ARCHIVED FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

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
  • “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.