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Dean Leonard M. Baynes moderated a Fireside Chat on October 1, with senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Gray Miller ’78. On October 9, Dean Baynes moderated a panel discussion to address the legal and medical landscape concerning women’s reproductive health since the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Panelists included Law Center professors Valerie Koch and Laura Portuondo, and Kimberly Pilkinton, Associate Dean at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine.
Emily Berman spoke at the Kentucky Law Journal's symposium entitled "Executive Powers: A Changing Landscape of Authority," in Lexington, Kentucky on October 8.
Maleaha Brown presented “Coercive Control: Litigating Non-Physical Abuse and Child Custody” at the Fall 2024 CLE Conference of the American Bar Association Section of Family Law.
Darren Bush presented “Antitrust’s Right Turn” at BYU Law Future of Antitrust Interdisciplinary Conference at Sundance in Utah on October 12. He also served as a panelist, addressing status-related issues, both in terms of instructor positionality within law schools and hierarchical structures among law schools at the 2024 AALS Women in Legal Education Conference at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado on October 18.
Aman Gebru presented a draft book chapter on "The New World Intellectual Property Law Organization Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge" on October 26 at the annual American Branch of International Law Association conference at Fordham University School of Law.
Jim Hawkins placed 1st out of 8 professors competing in the George Mason Law and Economics Center's Manne Madness San Diego Regional Tournament.
Renee Knake Jefferson was invited to speak at the United States Embassy of Australia on October 16 at an event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Australian American Fulbright Commission. She held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in 2019 and serves currently as a Fulbright Alumni Ambassador.
Valerie Gutmann Koch presented "Post-Dobbs Implications for Reproductive Technologies" as part of a University of Houston Law Center CLE entitled, "Post-Dobbs: Legal Ramifications," on October 9.
Jessica Mantel presented a Faculty Lightning Talk at the University of Houston entitled “Coordination, Not Competition: Achieving Value-Base Care Through Shared Governance” on October 23. She also moderated “Requiring Hospitals to Report Expenditures for Undocumented Immigrants” at the University of Houston Law Center in October. Professor Mantel also announced a joint faculty appointment to the Health Systems & Population Health Sciences Department, Tilman Fertitta Family College of Medicine.
Elizabeth Trujillo spoke on "Comparative Law Methodology for Trade and Sustainable Development" as a panelist on “Teaching Comparative Law in the XXI Century,” at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL), at Texas A&M University School of Law on October 18. At the same conference, Professor Trujillo was invited to chair and moderate the panel on “Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South,” a project led by Professors Kevin E. Davis at New York University School of Law and Mariana Pargendler at Harvard Law School.
Bret Wells gave a presentation on "Current Developments in International Taxation" to the Houston IRS CPA Society on October 17. Professor Wells presented on “Mineral Deed Conveyance Ambiguities” at the Oil and Gas Law Conference hosted by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation on October 19.
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