FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
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Faculty Highlights: 2023–24 Vol. 4
Andrew Brandt
Published “” for Sports Illustrated on May 14.
Published “” for Sports Illustrated on May 29.
Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on May 30.
Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on June 4.
Published “” for Sports Illustrated on June 12.
Published “” for Sports Illustrated on June 26.
Posted “” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on June 26.
Published “” for Sports Illustrated on June 28.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” on Front Office Sports on July 1.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” for The Maggie and Perloff Show on 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 16th Annual 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 “” for The grftf Podcast with Misha Da Vinci on 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 21st Century 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 “” for 6 ABC on July 10.
Preston Lim
Posted “” on the Time Immemorial podcast 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 “” on The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio podcast on March 14.
In The Media: Quoted in “” for The Dispatch on 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 “” for CBS News on May 30.
In The Media: Interviewed for “” for 6 ABC on 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 “” on KCBS Radio on April 30.
In The Media: Quoted in “” for Bloomberg Law on 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 “” for Law 360 on May 30.
In The Media: Interviewed for “ on KCBS Radio on 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 “” in Indiana 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 47th Annual “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 “” for Shaye Ganam podcast on June 24.
Published “” for The Philadelphia Inquirer on 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 17th annual “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 8th annual “Global Conference On Transparency Research” hosted by the Free University of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium on May 15.
Stephanie Sena
Co-authored “” for The Nation on 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 “” for CBS News on 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.
In The Media: Quoted in “” for Bloomberg Law on May 16.
Published the on 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” for Tax Notes on May 30.
Presented “Fair Procedure in IRS Adjudication” at the 19th Annual “Junior Tax Scholars Workshop” hosted by the University of Wisconsin Law School on June 29.
In The Media: Quoted in “” for Bloomberg Law on May 16.
Emily Stolzenberg
Published “” in North 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.