FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

Leslie Book

Published “District Court: Zero Returns Aren’t a Valid Return or Refund Claim” for Tax Notes on February 1.

Published “Financial Information Submitted to IRS Not Protected by Privilege” for Tax Notes on February 6.

Published “Tax Court Clarifies Admissible Evidence in Innocent Spouse Cases” for Tax Notes on February 13.

In The Media: Interviewed in “What To Know About The Child Tax Credit, The Right Time to File and A New IRS Pilot Program, According To A Philly-area Tax Expert” for The Philadelphia Inquirer on February 17.

Published “Court Denies Government’s Request to Access Texts Between Spouses” for Tax Notes on February 26.

Published “IRS Failure to Process FOIA Request Generates Attorney Fees Award” for Tax Notes on February 28.

Published “Slow FOIA Response Makes IRS Bad Faith Allegations Credible” for Tax Notes on March 12.

Published “Ex-Spouse’s Intervention in Innocent Spouse Case Highlights Procedural Oddities” for Tax Notes on March 18.

Published “Second Circuit Closes Door on Appealing Small Tax Case Dismissals” for Tax Notes on March 28. 

 

Andrew Brandt

Published “The NFL’s Gambling Hypocrisy at 2024 Super Bowl and Brock Purdy’s Pay Day” for Sports Illustrated on February 15.

Published “Business at the 2024 NFL Combine Means It’s Time for the Front Office to Shine” for Sports Illustrated on February 27.

Posted “NFL Salary Cap Takes Massive Leap, College Football 25 and More!” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on February 27.

Published “2024 NFL Free Agency: New League Year Begins With a Buyers Warning” for Sports Illustrated on March 11.

In The Media: Quoted in “Aaron Jones Released by Packers Amid Josh Jacobs Contract Rumors in NFL Free Agency” for Bleacher Report on March 11.

Posted “Kirk Cousins Does It Again: 2024 NFL Free Agency Thoughts” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on March 12.

Posted “The Latest with Shohei Ohtani’s Interpreter Scandal” on The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast on March 12.

In The Media: Interviewed for “Former NFL Exec Explains Why Eagles Won’t Be Punished For ‘Tampering’” on 97.5 The Fanatic on March 15.

In The Media: Quoted in “Is Shohei Ohtani a Theft Victim? Is He in Trouble? Legal Experts Say Probes Underway” for The Los Angeles Times on March 21. 

 

Doris Brogan

In The Media: Quoted in “Hidden Cameras: What Travelers Need to Know” for The New York Times on March 21. 

 

David Caudill

Presented “Partition Law in Pennsylvania: Procedures and Pitfalls” at the 2024 Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges Mid-Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on February 22.

Appointed to the executive committee and elected director of communications of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Property Law for the 2024-25 academic year on March 13. 

 

Steve Chanenson

Planned and presented “New Era of Probation in Pennsylvania,” a virtual state-wide continuing judicial education program for the administrative office of the Pennsylvania courts on March 28.

Planned and presented “Pennsylvania Sentencing for Judges,” an in-person program for the administrative office of Pennsylvania courts in State College, PA, on April 9.

Co-authored the chapter “Embracing Dignity: Pennsylvania’s Experiment with Scandinavian Correctional Principles” in Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press), published on April 9. 

 

Lori Corso

Moderated the “Local Perspectives” panel at the GPLLA 2024 Institute: “Keeping It Local” hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association on March 20. 

 

Michelle Madden Dempsey

Participated as a faculty commentator on Audrey Powers’ paper “Self-Defense and Domestic Violence” at the virtual 8^th Annual Graduate and Early Career Workshop hosted by The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace on October 26.                               

In The Media: Quoted in “Think #MeToo Didn’t Make a Real Difference? Think Again” for Waging Nonviolence on November 28.

Participated in the panel “General Jurisprudence and Legal Doctrine” at the Association of American Law Schools 2024 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on January 5.

Edited publication From Morality to Law and Back Again: A Liber Amicorum for John Gardner (Oxford University Press, 2023) was recommended by The Legal Theory Bookworm on January 13.

Presented “The Normative Force of Consent in Moral, Political and Legal Perspective” at the Rutgers Criminal Law Philosophy seminar at Rutgers University on March 6. 

 

Amy Emerson

Published “A Threshold Assessment: Is Technology Among the Competencies Test by the MPRE?” in The University of St. Thomas Law Journal (Vol. 20, Issue 1) on March 24.

 

Brenner Fissell

Participated in the panel “Democracy and Prosecutorial Declination” at the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Symposium: “The Changing Relationship Between Local Prosecutors and State Governments” held at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law on February 29.

Forthcoming article “The Military’s Constitutional Role” was accepted for publication by the North Carolina Law Review on March 1.

Appointed a senior research scholar for the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the US Naval Academy for the 2024-25 academic year on April 2. 

 

Ann Juliano

Moderated “The Missing Indian Affairs Clause” at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on January 24.

Participated in the panel “Intersectionality in Equal Pay” at the University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class Equal Pay Symposium: “Celebrating the 60^th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act: Where Are We Now and Where Can We Go?” at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law on March 15.

Participated in the panel “Personal Jurisdiction after Mallory” at the 2024 DRI Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar in Philadelphia on March 21.

Participated in “Dress to Transgress,” a discussion on professionalism and identity hosted by the OutLaw student group at the University of California, Irvine School of Law on March 28. 

 

Preston Lim

Appointed to the organizing committee for the American branch of the 2024 American Society of International Law Annual Meeting: “International Law in an Interdependent World” on February 8. 

Presented “The Great Depression and Canada’s Originalist Decade” at the 15th Annual Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference hosted by the University of San Diego on February 10.

Posted “Episode 11 – Dalhousie Law School” on the Time Immemorial podcast on February 20.

Published “Canada’s Special Economic Measures Act Under International Law” for Just Security on February 27.

Published “How Canada Can Better Combat Uyghur Forced Labour” for The Globe and Mail on March 18. 

 

Christine Mooney

Presented “Leveraging Your Skills for Success” at Office and Trial 2023 – Mediation Primer: It’s Elementary hosted by The Delaware State Bar Association (DSBA) in Wilmington, DE, on November 16. 

 

Itay Ravid

In The Media: Quoted in “Media Attention Flood Could Influence Prison Time For Franke, Hildebrandt and Other Cases” for KUTV on February 22.

Presented “Rethinking Criminal Intent in the Algorithmic Age” at the Howard University School of Law faculty workshop on March 19. 

 

Michael Risch

In The Media: Interviewed for “At the Round Table with Intellectual Property & Internet Law Expert, Michael Risch” for the Discussions at the Round Table podcast on February 21.

Co-published “Canceling Appellate Precedent” in Florida Law Review on March 19.  

 

Ana Santos Rutschman

Participated in the Association of American Law Schools 2024 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on January 5:

• Panelist for “The End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Lessons Learned and the Future of Pandemic Law” in the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care.
• Panelist for “Artificial Intelligence and IP in the 21st Century: Who Owns What?” in the Section on Intellectual Property.

Appointed to the executive committee of the Association of American Law School Section on Intellectual Property on January 6.

Participated in the Seventh Annual Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat at Seton Hall University School of Law on January 13.

In The Media: Quoted in “Pennsylvania AG’s Clout in Opioid Deal Likely Has Wide Reach” for Law 360 on February 2.

Co-published “A Codified Liability Regime to Stimulate Greater Investment in Subpatentable Innovation” in UC Davis Law Review (Vol. 57, Issue 3) on February 18.

Presented “FDA Regulation of Vaccines” virtually at the Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute (SIPLI) Speaker Series hosted by Syracuse University College of Law on March 6. 

Published “Asthma Meds Have Become Shockingly Unaffordable − But Relief May Be On The Way” for The Conversation on March 8.

Participated in the panel “The Legal Risks of AI-Driven Innovation in the World of Medicine” virtually at the 2024 Jaharis Symposium: “Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Existential Challenges for Law & Ethics” hosted by DePaul University College of Law on March 14.

In The Media: Quoted in “Asthma Inhalers Get a Price Cut. Black Users Shouldn’t Breathe Easy” for Word In Black on March 20. 

 

Chaim Saiman

Presented “Contemporary Rabbinical Courts: Between Jewish and American Law” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on February 22.

Presented “American Arbitration Law and the Rise of the Neo-Kahal” at a faculty seminar at Bar-Ilan University in Israel on February 28.

Published “Keeping Kosher in the Age of AI” for Mosaic on March 18.

Published “Is Insurance ‘Just a Contract’ or a ‘Just Contract’?” in Maryland Law Review (Vol. 83, No. 3) on March 28. 

 

Tuan Samahon

Participated in the panel “FOIA: Everything You Want to Know and Aren’t Afraid to Ask” at the American Bar Association Section of Taxation 2024 Midyear Tax Meeting in San Francisco on January 20.

 

Christine Speidel

Participated in the American Bar Association Section of Taxation 2024 Midyear Tax Meeting in San Francisco:

• Participated in the panel “Innocent Spouse Relief for Domestic Violence Survivors” on January 19.
• Moderated “Recent Cases Addressing Jurisdiction to Litigate Your Tax Dispute and Equitable Tolling” on January 20.

Presented “Towards ‘Taxpayer First’ Innocent Spouse Relief” at the Mid-Atlantic Clinical Legal Education Conference hosted by the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law on February 24. 

Presented “Transparency and Access Issues in Tax Preparation” at the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development meeting on March 20.

Co-published “Squeezing Blood From Stones – A Comparative Analysis of Tax Relief for Victim-survivors of Economic Abuse in Australia and the United States” in the Australian Tax Forum UNSW Business School Research Papers (forthcoming) with Leslie Book published on March 6.