September 2024

Articles

Tracy D. Hester, Spinning Off Carbon: Corporate Restructuring in a Climate Bankrupt World, 32 N.Y.U. Env’t L.J. 339 (2024). 
Valerie Gutman Koch, Reimagining Informed Consent: From Disclosure to Comprehension, 14 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 894 (2024).

Short Form & Online

Darren Bush, The Great Bounty of Law & Economics, Law & Pol. Econ. Blog (Sept. 4, 2024) (with Mark Glick & Gabriel A. Lozada). 

Chris Mirasola, Domestic Military Deployments and the Limitations of Appropriations Law, Lawfare (Sept. 19, 2024).

Offers

Our colleagues shared the following offers for publication:

Renee Knake Jefferson, Ethics Accountability: The Next Era for the Legal Profession and the Judiciary, Cardozo L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025). 

David Kwok, Blackmail and the Wrongful Nondisclosure Agreement, U.C. Davis Bus. L.J. (forthcoming 2025).

Albertus Accolades

Dean Leonard M. Baynes attended the Annual Judicial Education Conference in San Antonio, TX on September 4, where he delivered welcoming remarks and a presentation at a judicial breakfast meeting with alumni judges.  On September 10, Dean Baynes participated in a virtual CLE event titled, “The End of the Chevron Doctrine: The Effect on the Administrative State,” a discussion of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Loper Bright/Relentless and Jarkesy and their impact, where he moderated a panel of professors that included Darren Bush, Tracy Hester, Andrew Michaels, and Gina Warren. Dean Baynes moderated a panel of esteemed alumni trailblazers on September 20, at the UH Law Pioneers Heritage Celebration. 

Emily Berman spoke on a panel sponsored by the Houston Bar Association Labor and Employment Section, reviewing the Supreme Court's past term on September 10.

Alissa Rubin Gomez co-presented “Upstream Legal Literacy: Educating the Public to Avoid Eviction” at the SALT Teaching Conference in Boston, along with Renee Lynn Danser from the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School. 

Valerie Gutmann Koch presented on two panels at the annual conference of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in St. Louis, MO. The first was titled, "What Makes a Clinical Decision Support Tool Fair?" She then presented on the panel, "Legal Updates 2024: Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics." 

Ken Swift presented "In Defense of Asynch" and participated in a panel discussing best practices in online and hybrid education at the Online & Hybrid Pedagogy Conference at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. 

Elizabeth Trujillo was an invited presenter at the 15th Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School where she presented her work-in-progress, “Multidimensional Compliance Mechanisms in the USMCA: Can Regionalism Serve Environmental Justice Goals?” 

Gina S. Warren was an invited presenter at the 15th Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School where she presented “Locals Paying the Price of Overtourism: The Extinction of Affordable Housing.” 







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