Brian Soucek

Brian Soucek is Acting Professor and Martin Luther King Jr. Hall Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law, where he teaches and writes about antidiscrimination law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and refugee/asylum law. Professor Soucek’s articles on U.S. asylum and refugee law include Social Group Asylum Claims: A Second Look at the New Visibility Requirement, 29 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 337 (2010), which has been cited by the Sixth Circuit in Umaña-Ramos v. Holder, 724 F.3d 667, 672 n.1 (6th Cir. 2013) and excerpted in Martin, Aleinikoff, Motomura, and Fullerton’s Forced Migration Law and Policy (2d ed.); Copy-Paste Precedent, 13 J. App. Prac. & Process 153 (2012), which was discussed by the Wall Street Journal; and, most recently, The Last Preference: Refugees and the 1965 Immigration Act, a chapter in Gabriel J. Chin and Rose Cuison Villazor’s collection The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America (Cambridge University Press 2015). Professor Soucek’s work in antidiscrimination law received UCLA’s Dukeminier Award, honoring the best sexual orientation and gender identity law review articles of 2014.

Professor Soucek is a graduate of Yale Law School and Columbia University, where he received his PhD in Philosophy in 2006. He clerked for the late U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz and the Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.