Farah Jimenez Professor Afra Afsharipour ’76 & Mr. Ronald C. Stock ’75 practitioner interactions, group study Professor Lisa C. Ikemoto ’87 & Dan P. Stokes ’09 May Alquidsi ’06 Mr. Scott E. Alumbaugh ’89 Kevin Takei ’06 sessions, and recreation. Professor Diane Marie Amann Professor Edward J. Imwinkelried & Sarah W. Asplin ’08 Ms. Cynthia Clark Professor Clayton S. Tanaka & The expansion and renovation Ms. Christine A. Tanaka Robert D. Bacon ’76 Candace A. Jackman ’09 project will serve as a symbol to all Amy Tirre ’94 Susan Cox ’82 Zaidun Jawdat ’75 Matthew A. Tolve ’09 those who have come before and Alberto Balingit ’75 & Professor Margaret Z. Johns ’76 Roldan R. Trujillo ’75 those to come after—it will celebrate Jacquie Duerr Professor Thomas W. Joo & William Tunick ’06 the public/private partnership that Wayne A. ’71 & Ms. Irene Joo Jacque A. Bartholomew Professor Courtney G. Joslin Adrian C. Uribe ’09 makes the building possible. Mariana Barua ’08 Jonathan Ben Kaplan ’06 Christopher Urone ’09 Professor Andrea K. Bjorklund & Mr. Charity Kenyon ’77 & Nina Vaghaiwalla ’10 Seán C. Duggan Michael Eaton Michael A. Van Horne ’75 D. Steven ’71 & Linda W. Blake Thelma & Hiroshi Kido Peter Voigt ’10 Stephen F. ’72 & Linda T. Boutin Jean & Steve Korinke George G. ’73 & Kathleen A. Wolf Steven M. Kwong ’75 & Tobias Barrington Wolff Chan Wah Ho James R. Woods ’72 David Lorie ’96 & Kena D. Hudson Rachel Zellner ’06 Professor Carlton F.W. Larson Professor Peter Lee

Artist rendition showing the new appellate courtroom. The year of the advocates From left: McBirney ’08, Bisharat ’09, & Maher ’08; Zurko ’08, Prof. Schooley, Doty ’08, & Hinga ’08; Wiley ’08, & Schwartz ’08; Bananzadeh ’08, Haney ’08, & Adams ’08.

With four major wins and three the team coined themselves “Schooley’s The 2L team of Nabil Bisharat ’09, Mikayla advancements in national and Angels.” In New York, Schooley’s Angels Gow ’09, and Eric Toscano ’09 advanced international competitions, oral advocates were nearly unstoppable, winning the in the ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy at King Hall are enjoying an extraordinary best brief award and making it to the Competition in Nevada, with Bisharat year. In short, UC Davis won best brief top 16, only to be knocked out by garnering the award of Top Oralist. and finished in the top 16 of 189 teams Chicago-Kent College of Law, this year’s UC Davis recorded another success at in the National Moot Court Competition. competition winner. But Schooley’s Angels the Jessup International Law Moot Court Internationally, UC Davis advanced to were far from pouting, Doty remarked, Competition. The team of Sumaira Arastu compete with 80 other countries in the “We were actually happy to have a couple ’09, Michael Djavakhyan ’09, Kathleen Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot days off to see the city.” Fittingly, after Doty ’08, and Jimmy McBirney ’08 went Court Competition, the largest moot visiting Times Square, the team ended undefeated during the four rounds of court competition in the world. In New their trip by going to the Broadway the competition in Los Angeles. The York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, UC performance of “Legally Blonde.” team headed to Washington D.C. for the Davis took honors in the Moot Court The National Moot Court team was international rounds on April 6th and Immigration, Sexual Orientation, and the not the only all-female team to win big competed against more than 100 student ABA National Appellate Competitions. for UC Davis; the dynamic duo of Julie teams from 80 countries. After four This year, UC Davis has surpassed teams Schwartz ’08 and Julia Wiley ’08 came matchups in the preliminary rounds, the from NYU, Boalt, Hastings, UCLA, and in first place with their “tough advocacy” team advanced to the runoff rounds, but Stanford. Below are highlights of the at NYU’s Immigration Law Moot Court were eventually defeated. competitions. Competition. The competition came with In an e-mail to students, Dean The National Moot Court Competition some challenges, as Schwartz explained, Perschbacher commented on UC Davis’ started on a high note, with UC Davis “Julia was horribly sick the entire time.” success, “I cannot recall a more successful sweeping the preliminaries and Kate The team was so dominant that when run in these competitions in my 27 years Doty ’08, Ali Hinga ’08, and Irene Zurko Schwartz stood to give her rebuttal the on the faculty.” ’08 advancing to the final round of judge spoke out accurately predicting, Successes have not been limited to competition in New York City. This was “Schwartz is now up for the home run.” moot court competitions. For the first the first time UC Davis advanced to the The next win came with the William time in nine years UC Davis advanced finals under the leadership of Professor Institute National Sexual Orientation to the final round of the National Mock Timothy Schooley. Doty explained, “We and the Law Moot Court Competition Trial Competition. The team of Nabil are proud to be the first team to deliver at UCLA. This time the team of Lindsey Bisharat ’09, Krista Maher ’08, and Jimmy this for Professor Schooley. Our success is Adams ’08, Shawn Bananzadeh ’08, and McBirney ’08 competed on March 27 in really due to him.” Erin Haney ’08 took first place and shared Austin, Texas. With Professor Edward This year also marked another first: a team award for best oral advocates. Imwinkelried as an advisor, Maher It was the first time in UC Davis history Their argument: that a queer-straight praised the process as a “crash course in that all the advocates in the National alliance program cannot be prohibited by trial practice and evidence.” Moot Court Competition were women. a public school’s parens patriae interests. Patrick Snyder ’08 To celebrate this achievement and give Teams made of 3Ls were not the only This article was first published in the March 2008 credence to their coach’s mentorship, teams that took home wins for UC Davis. edition of The King Hall Advocate, a UC Davis student publication. Photo credit: Lowell Chow

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The UC Davis School of “Americans fight for civil rights or Also featured in Part Two will be Law has a strong history of social justice, but these are essentially Professor Diane Marie Amann, an human rights.” Shigekane says, “There internationally recognized leader in faculty and alumni scholarship is a perception that human rights abuses examining the interaction of national, in international law and occur ‘over there’ or ‘far away,’ but human regional, and international legal international and domestic rights abuses occur in the United States, regimes in efforts to combat atrocity human rights. In recognition and it is important to see the domestic and cross-border crime, and Professor application of international human rights Madhavi Sunder, a leading scholar in of the anniversary of the standards.” the legal regulation of culture, whose Declaration, the King Hall Since the School’s early years, work traverses numerous legal fields, students have been inspired to work from intellectual property and cultural Counselor will feature a two- part article, “Embracing Human in the international law arena by property to human rights law and the legal luminaries, Professors Edgar First Amendment. Rights,” on our dedicated Bodenheimer and Friedrich K. Juenger. Although human rights issues faculty, alumni, and clinical It is no surprise that a number of continue to plague individuals and program staff as they work to our alumni are deeply committed to societies, the UC Davis School of Law advocating for international human is working to preserve the freedoms educate others, assist those rights issues. Part Two of “Embracing outlined in the Declaration of Human in need, and focus the legal Human Rights” will focus exclusively Rights by promoting awareness, serving community’s attention on human on international law and human rights. clients, writing scholarship, educating rights at home and abroad. Asifa Quraishi ’92, a specialist in Islamic students, and “working in the trenches” law, who made news in 2001 when she to make a difference. Part One focuses on drafted a clemency appeal brief in the international human rights case of Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, a woman Part one in a two-part series in domestic applications sentenced to flogging for fornication and features alum Rachel in Zamfara, Nigeria, will be profiled, Home & Abroad along with other alumni, including: Shigekane understands domestic Shigekane ‘91, the director Monika Kalra Varma ’00, the director of human rights issues. Before entering of programs at UC Berkeley the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center UC Davis School of Law, she worked Human Rights Center, and for Human Rights, an organization with the Bay Area Asian/Pacific Islander Professor Lisa Pruitt, whose committed to promoting human rights; community as a job developer and Gwen K. Young ’02, an advocacy counselor finding full employment earlier international work and policy officer for Agricultural for women and people of color in the informs her scholarship about Development and Special Initiatives construction and highway trades, and the intersection of law and with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; then advocating for the labor rights of legal institutions with rural and Chris Engels ’04, a director of the garment workers and hotel maids. She Criminal Defense Section, Registry, in the was a passionate and creative advocate livelihoods. State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 17 for her clients, a necessary attribute when speaker-discussion panels organized of non-governmental organizations,” dealing with unions and apprenticeship by the Center, including the annual Shigekane says. “But I also see what is programs that were operating under Human Rights Fellowship. She currently going on today—in Burma, Chinese court-monitored consent decrees. coordinates a project in partnership repression of Tibet, ethnic violence in Entering law school was the with Pro Busqueda, an organization in Kenya, ongoing genocide in Darfur, our logical next step. At the School of El Salvador that uses DNA analysis to own policies on the ‘War on Terror’—and Law, Shigekane was inspired to think reunite families who were torn apart it makes my heart sink.” critically about the US Constitution and during the armed conflict in El Salvador, Shigekane runs the Center’s human constitutional law through the support of a time when Pro Busqueda believes a rights fellowship program, where Professors Kevin Johnson and Marty West, military policy existed that called for graduate students are encouraged to and in particular, Alan Brownstein. After the abduction of infants and children engage in human rights fieldwork and law school, she clerked for a year with from families believed to be leftist to utilize a human rights framework former Magistrate Judge Claudia Wilken sympathizers. Children were forcibly in their academic research and in their of the District Court for the Northern removed from their families and given professional development. She also District of California and subsequently to military families, others were raised conducts research and teaches. “I meet worked with legal-services organizations in orphanages in San Salvador, and still truly amazing and inspiring students that focused on health and welfare others were adopted nationally and who are addressing critical and cutting- benefits for immigrants, children, and transnationally. edge human rights issues,” she says. She those with disabilities. She says, “After The Center also did a study on encourages her students to think broadly practicing for 10 years, I decided I wanted human trafficking and forced labor in the about how they can contribute as an to take a step back and be able to analyze U.S. “It was an important study because advocate and to understand the language social problems on a larger scale, rather of its domestic focus and application of of human rights—both domestically and than on a case-by-case basis. In public international standards to a domestic abroad. health, they call this, ‘moving up stream.’” issue and because the report has been helpful to, and well rural & urban utilized by, anti-trafficking In 1996, UC Davis Professor experts and advocates Lisa Pruitt was a consultant for the to further their work,” International Criminal Tribunal in Shigekane says. Rwanda. None of the indictments for One of the goals of war crimes then issued included charges the Human Rights Center for the estimated quarter-million sexual is to develop the next assaults committed during the 1994 generation of human Rwanda genocide. Pruitt developed a rights advocates. Many strategy for investigating and prosecuting of Shigekane’s students sex crimes, which included a protocol for on the first day of class interviewing survivors. That experience is had never heard of the just one of many in her life that influence Universal Declaration of her current work about the legal Human Rights (UDHR), relevance of the rural. a declaration adopted in “Now that I have come to study the 1948, outlining the view intersection of law with the rural-urban of the General Assembly axis, I see many ways that rural spatiality of the United Nations on influenced the investigation of the human rights guaranteed genocide,” Pruitt says. “In rural Rwanda, Today, Rachel is the director of to all people. “That was only 60 years where even road names and numbers programs at the Human Rights Center ago—not a long time in terms of human were lacking and where the majority of and Lecturer in Peace and Conflicts existence and for instituting broad-based the populace live in places quite remote Studies at UC Berkeley. She is responsible change, so at some level I think that the from cities, just tracking down witnesses for developing and managing the progress made has been remarkable, was an enormous logistical challenge— educational programs, workshops, and especially in the development and role never mind thinking about how the country’s geography and rural character to law. By then Pruitt had enduring law, of its protections and possibilities, influenced the execution of the highly experience with both extremes of the and they tend to view negatively the use decentralized genocide there.” rural-urban spectrum. One of her earliest of law to redress private grievances.” After almost a decade of working epiphanies was that law and legal actors The myth that crime doesn’t exist in the international legal arena with often overlook the rural because we’re in rural areas and, therefore, law lawyers in more than 30 countries, increasingly an urban nation—and enforcement is unnecessary is incorrect. which included assisting the Iran-United world. Cities are centers of power. In The gap between rural and urban crime States Claims Tribunal, lecturing at the many ways, rural people are seen as rates has narrowed in recent years, and University of Amsterdam and Leiden politically and economically irrelevant,” arrest rates for some offenses are higher University in The Netherlands, and she says. “It is easy to ignore rural folk in rural areas; among these are crimes managing intellectual property policy because they are so outnumbered and against family members. A recent study initiatives as an associate at Covington & over-shadowed by city dwellers, as cited by Pruitt in her paper, “Place Burling in London, Pruitt returned to the well as by urban cultural influences,” Matters: Domestic Violence and the States. She joined the UC Davis School according to Pruitt. “Still, at one-fifth Rural-Urban Axis,” concludes that place of Law faculty in 1999. While a common of the population, rural Americans are a is a strong predictor of intimate partner theme of her research is how law and very large minority group, and we should homicide. That is, the more rural a place, legal institutions manage and respond to attend more to rural difference in making as measured by population density and cultural difference and cultural change, and interpreting laws.” distance from an urban area, the more her focus today is on the intersection of While rural life is often perceived likely a killer was a family member or law with rural livelihoods. through a utopian lens, data defy the intimate partner of his victim. Pruitt grew up in a very rural corner stereotype of the rural idyll. In 2006, “We need to consider and attend of Northwest Arkansas, where her family 15.2 percent of the rural populace lived to rural differences in law and policy has lived for five generations. She is a in poverty, while the rate in urban areas making,” Pruitt says, “because ongoing first-generation college graduate. was 11.8 percent. Of the 500 poorest and increased migration from rural to counties, 459 are rural. urban threatens the sustainability of Pruitt has written a great both types of livlihoods. Our nation is deal recently about the increasingly going to be challenged to challenges facing rural decide whether keeping some people women, in particular, down on the proverbial farm is a good addressing issues ranging thing. While supporting and sustaining from work-family rural livelihoods is costly in some ways challenges to domestic because economies of scale are rarely violence, to abortion achievable among sparse populations, access. thoughtful rural development holds The law also operates long-term promise for city dwellers and differently in rural places. country folk alike.” Pruitt’s work explores Last fall, along with students in her the perception that rural Law and Rural Livelihoods seminar, residents have opted Pruitt started a blog called Legal out of law’s protection Ruralism, legalruralism.blogspot.com. by choosing a lifestyle In it, she and her students comment on a that is more private, less wide range of rural topics, including the structured by society. “The difference that rurality makes at various law is largely irrelevant to junctures where rural people and places “It was only after I was long-gone from many rural livelihoods, except, perhaps encounter law and legal institutions. It’s Arkansas and had spent nearly a decade to those who commit crimes in rural just one more way she is working to raise in major cities—London, New York, and areas. Even for them, law enforcement the visibility of—and enhance justice for Washington, DC, among them—that often operates in ways that are very —an oft-overlooked population. I began to reflect in a meaningful way different to cities,” Pruitt says. “Rural on rural-urban difference in relation people tend to have less knowledge of the Part Two of the “Embracing Human Rights” article will be printed in the Fall 2008 issue of the King Hall Counselor.

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I believe hard work with a select group of high-potential Michelle Hugard ’10, a Boot Camp and determination undergraduate students from educationally alum and current UC Davis School of can get you far, but and economically disadvantaged Law student, says, “Before Boot Camp, sometimes you need backgrounds to prepare for law school I wasn’t sure how I could convince an that extra insight to admission. They meet once a month, admission committee that I was worthy February through May, for a full-day of of admittance. The program helped really succeed. Boot workshops and presentations on pre-law me realize that I didn’t need to make camp provided me preparation and law school admission. excuses for my personal and family life. with that. “We take apart the admissions process, Instead, I needed to focus on how those piece by piece, until they understand what experiences made me a good candidate Law students come from many walks needs to be done,” says Gapasin. “We for law school, and how they would help of life and educational backgrounds, set goals. We prepare for the Law School me succeed in the future.” but during that critical year before Admissions Test. We write personal Hugard has wanted to be a lawyer entering law school, successful applicants statements and craft our resumes.” since she was six years old. She attended must safely navigate the admissions Current Boot Camp participants are schools in Barstow, a desert community process, with its impending deadlines, now developing strategies and creating a in California. She is the first person in her time-consuming applications, and the working plan to apply to law school for immediate family to attend and graduate notorious Law School Admissions Test. Fall 2009 or 2010. They are building from a four-year university. “I wanted Last year, the UC Davis School of Law support systems amongst themselves, a better life for myself,” Hugard says. received 3,493 applications for 200 slots. as well as finding role models within “There were times I doubted that I would According to Cristina Gapasin, Associate the School of Law’s diverse faculty and become an attorney. Some of my close Director of Admissions, first-generation student body. friends and family members thought it and economically disadvantaged college By the end of this year’s session, was a silly dream.” Hugard wanted to students may shy away from the grueling 71 students will have completed the prove them wrong. process. “The biggest doubt or concern program. Five of the graduates are now The Pre-Law Boot Camp is one of is that they don’t know what to do. If no enrolled in law schools, which include only a handful of pre-law programs in the one in your family has ever gone to law UC Davis School of Law, UC Hastings country specifically designed to attract school before, let alone college, you have College of the Law, Boston College Law diversity to the legal profession. “I believe no one to look up to or turn to for advice.” School, McGeorge School of Law, and hard work and determination can get you The UC Davis School of Law Pre-Law Golden Gate University School of Law. far,” Hugard says, “but sometimes you Boot Camp, launched in 2004, works Ten graduates have applied to law schools need that extra insight to really succeed. and are awaiting decisions. Boot Camp provided me with that.”

COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 21 Marlon Cobar ’00, an assistant U.S. Cobar was awarded the U.S. Army in humvees, helicopters, and military Attorney, was recruited in 2006 by the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service, aircraft through tense security situations U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to serve a rare honor, in recognition for his such as a time the helicopter we were a detail as a Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) distinguished service. He also received a riding on came under gunfire over Sadr in Iraq. Cobar was uniquely qualified for citation for his service from U.S. Attorney City in Baghdad. I also had to get used the position. In addition to his training General Michael B. Mukasey upon his to being armed with a side arm, a semi- as a federal prosecutor, he served several return home in March. automatic rifle, and full-body armor details in Colombia, where he trained The following is an interview by Senior when I was outside the forward-operating prosecutors and investigative agents for Editor Charlene Logan Burnett with Cobar base. Prior to that, I had very limited DOJ’s justice assistance program on trial upon his return from Iraq. firearms experience. I had only handled advocacy, evidence, and professionalism. guns during the course of prosecuting Before departing in November, What was it like working and federal firearms cases. 2006, Cobar underwent training in the living in Iraq? Describe your role as a RLA. language and culture of Iraq, as well as I lived at “Forward Operating Base in firearms and combat first aid. While Warrior,” embedded within a U.S. Army The U.S. Department of Justice was serving 16 months as the Rule of Law unit. The base is on the outskirts of the charged with helping establish rule of Coordinator with the Kirkuk Provincial desert next to the city of Kirkuk. The law institutions and systems in Iraq. As Reconstruction Team, Cobar traveled conditions were unique. Security was the such, my role as a Resident Legal Advisor throughout the country and came to biggest concern for all personnel at the was to represent the U.S. as the lead know and understand the language, base. Last summer, for instance, mortars rule of law official in Kirkuk province, culture, and diversity of the Iraqi people. would regularly land on the base and an ethnically mixed region—40 percent The heart of Cobar’s work was the it was commonplace to run to cement Arabs, 40 percent Kurds, and 20 percent creation of the Kirkuk Major Crimes bunkers in the middle of the night. Turcomen—some 200 miles northeast of Court, a provincial branch of the Central Despite the obvious security challenges, I Baghdad. Criminal Court of Iraq in Baghdad, with came to enjoy working with the military Developing criminal justice capacity jurisdiction to try terrorist, insurgency, a great deal. Other aspects of living in in Kirkuk province for the investigation, and corruption cases originating in one of Iraq’s outer provinces were equally adjudication, and correctional Kirkuk Province. In February 2008, challenging. I had to get used to traveling confinement of terrorism and insurgency

22 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 cases through rule of law principles was How did your work as an justice and Adjunct Professor Larry the greatest justice need in the province. assistant U.S. attorney prepare Brown’s seminar on legislative policy My main focus, and that of the U.S. you for your role in Iraq? What making were also key foundations as I Department of Justice, was to develop about your years at UC Davis helped Iraqis craft their public policy in an holistic approach to terrorism cases School of Law? the justice arena. through the criminal justice system from My work as an assistant U.S. attorney Is there anything you would beginning to end. This was no small prepared me quite well. As a federal task, but we managed to accomplish it like to add that I didn’t ask prosecutor, I’ve been able to develop about? through excellent American and Iraqi a practice with a mixture of white- partnerships. In doing so, I led a military collar and major narcotics cases. The I felt this detail was an extension of team that included a U.S. Navy JAG majority of my cases require long-term my public service as a federal prosecutor. deputy team leader, U.S. Army soldiers, investigations, where I am called upon to Regardless of what one thinks about the and civilian interpreters. We partnered manage resources and the work of agents war in Iraq, the fact remains that we with American law enforcement and from federal law enforcement agencies. are spending approximately two-billion corrections advisors. We also worked That work affords me a great deal of dollars a week there and have lost over closely with the U.S. Army and State autonomy in exchange for applying 4,000 lives. Thus, an opportunity to Department national leadership at the sound judgment on a daily basis. In honor U.S. sacrifices by helping Iraqis Embassy in Baghdad. many ways, this mirrored my work as stabilize their country through the rule an RLA in Iraq, where I also led a team of law was an outstanding assignment. What Iraqi organizations did Sustainable and fair criminal-justice you work the closest with—the and managed multiple complex projects simultaneously. Often, all I had by way institutions are the hallmark of a truly courts, government, military, democratic society. police? of contact with headquarters was a satellite phone to communicate with the I returned to my work as an Assistant My team and I worked with the top Department of Justice from the desert. U.S. Attorney admiring the U.S. system provincial leaders in Kirkuk’s judiciary, Finally, my work as an assistant U.S. of criminal justice more than ever. Every the Iraqi Army, the Iraqi Police, and attorney has instilled in me a deep sense day, cases are investigated, prosecuted, the corrections system. My team and of public service and a sense of duty adjudicated, and people are convicted I worked particularly close with the before self, which was fundamental for or acquitted. All of this takes place Kirkuk Major Crimes Unit, the lead anti- withstanding the daily challenges in Iraq. seamlessly without killings, bombings, terrorism Iraqi investigative agency in the Being a UC Davis School of Law alum or threats to justice institutions and province. We also worked with political is a big reason for my having accepted personnel. In Iraq, leaders, such as the provincial governor this detail. King Hall truly instilled in these attacks on and provincial council chairman in me a sense of public service. I was a the rule of law are order to secure political support for my Public Interest Law Scholar. Beyond commonplace. In the team’s work. On a national level, we that, outstanding professors such as U.S., our collective worked with the Chief Justice of Iraq, Kevin Johnson, Diane Marie Amann, and and unshakable who administers the country’s judges and Edward Imwinkelried all made the law belief in the rule courts. My assignment was very diverse. “come alive” for me as a tool of important of law makes It included a mix of criminal justice and legal and social development in the our experience diplomatic functions. One day, I might criminal-justice arena. Professor Floyd possible. be riding in a humvee in full-body armor Feeney’s seminar on comparative criminal through the desert. The next, I might be meeting with Iraq’s Chief Justice dressed in a business suit, discussing judicial- capacity in Kirkuk. the Wildlife Conservation Board, the California Ocean Protection Council, and the Legislative Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism. Prior to his election to the State Senate, Steinberg served three terms representing the 9th District of the State Assembly. He is the author and co-proponent of Proposition 63, the mental health initiative that was approved by more than 5.6 million California voters in 2004. Assembly Member Charles M. Calderon ’75 Charles Calderon has authored landmark legislation that reflects a deep commitment to his community and improving the quality of life for all Californians. In 1982, Calderon was first elected to the California State Assembly, where he served with distinction as the first Latino lawyer in the State Assembly. In 1990, he was elected to the State Senate, where he became the first Latino Majority Leader. In 2006, Calderon was re-elected to serve in the California State Assembly representing the 58th Assembly District. He chairs the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee, and sits The State Legislative branch establishes the laws that will represent and protect all on the Governmental Organization, Californians. That’s not always easy. California is a diverse state both culturally and Insurance; and Water, Parks and Wildlife geographically. It is also the third largest state in the nation, the most populous, and Committees. ranks as one of the top 10 economies in the world. He has been a leader on issues of Considering that the California State legislature—80 Assembly members and 40 crime, education, the environment, Senate members—represents over 37 million people, each member’s role and vote health care, and disaster relief. His significantly impacts the people, state, and nation. legislative history includes the innovative It’s not surprising to those in the UC Davis School of Law community that a number Drug Dealer Liability Act, which holds of alumni and friends are and have served in the California Legislature. For over 40 drug dealers financially responsible years, King Hall has prepared students for leadership by enriching the law school for the harm caused by the drugs they experience with a sense of community and a belief in serving that community. sell. He was responsible for closing the Monterey Park Dump, a location Senator Darrell Steinberg ’84 Darrell Steinberg is one of California Legislature’s leading voices on mental infamously referred as “Witches Brew” by health, environmental, and land-use policies. He was selected as the State Senate’s the EPA. He was responsible for ensuring next President pro Tempore. Applauding the selection, Lieutenant Governor John that mammographies were mandatory in Garamendi said, “California’s Democratic Senators made an excellent choice in selecting every health insurance policy in the state. Darrell Steinberg as the next leader of the Legislature’s upper house. Senator Steinberg is California Assembly Member a distinguished public servant who will lead our caucus well.” Pedro I. Nava ’77 Steinberg was elected in 2006 to the Senate to represent the 6th District. He chairs Pedro Nava is a leading voice in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. He also serves on the Judiciary, the call for increased readiness among Health, Environmental Quality, Appropriations, and Budget and Fiscal Review government agencies and California’s Committees; and the Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Resources. Steinberg also chairs families and communities. Elected to the Senate Select Committee on High School Graduation. In addition, he is a Senate the State Assembly to represent the appointee to the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, 35th Assembly District in 2004, Nava currently chairs the Banking and Finance

24 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 school dropout law in California’s history. He also co-authored legislation creating the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the unprecedented California Clean Drinking Water Act. In 1996, he became “It is the duty of a Senator to guard the liberty of the Commonwealth” chair of the California Democratic Party, Motto of the California State Senate the first Latino to hold this post. Former Assembly Member Elihu M. Harris Jr. ‘72 Elihu Harris has a long history of distinguished public service in the East Bay and California. He was a member “It is the duty of the legislators to pass just laws” of the State Assembly from 1978-90. He Motto of the California State Assembly chaired the Audit Committee and was a member of the Transportation, Health, Committee and the Joint Committee that California received its fair share of Labor, and Ways and Means Committees, on Emergency Services and Homeland federal dollars for state programs. Elected and the subcommittee on Education. Security. In addition, he is a member of in 2000, Frommer wasted no time in He then served as the 32nd mayor of the Appropriations, Environmental Safety making his mark, having 25 bills signed the City of Oakland from 1991-99, and Toxic Materials; and Water, Parks into law during his first term—the best where he created a wide range of city and Wildlife Committees; and the Select record of any freshman legislator. As programs that benefited the community, Committee on Ports. Nava also serves on chair of the Assembly Health Committee, and oversaw a budget of $600 million the California Ocean Protection Council, Frommer cracked down on price and the restructuring of city departments which is charged with coordinating and gouging by hospitals, enacted California’s and agencies. He now serves as the improving protection and management of landmark Continuity of Care Law, and Chancellor of the Peralta Community California’s ocean and coastal resources; championed expanding health care College District in Oakland, California. the Little Hoover Commission, an coverage for California families. He also independent state oversight agency that authored the Urban Parks Act of 2001, Assembly Member Lois Wolk, works to promote economy, efficiency, the state’s first program to help local Friend of UC Davis School of Law and improved services in the transaction communities acquire and build new Lois Wolk has earned a reputation of the public business; and the California neighborhood parks. as a problem solver. Representing the Emergency Council, which serves He says, “Public interest law has been 8th Assembly District since 2002, she as the official advisory body to the a core focus at King Hall from its very has tackled difficult issues, including Governor during times of emergency first days. The School’s proximity to the transportation, education, health, and on matters pertaining to emergency State Capitol, the outstanding faculty, and housing, human services, political preparedness. its commitment to public interest law reform, public safety, environmental Nava has participated in numerous programs makes UC Davis an ideal place protection, and flood management. hearings dealing with California’s for students with an interest in public Wolk currently serves as chair of emergency preparedness system. He service.” the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife is a signatory on the Little Hoover Committee and is leading efforts to Former Senator and Assembly provide greater flood protection to the Commission’s report “Safeguarding the Member Arthur A. Torres ’71 Central Valley and Sacramento-San State: Preparing for Catastrophic Events,” Art Torres served 20 years in the Joaquin Delta region. which raised concerns over the ability of State Legislature, eight as an Assembly She says, “King Hall has made the state to prepare for and respond to Member and 12 as a State Senator. As countless contributions to this region major disasters. chairman of the Insurance Committee, he and the State of California. In addition fostered a balance between industry and Former Assembly Member and to preparing the legal leadership for this Assembly Majority Leader consumer concerns. During his legislative state’s agencies, the legislature, and the Dario J. Frommer ’92 tenure, he was also chairman of the judiciary system, the School also has a During three terms representing Assembly Health Committee, Senate Joint long history of instilling in its students, the 43rd Assembly District in the State Committee on Science and Technology, alumni, and professors the importance Legislature, Dario Frommer earned a and Senate Committee on the of playing an active role in one’s reputation as an innovative leader on Entertainment Industry. Some of Senator community—not only professionally, but health care reform, the environment, Torres’ legislative successes include through public service.” corporate governance, and ensuring creating the most successful anti-high

COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 25 Professor of Law Floyd Feeney Awarded the William and Sally Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award

26 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 Floyd Feeney, the Homer G. and a Root-Tilden Scholar and editor-in-chief 1995-1996. He helped establish the Ann Berryhill Angelo Professor of Law of the Law Review. “Teaching was the School of Law’s LL.M. program, which and director of the Law School’s LL.M. furthest thing from my mind.” The NYU attracts judges and lawyers from all over Program, was honored at the 29th Annual law school dean encouraged Feeney to the world, and he now serves as the Recognition Celebration, April 4, 2008, consider a career in academia, and after program’s director. for his teaching excellence, passion, and graduating in 1960, and clerking for Feeney believes there is a lot to be commitment to his students. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, learned by seeing how other countries Law students taking his criminal law Feeney chose to teach—although he approach problems, “Having had the classes quickly discover that Professor adds, “I think it would have been fun to opportunity to see some of this first hand, Feeney is a dedicated and demanding try some more cases.” I am even more convinced that both our teacher. “You know it’s wise to come to After joining the UC Davis School country and others have a lot to learn by class prepared,” a student says. of Law faculty in 1968, Feeney served comparing experiences and ideas.” Feeney is noted for engaging students as the executive director of the Center This approach applies to Feeney’s and connecting them to critical material of Administration of Criminal Justice students. While working in his office, by asking creative questions that go until 1986. In 1986 he, for the first he leaves his door open. He stops in the beyond eliciting facts from cases or time, received the School’s Distinguished halls to talk with students. A student reciting case holdings. He pushes his Teaching Award. Recognized as a says, “Professor Feeney provides the type students to think about the applications founding faculty member of the School, of personal interaction that is so rare and of case laws and the implications of Feeney says, “UC Davis has been blessed so valuable.” statutes. He also encourages students to from the beginning with great teachers.” An accomplished international go on “police ride-alongs” to experience While Feeney admits that what goes on scholar with interests in criminal law and the real-world implications of the law. in the classroom now may look quite election law, Feeney has authored eight In seminars, he’s staged German trials different from earlier days, especially books and numerous articles. He has so students will more fully comprehend because of technology, he says that the taught and lectured in China, Germany, the differences in the German and U.S. basic concepts of good teaching have Italy, Japan, Mexico, and the United criminal justice systems. not changed. “One of the secrets of good Kingdom. He has served as consultant “We all learn in different ways,” teaching is to draw on the skills and or advisor to the National Institute of Feeney says. “Experiencing something talents that one has.” Justice, the National Center for State in person is certainly one of the more One of Feeney’s great skills is his Courts, the British Home Office, the powerful ways of gaining knowledge and knowledge of international criminal California Legislature, the American Bar perspective. Even mock activities help justice systems. In 2004, he was named Association’s European and Eurasian Law one see the situation from someone else’s the Homer G. and Ann Berryhill Angelo Initiative, the Police Foundation, and perspective. This is, I believe, a critical Professor for International Legal and numerous individual criminal justice skill.” Communication Studies. He was a agencies. He has received awards from Feeney wasn’t planning on becoming Fulbright Professor of Law at the the National Institute of Justice and a professor while attending New York University of Augsburg (Germany) in the California Probation, Parole, and University School of Law, where he was Correctional Association.

Professor Floyd Feeney has been there Your dedication to learning and your for students, faculty, and alumni of compassion for your students—which King Hall for decades. His exceptional generously extends beyond our time at scholarship and teaching excellence is King Hall—serves as a constant example more than equaled by his generosity of true scholarship. Thank you for teaching and kindness. He has made the King me that the Socratic method is a necessary Hall experience a more rewarding one evil, that brilliant lawyers can be humble for our community. and kind, and that friendship is enduring. - James F. Smith, Congratulations!! Director Emeritus, Immigration Law Clinic - Rebecca A. Gardner ’03

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Lifetime Giving The following lifetime giving The Honorable Trena H. Burger-Plavan ’78 & Mr. Frank P. Plavan, Jr. ’72 societies represent individuals and organizations that have Ellison, Schneider & Harris L.L.P. chosen to support the Law School in significant ways. Eileen M. Feild Fenwick & West LLP Tom W. ’75 & Meg S. Stallard PLATINUM SOCIETY Diane E. Flanagan Zipperstein ’83 & Steven ($1,000,000 & ABOVE) Professor David A. Traill E. Zipperstein ’83 William & Inez Mabie Family Foundation Sue R. Wilkins Anna E. Foulk Margaret M. Foulk Samuel S. Foulk † ’80 GOLD LEGACY SOCIETY BENEFACTOR Thelma H. & Hiroshi Kido ($500,000 - $999,999) ($50,000 - $99,999) † Rachel Krevans ’84 Philip G. ’75 & Jennifer A. Satre Professor Emeritus Homer G. Angelo & Ms. Ann Berryhill Angelo† Sally L. Lake ’77 & William R. Crawford Marc A. ’83 & Christine A. Beilinson Carol L. ’80 & Gene G. Livingston CENTURY CLUB Stephen F. ’72 & Linda T. Boutin Steven N. ’74 & Susan Machtinger ($100,000 - $499,999) William N. Brieger ’85 & Sarah Krevans Mae Lee Estate Joseph E. Bernstein ’74 Gordon K. & Carolyn S. Davidson Joseph S. Melchione ’74 Charles A. ’73 & Charlotte S. Bird Patrick W. ’74 & Allison Emery Mary Beth S. Rehman Dittu Professor James P. Chandler ’70 & Dr. Maximilian & Martha Koessler Estate Paul C. ’75 & Carla P. Rosenthal Ms. Elizabeth Chandler Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard Scaife Family Foundation Nancy S. Coan Torres ’86 & Scott H. McNutt ’82 & Anne J. Schneider ’76 Michael A. Torres Lee Manus McNutt Kelly Shea ’05 & Trevor Foster Dr. Julita A. Fong Carmen P. O’Rielly Estate Joan H. Story ’77 & Robert F. Kidd ’77 Ford Foundation Thom R. ’73 & Ginger Schuttish Professor Emerita Martha S. West Russell D. Jura ’74 James R. ’72 & Linda Woods Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation PATRON Bruce R. ’74 & Anne T. Worthington Clement J. ’75 & Melinda Kong in honor of Stuart R. Korshak ’75 ($25,000 - $49,999) Professor Emeritus Richard C. Wydick & Ms. Judith J. Wydick Law School Admission Council American Law Institute Dean Rex R. Perschbacher & Robert D. Bacon ’76 Professor Debra Lyn Bassett ’87 Thank you to all alums, students, faculty, staff, and Professor Emeritus Edward L. Barrett, Jr. friends who generously support King Hall through Mark Perry ’80 & Melanie Peña Professor Emeritus Florian Bartosic & private donations. Your gifts are greatly appreciated William A. & Sally Rutter Ms. Alberta Chew and make a difference for the future of our School.

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The Dean’s Leadership Circle recognizes donors who the Dean, guest speakers, and VIP receptions. Members make leadership-level gifts ($2,500 or more) to the Law will also receive preferred seating for all special School on an annual basis. Members of the Circle receive lectures and will be recognized prominently in King special announcements and invitations to exclusive Hall and the King Hall Counselor. receptions and special events, including: forums with

Mark S. ’87 & Aynah V. Askanas Dr. Maximilian & Martha Koessler Estate Michael A. Van Horne ’75 Robert D. Bacon ’76 Hyong S. ’89 & Jean K. Koh Verizon Foundation Marc A. ’83 & Christine Beilinson Clement J. ’75 & Melinda Kong in honor of Professor Emerita Martha S. West Joseph Bernstein ’74 Stuart R. Korshak ’75 Sue R. Wilkins Charles A. ’73 & Charlotte S. Bird Rachel Krevans ’84 Sharon R. Wilson MD & Marci Hoze Boutin Dentino Gibson Di Giusto & Professor Leslie A. Kurtz James R. ’72 & Linda Woods Hodell Inc. Carolyn B. Langenkamp ’79 Bruce R. ’74 & Anne T. Worthington Stephen F. ’72 & Linda T. Boutin Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP Andrew H. Wu ’89 Arthur ’70 & Katheryn Chinski Steven N. ’74 & Susan Machtinger Nancy S. Coan Torres ’86 & Steven C. ’86 & Rhonda D. Malvey 21st Century Club Michael A. Torres John A. ’79 & Mary Lou Micheaels Liliane Corzo ’90 Lynn A. Miyamoto ’86 & The following donors have provided for Gordon K. & Carolyn S. Davidson Kevin B. Kroeker ’86 the UC Davis School of Law through DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Brad Nelson ’79 bequests and other planned gifts. Professor Holly D. Doremus & Occidental Petroleum Charitable Wayne A. ’71 & Jacque A. Bartholomew Mr. Gordon E. Anthon Foundation David M. Blackman ’72 Patrick W. ’74 & Allison Emery Katy I. ’98 & David Orr Gina E. Dronet ’79 Fenwick & West LLP The Honorable Elizabeth L. Perris ’75 Ronald P. Erickson ’74 Gregg M. Ficks ’90 Mark Perry ’80 & Melanie Peña David D. Hicks ’72 Diane E. Flanagan Zipperstein ’83 Dean Rex R. Perschbacher & & Steven E. Zipperstein ’83 Professor Debra Lyn Bassett ’87 The Honorable Joan K. Irion ’79 & Mr. Jon M. Seitman The Fletcher Jones Foundation Paul C. ’75 & Carla P. Rosenthal Professor Margaret Z. Johns ’76 Stephen T. ’70 & Joy W. Frank William A. & Sally Rutter Professor Lisa R. Pruitt Daniel C. ’84 & Ann O. Girard Philip G. ’75 & Jennifer A. Satre William A. & Sally Rutter Martin & Beverly Glick Linda Schilling ’87 & William J. Rosoff Judith Strum Schuler ’73 Bruce J. Hagel ’74 & Debra L. Price Thom R. ’73 & Ginger Schuttish Tom W. ’75 & Meg S. Stallard David L. Hyman ’80 & Farah Jimenez Kelly Shea ’05 & Trevor Foster William R. Strickland ’97 Jackson Lewis LLP The Honorable Nancy Wieben Stock ’76 & Margaret Z. Johns ’76 Mr. Ronald C. Stock ’75 Pledge and gift totals are as of March 27, 2008 Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation Joan H. Story ’77 & Robert F. Kidd ’77 Jim & Susan Tipton COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 29 Preliminary 2007-2008 Gifts received by June 30, 2008, will be credited to your class, and you will be Annual Giving recognized in the Donor Rolls in the fall issue Class Participation of the King Hall Counselor. Help your class raise the bar by giving today! Percentage of alumni making a PPercentageercentage ooff alumni Visit our online giving form at www.law.ucdavis.edu/giving giftgift to King Hall in Fiscal Year making a gigiftft to King Hall 202007-27-2008 as ofof March 2727, 20082008. iinn FiscaFiscall YeYearar 2006-20072006-2007.. and participate in the Forever King Hall program (page 13). There’There’s still time to raise the bar!

30 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 FY 2008 percentages reflect pledge and gift totals as of March 27, 2008. 39th annual 2008 distinguished irving L. neumiller memorial teaching award moot court and recognition competition celebration

COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 31 2008 law review egghead symposium relocation

32 COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 2007 2008 Swearing-in public service ceremony graduation

COUNSELOR • SPRING 2008 33 Alumni Association Board Meetings August 17, Sunday UC Davis Buehler Alumni Center

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