Professor Sheldon Evans recently spoke at “Afrofuturism and the Metaverse,” an event hosted by Microsoft’s Senior Corporate Counsel Group. Professor Evans’ prior work on virtual reality, virtual assets, and how this relates to gambling online served as a backdrop to discuss the future of Black identity, expression, and potential discrimination in online metaverse communities. Forthcoming…
Dean Russell K. Osgood welcomed guests to the installation ceremony for Professor MJ Durkee, who is now the William Gardiner Hammond Professor in Law. Professor Durkee was introduced by her mentor, Dr. Shirley A. Mullen, President Emerita of Houghton University, before delivering her address “The Invisible Business of International Lawmaking.” Professor Durkee is an expert…
Professor Pauline Kim presented AI-related risks at the March meeting of the Future of Finance Subcommittee. The subcommittee is part of the Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) that held public meetings at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Washington, D.C. headquarters. The committee is examining the potential risks that emerge in connection with the increasing…
“The Unabridged Fifteenth Amendment,” an article authored by Professor Travis Crum has been published in the Yale Law Journal. In the abstract, he writes: In the legal histories of Reconstruction, the Fifteenth Amendment is usually an afterthought compared to the Fourteenth Amendment. This oversight is perplexing: the Fifteenth Amendment ushered in a brief period of multi-racial…
Congratulations to the WashULaw Jessup team who reached the finals of the U.S. Western Regional of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court competition, which was held from February 29 to March 3, 2024. As a result of its performance, WashULaw qualifies to compete in the Jessup World Cup Rounds, which are scheduled to begin on…
Professor Sheldon Evans recently spoke at the United States Sentencing Commission Roundtable on the Categorical Approach and Career Offender Guidelines. He served as a panelist with several federal judges, practitioners, and other academics as part of a roundtable about reforming particular federal sentencing enhancements. Based on his prior scholarship on the Armed Career Criminals Act, Professor…
Professor Benjamin Levin recently spoke to second and third-year law students in the Criminal Law Colloquium at the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Levin lectured on two essays: “Criminal Law Minimalisms,” forthcoming in WashU Law Review, and an early-stage piece about different conceptions of abolition. Recent scholarship from Professor Levin also includes “Redistributing Justice,”…
Cambridge University Press has published “ERISA Principles,” written by WashULaw Professor Peter Wiedenbeck and Brendan Maher of Texas A&M University School of Law. “ERISA Principles” elucidates employee benefit law from a policy perspective, explaining how common themes apply across a wide range of benefit plans and factual contexts. The book includes latent similarities and rationalizes…
Professor John Inazu recently spoke to faculty and students at Daystar University. He was invited to deliver a lecture on “The Global Significance of the Right of Assembly.” Professor Inazu’s lecture was the second in their public lecture series; the first was delivered by Githu Muigai, former Attorney General of Kenya. Professor Inazu summarizes the…
WashULaw faculty recently attended the sixth annual National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars. Professors Dan Epps and Conor Clarke presented “The Practice of Executive Constitutionalism” at the Executive Power and the Administrative State panel discussion moderated by Mila Sohoni. Professor Travis Crum talked about multi-lingual ballots and Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act at…
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Professor Sheldon Evans writes in an op-ed that both Democrat and Republican proposals to deal with the immigration crisis are off the mark. “Americans of all stripes need a different ethos — one that recognizes immigrants’ humanity, dignity, and legal rights,” he writes. Read the opinion here.