California Western Faculty Highlights – August 2025

Chief Justice Roger Traynor Professor of Law William Aceves

Professor William Aceves was quoted in the Washington Post's "Nvidia, AMD agree to pay U.S. government 15% of A.I. chip sales to China." 

Professor of Law James Cooper 

Professor James Cooper was quoted in TechTarget's article "Thomson Reuters intros agentic AI Deep Research system." 

Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development  and Professor of Law Shawn Fields 
Professor Shawn Fields's latest book, The New Public Safety: Police Reform and the Lurking Threat to Civil Liberties, was published on August 26 by the University of California Press. 

Professor Fields's article, "(Non)Police Brutality," has been published in the Cornell Law Review. 

Legal Writing Professor Joshua Jones 
Professor Joshua Jones spoke at the Western States Regional Legal Writing Conference, hosted by UC Irvine on September 5. The presentation title, "Whatever Happened to Universal Citation?"  discussed the once robust movement to align citation across the jurisdictions. 

Executive Director of the California Western Innocence and Justice Project and Associate Professor of Law Amy Kimpel 
Professor Amy Kimpel was quoted in Legal Newsline's article, "LA Sheriff to pay $14M to man wrongly imprisoned for 40 years for murder."

Professor Kimpel’s article, “Lone Star Lessons,” has been accepted for publication by the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (forthcoming 2026). 

Associate Professor of Law Nancy Marcus 
Professor Nancy Marcus’s article, “The Unconstitutional War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Usurpation Through Obfuscation,” has been accepted for publication by the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights.

Professor Marcus's California Western Law Review article, "The Duty of Manufacturers to Consumers Under California Fraudulent Concealment Law," is now being cited as authority in three different chapters of the Eleventh Edition of the California Law Treatise Witkin, Summary of California Law.

Professor Marcus's ConLawNOW article, "Yes, Alito, There Is a Right to Privacy: Why the Leaked Dobbs Opinion is Doctrinally Unsound," was cited by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a concurring opinion in Allegheny Reprod. Health Ctr. v. Pennsylvania Dep't of Hum. Servs., 309 A.3d 808, 981 n. 223 (Pa. 2024) (Wecht, J., concurring). 

ProFlowers Professor of Internet Studies Professor of Law Brenda Simon 
Professor Brenda Simon presented her research, "Innovation Policy in the Shadow of Decreasing Biodiversity," for the 25th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at DePaul University College of Law on August 8, 2025. 

Professor of Law Kristen van de Biezenbos 
Professor Kristen van de Biezenbos’ Utah Law Review article, “Climate Proof Electricity,” has been reprinted in hardcopy and digital in the Foundation Journal for Natural Resources. 

Professor of Law Spencer Williams  
Professor Spencer Williams’ article, “Layered Alignment,” has been published in the New Hampshire Law Review.

Professor Williams' article, “Contractual Complexity,” has been published in the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.

Professor Williams participated in the Institute for Law & AI (LawAI) and the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University's Workshop on Law-Following AI, August 6-8, 2025.  

Justice Earl Warren Professor of Law Daniel Yeager 
Professor Daniel Yeager’s article, “Discursive Footnotes,” has been accepted for publication by the Duquesne Law Review.