At the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting, Professor Ben Barton spoke as part of an Open Sources panel entitled "The Impact of Deborah Rhode."

Professor Barton also recently authored an op-ed, "The Supreme Court Needs Diversity in More Ways Than One," which ran in January 30th edition of the The Wall Street Journal. The piece, which can be found here, is based on his new book "The Credentialed Court."

Professor Zack Buck was interviewed for and quoted in a story that ran in USA Today on Jan. 5, 2022. The story, entitled "Biden COVID Vaccine Mandates May Face Pushback from Supreme Court," examined the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming review of the federal mandate that requires health care workers who treat Medicare patients to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and is available here.

Professor Buck was also interviewed for and quoted in a story published by CNN Politics that ran on CNN.com on Jan. 28, 2022. The story, entitled "Judge Notorious for Anti-Obamacare Rulings Has Another Crack," examines a new legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act that has the potential to limit agency power. The article is available here.

At the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting, Professor Sherley Cruze spoke as part of a panel entitled “Resisting the Second Redemption: Dismantling Racial Capitalism amidst the Global Pandemic,” which was put on by the AALS Minority Groups Section.

At the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting, Professor Joan Heminway participated in a number of panels. She served as a commentator for both the "New Voices in Business Law" as well as the "Emerging Voices in Securities Regulation" panels that were put on by the AALS Section for Business Associations and the AALS Section on Securities Regulation, respectively. Finally, she was a speaker on the AALS Discussion Group Program, entitled “A Very Online Economy: Meme Trading, Bitcoin, and the Crisis of Trust and Value(s) – How Should the Law Respond?”

Also at the AALS Annual Meeting, Professor Heminway was elected Secretary of the AALS Section on Agency, Partnerships, an Unincorporated Associations. 

Professor Heminway also recently offered thoughts on enhancing scholarly productivity and local and national scholarly recognition at a faculty forum at the Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law. She was invited to speak by LMU Law’s Faculty Development Committee.

At the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting, Associate Dean Michael Higdon moderated a panel entitled, "Developing Law Students and Faculty Who Can Lead Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Efforts," which was put on by the AALS Section for Associate Deans for Academic Affairs and Research.

Also at the AALS Annual Meeting, Associate Dean Higdon was elected Chair-Elect to the AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues; Secretary for the AALS Section on Children and the Law; and the executive committees of both the AALS Section on Family and Juvenile Law and the AALS Section Trusts and Estates.

Professor George Kuney has been repeatedly interviewed by Law 360 [degrees] for a series of articles with regard to the propriety of third party releases in the Purdue Pharma chapter 11 case and now as to the use of those releases in the Ascena Retail Group chapter 11. Ascena is the former owner of women’s fashion brands including Ann Taylor and Lane Bryant. It is the latest company to see a bankruptcy deal fall apart over its use of so-called third-party releases. The federal judge who struck down the Ascena deal last week cited to Purdue in his decision, noting U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon’s rejection of the opioid maker’s proposed settlement.

At the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting, Associate Dean Paula Schaefer moderated a panel entitled, “From Watergate to Insurrection: Fifty Years of Legal Ethics in the U.S.” which was put on by the AALS Section for Professional Responsibility.

Professor Greg Stein’s book, "A Practical Guide to Commercial Real Estate Transactions: From Contract to Closing" (American Bar Association), has made the ABA’s “top ten list” in terms of sales from among the several hundred ABA books currently in print. The book is currently in its third edition, which was published in 2016, and is coauthored with Morton P. Fisher Jr. and Michael D. Goodwin.

At the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting, Professor Maurice Stucke spoke as part of a panel entitled “Antitrust and Tech Giants,” which was put on by the AALS Section for Antitrust and Economic Regulation.

Professor Val Vojdik was an invited guest speaker at a two-hour virtual CLE panel, Legal Jurisprudence, sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center on Jan. 13, 2022. Dean Len Baynes moderated the panel. Professor Vojdik discussed feminist jurisprudence. Other speakers included Houston law faculty Professor Daniel Morales (critical race theory), Professor Darren Bush (law and economics) and Professor James Nelson (traditional analysis and legal realism). The Zoom event drew over 146 attendees.