USD School of Law Professor Mila Sohoni Presents Paper at Duke Law School and UCLA Law School

Professor Mila Sohoni Presents Paper at Duke Law School and UCLA Law School

San Diego (February 14, 2017) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law Professor Mila Sohoni presented a paper titled "On Dollars and Deference: Agencies, Spending, and Economic Rights” at Duke Law School in North Carolina.

Sohoni’s presentation formed part of the 47th Annual Administrative Law Symposium hosted by the Duke Law Journal. The symposium is intended to engage in yearly commentary on the developments in the field of federal administrative law. Sohoni was not only a presenter but also a co-organizer of the symposium, which drew luminaries in the field including Kerry Abrams, Sam Bagenstos, Kris Collins, Olati Johnson, Nina Mendelson, Gillian Metzger, Eloise Pasachoff, Bertrall Ross, and Karen Tani. The keynote was given by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Commissioner Chai Feldblum. Professor Sohoni’s paper will be published in May 2017 in the Duke Law Journal.

Sohoni subsequently presented the paper at the UCLA Law School's faculty colloquium in March 2017. 

About Associate Professor Sohoni

Professor Sohoni's scholarship focuses on administrative law, federal courts, legislation and health law.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

The University of San Diego (USD) School of Law is recognized for the excellence of its faculty, depth of its curriculum, and strength of its clinical programs. Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 35th nationally and 6th on the West Coast among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 24th nationally and 6th on the West Coast in all-time faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, nonprofit, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.