| Craig Joyce, Copyright Law (12th ed. 2025) (with Tyler T. Ochoa & Michael Carroll). |
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Renee Knake Jefferson, Dirty Laundry, 59 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 12 (2025) (reviewing Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr., & Lori A. Ringhand, Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (2023)). |
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Andrew J. Lanham, Constitutional Iconoclasm, 123 Mich. L. Rev. 1073 (2025) (reviewing Aziz Rana, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them (2024)). |
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Chinonso Anozie, Climate Change Disputes: The United States Perspective, 2025-10 Found. for Nat. Res. & Energy 32 (2025).
Leonard M. Baynes, Briefcase: Lawyers Providing Legal Representation to All, Hous. Pub. Media, May 27, 2025.
Leonard M. Baynes, Briefcase: Due Process, Hous. Pub. Media, July 1, 2025.
Emily Berman, Troops in L.A., Verfassungsblog: U.S. Democracy Under Threat, June 13, 2025.
Emily Berman, Trump’s Manufactured Emergencies, Verfassungsblog: U.S. Democracy Under Threat, Aug. 22, 2025.
Darren Bush, Slingshot Episode 23, Sling, June 25, 2025 (with Laurel Kilgour & Hal Singer).
Darren Bush, No, The Tunney Act Won’t Save Democracy, Sling, Aug. 13, 2025.
Seth Chandler started AI for Legal Education in June: - Welcome to AI for Legal Education, June 11, 2025.
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Instant Analysis of New Cases with AI, June 12, 2025.
- If I Were a Law Student Today..., June 13, 2025.
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How to Use Deep Research to Examine President Trump's Federalization of the National Guard, June 14, 2025.
- Briefing a Case with AI, June 17, 2025.
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Creating a Synthetic Podcast on United States v. Skrmetti, June 18, 2025.
- Full Stack AI Legal Scholarship, June 20, 2025.
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Use AI to Create PowerPoint Presentations, June 28, 2025.
- Use AI to Generate Beautiful PDF Presentations via LaTeX and Overleaf, June 29, 2025.
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AI Successfully Predicted Trump v. CASA, July 1, 2025.
- Use AI to Make and Use Flashcards, July 3, 2025.
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Improve Law Exam Essays with This New AI-Powered App, July 6, 2025.
- The Open Front Door: Why AI Makes the High-Stakes Take-Home Assessment Indefensible, July 9, 2025.
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When is AI Likely to Hallucinate?, July 10, 2025.
- Stop Relying on Personal Statements in Admissions, July 18, 2025.
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How AIs—and Maybe Humans—Might Subliminally Transmit Hidden Inclinations, July 22, 2025.
- A Simple Method for Making Your AI Chat History Truly Searchable, July 23, 2025.
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An Indecent Burial for Humphrey’s Executor, July 23, 2025.
- Build a Website in 10 Minutes, July 29, 2025.
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Study Mode, Socratic AI, and the Future of Legal Education, July 29, 2025.
- Building a Virtual Law Museum: Trump v. CASA, Aug. 6, 2025.
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Use Gemini’s New Storybook Gem to Help Study Law, Aug. 8, 2025.
- What AIs Should I Get for Law School?, Aug. 11, 2025.
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Why Every Law School Appointment Must Confront the AI Future, Aug. 18, 2025.
- Make AI Use Your Writing Style, Aug. 21, 2025.
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What the Heck Did the Supreme Court Just Do?, Aug. 21, 2025.
- Teaching LLMs in Law School While We Engineer for Confidentiality, Aug. 31, 2025.
Seth Chandler, Texas Law School Clinics Provide Vital Aid in Immigration Cases. Don’t Block It | Opinion, Aus. Am.-Statesman, May 7, 2025.
Andrew J. Lanham, Free to Choose: The Surprising History of the Ideology of Choice, New Republic, Apr. 11, 2025.
Chris Mirasola, The National Guard in Los Angeles, Lawfare, June 8, 2025.
Chris Mirasola, The Governor’s Role in Federalizing the National Guard Under 10 U.S.C. § 12406, Lawfare, June 10, 2025.
Chris Mirasola, Unpacking the Protective Power, Lawfare, June 12, 2025.
Chris Mirasola, How Appropriations Are Transforming the Defense Department’s Domestic Operations, Lawfare, July 17, 2025.
Chris Mirasola, Deploying the D.C. National Guard, Lawfare, Aug. 11, 2025. |
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Our colleagues shared the following offers for publication:
Leah R. Fowler, Buyer Be Well, B.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026). Leah R. Fowler, Wellness, Transhumanism, and the Death of Health Law, UMKC L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (invited symposium contribution).
Nikolas Guggenberger, Banning TikTok is a Sign of Weakness, 49 Seattle Univ. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (Berle Symposium). Rita Julien, Tax Law as an Indirect Criminal Enforcement Mechanism: The Limits of the “Capone” Strategy and the Emergence of Unexplained Wealth Orders, 79 Tax L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
Chris Mirasola, The War on Drugs and Trump’s Domestic Uses of the Military, J. Nat’l Sec. L. & Pol’y (forthcoming). Chris Mirasola, Why Study International Law?, 48 Hous. J. Int'l L. (forthcoming).
Laura Portuondo, What Personhood Means, 124 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (invited book review). Elizabeth Trujillo, Preserving Environmental Justice in Trade, 29 Harv. Latin Am. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026). |
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Dean Leonard M. Baynes moderated a three-panel CLE webinar on May 12 entitled “A Conversation on the ABA Accreditation of Texas Law Schools,” where leaders in academia and the profession discussed the benefits and critique of ABA accreditation for Texas law schools. The conversation was hosted by the Houston Bar Association and 12 co-convening law schools and bar associations. On June 13, Dean Baynes delivered a virtual presentation on professionalism to the Academy of American Matrimonial Lawyers Scholars, a group of law students from across the country gaining hands-on experience working in matrimonial and family law firms. On June 17, Dean Baynes served as keynote speaker at Scotiabank’s Juneteenth virtual event, presenting “Holding on to Race: SFFA v. Harvard – The History of Race in Education and a Path Forward.” On June 30, Dean Baynes moderated a CLE webinar titled “The History of U.S. Immigration” and presented a lecture on Black Immigration to the U.S. where scholars explored the history of U.S. immigration laws and policies and their impact on present. On July 14, Dean Baynes served as a panelist at the ABA/AALS New Deans and Deans Workshops in New York, discussing how deans collaborate with advisory boards, trustees, presidents, provosts, and peers to navigate university structures. On August 6, Dean Baynes hosted a virtual CLE seminar and moderated a panel discussion analyzing key rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024–2025 term. The UH Law Center hosted its inaugural AALS Southwest Regional Pre-Faculty Recruitment Workshop on August 13 where Dean Baynes delivered welcoming remarks and participated as a panelist in the Dean’s Panel, which was one of four sessions. The all-day event, themed “So You Want to Be a Lawyer,” was co-convened by 14 law schools and 7 bar associations, offering faculty candidates guidance on navigating the interview process and succeeding in academia.
Chinonso T. Anozie was a featured participant at the Foundation for Natural Resources & Energy Law's (FNREL) Special Institute on International Mining and Energy Law, Development, and Investment in Lima, Peru, April 2-4. He presented at the Annual Aspen Leading Edge Conference on July 10-12. Professor Anozie was selected to workshop with other scholars at the invitation-only forum for leaders and thinkers on the future of legal education. He also gave a presentation, “Beyond the Ideology of Renewables,” at Case Western Reserve University at the 2nd Burke Environmental Law Center Junior Scholars Conference in July.
Emily Berman participated in a panel discussion on Executive Accountability at SEALS on August 1, 2025, and presented an update on the Supreme Court’s OT2024 to the Southern District of Texas’s chapter of the Federal Bar Association on August 19, 2025. She also appeared on both “Hello Houston” and “ABC News Live” to discuss the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and on “Houston Matters” to discussion the First Amendment under President Trump’s second term in office.
Kate Brem joined Professor Megan Davis in June at the Global Legal Skills Institute’s 17th Annual Conference at Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, in Brno, Czechia, to discuss professional identity development among international law students and strategies for preparing them for practice in the U.S. legal system. In July, she joined Professor Christina Crozier and colleagues from four other law schools at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference at Arizona State University in Phoenix, where the panel explored two-way mentorship between veteran and new faculty and shared strategies for fostering reciprocal learning within institutions and across the legal academy.
Maleaha Brown presented CLEs for the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and the State Bar of New Mexico on addressing non-assaultive domestic violence in family law matters. Darren Bush participated in panels “Introduction to the Legal Academy” and “Is There a Place for Me in the Legal Academy” and was a mock interviewer and document reviewer for prospective law teachers at the SEALS Law Conference in Boca Raton, Florida, July 27-August 2. Seth J. Chandler presented on the use of AI in law school at the American Association of Law School’s academic support meeting on August 20.
Megan L. Davis presented “To Be Professional or Not to Be Professional, Is That the Question?” with Kate Brem at the Global Legal Skills Conference in Brno, Czechia on May 29. She also moderated a panel at the same conference, “Shifting Perspectives: Students as Decision-Makers.” In July, Professor Davis presented at SEALS on a panel, “Beyond Next Gen: Working Together to Improve Student Flourishing.”
Alyson Drake chaired the 2025 Teaching the Teachers Conference for Law Librarians Beginners' Bootcamp, a program training new law librarian-teachers, in Baltimore, Maryland on May 28-30. During the conference, she presented twice, first on "Understanding How Students Learn" and then on "Giving Effective & Motivating Feedback." In July, Professor Drake spoke twice at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon. First, on July 19, she was an invited speaker at a pre-conference workshop on Teaching the Tech Trainers: AI Edition, where she presented "Pedagogical Considerations for Incorporating AI Into Your Course." Then, on July 20, she spoke on a panel on transfer of knowledge, entitled "From IL to NextGen Bar & Beyond: Ensuring Knowledge Transfer into Practice."
David Froomkin was awarded the Leonard D. White Award by the American Political Science Association for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration.
Aman Gebru guest lectured at the Humboldt University of Berlin on "Communal Authorship" and presented on "Cultural Appropriation as Passing Off" at University of Copenhagen for the Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property Law, in June. Professor Gebru also presented on "Truthfulness in Trademarks" at both the Two Hands Workshop in Galveston, TX, and the University of Wisconsin School of Law in June, as well as at the Junior Intellectual Property Law Scholars Workshop and the 25th Intellectual Property Law Scholars Conference at DePaul University School of Law in August.
Nikolas Guggenberger presented “Consent as Friction” at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy’s Developing Issues in Bioethics and Society in May.
Renee Knake Jefferson was elected in August to the Council for the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, the national accrediting body for law schools, for a two-year term. She also was appointed to the ABA Center for Innovation. She also published the 100th post of her weekly Legal Ethics Roundup Substack, now at 2,200 subscribers. In May, she participated in a legal ethics conference at Texas A&M Law School, where she presented "When Lawyers Protest: A Review of Brescia's Lawyer Nation and Wendel's Canceling Lawyers" (forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review).
David Kwok presented “Federal Babysitter Fraud” at Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on July 31 and at CrimFest at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law on July 14. He presented “Private Frauds and Public Corruption” at the National Business Law Scholars Conference at UCLA on June 26 and at the Law & Society Annual Meeting on May 23. Ellen Marrus presented “Strengthening Community Based Reintegration Ensuring Justice with Children Through Local Empowerment and Collaboration Among Professionals” at the World Congress on Justice with Children in Madrid, Spain, in June.
Christopher Mirasola presented his forthcoming paper, “Domestic Military Deployments After Trump v. United States,” at the University of Wisconsin Civil-Military Relations Conference on Aug 13-14. Professor Mirasola also served as a guest expert on several podcasts. He appeared on the June 11 episode of Rational Security: The “How Many Constitutional Crises Can We Fit Into One Episode?” Edition and reappeared on the August 20 episode of Rational Security. He appeared on two episodes of Lawfare Daily, one in June “U.S. Troops on the Streets of Los Angeles” and one in August, “The Trials of the Trump Administration.”
Douglas Moll taught a Business Organizations class at the 2025 Summer Legal Academy at the Harris County Attorney's Office. The mission of the Summer Legal Academy is to provide insight into the legal field for high-school students, with priority selection given to students underrepresented in the legal profession. In July, Professor Moll spoke as an invited roundtable panelist at the Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop at the SEALS conference. The topic of the roundtable was “Introduction to the Academy.”
Laura Portuondo’s article, “Gendered Liberty,” 113 Geo. L.J. 707 (2025) was reviewed twice in Jotwell, first by Albertina Antognini and then by Leah Litman. The article was also featured on the LPE Blog as “Some of The Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship.”
Elizabeth Trujillo was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute Department of Law (EUI) during Spring 2025. In May, Professor Trujillo gave a faculty workshop entitled "Democratic Bargaining in Trade: Environmental Justice in Trade" at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Bern, Switzerland. The WTI interviewed Professor Trujillo and wrote an article for the WTI newsletter and website on what motivates her work on trade, sustainability, and democratic social policy making as they relate to the Americas. In June, Professor Trujillo presented at the EUI a working draft of her book manuscript in a workshop dedicated to the book, organized by the EUI Working Groups on Environmental Law and Governance and International Economic Law, entitled “Deep Trade Models: Can Fragmentation in International Economic Law Assist in Preserving Local Social Policy Goals for Sustainable Development?” Professor Trujillo was also a moderator and discussant for a presentation on “Global Capital: A Global History of International Economic Law” by Professor and Jean Monnet Fellow, Valentina Vadi, at the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advance Studies. Professor Trujillo also participated in the trade law conference (by invitation only) hosted by the Graduate Institute in Geneva, “From Trade and [...] to [...] and Trade: Did it Strengthen Coherence in International Law?" in honor of Gabrielle Marceau’s retirement as Senior Legal Advisor in the Cabinet of the Director-General and Senior Counsellor of Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization and Associate Professor of the University of Geneva.
Bret 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 12. |
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