S.J. Quinney College of Law

Each month, we share notable updates—including presentations, publications, panels, and other accomplishments—from Utah Law faculty members.

Professor Paul Cassell

• Publications
  • Paul G. Cassell, VICTIMS IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FIFTH EDITION with Douglas E. Beloof, Meg Garvin, Steven J. Twist, Bill Montgomery, Mariam El-Menshawi (Carolina Academic Press, 2024).
• Legislative/judicial engagement
  • In D.C. Circuit, filed an amicus brief seeking a hearing of Judge Newman on her alleged mental competency issues.
    
  • In Utah Supreme Court, argued on rape shield procedures (Dec. 13, 2024). 
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in numerous media outlets about federal judge’s decision to reject Boeing plea deal.
  • Quoted in ABA Journal, “No Small Matter: Even a Wrongful Misdemeanor Conviction Can Change Someone’s Life Forever” (Oct. 2024).
    

Professor Jorge Contreras

• Publications
  • Jorge Contreras, THE GENOME DEFENSE: INSIDE THE EPIC LEGAL BATTLE TO DETERMINE WHO OWNS YOUR DNA (Japanese trans., Misuzu Shobo, 2024).
  • Jorge Contreras, Voluntary Intellectual Property Pledges and COVID-19, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COVID-19 AND THE NEXT PANDEMIC: DIAGNOSING PROBLEMS, DEVELOPING CURES, Haochen Sun & Madhavi Sunder, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024).
• Presentations/panels
  • “Patent policy’s future under the new administration,” IAM Connect: Patent Policy and Litigation 2024, online (Dec 2024).
• Legislative/judicial engagement
  • Testified in U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Intellectual Property Subcommittee hearing “The RESTORE Patent Rights Act: Restoring America’s Status as the Global IP Leader,” Washington, D.C. (Dec. 2024).
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in Law360, IPWatchdog, and other media outlets about Senate Judiciary Committee hearing (Dec. 2024).

Professor Lincoln Davies

• Publications
  • Lincoln L. Davies, The Politics of Climate Hope and Despair, 103 TEXAS L. REV. ONLINE 113 (2024).
• Presentations/panels
  • “Reimagining the Clean Energy Transition” (keynote address), St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy Fall Symposium, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN (Nov. 2024).
  • “A U.S. Perspective on Our Energy Future,” Inaugural Elizabeth Evatt Fellow Lecture, University of Sydney Law School, Camperdown, Australia (Dec. 2024).

Lecturer Professor Amos Guiora

• Publications
• • Amos N. Guiora, “October 7th: Expanding Legitimate Targets and Collateral Damage?,” Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper.
  • Amos N. Guiora, The Ominous Sound of Keys: Enabling Sexual Assaults in Prison, 60 CRIM. L. BULLETIN (Dec. 2024) with Anna M. Hall and Zev Gorfinkle. 
• Presentations/panels
  • “Enablers Across the Ages (in Hebrew),” The Milatin Group, Tel Aviv, Israel (Dec. 16, 2024). 
• Media appearances
  • Interviewed in “December 09 2024: The End of the Assad Regime in Syria,” Zoomer Radio (Dec. 9, 2024). 

Professor RonNell Andersen Jones

• Media appearances
• • Quoted in New York Times, “ABC to pay $15 million to settle a defamation suite brought by Trump” (Dec. 14, 2024).
  • Quoted in Poynter Institute, “Why did ABC News settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump,” (Dec. 16, 2024).
  • Quoted in MSN, “Donald Trump to get $15 million from ABC News in defamation lawsuit” (Dec. 14, 2024).

Associate Professor Jamie Pleune

• Publications
  • Jamie Pleune, The BLM Public Lands Rule and “Periodic Adjustments in Use to Conform to Changing Needs and Conditions” Under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, 42 PACE ENVT’L L. REV. 101 (Nov. 2024).
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in KUNC, “Supreme Court hears challenge to scope of environmental reviews in Utah oil railway dispute” (Dec. 10, 2024).

Research Professor Danya Rumore

• Publications
  • Danya Rumore, We need to talk about dysregulation, EDR BLOG (Nov. 7, 2024).
  • Danya Rumore, Emotions are data when dealing with conflict, EDR BLOG (Dec. 1, 2024).
• Presentations/panels
  • “The GNAR Initiative: Research, Education, and Capacity Building for Gateway Communities,” Qinghai National Park Delegation, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • “Conflict Management,” Lex Con Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.

Research Professor John Ruple

• Media appearances
  • Quoted in Inside Climate News, “A Supreme Court case about a railway could have widespread impacts on U.S. environmental laws” (Dec. 9, 2024).

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