Professor Brian Soucek

Brian Soucek is Professor of Law and Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Davis School of Law. Before coming to Davis in 2013, Professor Soucek 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. He previously taught for three years in the Humanities Collegiate Division and Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago, where he was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.

At Davis, Professor Soucek has taught Constitutional Law II: Equal Protection and the First Amendment; Civil Procedure; Antidiscrimination Law; Asylum and Refugee Law; Art Law; and an undergraduate First Year Seminar on Free Expression.

Professor Soucek is currently a member of the American Association of University Professors’ “Committee A” on Academic Freedom and Tenure. He has previously chaired the University of California’s system-wide Committee on Academic Freedom, been selected as a fellow with UC’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, led the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Law and the Humanities, and served a three-year term as trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics.

Professor Soucek is currently finishing a book, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2025, entitled The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education.