Dean Leonard M. Baynes was the keynote speaker at a Juneteenth event hosted by Richard Craig Smith, LL.M. ‘00, a partner at Linklaters law firm in Washington, DC, on June 13. On July 19, Dean Baynes moderated a panel at the ABA Dean’s Workshop in Seattle, WA titled: "Smart Ideas for Successful Provost – Law Dean Relationships." UH Provost Dianne Chase participated in the panel discussion. On August 8, Dean Baynes shared opening remarks and moderated a panel at the U.S. Supreme Court Update Virtual CLE program. The program focused on complex issues such as First Amendment cases, the reproductive regulation cases, the 8th Amendment gun ownership cases, the growing influence of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the Court’s tendency to welcome specific legal challenges. Panelists included Professors Seth Chandler, Emily Berman, and Peter Salib.
Kate Brem presented her research on using evidence-based teaching methods to supplement the traditional Socratic curriculum at the Global Legal Skills Institute Conference in Bari, Italy, on June 6, 2024. In addition, Professor Brem was invited to speak on two panels at the Legal Writing Institute's Biennial Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 17 and 18, where she discussed "Plagiarism in the Law and in Legal Education" and "The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching Legal Writing to FirstGen Law Students."
Darren Bush engaged in several activities at the SEALS Law Conference, in Ft. Lauderdale, July 21-27. He presented on the panels "Introduction to the Legal Academy," "Is There a Place for Me in the Legal Academy?," and "A Conversation with Research Deans and Flourishing Scholars." He moderated the panel "Supreme Court Update - Administrative, Corporate, and Securities Law." He was a mentor for the "New Scholars Workshop, Property Law," and presented on the panel "Normative Solutions to Complex Problems."
Christina Crozier presented "ChatGPT and Pinocchio—the Challenges of Becoming a Real Boy" at the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section, in May. She also presented “No One Writes Memos Anymore!: Testing the Claim and Its Implications for Teaching" at the Legal Writing Institute 2024 Biennial Conference, in July. Professor Crozier also was recognized in Woodward/White, Inc's "The Best Lawyers in America" for appellate practice.
Megan Davis presented “The Great Unknown: Preparing Foreign Trained Students and Lawyers for the NextGen Bar Exam” at the Global Legal Skills Conference in Bari, Italy in June.
Alyson Drake and Rob Brownell presented a CLE for the U.S. Attorney General's Office in Houston, TX, on artificial intelligence and legal research on May 1. On May 31st, Professor Drake presented at the 2024 Teaching the Teachers Conference for Law Librarians on "Lightening the (Cognitive) Load: Strategies to Combat Stereotype Threat & Imposter Syndrome in Law School Learning." She represented UHLC on July 15, with Professors Brittany Morris and Rob Brownell, at a session of the 2024 Annual Conference of the American Association of Law Libraries entitled "Experience Active Learning Implementation," during which they demoed active learning techniques used in our legal research courses. Later that afternoon, Professors Drake and Brownell presented a session entitled "Debunking the Learning Styles Myth with Cognitive Science."
Leah Fowler became an Advisory Board Member for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
Aman Gebru presented “Disclosure of Origin between Two Worlds” at the Indigenous Knowledge Forum Roundtable, hosted by the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Law, in June, and “Cultural Appropriation as Passing Off” at the Summer 2024 Junior Intellectual Property Scholars Association Conference hosted by N. Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, in August.
Tracy Hester gave opening remarks as the incoming President-elect at the inaugural 2024 Midyear Meeting of the American College of Environmental Lawyers on May 7-8 in Washington, DC. After attending the American Law Institute’s annual meeting on May 20-21 in San Francisco, Hester joined the Sabin Climate Law Center’s emerging scholarship colloquium as an invited judge and commenter hosted by Columbia University School of Law. He then participated in the biannual Natural Resources Law Teachers Institute in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado on May 29, and on May 31 Hester presented his paper on pursuing environmental justice claims under the USMCA’s enforcement matters submittal process as an invited speaker to the Commission on Environmental Cooperation’s workshop in Montreal. He represented the University of Houston as trustee at the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law’s annual meeting in Santa Fe, Mexico on July 17-20, and gave the closing speech on “Ethics of Advised Emissions” to the State Bar of Texas’ annual Environmental Superconference in Austin, Texas. On May 22, Tracy Hester spoke on the American Bar Association's podcast "Environmental Law Explained: A Podcast SEERies" with co-speaker Peter Lehner about "The Next Legal Frontiers." They discussed the legal issues arising from large-scale capture of greenhouse gases from industry, agriculture, and the ambient atmosphere.
Nikolas Guggenberger presented the paper "Privacy Beyond Adhesion" (now accepted for publication as Consent as Friction) at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference on May 31.
Renee Knake Jefferson was invited to speak about her book “Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court” with Judge Diane Wood at the American Law Institute Annual Meeting in San Francisco in May. She also was invited to speak at the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility Annual Meeting in Denver about hot topics in legal ethics. In July, she presented at the International Association of Legal Ethics Conference at the University of Amsterdam Law School. She was also interviewed about Supreme Court ethics on the national show CBS 24/7 and NPR Morning Edition and was quoted in the ABA Journal, Bloomberg Law, CNN, Voice of America, and the Washington Post in May, June, and July.
Valerie Gutmann Koch presented “Judges and Lawyers as Medical Decision-Makers” and “Informed Consent in Treatment and Research – What’s the Difference?” at the University of Chicago MacLean Center Summer Intensive on July 10-11. Prof. Koch also presented “Ethical Decision Making and Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing” at the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine Annual Meeting on July 29.
David Kwok presented his paper “Blackmail, Bribery, and the Non-Disclosure Agreement” at CrimFest, hosted by Cardozo School of Law, on July 15, and at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual Meeting, on July 25.
Andrew Michaels served as a panelist in July for an event Celebrating the Jurisprudence of Judge Pauline Newman.
Douglas Moll presented “A Survey of Recent Texas Partnership and LLC Cases,” at the 33rd Annual LLCs, LPs, and Partnerships Conference, at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, TX, in July.
Brittany Morris presented at AALL in Chicago with others on "Strategic Social Media: Creating Engaging & Accessible Content with Limited Time and Resources" and with Alyson Drake and Rob Brownell on active learning.
Laura Portuondo was selected as the winner of the 2024–2025 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law for her paper "Gendered Liberty," 113 Geo. L. Rev (forthcoming 2025).
Laurel Simmons presented “What Legal Writing Professors Can Learn from Professors of Foreign Law Students in an Increasingly Transnational World” with Rachel Croskery-Roberts, Rosa Kim, and Joanne Sweeney at the Legal Writing Institute 2024 Biennial Conference in Indianapolis, IN. Professor Simmons also presented “Proactive Mentoring to Expand Student Horizons Globally: Tangible Actions to Incorporate into Teaching Practice and Perspectives from a Mentor Professor and Mentee Student” with Claire Kowarsky at the 2024 Global Legal Skills Conference in Bari, Italy. There, Prof. Simmons also presented “Innovative Ideas for Building Global Lawyering Communities” with Rosa Kim.
Elizabeth Trujillo was appointed as a 2024-2025 Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellow by the European University Institute (EUI). Professor Trujillo served as an invited speaker, presenting “Multi-dimensional Compliance Mechanisms in the USMCA: Can Regionalism Serve Environmental Justice Goals?” at the USMCA and Sustainable Development CEC Workshop, at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Headquarters in Montreal, Quebec in May. In June, Professor Trujillo served as a speaker presenting a work-in-progress, “Multidimensional Compliance Mechanisms in the USMCA: Can Regionalism Serve Environmental Justice Goals?” for a panel on Multiscalar Environmental Governance and Justice, at the 2024 Association of Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) Annual Meeting, at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law in June. In July, Professor Trujillo served as a speaker, presenting “Multidimensional Transnationalism and Comparative Law: Regional Compliance Mechanisms for Environmental Justice Goals,” for a panel on Challenges to Public Law Cornerstones: Sovereignty, Territory, and Supranational Territory, at the 2024 ICON-S Annual Conference on The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence, in Madrid, Spain. Professor Trujillo was also an invited book discussant on a panel on the recently published book, The EU and Constitutional Time: The Significance of Time in Constitutional Change by Massimo Fichera, for the University of Bologna Department of Political and Social Sciences in Bologna, Italy, in July.
Bret Wells presented a working draft of a forthcoming article entitled “Accounting for Time in the Concept of ‘Incomes’” at the UC Irvine 6th Annual Tax Symposium on April 18. Professor Wells presented on U.S. International Taxation at the 59th Academy of American and International Law sponsored by the Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law on June 5. He was also a panelist for "Complexities, Discontinuities, and Unintended Consequences: Inbound Taxation hosted by the American Enterprise Institute" on June 18.
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