FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
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2024–25 Vol. 4
Andrew Brandt
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on May 8.
- Published “” for Sports Illustrated on May 13.
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on May 14.
- Published “” for Sports Illustrated on May 29.
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on June 12.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “” on 92.3 The Fan on June 25.
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on June 30.
- Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on July 19.
Doris DelTosto Brogan
- Received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the on 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 the Journal 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 the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice on 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.
- Discussed at 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's The Constitution of the War on Drugs at the Criminal Law Book Workshop hosted by Villanova Law on May 16.
- Co-organized the hosted at 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 the hosted by Villanova 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 by for segment about US technology laws on June 3.
- Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the at the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on June 5.
- Presented the keynote at the at the in 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 the Michigan Law Review (Vol. 123, Issue 7) on May 31.
Michael Risch
- In the Media: Quoted in “” by MLex on 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 “” by Bloomberg Law on May 19.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” by Law360 on May 27.
- In the Media: Quoted in “” by Bloomberg Law on 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.
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