
Faculty in the Media
- August 4, 2025: Professor Amy Kimpel was quoted in Legal Newsline's article, "LA Sheriff to pay $14M to man wrongly imprisoned for 40 years for murder".
- August 4, 2025: Professor James Cooper was quoted in TechTarget's article "Thomson Reuters intros agentic AI Deep Research system".
- July 15, 2025: Professor Amy Kimpel was quoted in the Los Angeles Times article, “He was wrongfully convicted of murder. Now L.A. County will pay him $14 million”.
- July 7, 2025: Professor William Aceves is prominently featured in a recent New York Times article highlighting the U.S. Supreme Court’s continued reliance on burdensome paper filings.
- July 2, 2025: Professor Kenneth Klein was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about states investigating underinsurance among wildfire survivors.
- June 16, 2025: Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp was quoted in the Bloomberg Law Daily Labor Report article, "Punching In: The Labor Department Gets an Education (Program)".
- June 1, 2025: Professor Amy Kimpel was quoted in the San Diego Union Tribune’s “A San Diego Juror Received an Apparent Spam Text. Could It Upend a Hostage-Taking Murder Verdict?”.
- May 28, 2025: Professor Kenneth Klein’s research from “Truth and Consequences: Climate Change, Homeownership, and Underinsurance,” Lewis and Clark Law Review (forthcoming, 2025) was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle.
- May 20, 2025: Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp was quoted in the article "States Caught in Crosshairs of Biden-Era Worker Inspection Suit" published by Bloomberg Law's Daily Labor Report.
- May 13, 2025: Professor James Cooper is quoted in TechTarget’s “Nvida, AMD, others tout AI partnerships with Saudi Arabia.”
- May 12, 2025: Professor William Aceves was a guest speaker for the LAist’s AirTalk podcast episode,“SoCal History: When Los Angeles Gangs Declared a Truce”, as an expert on the Watts Truce.
- March 11, 2025: Professor James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella’s book, A Short and Happy Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers, was featured in TechTarget’s Targeting AI podcast.
- March 6, 2025: Professor Shawn Fields published an op-ed, "How Trump Is Weaponizing Federal Spending Power," in The Hill.
- March 6, 2025: Professor Erin Sheley was quoted in the Times of San Diego article, “Ex-U.S. Attorney: Immigration Order Is Diverting San Diego Feds from Fentanyl, Scam Fight,” on the unusual pivot to nonviolent civil offenses from violent crime.
- February 18, 2025: Professor William Aceves was quoted in the article “Procter & Gamble, Kroger defend diversity policies amid Trump attack on DEI” in Cincinnati Enquirer.
- February 18, 2025: Professor James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella published an op-ed, “Why AI should be a hallmark of US foreign assistance”, in The Hill.
- February 12, 2025: Professor Kristen van de Biezenbos was quoted in the article, “Texas Moves on Renewables While Alberta’s Oil Ties Hold Firm” in The Energy Mix.
- January 30, 2025: Professor Kenneth Klein was quoted in AP News’ “Georgia Gov. Kemp wants to limit lawsuits. But would that keep insurance rates from rising?”.
- January 29, 2025: Professor James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella published an op-ed in USA Today that was featured in Yahoo News and Yahoo News Canada.
- January 28, 2025: Professor James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella published “The U.S. response to Chinese advances in artificial intelligence”, an op-ed The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- January 28, 2025: Professor James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella’s book, A Short and Happy Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers, was featured in Law.com’s The Recorder, “'A Human in the Loop': Authors of Lawyer's Guide to AI”.
- January 28, 2025: Professor James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella’s book, A Short and Happy Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers, was featured in San Diego Business Journal’s Special Report: Law’s “Experts Write a Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers”.
- January 27, 2025: Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp was quoted in Bloomberg Tax’s “Punching In: Biden GCs Remain in Place After Trump's First Week”.
- January 18, 2025: Professor Kenneth Klein commented on reinsurance rates in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires for the "I've Always Wondered" series published on Marketplace.org.
- January 16, 2025: Professor Kenneth Klein made recommendations for homeowners insurance cancellation moratoriums in an article for Prism Reports.
- January 14, 2025: Professor James Cooper was quoted in TechTarget’s “OpenAI faces backlash for its Economic Blueprint for U.S.”.
- December 17, 2024: Professor James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella’s op-ed “Memo to the new czar of artificial intelligence: How to maintain U.S. leadership”, was published in the Los Angeles Daily News and 12 other publications.
- November 27, 2024: Professor Shawn Fields published an op-ed in HuffPost, “The Gaetz Nomination Was Never About Matt Gaetz”.
- November 21, 2024: Professor Kenneth Klein was quoted by Forbes Advisor in “Home Insurance Outlook 2025: Severe Weather, Building Costs Drive Up Premiums”.
- November 21, 2024: Professor Shawn Fields published an op-ed in the San Diego Union Tribune, “If you voted for Trump, how can you claim to care about women?”
- November 21, 2024: Professor Shawn Fields published an op-ed in Newsweek, “Biden Wanted to Be a Transformative Historical Figure. Instead, He Will Be a Footnote”.
- November 1, 2024: Professor Glenn Jones’ article, "Implementing ABA Standard 303(B)(3): Positive Legal Education Through A Community Of Inquiry" (published in Vermont Law Review) was quoted in TaxProf Blog.
- November, 2024: Professor Kenneth Klein’s 2023 article, "The Case for Pausing Any Immediate Embrace of the Social Inflation Argument for Legal System Reforms", (published in the Journal of Insurance Regulation) was quoted in USA Today’s “What to do if you can’t get insurance in Florida”.
- October 25, 2024: Professor Kristen van de Biezenbos was quoted in the Globe & Mail's article comparing the use of fossil fuels vs. renewables in Texas and Alberta.
- October 17, 2024: Professor James Cooper and his co-author, Kashyap Kompella, published an op-ed entitled “El imperativo de la inteligencia artificial para los sistemas jurídicos de América Latina (The imperative of artificial intelligence for Latin American legal systems)” in EstadioDiario.com.
- October 8, 2024: Professor Kenneth Klein was quoted in a Financial Advisor article regarding American flood insurance.
- September 12, 2024: Professor Kenneth Klein was quoted in “Study Stirs Debate on Real Impact of Litigation, Fraud on Property Insurance” in the Insurance Journal.
- August 16, 2024: Professor James Cooper was quoted in “Nvidia Slapped With Class Action by YouTube Creators for Using Content to Train AI Software,” published on Law.com.
- August 15, 2024: Professor Kristen van de Biezenbos appeared on the Canadian Global Affairs Institute’s Energy Security Cubed Podcast, speaking about the challenge of balancing local environmental considerations and the larger issues of energy security and climate change.
- August 14, 2024: Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp was quoted extensively in Bloomberg Law’s “Business Concerns Loom Over California’s Indoor Worker Heat Rule.”
- August 5, 2024: Professor Erin Sheley was quoted in “Girardi's Defense May Stand On His Deteriorating Mind”, published by Law360, shedding insight on the trial of disbarred lawyer Tom Girardi.
- July 29, 2024: Professor Kenneth Klein was quoted in the NBC Washington article, “Homeowners insurance premiums rose 21% last year. Climate change is partly to blame, experts say,” offering insight on how climate disasters create significant increases in insurance premiums.
- July 17, 2024: Professor Nancy Marcus was quoted extensively in the Metro UK article, “Ten years on from the killing of Eric Garner, has anything changed?”, discussing efforts in the United States “to restructure the use of police force.”
- July 17, 2024: Professor Kristen van de Biezenbos was quoted in the article “Ottawa will invest in expanding interprovincial electricity grid but only if provinces are interested,” published by Research Money Inc.
- July, 2024: Professor Glenn Smith was featured on ABC 10News in San Diego in a segment entitled, “Constitutional Law Expert Breaks Down Biden's Call for Supreme Court Reform,” discussing President Biden’s proposed changes to the Supreme Court, including term limits and a code of ethics.
- June 28, 2024: Professor William Aceves was cited in the San Diego Union Tribune article entitled “The U.S. Supreme Court just gave cities more power to clear homeless camps. What does that mean for San Diego County?”