ARCHIVED FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
Andrew Brandt
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston May 8.
- Published “” forSports Illustratedon May 13.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston May 14.
- Published “” forSports Illustratedon May 29.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston June 12.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” on92.3 The Fanon June 25.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston June 30.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston July 19.
Doris DelTosto Brogan
- Received the Lifetime Achievement Award at theon June 12.
David Caudill
- Presented “The Consensus Rule and the Problem of Specific Causation” at the Evidence Summer Workshop at Vanderbilt Law School on May 5.
- Published “” in theJournal of Environmental Law and Litigation,Vol. 40 (2025)on May 10.
Steven Chanenson
- Reappointed vice chair of the Corrections System Committee by the Pennsylvania Bar Association on April 22.
- Co-published “” in theInternational Journal of Law, Crime and Justiceon May 29.
Michelle Madden Dempsey
- Presented “Responding to Wrongs” at the London School of Economics & Political Science on May 6.
- Co-organized the Criminal Law & Philosophy Journal Inaugural Conference at the University of York on May 9.
- Discussedat the Virtual Book Manuscript Workshop for Youngjae Lee hosted by Nomos (the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy) on May 12.
- Discussed David Pozen'sThe Constitution of the War on Drugsat the Criminal Law Book Workshop hosted by Ƶ Law on May 16.
- Co-organized thehostedat the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Law on May 30.
- Presented “Accountability for Sexual Wrongdoing” at Truth, Consent, and Power: A Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Law at the University of Oxford on June 26.
Amy Emerson
- Presented “Considering the ABA Standards for Law Libraries” at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco on January 11.
- Presented “Bridging the Justice Gap: Hackathons as Catalysts for Change” virtually at the Canadian Bar Association Access to Justice Week in Alberta on February 6.
Brett Frischmann
- Presented “Advancing Humanism Through Language Technologies” at the Language Technologies for All conference hosted by UNESCO in Paris on February 24.
- Authored the chapter “Common Nonsense about Password Security and the Expert–Layperson Knowledge Gap” in(Cambridge University Press, 2025) published on March 13.
- Co-organized thehosted by Ƶ Law with Todd Aagaard and Ana Santos Ruschman on May 23.
- Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the Privacy Laws Scholars Conference at UCLA School of Law on May 30.
- In the Media: Interviewed byfor segment about US technology laws on June 3.
- Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at theat the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on June 5.
- Presented the keynote at theat thein Pisa, Italy on June 10.
- Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the University of Turin on June 13.
- Attended trustee meeting at the Nexa Center for Internet & Society in Politecnico, Turin, Italy on June 14.
- Participated in the panel “Power, Participation and Heterogeneity in Knowledge Commons” at 20th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons held at the University of Massachusetts on June 17.
Alvin Padilla-Babilonia
- Presented “The Anticolonial Politics of Housing and Land Rights” at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 23.
- Published “” in theMichigan Law Review(Vol. 123, Issue 7) on May 31.
Michael Risch
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byMLexon May 22.
- Presented “The Double Patenting Puzzle” at the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL) Annual Symposium at the University of Houston Law Center on June 6.
- Presented “The Double Patenting Puzzle” at the Tsai Center Patent Scholars Summit hosted by Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law on June 28.
Ana Santos Rutschman
- Presented “The American Asthma Patient” at Stanford Law School BioLaw Conference on May 17.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byBloomberg Lawon May 19.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byLaw360on May 27.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byBloomberg Lawon May 28.
- Presented “Vaccine Misinformation” at the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) 48th Annual Health Law Professors Conference hosted by Boston University School of Law on June 5.
Leslie Book
- Co-published “” forTax Noteson January 27.
- Published “” forThe Hillon February 25.
- Published “”for the Procedurally Taxing blog onTax Noteson March 5.
Andrew Brandt
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston February 11.
- Published“”forSports Illustratedon February 13.
- In the Media: Appeared in “” onThe Rich Eisen Showon February 28.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston March 4.
- Published “” forSports Illustratedon March 10.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston March 20.
- Published “” forSports Illustratedon March 26.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” on97.5 The Fanaticon March 27.
David Caudill
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” on theExcited Utterancepodcast on October 28.
- Presented “Ethical Contours in Perkins-Valdez's Novel,Take My Hand” at Washington & Lee Law and Literature Seminar in Lexington, Virginia on November 1.
- Authored the chapter "Ethics: Law and Literature as an Ethical Enterprise" inElgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature(Edward Elgar Publishing), published on January 9.
Steven L. Chanenson
- Participated in a closed drug sentencing roundtable with the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, DC on November 20.
- Elected co-chair of the, part of the transition committee for Attorney General-Elect Dave Sunday, on January 15.
- Presented “Sentencing Commissions: A Snapshot from the Keystone State” at the New York State Justice Task Force on February 10.
- Presented “What Pennsylvania is Learning From Scandinavia About Corrections” with Jordyn Hyatt ’08 at the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges Midyear Meeting in Pittsburgh on February 21.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” onKYW Newsradioon February 23.
- Presented “The Scandinavian Prison Project: Nordic-Inspired Correctional Reform in Pennsylvania” at the Symposium on Prison Research and Innovation hosted bythe Urban Institute in Washington, DC on March 20.
Michelle Madden Dempsey
- Presented “Sex & Coercion” at the University of California-Irvine Legal Philosophy Seminar on March 26.
- Presented “”virtuallyat theWidener Commonwealth Law ReviewSymposium on April 4.
Michael Moreland
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” by6ABC Philadelphiaon December 1.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “President Biden’s Decision to Pardon His Son”byNBC10 Philadelphiaon December 2.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byNewsweekon January 10.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” byNBC10 Philadelphiaon January 17.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “President Trump’s Historic Comeback” byNBC10 Philadelphiaon January 20.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” forUSA Todayon February 2.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byThe Associated Presson February 10.
Michael Risch
- In the Media: Quoted in“.” byBusiness Insideron January 25.
- Published an amicus brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (en banc) caseEcoFactor v. Googleon January 25.
- In the Media: Interviewed for“” byKCBS Radioon February 7.
Tuan Samahon
- Presented “Special-Purpose Disclosure: Accessing the Government’s X-Files” at the Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law faculty workshop on March 26.
Ana Santos Rutschman
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byThe New York Timeson November 19.
- Published “” in theTexas A&M Journal of Property Law(Vol.11, No. 1)on January 1.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byRolling Stoneon February 23.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byBloomberg Lawon February 28.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byFox47 Newson March 11.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byBloomberg Lawon March 27.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” byMarketWatchon March 27.
Leslie Book
- Presented “Squeezing Blood from Stones” with Christine Speidel on the Marriage, Inequality and the Tax Code panel at Gender and Tax Symposium hosted by the American Tax Policy Institute in Washington, DC on October 18.
Andrew Brandt
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston November 5.
- Published “” forSports Illustratedon November 8.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston November 12.
- Published “” forSports Illustratedon November 22.
- Published “” forSports Illustratedon December 5.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston December 11.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston December 17.
- Published “” forSports Illustratedon December 20.
- Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston December 26.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” onThe Dan Patrick Showon December 31.
Michael Campbell
- Received the Sanford Pfeffer, Esq. Award for distinguished service for the advocacy of older individuals from The Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatrics Society on December 3.
David Caudill
- Presented “Teaching Property Law with Practical Exercises: The Example of Drafting an Easement” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting in San Francisco on January 10.
Michelle Madden Dempsey
- Participated in the jurisprudence panel at the "WestFest" Celebration of Professor Robin West at Georgetown Law Center on October 18.
- Presented “The Normative Force of Precedent” at the Symposium for Philosophical Foundations of Precedent hosted by Notre Dame Law School on October 31.
- Presented “Punishment, Reasons and Regret” at thePunishment for the Greater Goodby Adam Kolber Book Symposium hosted by Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy on November 2.
- Presented “Coercion, Consent and Time” at the Criminal Law Theory Seminar hosted by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law on November 14.
Amy Emerson
- Participated in “An Overview of AI Technology and its Legal Implications” panel at the J. Willard O'Brien American Inn of Court CLE at Ƶ Law on November 12.
- Presented “AI Demystified: Overview of AI and its Impact on Public Interest Law” at Public Interest Law Day 2024 hosted by the Philadelphia Bar Association Public Interest Section on December 3.
Brett Frischmann
- Published an amicus brief in the Supreme Court caseon January 6.
Michael Moreland
- Presented “Friendship and the Life of the Law” at 46th Annual Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars hosted by The Catholic University of America Busch School of Business in Washington, DC on September 27.
- Presented “Newman and Tradition” at a colloquium hosted by the University of Notre Dame Kylemore in Galway, Ireland on October 5.
- Chaired the panel “” at St. John Henry Newman, Tradition and Law conference hosted by The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington, DC on October 18.
- Participated in the “” panel hosted by the Buckley Institute at Yale University on October 23.
Chaim Saiman
- Presented “How do Beth Din's in America Function?” hosted by the Hebrew University Havruta Program in Ein Karem on December 3.
- Presented “” at the Insurance Law Workshop Virtual Speaker Series hosted by the University of Connecticut on December 5.
- Presented “The Beth Din System in Contemporary America” hosted by the Hebrew University Havruta Program in Mt. Scopus on January 2.
Tuan Samahon
- Appointed chair of theby the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on January 1.
Christine Speidel
- Presented “Squeezing Blood from Stones” with Leslie Book on the Marriage, Inequality and the Tax Code panel at Gender and Tax Symposium hosted by the American Tax Policy Institute in Washington, DC on October 18.
Andrew Brandt
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on August 7.
- Published “” for Sports Illustrated on August 14.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” on The Rich Eisen Show on August 15.
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on August 21.
- Published “” for Sports Illustrated on August 26.
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on September 5.
- Published “” for Sports Illustrated on September 12.
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on September 12.
- Published “” for Sports Illustrated on September 24.
David Caudill
- Presented “Religious Aspects of the Crisis of Expertise” at the 2024 Quadrennial Joint Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science in Amsterdam on July 18.
- Presented “Lacan and the Crisis of Expertise: Between Distrust, and Idealization, of Science” at the 2024 International Congress on Law and Mental Health hosted by the University of Barcelona Faculty of Law on July 24.
- Published “Law and Literature Studies as a Basis for High Quality Ethics CLE Programs” in the Journal of Legal Education (Vol. 72 [2024]) on July 24.
- Presented “Legal Ethics in Crime Fiction: The Example of Paretsky's Killing Orders” at the Law and Literature Alumni CLE hosted by the Ƶ Law Alumni Association on August 15.
- Appointed as a visiting academic in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Cardiff, Wales, for the fall semester.
Candace Centeno
- Presented at the 2024 Legal Writing Institute Conference hosted by IU McKinney School of Law on July 17-18:
- “Advocacy in Action: Incorporating Op-Ed/Blog Assignments into Writing and Doctrinal Classes so Students Can Explore How Policies and Laws Impact Underrepresented Groups (and Learn Real-World Skills)”
- “Getting into Governance”
Steven Chanenson
- Published “Into the Weeds: Considering Support for and the Intricacies of Cannabis Legalization in New Jersey” in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law on September 16.
Amy Emerson
- Presented “Generative AI and Ethics in the Practice of Law” with Lori Corso and Deeya Haldar at the Nicholas Cipriani American Inn of Court on September 11.
Brett Frischmann
- Selected as a finalist for the Office of Health Economics’ 2024 Innovation Policy Prize for the proposal, “Antimicrobial Efficacy Within a New Paradigm of Infrastructure: Sustainable Innovation and Supply and Benefits to Environmental Emissions,” in June.
- Presented “Comments on the Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons Project” at the Ninth World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Conference hosted by the Center for Governance and Markets (CGM) at the University of Pittsburgh on September 20.
- Contributed to an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case, on September 23.
- Presented “Governance Seams and the Integrity of Socially Meaningful Contexts” at the 6th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity hosted by Rutgers University on September 27.
- Contributed to the submission of Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemakings to the Office of the New York State Attorney General on September 30:
- (1) Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act
- (2) NY Child Data Protection Act
MarySheila McDonald
- Co-published the case study, “,” for Ivey Publishing on April 10.
- Co-published the case study, “,” for Ivey Publishing on July 3.
Michael Moreland
- Moderated the webinar “A Religious Charter School? A Discussion on the Limits of State Action and Demands of the Free Exercise Clause” sponsored by the Federalist Society on June 25.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “ ” for CBS News Philadelphia on July 1.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” for NBC10 Philadelphia on July 2.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” for Law360 on July 5.
- Moderated the webinar “Free Exercise and Abortion” sponsored by the Federalist Society on August 6.
- Participated in the “” panel at Emerging School Models: Maintaining the Momentum conference hosted by the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University on September 12.
- Served as Ƶ’s delegate at the inauguration of Rev. Robert A. Dowd, CSC, Notre Dame University’s 18th president, on September 13.
- Participated in “Constitution Day: Religious Liberty in the Roberts Court” discussion at Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law on September 19.
Jennifer O’Hare
- Published “” in Florida State Law Review (Vol. 51, Issue 2) on September 1.
- Published “” on the CLS Blue Sky Blog on September 19.
Luke Repici
- Presented “Generative AI in 1L Legal Writing” at the virtual Legal Writing Institute’s New Teacher Training Bootcamp on July 9.
Michael Risch
- In The Media: Interviewed for “TikTok Sharing User Behavior with Chinese Parents”onKCBS Radioon July 28.
Ana Santos Rutschman
- Co-published “” in the Journal of Law and Biosciences on July 8.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” for The Philadelphia Inquirer on July 29.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” for FactCheck.org on August 22.
- Presented “Assessing Patent Pledges: A Case Study in the Vaccine and Biopharma Space” at the IP Colloquium from the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Hofstra Law on September 9.
- Awarded a book contract by Edward Elgar Publishing for a research handbook on intellectual property and health (expected 2027).
- In the Media: Quoted in “” for Agence France Presse – Romania on September 25.
Tuan Samahon
- Moderated “Situation Critical: Executive Disability and the Dangers We Face” as part of the Fall 2024 Election Series hosted by Ƶ on September 25.
Michael Semes
- Published “” for Bloomberg Law on June 27.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” for Law360 on July 15.
- Presented at the Introduction to State and Local Taxation hosted by NYU School of Professional Studies on July 22-23:
- “Sales Taxation of Services and Other Special Problems”
- “The Unitary Business Principle”
- Published “Recent Decisions and Hearing Forecast Future SALT Litigation” for Tax Notes State (Vol. 113, No. 6) on August 5.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” for Bloomberg Tax on September 9.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” for Bloomberg Tax on October 1.
Christine Speidel
- Co-published “” with Les Book in Australian Tax Forum on May 16.
Emily Stolzenberg
- Presented “Toward a Private Law of Intimate Obligations” at the Sixth Annual Nonmarriage Roundtable hosted by the University of Virginia School of Law on September 19.
- Presented “Things of Value” at the Drexel Law Review Symposium: Inheritance and Inequality hosted by Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law on September 28.