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Professor Renee Nicole Allen’s article, “From Academic Freedom to Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women in the Legal Academy,” will be published in the UCLA Law Review. Her book chapter, “Meet Xennials: The Bridge Between Generations,” published recently in Millennial Leadership in Law Schools: Essays on Disruption, Innovation, and the Future. Professor Allen was an invited speaker at Taking Our Space: Women of Color and Antiracism in Legal Academia, a roundtable hosted by Rutgers Law School.
Professor Robin Boyle was elected assistant editor-in-chief of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, an electronic journal published by Thomson Reuters. Her article, “Preventing Predatory Alienation by High-Control Groups: The Application of Human Trafficking Laws to Groups Popularly Known as ‘Cults,’ and Proposed Changes to Laws Regarding Federal Immigration, State Child Marriage, and Undue Influence,” will be published in a special edition of the peerreviewed International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation.
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Professor John Q. Barrett’s much-noted Oklahoma Law Review article, “Attribution Time: Cal Tinney’s 1937 Quip, ‘A Switch in Time’ll Save Nine,’” solves the mystery of who first said a “switch in time that saved nine” following President Roosevelt’s proposed court-packing law. Professor Barrett’s many virtual appearances this pandemic year include those at the Robert H. Jackson Center, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Chautauqua Institution, the Holocaust Memorial & Toleration Center of Nassau County, the Federal Bar Association (EDNY), the Federal Bar Council (2d Cir.), the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Moscow’s Museum of the Great Patriotic War, the Nassau County Bar Association, the 92nd Street Y, and the Holocaust Memorial Center in Michigan. He also published a chapter in Hamilton and the Law, a new book about the celebrated Broadway musical, and a tribute essay, “RBG and the Girls,” in the New York State Bar Association Journal.
Professor Gina Calabrese is serving as an Observer to the Uniform Law Commission’s Drafting Committee for a Uniform Law on Debt Collection Default Judgments, working to address the high percentage of consumer debt default judgments routinely entered against lower-income people in state courts. Her students in the Consumer Justice for the Elderly: Litigation Clinic have helped hundreds of people obtain relief when their money is wrongfully taken, or they can’t access credit or housing, due to default judgments against them. In her role as an Observer, Professor Calabrese provides input to the Drafting Committee drawn from her supervision of law students and from her experience in crafting legislative and public policy reforms. At the Practicing Law Institute’s 24th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute, she presented Access to Justice as an Ethical Priority: Observations from the Consumer Debt Part, analyzing common practices of consumer debt courts under applicable standards of professional conduct.
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“Contested Territory,” a chapter that Professor Christopher J. Borgen wrote for the Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security, examines the uses of international law in resolving territorial disputes. Professor Borgen also spoke about various aspects of law and military space operations at online conferences organized by the U.S. Naval War College and by the University of Nebraska College of Law and presented a work-in-progress, concerning law and the governance of activities in space, at an authors’ roundtable for a forthcoming book on law and diplomacy co-edited by Professor Peggy McGuinness. As chairperson of the Arms Control Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA), Professor Borgen organized and moderated a panel on the regulation of emerging weapons technologies at the ABILA’s International Law Weekend Online Conference.
“Foreign Discovery under 28 USC Sec. 1782,” a paper by Professor Edward D. Cavanagh, appears in the Federal Courts Law Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the federal judiciary.
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{DEGIROLAMI} Professor Marc O. DeGirolami’s article, “Reconstructing Malice in the Law of Punitive Damages,” was accepted for publication by the peer-reviewed Journal of Tort Law. His paper, “Establishment’s Political Priority to Free Exercise,” is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review.
