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Dean Leonard M. Baynes and the UH Law Center held its annual Dean's Distinguished Black History Month Lecture featuring Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, President Emerita of Prairie View A&M, Brown University, and Smith College on February 6. Dean Baynes delivered welcoming remarks and provided an overview of equal protection jurisprudence. Dean Baynes also moderated a panel of distinguished JD/MDs at the 65th Annual American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) Conference on February 27. The landmark event was co-hosted by the Law Center, the Tillman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, and UT Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry.
Maleaha Brown presented a resolution to the American Bar Association House of Delegates at the 2025 Midyear Meeting on February 3. The resolution urges government leaders to pass laws and support judicial processes that protect survivors of domestic violence in family law cases by protecting their pets from abuse. The resolution was overwhelmingly adopted by the House of Delegates.
Rob Brownell presented “Leveraging Generative AI to Evaluate Student Reflections and Improve Teaching Effectiveness,” at EIT Presents: Teaching and Learning with AI, on February 29.
Seth J. Chandler presented at South Texas College of Law’s Law Review Symposium on Evolving Constitutional Law with Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Jennifer Elrod and Prof. Martin Siegel.
Christina Crozier presented "Error Preservation, Pre-Trial Error, & Post-Trial Motions" at TexasBarCLE's Advanced Trial Strategies. She also served as a panelist regarding artificial intelligence at the South Texas College of Law Annual Ethics Symposium.
Aman Gebru presented a forthcoming article "Remediating Cultural Appropriation" at SMU Law's 21st Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues: Intellectual Property Frontiers
Alissa Rubin Gomez moderated the first of a series of three webinars for the Rice Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership, the topic of which was "Current Legal Insights for Nonprofit Leaders: Your Board and Employment Law." This webinar series is aimed at local nonprofits looking for legal information related to nonprofit operations.
Jim Hawkins testified on February 24 before the Colorado House Finance Committee on an earned wage access law the state is considering.
Tracy Hester accepted an invitation to submit chapter on Sustainability and the USMCA, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2026. The chapter will address the treatment of environmental justice allegations submitted to the USMCA's Commission on Environmental Cooperation under its Submittal of Enforcement Matters process.
Renee Knake Jefferson presented at the University of Akron Law School Symposium on Women's Leadership in Law & Politics on February 21.
Valerie Gutmann Koch presented "Update to States Laws Regarding Physician Aid-in-Dying" at the American College of Legal Medicine conference on February 28.
Jessica Mantel presented “Shifting From Market Competition to Value-Based Governance” at Saint Louis University School of Law’s Distinguished Speaker Series on February 17. She was also a commentator at the Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat hosted by Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law, in Newark, NJ.
Chris Mirasola was named a Contributing Editor at Lawfare and had two podcast appearances for that publisher. The first was "Lawfare Daily: Guantanamo, Immigration, and the U.S. Military" on February 20. The second was "Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 28."
Elizabeth Trujillo presented her paper on “Environmental Justice in Trade: Perspectives from Latin America,” on February 25, at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy as an invited speaker for the workshop, "Conversations on Latin American International Law."
Gina Warren was a panelist for “Emissions Accomplished?: Energy & Environmental Law Under the Trump Administration” on February 25. She also moderated a panel on David Adelman’s “Permitting Reform’s False Choice Confirmation,” as part of UHLC’s EENR Webinar Series on February 26.
Bret Wells presented “Supreme Court Decisions in the Recent Term that Impact the Tax Practice,” to the Tax Section of the State Bar of Texas on February 6. Between February 17 and 18, Prof. Wells presented four times at the University of San Diego and Chamberlain Hrdlicka International Tax Institute: “Judicial Deference to International Tax Regulations,” “International Tax Update,” “International Tax Treaties,” and “Foreign Tax Credit Issues.” He presented on International Tax Reform to the International Tax Forum on February 26, and presented to the Energy and Environmental Law Society on February 25. Prof. Wells also presented “International Tax Update” at the 7th Annual Denney Wright and Houston Business & Tax Law Journal Symposium on February 28.
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