ARCHIVED FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

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.

Leslie Book

• Presented “Regulating Tax Agents: The Australian Model” at the Center for Taxpayer Rights in Washington, DC on July 14.
• Published “Book Review: Untaxed: The Rich, the IRS, and a New Approach to Tax Compliance” in British Tax Review on August 1.

Andrew Brandt

• Published articles in Sports Illustrated
  • “Business of Football: The NFL’s Stake in ESPN Can Definitely Buy Influence,” August 20.
  • “Business of Football: Micah Parsons Trade Wildly Out of Character for Packers,” September 4.
  • “Business of Football: Eagles Taking Advantages Other Teams Choose Not To,” September 18.
• Posted episodes of The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast
  • “MLB Broadcast Deals, Flacco and Jones Starting & More,” August 21.
  • “Emergency Pod: Cowboys Trade Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers,” August 29.
  • “Kawhi Leonard Endorsement Deep Dive with Joe Pompliano,” September 11.
  • “The Kawhi Leonard Saga Continues, Tush Push Discourse & More,” September 18.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “What Every Athlete (& Fan) Should Know: Andrew Brandt Explains NIL’s Legal Maze” on Athlete Unscripted on September 25.

Patrick McKinley Brennan

• In the Media: Quoted in “‘Revival’ at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial: When Politicians Doubled as Evangelists” by National Catholic Register on September 26.
• Organized the 20th Annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics and Culture and presented “Introduction: Labor, Capital and the Heart” on September 29.

David Caudill

• Presented “Science Wars in the Courtroom: The Legacy of Daubert” at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Seattle, WA on September 6.
• Presented “The Worst Attorney in All of Literature: Ethical Contours of Whitehead's ‘Nickel Boys’” at the Law and Literature Weekend Seminar hosted by Washington and Lee University School of Law on October 3.

Amy Emerson

• Served as a discussion facilitator at the inaugural Leadership Effectiveness Institute for Academic Law Library Directors at Yale Law School on June 12.

Ann Juliano

• Served as co-reporter with the Third Circuit Committee on Model Civil Jury Instructions in Philadelphia on September 5.
• Presented “Clapping Erasers and Hauling Goalposts: The Labor and Employment Implications of Manual Labor as School Discipline” at the Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law hosted by Seton Hall Law School on September 19.
• Appointed publicist to the Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law at Seton Hall Law School on September 19.

Preston Jordan Lim

• Presented “The New Deal Judgments and the Amendment of the Constitution” at the UBC Constitutional Workshop: Fractious Federalism at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan on September 11.
• Posted "Chancellor Day Hall" on the Time Immemorial Podcast on October 6.

Michael Moreland

• Joined an amicus brief on behalf of the petitioner in the Supreme Court case, Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission (No. 24-154) on February 3.
• Participated in the panel “Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond” hosted by the Mattone Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law in New York on April 4.
• Moderated the webinar “Tracking and Ending Religious Discrimination” hosted by the Federalist Society on April 10.
• Moderated the webinar “Courthouse Steps Oral Argument: Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond” hosted by the Federalist Society on May 1.
• Appointed visiting professor of law at the University of Milan from May 5-14, 2025.
• Moderated a discussion with Justice Amy Coney Barrett on her book Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution at the Union League of Philadelphia on September 23.
• In the Media appearances:
  • Interviewed for “Philadelphia Remembers the Legacy of Pope Francis” on Studio 2 from WHYY on April 22.
  • Quoted in “How Does a Papal Conclave Work? People are Turning to This Oscar-Winning Film to Find Out” by NBC News on April 23.
  • Quoted in “Simple Funeral for Pope Francis Becomes Conduit to See Trump” by Bloomberg on April 25.
  • Interviewed for “How Accurate Is the Movie ‘Conclave’ to the Real Pope Election?” by Sunday Today on April 27.
  • Quoted in “Supreme Court Fight Over Catholic Charter School Could Clear the Way for Taxpayer-Funded Religious Schools” by CNN on April 29.
  • Interviewed for “Legal Panel Debates Impact of Supreme Court Fight Over Catholic Charter School” by CNN on April 30.
  • Interviewed from Rome on the election of Pope Leo XIII by NPR on May 8.
  • Quoted in “Oklahoma Catholic Charter School Loses Funding Bid After SCOTUS Deadlock, Future Legal Battle Looms” by National Catholic Register on May 22.
  • Quoted in “How the Supreme Court's Injunction Ruling Advances Trump's Birthright Citizenship Fight” by Fox News on July 8.
  • Interviewed for “PA Supreme Court Petition Pushes to Make Closed Primaries Unconstitutional” by NBC10 on July 15.
  • Quoted in “Pope to Bestow One of Catholic Church’s Highest Honors on Anglican Convert John Henry Newman” by The Associated Press on August 1.
  • Quoted in “Don’t Cherry-Pick St. John Henry Newman, Say Theologians” by National Catholic Register on August 20.

Peter Ormerod

• Presented “Regulating Data Monetization” for the Intellectual Property Colloquium course taught by Professor Irina Mantra at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University on September 8.

Luke Repici

• Published “A Double Whammy for Newer Lawyers” for Law.com on September 29.

Michael Risch

• Appointed to serve as senior commentator for the Thomas Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship at the University of Akron School of Law for 2025-26. 
• Presented “Orange Book Stories” at the 25th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference hosted by DePaul University College of Law on August 8.

Ana Santos Rutschman

• Presented “The American Asthma Patient” at The Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop hosted by Harvard Law School on September 15.

Andrew Brandt

• Posted “Villanova Pope, George Pickens Traded & More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on May 8.
• Published “Business of Football: Derek Carr Gave a Gift to the Saints” for Sports Illustrated on May 13.
• Posted “NBA Draft Lottery, NFL Schedule Release & Trey Hendrickson’s Contract” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on May 14.
• Published “Business of Football: Making Sense of Roger Goodell’s Comments About the Salary Cap” for Sports Illustrated on May 29.
• Posted “Aaron Rodgers Finally Lands in Pittsburgh, NCAA House Settlement & More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on June 12.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “Andrew Brandt: NFL Players Missed Their Opportunity to Make Fully Guaranteed Contracts the Norm, and I Don't Expect Them to Get Another Chance for It” on 92.3 The Fan on June 25.

• Posted “Damian Lillard Waived, WNBA Expansion & More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on June 30.
• Posted “The Lakers' $10 Billion Sale, Rafael Devers Trade Thoughts & More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on July 19.

Doris DelTosto Brogan

• Received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 Legal Intelligencer Pennsylvania Legal Awards on June 12.

David Caudill

• Presented “The Consensus Rule and the Problem of Specific Causation” at the Evidence Summer Workshop at Vanderbilt Law School on May 5.
• Published “Climatologist Mann’s Defamation Suit Victory: Can It Resolve the Crisis of Expertise?” in the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 40 (2025) on May 10.

Steven Chanenson

• Reappointed vice chair of the Corrections System Committee by the Pennsylvania Bar Association on April 22.
• Co-published “Discouraging Dignity: Linguistic Barriers to Transforming the Prison Environment” in the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice on May 29.

Michelle Madden Dempsey

• Presented “Responding to Wrongs” at the London School of Economics & Political Science on May 6.
• Co-organized the Criminal Law & Philosophy Journal Inaugural Conference at the University of York on May 9.
• Discussed Criminalizing Disobedience at the Virtual Book Manuscript Workshop for Youngjae Lee hosted by Nomos (the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy) on May 12.
• Discussed David Pozen's The Constitution of the War on Drugs at the Criminal Law Book Workshop hosted by Villanova Law on May 16.
• Co-organized the 3rd Annual Conference hosted by The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Law on May 30.
• Presented “Accountability for Sexual Wrongdoing” at Truth, Consent, and Power: A Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Law at the University of Oxford on June 26.

Amy Emerson

• Presented “Considering the ABA Standards for Law Libraries” at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco on January 11.
• Presented “Bridging the Justice Gap: Hackathons as Catalysts for Change” virtually at the Canadian Bar Association Access to Justice Week in Alberta on February 6.

Brett Frischmann

• Presented “Advancing Humanism Through Language Technologies” at the Language Technologies for All conference hosted by UNESCO in Paris on February 24.
• Authored the chapter “Common Nonsense about Password Security and the Expert–Layperson Knowledge Gap” in Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2025) published on March 13.
• Co-organized the Governing Knowledge Commons Convergence Conference hosted by Villanova Law with Todd Aagaard and Ana Santos Ruschman on May 23.
• Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the Privacy Laws Scholars Conference at UCLA School of Law on May 30.
• In the Media: Interviewed by NBC10 for segment about US technology laws on June 3.
• Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the Computer Science & the Law Roundtable at the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on June 5.
• Presented the keynote at the Frictional AI Workshop at the Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2025 in Pisa, Italy on June 10.
• Presented “A Defense of Demonstrably Informed Consent in Privacy Governance” at the University of Turin on June 13.
• Attended trustee meeting at the Nexa Center for Internet & Society in Politecnico, Turin, Italy on June 14.
• Participated in the panel “Power, Participation and Heterogeneity in Knowledge Commons” at 20th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons held at the University of Massachusetts on June 17.

Alvin Padilla-Babilonia

• Presented “The Anticolonial Politics of Housing and Land Rights” at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 23.
• Published “The Imposition of Constitutional Rights” in the Michigan Law Review (Vol. 123, Issue 7) on May 31.

Michael Risch

• In the Media: Quoted in “In US Patent Row Between Google, EcoFactor, Gatekeepers get a Bigger Yard” by MLex on May 22.
• Presented “The Double Patenting Puzzle” at the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL) Annual Symposium at the University of Houston Law Center on June 6.
• Presented “The Double Patenting Puzzle” at the Tsai Center Patent Scholars Summit hosted by Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law on June 28.

Ana Santos Rutschman

• Presented “The American Asthma Patient” at Stanford Law School BioLaw Conference on May 17.
• In the Media: Quoted in “Vaccines Face Uncertain Approval, Reviews with New FDA Official” by Bloomberg Law on May 19.
• In the Media: Quoted in “Feds No Longer Advise Covid-19 Shot for Kids, Pregnant Adults” by Law360 on May 27.
• In the Media: Quoted in “RFK Jr. Puts Health Insurers in Limbo by Dropping Covid-19 Shot” by Bloomberg Law on May 28.
• Presented “Vaccine Misinformation” at the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) 48th Annual Health Law Professors Conference hosted by Boston University School of Law on June 5.

Leslie Book

• Co-published “The Need For A General Two-Year Statute of Limitations” for Tax Notes on January 27.
• Published “Technology is Speeding Up Tax Season, But Not the Audit Process” for The Hill on February 25.
• Published “Loper Bright and Uncertainty” for the Procedurally Taxing blog on Tax Notes on March 5.

Andrew Brandt

• Posted “Eagles Win Super Bowl 59, Lakers Trade Fiasco & More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on February 11.
• Published “Business of Football: Eagles’ Talent Differential Was Too Much for Chiefs” for Sports Illustrated on February 13.
• In the Media: Appeared in “S.I.’s Andrew Brandt: How Bengals Should Handle Their Free Agents Situation” on The Rich Eisen Show on February 28.
• Posted “Saquon Barkley Signs Extension & NFL Franchise Tag Deadline” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on March 4.
• Published “Business of Football: What to Expect in Free Agency, Start of New League Year” for Sports Illustrated on March 10.
• Posted “Boston Celtics sell for $6.1 Billion, March Madness & More” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on March 20.
• Published “Business of Football: Celtics’ Record Sale Is Great for NFL Owners” for Sports Illustrated on March 26.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “Andrew Brandt On Why The NFL Shouldn't Ban The Tush Push” on 97.5 The Fanatic on March 27.

David Caudill

• In the Media: Interviewed for “Judges Should Be Discerning Consensus, Not Evaluation Scientific Expertise” on the Excited Utterance podcast on October 28.
• Presented “Ethical Contours in Perkins-Valdez's Novel, Take My Hand” at Washington & Lee Law and Literature Seminar in Lexington, Virginia on November 1.
• Authored the chapter "Ethics: Law and Literature as an Ethical Enterprise" in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature (Edward Elgar Publishing), published on January 9.

Steven L. Chanenson

• Participated in a closed drug sentencing roundtable with the U.S. Sentencing Commission in Washington, DC on November 20.
• Elected co-chair of the Voices of the Commonwealth Committee, part of the transition committee for Attorney General-Elect Dave Sunday, on January 15.
• Presented “Sentencing Commissions: A Snapshot from the Keystone State” at the New York State Justice Task Force on February 10.
• Presented “What Pennsylvania is Learning From Scandinavia About Corrections” with Jordyn Hyatt ’08 at the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges Midyear Meeting in Pittsburgh on February 21.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “Why Are US Attorneys Resigning from Office” on KYW Newsradio on February 23.
• Presented “The Scandinavian Prison Project: Nordic-Inspired Correctional Reform in Pennsylvania” at the Symposium on Prison Research and Innovation hosted by the Urban Institute in Washington, DC on March 20.

Michelle Madden Dempsey

• Presented “Sex & Coercion” at the University of California-Irvine Legal Philosophy Seminar on March 26.
• Presented “Defining Sex Trafficking: Comparative Legal Perspectives” virtually at the Widener Commonwealth Law Review Symposium on April 4.

Michael Moreland

• In the Media: Interviewed for “President Joe Biden Pardons Son Hunter Biden” by 6ABC Philadelphia on December 1.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “President Biden’s Decision to Pardon His Son” by NBC10 Philadelphia on December 2.
• In the Media: Quoted in “Could Donald Trump Just Ignore a TikTok Ban?” by Newsweek on January 10.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “Trump has Pledged Pardons for Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters, Local Attorneys Prepare” by NBC10 Philadelphia on January 17.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “President Trump’s Historic Comeback” by NBC10 Philadelphia on January 20.
• In the Media: Quoted in “Pride, Puppies and a Charter School: A Look at the Blockbuster Religion Cases at the Supreme Court” for USA Today on February 2.
• In the Media: Quoted in “Supreme Court that Trump Helped Shape Could Have the Last Word on His Aggressive Executive Orders” by The Associated Press on February 10.

Michael Risch

• In the Media: Quoted in “They Spoke Out Against Their Employer. Then They Were Hit With Trade Secrets Lawsuits.” by Business Insider on January 25.
• Published an amicus brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (en banc) case EcoFactor v. Google on January 25.
• In the Media: Interviewed for “EU Presses Apple for Use of Encrypted Data in Criminal Investigations” by KCBS Radio on February 7.

Tuan Samahon

• Presented “Special-Purpose Disclosure: Accessing the Government’s X-Files” at the Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law faculty workshop on March 26.

Ana Santos Rutschman

• In the Media: Quoted in “5 Ways RFK Jr. Could Undermine Lifesaving Childhood Vaccines” by The New York Times on November 19.
• Published “From Myriad to Moderna: The Modern (Bio)Pharmaceutical Company” in the Texas A&M Journal of Property Law  (Vol.11, No. 1) on January 1.
• In the Media: Quoted in “Can RFK Jr. really take away ADHD Medications?” by Rolling Stone on February 23.
• In the Media: Quoted in “RFK Team's Moves on Vaccines, Bird Flu Stoke Health Worries” by Bloomberg Law on February 28.
• In the Media: Quoted in “Could 'Make America Healthy Again' Impact Mental Health Treatment?” by Fox47 News on March 11.
• In the Media: Quoted in “Trump CDC Pick Gets Praise for Science Credentials, With Limits” by Bloomberg Law on March 27.
• In the Media: Quoted in “23andMe Wants to Sell its Most Valuable Asset. Will Your Private DNA Data Be Safe?” by MarketWatch on March 27.