Brian Soucek

Brian Soucek is Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Davis School of Law, where he teaches civil procedure, constitutional law, and art law. He has a Ph.D. in the philosophy of art from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to law school, Soucek 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. 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 is a member of the American Association of University Professors’ “Committee A” on Academic Freedom and Tenure. In recent years, he has chaired the University of California’s system-wide Committee on Academic Freedom and the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Law and the Humanities; been a fellow with UC’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement; and served as a trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics. Professor Soucek was elected to the American Law Institute in 2024. His book, The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education, will be published by the University of Chicago Press later this year.