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Dean Leonard M. Baynes has been nominated for the AALS Executive Committee. He will begin serving a three-year term as a Committee member, effective January 2025. Dean Baynes delivered the keynote address, on November 9, at the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. The title of his talk was “Representation Matters: What the Rules of Professional Responsibility Mean for Family Law Attorneys.” Dean Baynes spoke at the HYLA Leadership Academy’s CLE event titled “Leadership Foundations: Insights from Law School Deans for Emerging Leaders” on November 20. Deans McKen Carrington (Thurgood Marshall Law School) and Jeff Rensberger (South Texas College of Law) also participated. The event was held at the Jones Day office in Houston.
Emily Berman presented her work-in-progress "Investigating the States" at the Fifteenth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium in Tallahassee, FL on November 15.
Jessica Bregant presented at the Conference for Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) in Atlanta, GA on November 9.
Christina Crozier was named Editor-in-Chief of the Appellate Advocate, a journal published by the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section.
David Froomkin presented “Officers” (with Eric Eisner) at the Fifteenth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium on November 16.
Aman Gebru was an invited speaker at Plymouth State University, where he presented “Communal Authorship” as part of the Saul O. Sidore Lecture. Professor Gebru was a panelist at Harvard University School of Law on the panel “The Teff Patents: A Case Study in the International Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanism.”
Nikolas Guggenberger served as a virtual guest speaker in a course on Privacy and AI Law, EU Data Protection & AI, at Emory University School of Law on November 11. On November 12, Professor Guggenberger presented “Consent as Friction” at Yale Law School Center for Private Law via Zoom. On November 18, Professor Guggenberger served as a panelist for the ASCOLA Germany webinar “US Antitrust Law under Trump 2.0 -- A First Appraisal.”
Tracy Hester was elected as President of the American College of Environmental Lawyers on November 8 at its annual conference in Houston, Texas. He is the first academic to hold that post for the College. Professor Hester’s article, "Can Counselors Be Complicit?" for The Environmental Forum (Nov/Dec 2024), which discusses the potential responsibility of attorneys for their clients' greenhouse gas emissions, was the issue's cover article. On November 27, Professor Hester joined Chinonso Anozie and Elizabeth Trujillo at an invitational symposium on sustainability in international law. The session was held at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy.
Valerie Gutmann Koch presented "What Makes a Clinical Decision Support Tool Fair?" at the annual MacLean Center Conference at the University of Chicago on November 8.
Chris Mirasola appeared on the November 6 episode of the Lawfare Daily podcast, "The Dangers of Deploying the Military on U.S. Soil." He also appeared on the November 26 episode of Lawfare Daily, "Deploying Military at the Southern Border." Professor Mirasola appeared on the November 21 episode of Lawfare's Rational Security podcast, "The 'Sad Norman Rockwell' Edition."
Laurel Simmons was an invited speaker on the panel titled "LLM Students: A Different Approach to Preparing for the Bar?" at LexCon '24 by the AccessLex Institute, where she spoke in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Elizabeth Trujillo presented on “Sustainability and International Economic Law” at the University of Bologna Department of Political and Social Sciences, Italy for “Sustainability Week”, an event co-sponsored by UH Global Law and Policy Initiative for the Americas and the University of Bologna Department of Political and Social Sciences. This was an inter-disciplinary week-long workshop bringing together University of Houston Law Center and University of Bologna professors. It explored the global and local dimensions of sustainability from a comparative perspective that examined sustainability in international law, constitutional law, political science, economics, and sociology. Professor Trujillo received a grant from the University of Bologna to co-host and co-organize this event. In addition to University of Bologna students, including PhD students and post-doctoral students, several UH students and alums, including from the UH department of political science, participated in the event. In November, Professor Trujillo also participated (by invitation only) at “The Endangered Species Act: The Next 50 Years!” conference held at Harvard Law School co-sponsored by the Brooks Institute and Harvard Law School. On November 8th, CBC News World Report, the flagship radio newscast for the Canadian Broadcast Radio, aired an interview with Professor Trujillo on the future of North American trade relations after the 2024 U.S. presidential elections.
Bret Wells presented a lecture on U.S. International Taxation in a course on International Taxation in Cross-Border Operations offered by Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México on November 13.
Kellen Zale presented "The Modular Housing Gap" on November 15 at the State & Local Government Law Works-in-Progress Conference at the University of Arizona Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
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