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Dean Leonard M. Baynes moderated a senior executive panel of corporate general counsel in a featured session titled, “Discussions with Dean Leonard Baynes,” during the Ninth Annual EENR Conference held April 17. On April 22-26, Dean Baynes traveled to Calgary, AB to speak at the HYLA Discover Calgary Program. His CLE-approved presentation focused on the landmark Students for Fair Admissions lawsuits and their significant implications for the legal community today.
Rob Brownell, Alyson Drake, and Lauren Simpson presented "Mind the Gap: Bridging the Cognitive Load Disparities in the Law School Classroom" at the 2025 Lonestar Legal Writing Conference, held at Baylor Law School on Friday, April 11. Rob Brownell and Alyson Drake were also one of ten teams selected to attend the AccessLex Pledge Bootcamp on empirical research methods for legal education and attended the Bootcamp April 16-18 at American University Washington College of Law.
Johnny Rex Buckles presented "A Defense of the Unborn Person" to the Ratio Christi Chapter at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.
Darren Bush moderated “The Importance of Remedies” at the Loyola University Chicago Antitrust Colloquium on April 24. Panelists included Steve Calkins and former judge Diane Wood.
Catherine Campbell presented "Frankenstein: Legal Writing for Exams” on April 11, at the Lone Star Regional Legal Writing Conference at Baylor University.
Aman Gebru presented to the United States Patent and Trademark Office following an invitation for public comments on the new World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge. Professor Gebru presented on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Law for the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property. He also presented on the role of academic institutions in encouraging investments in renewable energy for a conference hosted by the Secretariat of Economy in Mexico City.
Renee Knake Jefferson was nominated to the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Council, which is the leadership body responsible for law school accreditation. Her Checklist for the New ABA Standards was published on the ABA Outcomes & Assessments Committee's Resource Page. Her weekly Substack newsletter, the Legal Ethics Roundup, recently hit 2,000 subscribers and continues to grow.
Jessica Mantel presented “Coordination, Not Competition: Achieving Value-Based Care Through Shared Governance” at the Elena and Miles Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum on April 1 at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Chris Mirasola presented "Domestic Military Deployments after Trump v. United States" at the 11th Annual University of Michigan Law School Junior Scholars Conference on April 25.
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.
Laura Portuondo’s forthcoming article "Gendered Liberty" was reviewed in JOTWELL.
Hilary Reed and Alissa Gomez presented “Visible Thinking: Using Comment Bubbles to Deepen Legal Writing Skills in the NextGen Bar/AI Era” at the Lone Star Legal Writing Conference at Baylor University.
Lauren Simpson was voted the SBA Professor of the Year for faculty teaching in the part-time program. This was her seventh time to be honored with this award.
Gina Warren was awarded 2024-2025 Full Time Professor of the Year by the Student Bar Association. She served as co-chair for the 9th Annual North American Conference, “Rewiring the Future: How Technology, Policy, and Investment Are Empowering the New Electricity Era,” on April 17, 2025 in Houston.
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