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FACULTY NOTES Jennifer Bird-Pollan was elected to the executive committee of the AALS Tax Section for a five-year term. Bird-Pollan was also elected chair of the board of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy. Blanche Bong Cook’s piece on Breonna Taylor was accepted by Boston University’s Law Review, and it will be both the lead and featured article in issue 102. Cook also recently signed a contract with Westlaw to publish the first sex trafficking textbook. David A. Brennen is the vice chair of the Board of Bluegrass Care Navigators (BCN) and will serve as chair in 2022. BCN is the statewide hospice and palliative care nonprofit organization in Kentucky. Brennen is also immediate past president of the Southeast Association of Law Schools and serves on the Council for the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. Allison Connelly was elected to the Kentucky Bar Association’s Board of Governors by attorneys in Kentucky’s fifth district. Connelly also presented “Significant Cases from the United States Supreme Court, the 2020 and 2021 Terms,” to the Kentucky Circuit Judges Judicial College, the Kentucky Court of Appeals Judicial College and the members of the Fayette County Bar Association. Joshua A. Douglas was called on by national and local media before, during, and following the 2020 general election. He served as election analyst for Spectrum News 1 Kentucky. Douglas was interview by NPR and wrote op-eds for CNN, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post and other media outlets. Melissa N. Henke was recently appointed as the law school’s designated member of the AppalReD Legal Aid’s Board of Directors. Henke will serve a two-year term.
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Cortney Lollar teamed up with the college’s Street Law and Trial Advocacy Board student organizations to prepare high school students at Fayette County Public School’s The Learning Center to conduct a mock trial centered around the story from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton. Due to COVID-19, the mock trial took place virtually with support from retired Judge Ilona Holmes, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court in Broward County, Florida, who presided over the mock trial.
Retirements In May 2021, faculty and staff celebrated the retirements of Professors Roberta Harding and Sarah N. Welling. Harding joined the college’s faculty in 1991 and was the first female, African American professor at the law school. Sarah N. Welling joined the faculty in 1981.
Kathryn L. Moore was elected to the Board of Governors of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Jonathan D. Shaub testified about executive privilege and congressional oversight before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights as part of a hearing titled: “Breaking the Logjam: Principles and Practice of Congressional Oversight and Executive Privilege” on Aug. 3, 2021. Ramsi Woodcock presented his paper, Personalizing Prices to Redistribute Wealth in Antitrust and Public Utility Regulation, at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association in October. Another paper, Big Data, Price Discrimination, and Antitrust, 68 Hastings L.J. 1371 (2017), has been translated into Chinese and is forthcoming in Central University of Finance and Economics Law Review (中财法律评论). An Op-Ed on last winter’s Texas power crisis, “What Those Shocking Texas Power Bills Have in Common with Uber Surges, Broadway Tickets, and Airfare: It’s Called MarginalCost Pricing, and It Isn’t Just a Red-State Problem,” appeared in Slate in February.
Staff Appreciation For 50 years, Mary Ann Isaacs has been a well-known staff associate for the law school at UK, starting her career in 1972. “I’m 80 years old and still working. Keeps you busy, keeps your mind going. I’m not going to sit home and do nothing. You can wither your life away by doing that,” Isaacs said recently.
