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FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

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2025鈥26 Vol. 1

Andrew Brandt

  • Published articles in Sports Illustrated
    • 鈥,鈥 August 20.
    • 鈥,鈥 September 4.
    • 鈥,鈥 September 18.
  • Posted episodes of The Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast
    • 鈥,鈥 August 21.
    • 鈥,鈥 August 29.
    • 鈥,鈥 September 11.
    • 鈥,鈥 September 18.
  • In the Media: Interviewed for 鈥溾 on Athlete Unscripted on September 25.

Leslie Book

  • Presented 鈥淩egulating Tax Agents: The Australian Model鈥 at the Center for Taxpayer Rights in Washington, DC on July 14.
  • Published 鈥溾 in British Tax Review on August 1.

Patrick McKinley Brennan

  • In the Media: Quoted in 鈥溾 by National Catholic Register on September 26.
  • Organized the 20th Annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics and Culture and presented 鈥淚ntroduction: Labor, Capital and the Heart鈥 on September 29.

David Caudill

  • Presented 鈥淪cience Wars in the Courtroom: The Legacy of Daubert鈥 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Seattle, WA on September 6.
  • Presented 鈥淭he Worst Attorney in All of Literature: Ethical Contours of Whitehead's 鈥楴ickel Boys鈥欌 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 鈥淐lapping Erasers and Hauling Goalposts: The Labor and Employment Implications of Manual Labor as School Discipline鈥 at the Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law hosted by Seton Hall Law School on September 19.
  • Appointed publicist to the at Seton Hall Law School on September 19.

Preston Jordan Lim

  • Presented 鈥淭he New Deal Judgments and the Amendment of the Constitution鈥 at the UBC Constitutional Workshop: Fractious Federalism at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan on September 11.
  • Posted "" on the Time Immemorial Podcast on October 6.

Michael Moreland

  • Joined an amicus brief on behalf of the petitioner in the Supreme Court case, (No. 24-154) on February 3.
  • Participated in the panel 鈥溾 hosted by the Mattone Center for Law and Religion at St. John鈥檚 University School of Law in New York on April 4.
  • Moderated the webinar 鈥溾 hosted by the Federalist Society on April 10.
  • Moderated the webinar 鈥溾 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 鈥溾 on Studio 2 from WHYY on April 22.
    • Quoted in 鈥溾 by NBC News on April 23.
    • Quoted in 鈥溾 by Bloomberg on April 25.
    • Interviewed for 鈥溾 by Sunday Today on April 27.
    • Quoted in 鈥溾 by CNN on April 29.
    • Interviewed for 鈥溾 by CNN on April 30.
    • Interviewed from Rome on the election of Pope Leo XIII by NPR on May 8.
    • Quoted in 鈥溾 by National Catholic Register on May 22.
    • Quoted in 鈥溾 by Fox News on July 8.
    • Interviewed for 鈥溾 by NBC10 on July 15.
    • Quoted in 鈥溾 by The Associated Press on August 1.
    • Quoted in 鈥溾 by National Catholic Register on August 20.

Peter Ormerod

  • Presented 鈥溾 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 鈥溾 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.听
  • Presented 鈥淥range Book Stories鈥 at the 25th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference hosted by DePaul University College of Law on August 8.

Ana Santos Rutschman

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


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