Pepperdine Caruso Law Hosts 2024 Southern California Junior Faculty Workshop

Pepperdine Caruso Law organized and hosted the 2024 Southern California Junior Faculty Workshop, which was held on Friday, April 12. The event brought together early-career scholars from Southern California law schools to share works-in-progress and exchange ideas with their peers. All junior faculty members from Southern California law schools were invited to submit proposals based on their draft papers, and the workshop featured presentations by eight faculty members from Chapman University Fowler School of Law, Loyola Law School, Pepperdine Caruso Law, Southwestern Law School, UCLA School of Law, and USC Gould School of Law:

• Public Interest Financial Regulation by Nikita Aggarwal, UCLA School of Law
• The Constitutional Right to Peremptory Challenges in Jury Selection by Richard Jolly, Southwestern Law School
• Absence of Antidiscrimination Accountability in Immigration Law by Carrie Rosenbaum, Chapman University Fowler School of Law
• Data Justice Readiness: An Abolitionist Framework for Tech Clinic Intake by Melodi Dincer, UCLA School of Law
• The Gregg Hypothesis on the Death Penalty: A Window Into the Supreme Court and American History by Mugambi Jouet, USC Gould School of Law
• Ancillary Rights by Jacob Charles, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law
• Courts of Indian Offenses, Courts of Indian Resistance by Alexandra Fay, UCLA School of Law
• Legislating Criminal Justice Reform by Michael Serota, Loyola Law School.

At the workshop, the scholars had the opportunity to present their works-in-progress, receive feedback during peer discussions, and network with other early-career scholars in the region. Pepperdine Caruso Law was pleased to organize and host the workshop, which reflects its strong commitment to advancing scholarly discourse and building scholarly community within the Southern California area.