Awards & Appointments
| Professor Ann Lacquer Estin was appointed an associate reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Third, Conflict of Laws, with primary responsibility for the family law sections of the project. |
| Professor Andy Grewal was elected a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, an elite group of America’s top tax attorneys who have made remarkable contributions in their field. |
| Professor Chris Odinet was elected as a member of the American Law Institute and accepted as a new member of the European Law Institute, where he served on a drafting committee developing principles for governing transactions involving digital assets. |
| Associate Dean Adrien Wing was named to the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Wing’s service includes six years on the ABA Accreditation Committee and participating on 20 accreditation teams. |
Faculty in Washington, D.C.
| Professor Alison Guernsey testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary on The First Step Act. |
| Professor Derek Muller testified before the Senate Rules Committee, addressing the proposed changes in the Electoral Count Act Reform of 2020. |
| Dean Kevin Washburn testified in the first-ever Congressional Hearing on Tribal Co-Management of Public Lands. Spurred by his scholarship, the hearing examines tribal land dispossession by the U.S. government. |
Scholarships & Grants
| Professor Stella Burch Elias, “Law as a Tool of Terror,” Iowa Law Review (2021). The article explores immigration laws and policies of the United States from January 2017 through January 2021 and the use of immigration law as a tool of terror with expansive legal powers and little oversight or constitutional checks. |
| Professor César Rosado Marzán, “Quasi Tripartism,” University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming). The article describes two recent co-enforcement experiments that generated excitement from labor advocates and two purported sectoral bargaining experiments to evaluate the extent to which tripartism is developing in the United States. |
| Professor Robert Miller, “How Would Directors Make Business Decisions Under a Stakeholder Model?,” Business Lawyer (2022). The article reveals how the stakeholder model uniquely disadvantages shareholders. Instead of being based on normative and rational considerations, many of the decisions made under the stakeholder model tend to be essentially political in nature. |
| Professor Todd Pettys, “Serious Value, Prurient Appeal, and ‘Obscene’ Books in the Hands of Children,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (forthcoming). The article looks at the book censorship controversies of today through First Amendment rights of the government to block books and obscenity cases that have challenged the courts for years. |
| Professor Anya Price, “Beyond the Medical: The ELSI of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits” awarded by the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH (2022). The R01 research grant, with Prince serving as the co-principal investigator, seeks to better under-stand the ethical and social impacts of new technology that can develop scores (sociogenomic PGS) to predict polygenic contributions to complex behaviors and traits. |
“It doesn’t mean [that those with public defense experience] are going to rule in favor of criminal defendants. It means they bring a different perspective. Their experience on the other side of a case is just as important as a prosecutor’s experience on the opposite side.” - Senior Associate Dean Emily Hughes, Quoted in The New York Times