Professor Jessie Allen presented her paper, “Skeptical Sorcery,” at an international interdisciplinary conference held at the Australian National University in Canberra, AU on Sept. 1-22. The Conference, "After the Rule: Interpretation in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspective," explored “alternative ways of dwelling with law,” drawing on, among other things, religious, anthropological, and economic perspectives.
Professor Chaz Arnett was selected to participate in the 6th Annual Junior Faculty Works in Progress Conference at Marquette University Law School on Sept. 10. Only eight junior faculty members from across the country are invited to participate each year. He presented his draft paper, From Decarceration to E-carceration.
Professor Kevin Ashley presented an invited talk, “Legal Text Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges, Where Law and AI Meet,” at the Second International Congress of Law, Government & Technology, organized by University of Brasilia, and an expanded version of this talk at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sao Paulo in late Sept.
Professor Elena Baylis presented her work-in-progress, “Pluralist Hybrid Courts,” at an International Law Colloquium at St. John’s University School of Law on Oct. 24. This paper will be published as a chapter in the Oxford Research Handbook on Global Legal Pluralism (Paul Schiff Berman, ed., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018).
Professor Ronald A. Brand led a three-day training session for professors and coaches of Vis International Arbitration Moot teams from law schools from throughout the Middle East on Oct. 25-27. The program was held at the Carthage University Faculty of Legal, Political, and Social Sciences of Tunis.
Professor Vivian Curran gave a presentation on “A Critique of Comparative Law” at the Sixth Annual roundtable of Comparative Constitutional Law, Montpelier, VA, on Oct. 7-8. She also spoke about being a Privileged Insider/Outsider in Comparative Law at Washington and Lee Law School.
Visiting Associate Professor Josh Galperin presented his essay, Pennsylvania Gas: Trusts, Takings, and Judicial Temperaments, at the 9th Annual Colloquium on Environmental Law at Vermont Law School, the nation’s top-ranked environmental law program, on Sept. 22.
Visiting Associate Professor Josh Galperin spoke at Harvard Law School about his work-in-progress, The Life and Death of Administrative Democracy. This talk was part of the inaugural conference of the Academy of Food Law & Policy, on Oct. 5.
Professor David Harris spoke at Yale Law School’s national conference for the Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic on Oct. 12. Harris participated in a panel on law enforcement transparency and accountability. The conference gathered journalists, academics, media lawyers and advocates from around the country.
Visiting Professor Jacqui Lipton participated as a discussant in a multi-disciplinary forum, “Coordinating the Future Agenda at the Intersection of Law and Technology,” hosted by the University of Florida Levin College of Law Program in Intellectual Property Law on Oct. 18-19.
Professor Matiangai Sirleaf delivered a keynote speech at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya on Sept. 21. The conference was entitled, “20 Years Since the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: The Status of International Rule of Law, and Access to International Criminal Justice in Africa.” Sirleaf spoke on "Regionalizing International Criminal Justice."
Professor David Thaw presented his article, “Hacking Democracy,” which was accepted for the Second Annual Northwestern-Penn-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum for Law and STEM, at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law on Sept. 28-29.
Professor Rhonda Wasserman spoke at a program sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Foundation entitled, “The Changing Cy Pres Landscape,” on Oct. 30. The program was timed to coincide with the United States Supreme Court’s argument in Frank v. Gaos (17-961). Wasserman’s article, Cy Pres in Class Action Settlements, 88 So. Cal. L. Rev. 97 (2014), is cited and quoted in several of the briefs filed in the case.