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Faculty in the Media


  • 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 James Cooper and co-author Kashyap Kompella published an op-ed, “Why AI should be a hallmark of US foreign assistance”, in The Hill.
  • 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’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”.
  • 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 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 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.
  • 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 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, 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.