ARCHIVED FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

Andrew Brandt

Doris DelTosto Brogan

David Caudill

Steven Chanenson

Michelle Madden Dempsey

  • Presented “Responding to Wrongs” at the London School of Economics & Political Science on May 6.
  • Co-organized the Criminal Law & Philosophy Journal Inaugural Conference at the University of York on May 9.
  • Discussed Criminalizing Disobedience at the Virtual Book Manuscript Workshop for Youngjae Lee hosted by Nomos (the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy) on May 12.
  • Discussed David Pozen's The Constitution of the War on Drugs at the Criminal Law Book Workshop hosted by Villanova Law on May 16.
  • Co-organized the 3rd Annual Conference hosted by The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Law on May 30.
  • Presented “Accountability for Sexual Wrongdoing” at Truth, Consent, and Power: A Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Law at the University of Oxford on June 26.

Amy Emerson

  • Presented “Considering the ABA Standards for Law Libraries” at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco on January 11.
  • Presented “Bridging the Justice Gap: Hackathons as Catalysts for Change” virtually at the Canadian Bar Association Access to Justice Week in Alberta on February 6.

Brett Frischmann

  • Presented “Advancing Humanism Through Language Technologies” at the Language Technologies for All conference hosted by UNESCO in Paris on February 24.
  • Authored the chapter “Common Nonsense about Password Security and the Expert–Layperson Knowledge Gap” in Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2025) published on March 13.
  • Co-organized the Governing Knowledge Commons Convergence Conference hosted by Villanova Law with Todd Aagaard and Ana Santos Ruschman on May 23.
  • Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the Privacy Laws Scholars Conference at UCLA School of Law on May 30.
  • In the Media: Interviewed by NBC10 for segment about US technology laws on June 3.
  • Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the Computer Science & the Law Roundtable at the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on June 5.
  • Presented the keynote at the Frictional AI Workshop at the Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2025 in Pisa, Italy on June 10.
  • Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the University of Turin on June 13.
  • Attended trustee meeting at the Nexa Center for Internet & Society in Politecnico, Turin, Italy on June 14.
  • Participated in the panel “Power, Participation and Heterogeneity in Knowledge Commons” at 20th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons held at the University of Massachusetts on June 17.

Alvin Padilla-Babilonia

  • Presented “The Anticolonial Politics of Housing and Land Rights” at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 23.
  • Published “The Imposition of Constitutional Rights” in the Michigan Law Review (Vol. 123, Issue 7) on May 31.

Michael Risch

  • In the Media: Quoted in “In US Patent Row Between Google, EcoFactor, Gatekeepers get a Bigger Yard” by MLex on May 22.
  • Presented “The Double Patenting Puzzle” at the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL) Annual Symposium at the University of Houston Law Center on June 6.
  • Presented “The Double Patenting Puzzle” at the Tsai Center Patent Scholars Summit hosted by Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law on June 28.

Ana Santos Rutschman

Leslie Book

Andrew Brandt

David Caudill

  • In the Media: Interviewed for “Judges Should Be Discerning Consensus, Not Evaluation Scientific Expertise” on the Excited Utterance podcast on October 28.
  • Presented “Ethical Contours in Perkins-Valdez's Novel, Take My Hand” at Washington & Lee Law and Literature Seminar in Lexington, Virginia on November 1.
  • Authored the chapter "Ethics: Law and Literature as an Ethical Enterprise" in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature (Edward Elgar Publishing), published on January 9.

Steven L. Chanenson

  • Participated in a closed drug sentencing roundtable with the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, DC on November 20.
  • Elected co-chair of the Voices of the Commonwealth Committee, part of the transition committee for Attorney General-Elect Dave Sunday, on January 15.
  • Presented “Sentencing Commissions: A Snapshot from the Keystone State” at the New York State Justice Task Force on February 10.
  • Presented “What Pennsylvania is Learning From Scandinavia About Corrections” with Jordyn Hyatt ’08 at the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges Midyear Meeting in Pittsburgh on February 21.
  • In the Media: Interviewed for “Why Are US Attorneys Resigning from Office” on KYW Newsradio on February 23.
  • Presented “The Scandinavian Prison Project: Nordic-Inspired Correctional Reform in Pennsylvania” at the Symposium on Prison Research and Innovation hosted by the Urban Institute in Washington, DC on March 20.

Michelle Madden Dempsey

Michael Moreland

Michael Risch

Tuan Samahon

  • Presented “Special-Purpose Disclosure: Accessing the Government’s X-Files” at the Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law faculty workshop on March 26.

Ana Santos Rutschman

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.

Andrew Brandt

 

David Caudill

  • Presented “Religious Aspects of the Crisis of Expertise” at the 2024 Quadrennial Joint Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science in Amsterdam on July 18.
  • Presented “Lacan and the Crisis of Expertise: Between Distrust, and Idealization, of Science” at the 2024 International Congress on Law and Mental Health hosted by the University of Barcelona Faculty of Law on July 24.
  • Published “Law and Literature Studies as a Basis for High Quality Ethics CLE Programs” in the Journal of Legal Education (Vol. 72 [2024]) on July 24.
  • Presented “Legal Ethics in Crime Fiction: The Example of Paretsky's Killing Orders” at the Law and Literature Alumni CLE hosted by the Villanova Law Alumni Association on August 15.
  • Appointed as a visiting academic in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Cardiff, Wales, for the fall semester.

 

Candace Centeno

  • Presented at the 2024 Legal Writing Institute Conference hosted by IU McKinney School of Law on July 17-18:
    • “Advocacy in Action: Incorporating Op-Ed/Blog Assignments into Writing and Doctrinal Classes so Students Can Explore How Policies and Laws Impact Underrepresented Groups (and Learn Real-World Skills)”
    • “Getting into Governance”

 

Steven Chanenson

  • Published “Into the Weeds: Considering Support for and the Intricacies of Cannabis Legalization in New Jersey” in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law on September 16.

 

Amy Emerson

  • Presented “Generative AI and Ethics in the Practice of Law” with Lori Corso and Deeya Haldar at the Nicholas Cipriani American Inn of Court on September 11.

 

Brett Frischmann

  • Selected as a finalist for the Office of Health Economics’ 2024 Innovation Policy Prize for the proposal, “Antimicrobial Efficacy Within a New Paradigm of Infrastructure: Sustainable Innovation and Supply and Benefits to Environmental Emissions,” in June.
  • Presented “Comments on the Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons Project” at the Ninth World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Conference hosted by the Center for Governance and Markets (CGM) at the University of Pittsburgh on September 20.
  • Contributed to an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case, Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton (No. 23-1122) on September 23.     
  • Presented “Governance Seams and the Integrity of Socially Meaningful Contexts” at the 6th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity hosted by Rutgers University on September 27.
  • Contributed to the submission of Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemakings to the Office of the New York State Attorney General on September 30:
    • (1) Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act
    • (2) NY Child Data Protection Act

 

MarySheila McDonald

 

Michael Moreland

 

Jennifer O’Hare

 

Luke Repici

  • Presented “Generative AI in 1L Legal Writing” at the virtual Legal Writing Institute’s New Teacher Training Bootcamp on July 9.

 

Michael Risch

  • In The Media: Interviewed for “TikTok Sharing User Behavior with Chinese Parents” on KCBS Radio on July 28. 

 

Ana Santos Rutschman

 

Tuan Samahon

  • Moderated “Situation Critical: Executive Disability and the Dangers We Face” as part of the Fall 2024 Election Series hosted by Villanova University on September 25.

 

Michael Semes

 

Christine Speidel

 

Emily Stolzenberg

  • Presented “Toward a Private Law of Intimate Obligations” at the Sixth Annual Nonmarriage Roundtable hosted by the University of Virginia School of Law on September 19.
  • Presented “Things of Value” at the Drexel Law Review Symposium: Inheritance and Inequality hosted by Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law on September 28.

 

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