FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
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2024–25 Vol. 2
Leslie Book
- Presented “Squeezing Blood from Stones” with Christine Speidel on the Marriage, Inequality and the Tax Code panel at Gender and Tax Symposium hosted by the American Tax Policy Institute in Washington, DC on October 18.
Andrew Brandt
- Posted “2024 NFL Trade Deadline Recap & More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on November 5.
- Published “The Saints’ Cap Bill Has Come Due” for Sports Illustrated on November 8.
- Posted “The State of the Dallas Cowboys, the 2024 NBA Cup and More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on November 12.
- Published “Veteran Running Backs Have Been a Market Inefficiency” for Sports Illustrated on November 22.
- Published “NFL Owners Fully Embrace Private Equity Funding” for Sports Illustrated on December 5.
- Posted “NFL Allows Private Equity Investment, Juan Soto to the Mets and More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on December 11.
- Posted “Belichick to UNC, Transfer Portal Issues and More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on December 17.
- Published “Bill Belichick’s Move to UNC Tracks With the Professionalization of College Sports” for Sports Illustrated on December 20.
- Posted “NFL Christmas Games Thoughts, Jimmy Butler Wants a Trade & More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on December 26.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “Best of the Dan Patrick Show” on The Dan Patrick Show on December 31.
Michael Campbell
- Received the Sanford Pfeffer, Esq. Award for distinguished service for the advocacy of older individuals from The Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatrics Society on December 3.
David Caudill
- Presented “Teaching Property Law with Practical Exercises: The Example of Drafting an Easement” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting in San Francisco on January 10.
Michelle Madden Dempsey
- Participated in the jurisprudence panel at the "WestFest" Celebration of Professor Robin West at Georgetown Law Center on October 18.
- Presented “The Normative Force of Precedent” at the Symposium for Philosophical Foundations of Precedent hosted by Notre Dame Law School on October 31.
- Presented “Punishment, Reasons and Regret” at the Punishment for the Greater Good by Adam Kolber Book Symposium hosted by Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy on November 2.
- Presented “Coercion, Consent and Time” at the Criminal Law Theory Seminar hosted by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law on November 14.
Amy Emerson
- Participated in “An Overview of AI Technology and its Legal Implications” panel at the J. Willard O'Brien American Inn of Court CLE at Villanova Law on November 12.
- Presented “AI Demystified: Overview of AI and its Impact on Public Interest Law” at Public Interest Law Day 2024 hosted by the Philadelphia Bar Association Public Interest Section on December 3.
Brett Frischmann
- Published an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Chilutti versus Uber on January 6.
Michael Moreland
- Presented “Friendship and the Life of the Law” at 46th Annual Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars hosted by The Catholic University of America Busch School of Business in Washington, DC on September 27.
- Presented “Newman and Tradition” at a colloquium hosted by the University of Notre Dame Kylemore in Galway, Ireland on October 5.
- Chaired the panel “Faith and Knowledge in the University” at St. John Henry Newman, Tradition and Law conference hosted by The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington, DC on October 18.
- Participated in the “Supreme Court Review: Abortion, the Presidency on Trial and Curbing the Bureaucracy” panel hosted by the Buckley Institute at Yale University on October 23.
Chaim Saiman
- Presented “How do Beth Din's in America Function?” hosted by the Hebrew University Havruta Program in Ein Karem on December 3.
- Presented “Is Insurance ‘Just a Contract’ or a ‘Just Contract’” at the Insurance Law Workshop Virtual Speaker Series hosted by the University of Connecticut on December 5.
- Presented “The Beth Din System in Contemporary America” hosted by the Hebrew University Havruta Program in Mt. Scopus on January 2.
Tuan Samahon
- Appointed chair of the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on January 1.
Christine Speidel
- Presented “Squeezing Blood from Stones” with Leslie Book on the Marriage, Inequality and the Tax Code panel at Gender and Tax Symposium hosted by the American Tax Policy Institute in Washington, DC on October 18.