ARCHIVED FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
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.
- ʳܲ“”fǰSports 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 Villanova 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 Villanova 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 TV’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 TV 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.
Andrew Brandt
Published “” forSports Illustratedon May 14.
Published “” forSports Illustratedon May 29.
Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston May 30.
Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston June 4.
Published “” forSports Illustratedon June 12.
Published “” forSports Illustratedon June 26.
Posted “” onThe Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcaston June 26.
Published “” forSports Illustratedon June 28.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” onFront Office Sportson July 1.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” forThe Maggie and Perloff Showon July 2.
David Caudill
Presented “What Type of Expertise Do Judges Possess to Discern Consensus?” virtually at the Cardiff University Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science on May 3.
Presented “Shaken Baby Syndrome: The Medical Consensus” at the Summer Evidence Workshop hosted by Vanderbilt University Law School on May 17.
Presented “Can Judges Discern Scientific Consensus?” at the Summer Evidence Workshop hosted by Vanderbilt University Law School on May 17.
Taught the “Expert Evidence” course at the University of Melbourne Law School from June 5-12.
Presented “Do Courts Find Scientific Truth? – The Defamation Case of Climatologist Michael Mann” virtually at the 16thAnnual Studies in Expertise and Experience Workshop hosted by Cardiff University on June 27.
Steven Chanenson
Organized and presented “Testing Justice: Drug Testing and Community Supervision” symposium at Villanova Law on May 22.
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Presented “From Responsibility to Blameworthiness: Gardner on Criminal Law” at the Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group on June 7.
Guest speaker at the legal theory lecture series event, “Wrongs (and Related Concepts) in Moral, Political and Legal Perspective” hosted by the University College London on June 18.
Organized and moderated second annual “Women in Legal Philosophy” conference hosted by the University of Oxford on June 22.
Amy Emerson
Participated as a panelist in the “Preparing Law Students for AI-Powered Practice” section of the “Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction Conference” (CALIcon) hosted by the University of Washington School of Law on June 13.
Participated as a panelist at “The Moral, Ethical, and Legal Implications of AI in Law Libraries” virtual event hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association on June 20.
Presented “Keep It Simple: Using Plain Language to Communicate Effectively” at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries conference on June 27.
Brett Frischmann
Presented “Tech Design for Online Contracting” at “Solving for X: Toward a Computer Science and Mathematically Informed Law” hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology on February 28.
Presented “Friction-in-Design As/For Governance” at the 2024 Design Solutions Summit hosted by the USC Marshall School of Business Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making on March 11.
Participated in the “Regulating Addictive Design and Legal Challenges” panel at the “Legal Responses to Addictive Technologies: Addressing the Impact of Screens, Social Networks and Online Games on Kids” conference hosted by Seton Hall Law School on April 12.
Presented “Antibiotics: Global Common & Essential Infrastructure for Human Welfare” at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development symposium “Public and Private Cooperation on Global Resilience against AMR” in London on April 18.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” forThe grftf Podcast with Misha Da Vincion April 24.
Presented “Design and Speech” virtually at a Harvard University Berkman Klien Center for Internet & Society workshop on May 6.
Presented “Friction-In-Design Regulation as 21stCentury Time, Place and Manner Restriction” virtually at The Metagov Seminar on May 15.
Presented “Designing Effective Privacy-Preserving Age Verification Systems” at the “Privacy Law Scholars Conference” hosted by Georgetown University Law Center on May 30.
Co-organized and moderated the “Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making” workshop hosted by Malmö University in Malmö, Sweden on June 11.
Guest speaker at “The knowledge gap(s) between experts and lay persons in IT design” seminar hosted by the University of Milan Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication on June 13.
Participated in the Polytechnic University of Turin NEXA Center for Internet and Society’s annual board meeting in Turin, Italy on June 15-16.
Presented “Governing Knowledge Commons Research and Intellectual Property” at the “The Master of Laws in Intellectual Property annual conference hosted by the Polytechnic University of Turin on June 17.
Ann Juliano
In The Media: Interviewed for “” for6 ABCon July 10.
Preston Lim
Posted “” on theTime Immemorialpodcast on June 3.
Presented “Vincent MacDonald and the Growth of Living Tree Constitutionalism” at the “2024 Public Law Conference” hosted by the University of Ottawa Public Law Center on July 4.
Michael Moreland
Participated as a panelist at the “Religious Freedom and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition” roundtable hosted by the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law on January 11.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” onThe Week in Philly from KYW Newsradiopodcast on March 14.
In The Media: Quoted in “” forThe Dispatchon March 25.
Presented “The Authority of Tradition: John Henry Newman and Legal Theory” at the “Christianity and The Common Law: An Irish Perspective” conference in Galway, Ireland on May 8.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” forCBS Newson May 30.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” for6 ABCon May 30.
Joy Mullane
Presented “Clash of the Titans: The Conflicting Tax Policies of Preferring Retirement Savings & Taxing Estates” at the 2024 “Critical Tax Conference” hosted by the University of Florida Levin College of Law on May 11.
Itay Ravid
Presented “Rethinking Criminal Intent in the Algorithmic Age” at the Howard University School of Law Faculty Workshop on March 19.
Participated in the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting in Denver from June 6-7:
- Moderated the Surveillance, Technology and Expanding Punishments section
- Moderated the New Methodological Approaches to Advance and Challenge Longstanding Theories section
- Presented “Can Code Alter Law’s Code?”
- Moderated The Media and the (Distorted?) Popular Imagery of Crime and Violence section
Michael Risch
In The Media: Interviewed for “” onKCBS Radioon April 30.
In The Media: Quoted in “” forBloomberg Lawon May 16.
Participated as a commentator at the “Computer Science & the Law Scholarship Roundtable” hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on May 23.
In The Media: Quoted in “” forLaw 360on May 30.
In The Media: Interviewed for “onKCBS Radioon June 10.
Ana Santos Rutschman
Appointed to chair of the Global Health Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association on March 15.
Published “” inIndiana Law Journal(Vol. 99, Issue 4) on June 3.
Participated as a panelist in the “Patient Rights and Food and Drug Regulatory Responsibility” section at the 47thAnnual “Health Law Professors Conference” hosted by the Temple University Beasley School of Law Center for Public Health Law Research on June 7.
Presented “Vaccine Research and Development as Infrastructure for Pandemic Preparedness” virtually at the University of Copenhagen Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law on June 19.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” forShaye Ganampodcast on June 24.
Published “” forThe Philadelphia Inquireron June 27.
Chaim Saiman
Presented “Arbitrating Pluralism” in the Unbundling Litigation section at the Law & Society Association annual meeting in Denver on June 6.
Moderated the “Competing, Complementing and Obscuring: Law and Religion in Modern Pluralist Countries” section at the Law & Society Association annual meeting in Denver on June 7.
Participated as a panelist at the “Reconnecting: Federal Regulation and the Common Law” roundtable at the inaugural conference of the International Association on Regulation and Governance hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on June 17.
Presented “Religious Concepts in Contractual Interpretation: What America Can Learn from the Anglo-Commonwealth Experience?” at the “Interpretation and Content I” section at the 17thannual “International Conference on Contracts” (KCON XVII) hosted by the University of Bristol Law School on June 21.
Presented “Jewish Law and English Common Law: An American’s Perspective” at the Marble Arch Synagogue in London on June 22.
Tuan Samahon
Presented “Special Purpose Government Disclosure” at the 8thannual “Global Conference On Transparency Research” hosted by the Free University of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium on May 15.
Stephanie Sena
Co-authored “” forThe Nationon June 27.
Christine Speidel
In The Media: Quoted in “” for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging on April 11.
In The Media: Quoted in “” forCBS Newson April 15.
Presented “Disaster Relief Tax Postponements: Litigation Update” to the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation’s Administrative Practice Committee on April 17.
Published theon the development of taxpayer rights within the United States to the Observatory on the Protection of Taxpayers’ Rights (OPTR) for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation on May 17.
Presented “Equitable Tolling of Tax Deadlines” at the IRS and PA Department of Revenue “Working Together” conference on May 30.
In The Media: Quoted in “Senate Taking Steps to Fill Multiple Empty Tax Court Seats” forTax Noteson May 30.
Presented “Fair Procedure in IRS Adjudication” at the 19thAnnual “Junior Tax Scholars Workshop” hosted by the University of Wisconsin Law School on June 29.
Emily Stolzenberg
Published “” inNorth Carolina Law Review Journal(Vol. 102) on May 25.
Presented “Private Law and Intimates’ Obligations” at the “Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference” hosted by the University of Baltimore School of Law on June 17.