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Dean Leonard M. Baynes participated in a panel of 15 experts at the “Key Policy Considerations for the Administration” CLE virtual event on March 6, where he moderated a panel on higher education policy, convened by UH Law and the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs. Experts discussed the legal and policy impact and implications for economics, higher education, immigration, energy, and the environment. Dean Baynes then attended the inaugural conference of the Big 12 law deans at the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence, KS, March 9-12. He delivered a presentation on a panel titled “Thorny Legal Issues,” and attended a reception hosted by Stinson Law Firm for alumni of the Big 12 law schools present in Kansas City.
Emily Berman presented her work in progress, "Congressional Oversight after Trump v. United States," at the National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars in Tucson, AZ, on March 28.
Megan L. Davis presented “Knockout or Knock It Out of the Park? Teaching FLLMs Legal Writing for Practice and the Bar Exam -Reflections on our Success and Failure” on March 13, and co-presented “Frankenstein: Legal Writing for Exams” with Catherine Campbell on March 14, at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference at the University of Utah.
Alyson Drake presented "Plan, Teach, Revise, Repeat" with Rob Brownell and Brittany Morris at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Southwestern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries on March 28.
Chris Dykes presented “Researching Environmental Law” at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Southwestern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries on March 28.
Shay Everline presented “Bridging Outreach, Social Media, and User Engagement: A Holistic Approach to Enhancing Law Library Services” with Brittany Morris at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Southwestern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries on March 29.
Leah Fowler gave the invited talk "The Rise and Risks of Menstrual Tracking Apps" for the Law and Biomedical Sciences Colloquium, hosted by University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, on March 27.
David Froomkin presented “Presidency Exceptionalism” at Global Summit on Constitutionalism on March 21. He also presented “The President’s Duty to Commission Officers” at National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars on March 28.
Aman Gebru presented a work-in-progress titled "Truthfulness in Trademark Law" at the Texas A&M School of Law Symposium, Change and Continuity in the Global Intellectual Property Order, on March 29.
Nikolas Guggenberger presented “Banning TikTok is a Sign of Weakness” on March 22 at Berle XVII: International Business Transactions in a Fragmented World, hosted by Seattle University School of Law in Seattle, Washington.
Renee Knake Jefferson was selected to serve on Law360's 2025 Legal Ethics Editorial Advisory Board.
David Kwok presented his paper, “Private Frauds and Public Corruption,” at the Stetson Symposium on Prosecutorial Independence and White Collar Crime on March 28.
Chris Mirasola appeared on Lawfare Daily: Trials of the Trump Administration to discuss cases concerning military involvement in migrant deportations. On March 6, Chris also spoke to the Congressional Study Group on Foreign Relations and National Security regarding the legal authorities governing domestic military deployments. The Brookings Institute convenes the Congressional Study Group once a month on a bipartisan basis to provide congressional staffers an opportunity to speak with academics on pressing issues of national security and foreign relations law.
Douglas Moll was selected as this year's recipient of the University of Houston's Distinguished Leadership in Teaching Excellence Award. He was also selected as the Professor of the Year by the Order of the Barons at the Law Center. Professor Moll submitted the draft for his concise hornbook on Business Torts and Unfair Competition (with Colin Marks) to West Academic Publishing. The hornbook should be published in the next few months.
Elizabeth Trujillo presented “Trade in Transition” as part of a jointly sponsored program by UHLC and the UH Hobby School of Public Affairs, “Key Policy Considerations for the Administration.” Professor Trujillo participated in and presented her chapter on Methods, Turns and Moves in Comparative Trade Law (with Fernanda G. Nicola) at the Comparative Trade Law Workshop at Georgetown University Law Center. This chapter will be published in the “Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trade Law” with Oxford University Press. She also participated and commented in the Conference on Brave New World: Hopes, Fears, and Expectations: Global Implications of the Second Trump Administration, sponsored by the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, Georgetown University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Gina Warren presented “Energy and Environmental Policy” as part of a jointly sponsored program by UHLC and the UH Hobby School of Public Affairs, “Key Policy Considerations for the Administration,” on March 7. She was quoted in the Energy Intelligence article “Greenpeace Ruling Could Discourage Future Protests” on March 24.
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