FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
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2025–26 Vol. 4
Leslie Book
- Published articles in Tax Notes
- Presented “Return Preparers and Tax Administration: Review of Government Efforts and Research on Improving Tax Compliance” at the 2026 Tax Controversy Seminar & BBQ hosted by the Taxpayer Assistance Corporation, Kostelanetz LLP and Tax Practice Pro at Bergen County Community College on June 24.
Andrew Brandt
- Posted episodes of The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast
- “NFL Schedule Release Takeaways & NIL's Impact on Smaller NCAA Sports” on May 14.
- “The MLB's Initial CBA Proposal, Andrew's Trip to France & More!” on May 29.
- “Andrew's Thoughts on the Brendan Sorsby Ruling & More!” on June 10.
- “Ross Tucker: No Supplemental Draft & What It Means for Brendan Sorsby” on June 24.
- In the Media
- Interviewed for “Exclusive with Former NFL Agent, Packers VP, Author and Analyst Andrew Brandt” on Steelers Takeaways on June 16.
- Interviewed for “Sports Business Analyst, Attorney & Former NFL Executive Andrew Brandt” on Side Piece with Melissa Pfeister on June 25.
- Interviewed for “Brandon Aiyuk Deep Dive with Andrew Brandt” on 49ers Webzone with David Lombardi on June 30.
Patrick McKinley Brennan
- In the Media: Interviewed by LiveNOW FOX for:
- “Why is Pope Leo's Encyclical Important?” on May 25.
- “Analyzing Pope Leo’s Encyclical, ‘Magnifica Humanitas’” on May 26.
David Caudill
- Presented “The Malpractice of Mr. Andrews: Ethical Contours in Colson Whitehead's ‘The Nickel Boys’” in a virtual CLE seminar hosted by the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding in Alexandria, Virginia on April 29.
- Presented “Can Law Help Stop Misinformation?” at SOCRATES Seminar 2026 hosted by the Leibniz University Hannover Institute of Philosophy on July 2.
Steven Chanenson
- Presented “Scandinavian Prison Project - Corrections Reform in Pennsylvania” at Improving Prison Conditions and Post-Release Outcomes hosted by the Vera Institute of Justice and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law on June 12.
Amy Emerson
- Participated in the panel “Law Library Strategy: Positioning for Sustainable Relevance” at the virtual 2026 NELLCO Symposium on April 15.
- Awarded the Paul Gatz RIPS-SIS Publication Award presented by the American Association of Law Libraries for the article “Assessing Information Literacy in the Age of Generative AI: A Call to the National Conference of Bar Examiners” on April 30.
- Participated in the webinar “Law Librarian Reflections on ABA Site Visits” hosted by the AALS Section of Law Libraries and Legal Information on May 14.
Brett Frischmann
- Participated in the panel “The AI Shift: Rethinking Talent Strategies in the Age of Intelligent Work” at the Innovative Technology Action Group Partnership Meeting hosted by the Chester County Economic Development Council on July 10, 2025.
- Participated in Creating an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda to Study the Effects of Online Privacy Regulation hosted by the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery from October 10-12, 2025.
- Presented “Being Human in the 21st Century (Re-Engineering Humanity)” for the Digital Humanity and Ethics course at Loyola University Chicago on November 5, 2025.
- Presented the keynote at the 2026 Flagship Conference: To Have and Have Not: Growing Asymmetries in Communications Technology, hosted by the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado Law School on February 1.
- Presented “The Future of Consent: Bridging Privacy and Contract Law in the Digital Age” at the 2026 University of Illinois Law Review Symposium hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law on April 3.
- Presented his book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources, for the virtual Metagov Seminar on April 8.
- Participated in the Litigating Beyond the Business-Consumer Relationship: Legal Accountability Throughout the AI Supply Chain conference hosted by Tech Justice Law Project and Fordham University School of Law on May 8.
- Participated in the Twelfth Law and Computer Science Roundtable hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School from May 12-13.
- Moderated the panel “Humans, Judgment and Delegation” and presented on the panel “Roles, Duties and Prerogatives” at the Workshop on Fiduciary Duties and AI hosted by the Information Law Institute at New York University School of Law from June 4-5.
- Presented “Slow Governance for HHAI Systems” at the Governing Generative AI as Knowledge Commons Workshop hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from June 17-18.
- Organized the third edition of the Frictional Design in Hybrid Human-AI Systems Workshop at Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2026 in Brussels, Belgium on July 7.
- Presented “Where Should AI Be Less Seamless? A Cognitive Vulnerability and Mitigation Catalog for Frictional Design” during the session “Agency & Cognition.”
- Moderated a roundtable discussion during the session “Applications: Data & Humanities.”
Peter Ormerod
- Published “Regulating Data Monetization” in Texas A&M Law Review (Vol. 13) on April 14.
- Co-authored “Regulating Manipulative Design Is Not Preempted by CDA 230 or the First Amendment” with Brett Frischmann in Emory Law Journal (Vol. 75) on July 1.
Luke Repici
- Presented “Generative AI and the Practice of Law” at a CLE event in Philadelphia on June 3.
- Presented “Objective/Predictive Legal Writing” at a summer writing series hosted by White and Williams LLP on June 24
Rebecca Scalio
- Received the 2026 Spirit of ASP Award from the Association of Academic Support Educators on May 20.