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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

 

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