Media | Legal Ethics, Local Government, and Labor

Editorials

California Should Not Bar Access to Justice (with Nora Engstrom), Bloomberg Law, August 4, 2022

Clarence Thomas, Jan. 6 and a Tipping Point for Supreme Court Ethics, NBCNews.com, July 17, 2022

Why Are So Many Big U.S. Law Firms Still Doing Work that Boosts Russia?, Slate.com, Apr. 1, 2022

The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense, Slate.com, Oct. 20, 2021

The Lessons from Trump’s ‘Kraken’ Lawyer Sanctions in Michigan, NBCNews.com, Sept. 1, 2021

Hands Off Our Taco Carts! Small Legal Changes Would Protect Vendors (with Doug Smith) Los Angeles Times, Aug. 9, 2021

It’s Time to Consider Sanctions for Trump’s Legal Team (with Nora Freeman Engstrom, David Luban, and Deborah Rhode), Slate.com, Nov. 23, 2020

Inequality, Polarization Undermine Ethical Lawyering, Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 27, 2019

How L.A. Should Grow (with Doug Smith), Los Angeles Times, Mar. 23, 2017, at A13

Doing Well by Doing Better (with Deborah L. Rhode), Supplement to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal: Navigating Change in Pro Bono, November 4, 2009, at 14

Pro Bono: Quantity over Quality? (with Deborah L. Rhode), National Law Journal, July 19, 2010, at 38

Deferral Economics (with Deborah L. Rhode), The American Lawyer, July/August 2010, at 45

Election Is Opportunity to Change City’s Economic Policies, Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 4, 2001, at 6

Events Highlight Need for Campaign‑Finance Reform, Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 26, 2001, at 6

Reports

An Analysis of Measure ULA: A Ballot Measure to Reform Real Estate Transfer Taxes in the City of Los Angeles - local government law

An Analysis of Measure ULA: A Ballot Measure to Reform Real Estate Transfer Taxes in the City of Los Angeles (2022)

Unfinished Business: How Food Regulations Starve Sidewalk Vendors of Opportunity and What Can Be Done to Finish the Legalization of Street Food (2001)

The Vacancy Report: How Los Angeles Leaves Homes Empty and People Unhoused (Report by Strategic Actions for a Justice Economy, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and UCLA School of Law Community Economic Development Clinic, September 2020)

Priced Out, Pushed Out, Locked Out: How Permanent Tenant Protections Can Help Communities Prevent Homelessness and Resist Displacement in Los Angeles County (Report by Public Counsel and UCLA School of Law Community Economic Development Clinic on behalf of Eastside LEADS, July 2019)

Interviews, Podcasts, and Videos

Powerful U.S. Senator Wants Chief Justice Roberts to Testify at Ethics Hearing, CNN International, April 21, 2023

Public Opinion of the Supreme Court Is at an All-Time Law. Justice Thomas’ Ethics Scandal Isn’t Helping, KQED, April 19, 2023 (with Emily Bazelon, The New York Times Magazine; Josh Kaplan, Pro Publica; and Alex Padilla, U.S. Senator)

Law Professor Discussions Public Interest Law, Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 196, April 17, 2023

Can Big Law Be Anti-Racist?, Through the Gale, August 17, 2022

Legal Ethics and the Profession, Lawyer 2 Lawyer: Law News and Legal Topics, January 24, 2020

The Fraud of “Voting Fraud:” A Conversation w/ Scott Cummings, Good Law | Bad Law, November 13, 2020

Equitable Community Planning in LA, Alliance for Community Transit Los Angeles, February 25, 2018

Blogs

A New Realist Perspective on How to Make Law School Better, Legal Profession Jotwell, 2022

How Does Law School Matter in the Pursuit of Public Interest Careers?, Legal Profession Jotwell, December 20, 2019

Comments: Week of October 15, 2018, The Bad, Good Lawyer, New York Magazine, October 14

Are Prosecutors Ethically Responsible for Producing Defender Overload?, Legal Profession Jotwell, November 25, 2020

Cities in the Anti-Global Age?, reviewing Richard Schragger, City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age (2016), Balkinization

The L.A. Ports Strike, On Labor: Workers Unions, and Politics