Brian Soucek is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. He is a graduate of Boston College (B.A., Philosophy and Economics); Columbia University (Ph.D., Philosophy), where he was awarded the Core Preceptor Prize for his teaching; and Yale Law School (J.D.), where he was Comments Editor for the Yale Law Journal and won the Munson Prize for his work in the school’s immigration clinic. Prior to law school, Soucek taught for three years at the University of Chicago, where he was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. After law school, he clerked for the late Mark R. Kravitz, United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and the Hon. Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Soucek’s research and teaching spans constitutional law, particularly Equal Protection and the First Amendment, LGBT rights, asylum/refugee law, civil procedure, and law and aesthetics. His writing has been cited by the Sixth and Seventh Circuits; referenced and excerpted in leading casebooks in Immigration Law, Sexual Orientation Law, and Civil Procedure; discussed by the Wall Street Journal; and honored with the Dukeminier Award from UCLA’s Williams Institute for the year’s best article on sexual orientation and gender identity law. Professor’s Soucek is an elected Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics; he is the Chair-Elect of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Law and Humanities; and he is currently serving as the Vice Chair of the University of California’s systemwide Committee on Academic Freedom.
