UC Press Blog

Author Qian Liu on why she wrote "Leftover Women in China."

Susan Bibler Coutin writes about lawfully protecting immigrants in an inhospitable environment.

How the landscape of debt in the United States has shifted significantly.

Author Pat McCoy on risk sharing and the path to achieving economic well-being for all.

UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.

In this time of rapid evolution, we offer a thoroughly updated and revised fourth edition of our book, "Public Health Law and Ethics: Power, Duty, Restraint" — defining the fields of public health law and ethics for a new generation.

A pedagogy to frame Socratic classrooms in student-centered, skills-centered, client-centered, and community-centered ways.

Read an excerpt from "Beyond the Binary," an exploration of early Hanafi legal thought that reveals early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles.

Unless considerable prisons reforms are made now—like an aggressive 50% reduction in prison population—the next epidemic will provoke calamities similar to COVID-19.

In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this controversial policing experiment.