FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

Villanova Law faculty are teachers, scholars and leaders. Regularly quoted by top-tier media, our faculty are experts in their fields, while also committed to the success of our students. Villanova Law faculty don’t just teach law; they shape it.

 

2025–26 Vol. 2

David Caudill

• Presented "Ethical Criticism and Law: Chapter 89 of Moby Dick" at Melville's Legacy for Law and the Humanities Conference at the University of Cincinnati College of Law on October 24.
• Presented “Pennsylvania Evidence Refresher: Expertise and Hearsay” at the 2025 Toby L. Dickman Seminar hosted by the Montgomery Bar Association in Norristown, PA, on November 5.

Steven Chanenson

• Presented a guest lecture for the course Sentencing Law, Policy and Practice and moderated the panel “General Second Look Sentencing Ideas and Issues” at the Second Look Sentencing Conference at Stanford Law School on November 6.
• Moderated “A Conversation with US Attorney David Metcalf” hosted by the Federalist Society at Villanova Law on November 20.
• Presented “Prison Project: Little Scandinavia” at the Andy and Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic at Drexel University Kline School of Law on December 16.
• In the Media: Quoted in “At the Center of the Latest Mangione Hearings: A Battle Over a Backpack” by The New York Times on December 21.
• Presented “Sentencing and Sentencing Guidelines” at the New Judge School Conference hosted by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts on January 14.

Amy Emerson

• Authored the chapter “Legal Research” in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025) on December 22.

Preston Jordan Lim

• Published “The China-Canada Relationship is Warming Again. But at What Human Cost?” in The Globe and Mail on November 24.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “The Canada-China Relationship is Warming Again” on The Shaye Ganam Show on November 25.
• Presented “Judicial Diplomacy” at the virtual Society of Legal Scholars Public Law Early Career Researchers' Workshop hosted by the Society of Legal Scholars Public Law Section on December 9.

Michael Moreland

• In the Media: Quoted in “Philly’s Federal Appeals Court Is Now Controlled by Republican Nominees as Trump’s Latest Judicial Picks Take the Bench” by The Philadelphia Inquirer on October 16.
• Participated in the Papal Mass and academic events in Rome for the declaration of John Henry Newman as a Doctor of the Church from October 31 to November 3.
• Authored the chapter “The Authority of Tradition: John Henry Newman (1801–1890) and Legal Theory,” in Christianity and the Making of Irish Law: Violence, Virtue, and Reason (Routledge, 2025) on November 18.
• Participated in the panel “The Intersection of Christianity and Law” at Widener Commonwealth Law School on November 20.

Jennifer O’Hare

• Published “Against Activist Cooperation Agreements” in Kentucky Law Journal on November 15.

Luke Repici

• Published “Learning by Doing: The Importance of Limited and Thoughtful Generative AI Use in the 1L Legal Writing Classroom” in Stetson Law Review on November 18.

Ana Santos Rutschman

• Published “The New Vaccine Federalism In The US” in Health Affairs Forefront with Jaqueline Penrod on October 7.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “The Clash Between the Federal Government and States Over Vaccine Policy is ‘Unprecedented,’ Villanova Health Law Professor Says” in The Philadelphia Inquirer on October 23.
• Co-authored “Mapping Intellectual Property Abuses in the Pharmaceutical Field” in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum on November 7.
• Co-authored “Impact of the 23andMe Bankruptcy on Preserving the Public Benefit of Scientific Data” in Nature Genetics on December 4.

Tuan Samahon

• Appointed visiting professor at the University of Milan and presented guest lectures on comparative constitutional traditions, global constitutional law and food law on December 1.
• Presented “Is the U.S. Federal Judiciary a Bulwark Against Trump? A House Divided Against Itself” at Première Conférence, Les Relations Multipolaires Entre Juges in Villa Vigoni, Lake Como, Italy on December 10.