Professor Bala Selected as UC Davis Public Scholarship Faculty Fellow

Professor Nila Bala has been named a 2024-25 Public Scholarship Faculty Fellow by UC Davis’ Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement. 

As part of the fellowship, Bala will write public scholarship pieces critiquing “civil Miranda” warnings, which inform parents of their rights during child welfare investigations.

Read more about the newest UC Davis Public Scholarship Faculty Fellow cohort here.

Nila Bala joined the faculty at UC Davis School of Law in 2023. Her research focuses on children’s rights and the criminal justice system, as well as emerging technologies. Her recent scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, Boston College Law Review, the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Duke Law and Technology Review, and the New York University Review for Law & Social Change, among other journals. Her essays for broader audiences have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Slate, Newsweek and elsewhere.