ARCHIVED FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
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.
Leslie Book
- Presented “Transformative Technology and Tax Statutes of Limitation” at the University of Georgia School of Law Tax Colloquium on February 12.
- Updated the chapter “Judicial Review of Agency Interpretations” in IRS Practice and Procedure (Thomson Reuters) on March 25.
- Published “Should the IRS be Allowed to Create Substantive Offer in Compromise Rules in the Internal Revenue Manual?” in Tax Notes on April 1.
Andrew Brandt
- Published articles in Sports Illustrated
- One NFL Team’s Shrewd Moves Maximized Its Return on Trade Deals” on November 14.
- “NFL Response to NFLPA Report Cards Is Thin-Skinned But May Have Legal Standing” on November 25.
- “Business of Football: End of Chiefs’ Run Is How the NFL Works” on December 18.
- “Follow the Money in Our Top 10 Business of Football Stories for 2025” on December 31.
- “The Two Super Bowl GMs Share a Background” on January 29.
- “NFL Grievance Win May Not Stop Public Shaming From NFLPA Report Cards” on February 17.
- Posted episodes of The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast
- “Mavericks Fire Nico Harrison, Remembering Paul Tagliabue & More” on November 13.
- “The Pros & Cons of NIL and the Transfer Portal in College Football” on December 6.
- “Andrew's Top 10 Business of Sports Stories of the Year” on December 30.
- “What's Going On with the MLBPA? NBA Tanking Issues & More” on February 18.
- “NFL Combine Preview, Franchise Tag Window Opens & More” on February 26.
- “What's Going On with Maxx Crosby? And Andrew's NFL Free Agency Takeaways” on March 12.
- “The NBA is Officially Expanding, a Change in the NFLPA & More” on March 26.
- In the Media
- Quoted in “Josh Jacobs May Have Just Played His Final Snap for the Packers” by Lombardi Avenue on December 12.
- Interviewed for “Sports Executive Says Stefon Diggs’ Talent Makes Support Easier Amid Legal Trouble” on TMZ on December 31.
- Quoted in “Did Washington Quarterback Break Lucrative Return Agreement to Enter Transfer Portal?” by AL.com on January 7.
- Quoted in “Wizards Say $10,000 April Fools’ Day Half-Court Shot Prank was Scripted” by The New York Times on April 2.
Patrick McKinley Brennan
- Presented “Punishment, Mercy and the Common Good” at the Doing Justice & Loving Mercy: A Michigan Conversation on Criminal Justice program hosted by the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network on October 21.
- Presented “A Constitution for Equals? Human Equality in Our Constitutional Order” at the University of Michigan Kateri Institute for Catholic Studies on October 21.
- Published “From Leo XIII to the Wagner Act” in Commonweal on November 24.
- Presented “Pope Leo XIII, Americanism and Political Society” at the University of California, Berkeley, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology on January 24.
- Presented “Students for Fair Admissions, Equal Protection and Human Equality” at University of Michigan Law School on February 10.
David Caudill
- Taught Expert Evidence and participated in a panel discussion between March 2-6 at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
- Presented “Neo-Calvinism and the Ideology of Public Science Controversies” at the 2026 Kuyper Conference hosted by Calvin University on March 27.
- Awarded a summer 2026 fellowship to research social credibility and trustworthiness of expert knowledge and science-based information from the Center for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany.
Steven Chanenson
- Taught the virtual judicial education course Probation and Resentencing in Pennsylvania hosted by the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts on March 19.
- Participated in the panel following a screening of Prison Project: Little Scandinavia hosted by the Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on March 30.
- Published “Remembering A Sentencing Giant” on Sentencing Matters Substack on March 20.
Amy Emerson
- Participated in the panel “Liberty, Justice and AI for All” at the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section Winter Meeting on January 17.
- Presented “Salaries, Credentials and Status: Frank Conversations About Law Library Pay, Prospects and Other Uncomfortable Topics” at the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association 2026 Institute on March 20.
Ann Juliano
- Published “Workplace Relief is Coming for Employees with Symptoms of Menstruation, Perimenopause and Menopause in Philly” in The Conversation on March 24.
James Edward Maule
- The MauledAgain blog was named to Feedspot’s “100 Best Tax Blogs to Follow in 2026” list on March 27.
Michael Moreland
- Moderated the panel “Works in Progress Panel 1-A” at the 27th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference in New Orleans on January 7.
- In the Media: Interviewed for “Supreme Court Weighs in on Trans Athlete Bans” on Studio 2 on WHYY on January 13.
- Presented “Cardinal Newman and Pope Leo XIII on Americanism” at the 2026 Annual Newman Lecture hosted by the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture at the University of Pennsylvania on February 20.
- Participated in the panel “Is the Court Moving in the Right Direction on the Establishment Clause?” at the Daniel Webster Debate Series hosted by the Georgetown University Law Center Federalist Society on February 25.
- Joined an amicus brief on behalf of the petitioner in the Supreme Court case United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. David O’Connell on March 6.
Peter Ormerod
- Published “Disciplining Mechanisms: Governing Data Markets with Competition and Regulation” in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology (Vol. 28) on March 5.
- In the Media
- Quoted in “Jury Finds Instagram and YouTube Liable in a Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial” by Associated Press on March 25.
- Interviewed for “Legal Expert Calls Verdict in Social Media Addiction Trial a Promising Development” by 6ABC Philadelphia on March 25.
Michael Risch
- In the Media: Quoted in “NJ Transit Immunity Denial Sets Stage for More Patent Suits” by Bloomberg Law on March 16.
Kate Vengraitis
- Presented “When (Lots of) Work Disappears: Reimagining Social Security for the AI Age” at the 2026 Poverty Law Conference hosted by the University of Southern California Gould School of Law on February 20.
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
- 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.