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January
Sameer Ashar
Engagement:
- Distinguished Visitor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Prof. Ashar taught the intensive course, “Toward Abolition Democracy: Law, Lawyers, and Social Movements” (January 2025) (more information here)
Joshua D. Blank
Publication:
- Co-author (with Ari Glogower), Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance (Cambridge University Press 2024) (available here)
Robert S. Chang
Publication:
- Co-author (with Nolan L. Cabrera), Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts (Cambridge University Press 2024) (available here)
Andrew Gold
Publication:
- Contributor, “Of Architecture and Offices in Property Law” panel at Property and Propriety (or a Well-Ordered Society)” (October 26–27, 2023), published in Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal (a publication of William & Mary Law School’s Property Rights Project), 13 BRIGHAM-KANNER PROP. RTS. J. ___ (2024) (available here)
Dalié Jiménez
Speaking engagement:
- Paper presentation, “Life-cycle Effects of Income-Driven Repayment on Credit Outcomes, Future Student Loan Borrowing, and Labor Market Outcomes,” 2025 ASSA Annual Meeting, American Economic Association (January 4, 2025)
David Kaye
Publication:
- Co-author, European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission)’s “Report on a Rule of Law and Human Rights Compliant Regulation of Spyware, Adopted by the Venice Commission at its 141st Plenary Session (Venice, 6-7 December 2024)” (December 13, 2025) (available here)
Elizabeth Loftus
- Listed No. 1 in Cognitive Psychology for 2024, Professor Loftus has been recognized as a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS for her outstanding contributions to the field, impactful publications, and exceptional academic influence. (more information here)
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Publication (forthcoming):
- Co-author (with Andrea Kupfer Schneider), International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Academic Press 2025) (more information here)
Trilby Robinson-Dorn
Speaking engagement:
- Panelist, Equal Pay Today and our Research and Litigation Enforcement Committee webinar, “Examining Employer Compensation Practices that Contribute to Pay Inequities” (January 16, 2025)
Ann Southworth
Publication:
- Co-author (with Catherine Fisk), The Legal Profession: Ethics in Contemporary Practice, 3d Ed. (West Academic 2024)
Shauhin Talesh
Speaking engagements (forthcoming):
- Presenter, American Bar Foundation/JBF Access to Justice Faculty Scholars Workshop, Arizona State University (January 17, 2025)
- Presenter, “Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators,” Information Society Project Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School (January 30, 2025)
Ari Waldman
Professional engagement:
- Selected as a Newkirk Faculty Fellow for 2025 by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society
Christopher Whytock
Publications:
- Choice of Law for Property Issues: The Third Restatement’s Approach in Comparative Context, in Private International Law and Rights In Rem (Maria Font i Mas ed.) (Marcial Pons Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales 2024)
- Politics and Private International Law, in Research Methods in Private International Law (Xandra Kramer & Laura Carballo Piñeiro eds.) (Edward Elgar 2024) (available here)
Presentations:
- “Conflict of Laws in the United States: A Comparative Human Rights Perspective,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, Fort Worth, TX (October 2024)
- “Human Rights and Conflict of Laws,” presented at New York University School of Law, New York, NY (October 2024)