UCLA Law Experts Available to Discuss U.S. Supreme Court Cases on the Docket during the Final Months of the High Court's Current Term.

LOS ANGELES -- As the U.S. Supreme Court enters the final months of its current term, the justices will have several important cases on their docket to decide. The following UCLA School of Law professors are available throughout the months of May and June for interviews regarding many of those cases, including:

Employment (Ledbetter, Lilly v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.): Whether a plaintiff asserting a disparate pay claim under Title VII against an employer that periodically reviewed and re-established her pay under a facially neutral compensation system may challenge pay decisions prior to the last decision immediately preceding the start of the statutory limitations period?

Noah Zatz: Zatz, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, studies employment and labor law, welfare law and antipoverty policy, work/family issues and feminist legal theory. Before entering law teaching, Zatz was awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) in New York City. Zatz also clerked for Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of New Mexico School of Law. To interview Zatz, please call [phone].

Jurisdiction (Powerex Corp. v. Reliant Energy Services, Inc., et al.): Whether petitioner, which is wholly owned by the Canadian Province of British Columbia, is entitled to the protections of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and whether the court of appeals had jurisdiction to review the district court's remand order.

Kal Raustiala: Raustiala, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, is a member of the American Society of International Law and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has recently written the chapter, "The Evolution of Territoriality: International Relations and American Law," in Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006). To interview Raustiala, call him directly at [phone].

Environment (United States v. Atlantic Research Corp.): Whether a party can recover costs from another potentially responsible party to clean up a hazardous waste site before some legal action is taken against the first party. This case deals with Section 107 of the Superfund.

Sean Hecht: Hecht, lecturer in law and executive director of the Environmental Law Center at UCLA School of Law, co-directs school's Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic and the activities of the Evan Frankel Law and Policy Program, which include research and education on governance, regulation and environmental policy. He has also taught a course in public natural resources law. To interview Hecht, call him directly at [phone].

Environment (National Association of Home Builders, et al. v. Defenders of Wildlife, et al.): Whether a court can append additional criteria to Section 402(b) of the Clean Water Act that requires state National Pollution Elimination Discharge System programs to include protections for endangered species?

Ann Carlson: Carlson, professor of law and co-director of the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic, focuses her scholarship on important constitutional questions affecting environmental law and policy, including standing, federalism and preemption, as well as on the role social norms play in affecting environmentally cooperative behavior. To interview Carlson, call her directly at [phone].

Campaign Spending (Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life): Whether the three-judge district court erred in holding that the federal statutory prohibition on a corporation's use of general treasury funds to finance "electioneering communications" is unconstitutional as applied to three broadcast advertisements that appellee proposed to run in 2004.

Daniel Hays Lowenstein: Lowenstein, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, served as chairman of the official "No on Prop. 77" committee, which opposed California's November 2005 reapportionment/ redistricting initiative. He has represented members of Congress in litigation regarding reapportionment and the constitutionality of term limits. To interview Lowenstein, call him directly at [phone]. (Professor Lowenstein will be absent frequently in June.)

Eugene Volokh: Volokh, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, is a nationally recognized constitutional law expert whose scholarship focuses on the First Amendment, cyberspace law, harassment law and gun control. He teaches courses in free speech, copyright, firearms regulation and the law of government and religion. To interview Volokh, call him directly at [phone].

Adam Winkler: Adam Winkler is a specialist in American constitutional law. His wide-ranging scholarship has touched upon a diverse array of topics such as the right to vote, corporate free speech rights, campaign finance law, affirmative action, judicial independence, constitutional interpretation, and the right to bear arms. To interview Winkler, call him directly at [phone].

Foreign Sovereigns (Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, et al. v. New York City): Whether a suit to recover unpaid property taxes imposed on property owned by a foreign sovereign and to declare the validity of a tax lien arising out of those unpaid taxes falls within the immovable property exception to the general rule of immunity in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976.

Kal Raustiala: Raustiala, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, a member of the American Society of International Law and the Council on Foreign Relations, has recently written the chapter, "The Evolution of Territoriality: International Relations and American Law," in Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006). To interview Raustiala, call him directly at [phone].

Race and Education (Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education): To what extent public schools can use race in deciding school assignments.

Russell Robinson: Robinson, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, focuses his current scholarly and teaching interests in antidiscrimination law, law and psychology, and media and entertainment law. One of his forthcoming publications is "Casting and Caste-ing: Reconciling Artistic Freedom and Antidiscrimination Norms" (California Law Review, 2006). To interview Robinson, call him directly at [phone].

Jonathan Varat: Jonathan Varat teaches Constitutional Law I & II, Federal Courts, and Separation of Powers. He was awarded the School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1990. Professor Varat is co-author of a major constitutional law casebook, Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (with Cohen & Amar, 2005), and is an expert on federal courts. His scholarship focuses particularly on constitutional federalism. To interview Varat, please call him directly at [phone].

Eugene Volokh: Volokh, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, is a nationally recognized constitutional law expert whose scholarship focuses on the First Amendment, cyberspace law, harassment law and gun control. He teaches courses in free speech, copyright, firearms regulation and the law of government and religion. To interview Volokh, call him directly at [phone].

Adam Winkler: Adam Winkler is a specialist in American constitutional law. His wide-ranging scholarship has touched upon a diverse array of topics such as the right to vote, corporate free speech rights, campaign finance law, affirmative action, judicial independence, constitutional interpretation, and the right to bear arms. To interview Winkler, call him directly at [phone].

First Amendment (Morse, Deborah, et al. v. Frederick, Joseph): Whether the First Amendment allows public schools to prohibit displaying messages promoting the use of illegal substances at school sponsored, faculty-supervised events.

Eugene Volokh: Volokh, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, is a nationally recognized constitutional law expert whose scholarship focuses on the First Amendment, cyberspace law, harassment law and gun control. He teaches courses in free speech, copyright, firearms regulation and the law of government and religion. To interview Volokh, call him directly at [phone].

Patents (Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp.): Whether a software object code can be a component of a patented invention of the Patent Act that prohibits the supply from the United States of all or a substantial portion of the components of a patented invention in such manner as to actively induce the combination of such components outside of the United States.

Neil Netanel: Netanel teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. Professor Netanel received his B.A. from Yale University (1976), J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law (1980), and J.S.D. from Stanford University (1998). To interview Netanel, contact him directly at [phone].