Each month, we share notable updates—including presentations, publications, panels, and other accomplishments—from Utah Law faculty members.
Associate Professor Daniel Aaron
- Publications
- Daniel Aaron, The Deregulation of Cancer, __ TEXAS A&M L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2026).
- Daniel Aaron, Contesting Deregulation and Medicalization to Revitalize Public Health, 114 AMERICAN J. OF PUBLIC HEALTH 968 (2024).
Professor RonNell Andersen Jones
- Media appearances
- Newsmax and Smartmatic settle defamation lawsuit over false 2020 election claims (The Wall Street Journal).
Professor Teneille Brown
- Presentations/panels
- “Brain Death and the Bio-Legal Mismatch,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (Sept. 2024).
- Presented at the Utah judicial conference on character evidence (Sept. 2024).
Professor Paul Cassell
- Legislative/judicial engagement
- In the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, filed reply brief in U.S. v. Boeing for crash victims’ families, arguing plea deal should be rejected.
- Media appearances
- Quoted about Boeing plea deal in Law 360, MSN, and Dallas Express (Aug. 2024).
- It’s been a year of high-profile rulings. Does that ‘politicized’ Utah’s courts? (KUER).
Professor Jorge Contreras
- Publications
- Holly Fernandez Lynch, Rena M. Conti, and Jorge L. Contreras, Industry Price Guarantees for Publicly Funded Medicines: Learning from Project NextGen for Pandemics and Beyond, 11(2) J. L. & BIOSCIENCES (2024).
- Presentations/panels
- Faculty Workshop: “The True Law Genre,” University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, MN (Sept. 2024).
- “Unpacking Open Source Bio,” Wiet Life Science Law Scholars Workshop, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL (Sept. 2024).
- “USPTO China IP Road Show” (panelist), Salt Lake City, UT (Sept. 2024).
- Legislative/judicial engagement
- Submitted responses to questions for the record for House Judiciary Committee hearing, “IP Litigation and the U.S. International Trade Commission” (Jul. 2024).
Professor Lincoln Davies
- Publications
- Lincoln Davies, California, an Island?, 77 STAN. L. REV. online (2024) with Stephanie Lenhart.
- Presentations/panels
- “Policy and Regulation Supporting Grid Resilience” (moderator and organizer), WIRED Grid Resilience Symposium (Sept. 2024).
- Appointments
- Appointed co-director of Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.
- Appointed executive director of energy, resource, and environment programs, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.
- Media appearances
- Utah politicians rejoice at end of Chevron Doctrine; environmental activists are concerned (The Salt Lake Tribune).
Professor Leslie Francis
- Publications
- Leslie P. Francis and John G. Francis, How, and when, federalism is good for public health, HARVARD PUBLIC HEALTH (Sept. 2024).
Professor Amos Guiora
- Presentations/panels
- “Whether there is a need for a new Geneva Convention on Treatment of Non-State Actors,” Cox International Law Center Conference, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH (Sept. 2024).
- “The Holocaust and Lessons Learned,” Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis (Sept. 2024).
- “Complicity of Silence,” Office of the Attorney General, State of Arizona (Sept. 2024).
- “October 7, 2023: The Costs and Consequences of Enablers,” Hope for Israel Alliance/ Israeli Democracy NYC (Sept. 2024).
- Media appearances
- Hostages murdered by Hamas and protests in Israel (Zoomer Radio podcast).
- Did the Middle East device attacks violate international law? (The Washington Post).
- Exploding pagers in Lebanon (Zoomer Radio podcast).
- Interviewed by A Little Bit About Life podcast for his new book THE COMPLICITY OF SILENCE: CONFRONTING ECOSYSTEMS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN SCHOOLS (Sept. 2024).
Clinical Professor David Hill
- Awards
- Received the 2024 Peter J. Billings Teaching Award from the S.J. Quinney College of Law.
Professor Robert Keiter
- Presentations/panels
- “The Enduring Quest to Conserve the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,” Aubrey Haines Distinguished Lecture, 16th Biennial Yellowstone Science Conference, Big Sky, MT (Sept. 2024).
- “The Wyoming Constitution Unveiled: A Journey Through History, Precedent and the Declaration of Rights,” Wyoming State Bar Convention, Cheyenne, WY.
Professor Laura Kessler
- Publications
- Laura T. Kessler, Miscarriage of Justice: Early Pregnancy Loss and the Limits of U.S. Employment Law, 108 CORNELL L. REV. 543 (2023).
- Laura T. Kessler, Achieving Equality Without A Constitution: Lessons from Israel for Queer Family Law, in QUEER AND RELIGIOUS ALLIANCES IN FAMILY LAW POLITICS AND BEYOND, Nausica Palazzo & Jeffrey A. Redding eds. (2022).
- Laura T. Kessler, Addressing Sexual Misconduct in the United States Military: An Organizational Approach, 94 TEMPLE L. REV. 175 (2022).
- Published white paper for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Abortion Law in Utah Post-Dobbs (July 2022).
- Presentations/panels
- “Reconciling Parental Rights with Minors’ Rights to Gender-Affirming Care: Parental Policing, Privacy Arguments, and Other Problems,” Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD (June 2024).
- “The Illusion of Progress in American Family Law,” Workshop on The Family and Constitution in Everyday Life, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA (Feb. 2024).
- “The Illusion of Progress in American Family Law,” Faculty Seminar, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, ON, Canada (Mar. 2024).
- “Reproductive Justice at Work: Employment Law After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” 18th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN (Oct. 2023).
- “The Past and Future of American Family Law,” International Society of Family Law 18th World Conference, University of Antwerp, Belgium (Jul. 2023).
- “Reproductive Justice at Work: Employment Law After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” Faculty Seminar on Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL (Feb. 2023).
- Awards
- Received the 2024 Faculty Excellence in Research Award from the S.J. Quinney College of Law.
- Appointments
- Appointed the S.J. Quinney Chair, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.
- Legislative/judicial engagement
- In the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, cited and quoted in Dewalt v. Alliance Pharma Inc., 2022 WL 4237483 (2022), a Title VII gender discrimination and Equal Pay Act case. Publication cited: Laura T. Kessler, Employment Discrimination and the Domino Effect, 44 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 1041 (2017).
- Cited in New York City Bar, CLE on Employer Best Practices for Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities (Apr. 2023). Publication cited: Laura T. Kessler, The Attachment Gap: Employment Discrimination Law, Women’s Cultural Caregiving, and the Limits of Economic and Liberal Legal Theory, 34 U. MICH. J.L. REFORM 371 (2001).
- Cited in Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Massachusetts Employment Law Sourcebook & Citator (2023). Publication cited: Laura T. Kessler, The Attachment Gap: Employment Discrimination Law, Women’s Cultural Caregiving, and the Limits of Economic and Liberal Legal Theory, 34 U. MICH. J.L. REFORM 371 (2001).
- Other activities
- Symposium organizer (with professors Teneille Brown and Leslie Francis): “The Criminalization of Health Care and the Medicalization of Crime,” Lee E. Teitelbaum Law Review Symposium, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT (Nov. 2023).
Associate Professor Ruhan Nagra
- Media appearances
Professor Matthew Tokson
- Presentations/panels
- “Post-Carpenter Developments,” Federal Judicial Center Conference on Search and Surveillance Warrants in the Digital Age, San Jose, CA (Sept. 2024).
- Awards
- Selected as a University of Utah 2024 Presidential Scholar.