Utah Law faculty updates: September 2024

Oct 01, 2024 | Faculty

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

Associate Professor Daniel Aaron, a young man with olive skin and dark brown hair and a beard wearing a navy blazer and navy and fuchsia floral shirtAssociate Professor Daniel Aaron

 

Professor RonNell Andersen Jones, a white woman with long, wavy red hair wearing glasses and a black blazerProfessor RonNell Andersen Jones

 

Professor Teneille Brown, a white woman with long, light-brown hairProfessor 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, a middle-aged white man with red hair wearing a black suit coat and blue collared shirtProfessor Paul Cassell

Professor Jorge Contreras, a Hispanic man with short black hair and glassesProfessor Jorge Contreras

  • 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, a young bald white man wearing a navy suit and red tieProfessor Lincoln Davies

  • 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

Professor Leslie Francis, an older white woman with long silver hair wearing a silver medallion necklaceProfessor Leslie Francis

 

Professor Amos Guiora, a white man with grey hair wearing round-rimmed glasses and a blue-and-white-striped button-up and navy blazer

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

Clinical Professor David Hill

  • Awards
    • Received the 2024 Peter J. Billings Teaching Award from the S.J. Quinney College of Law.

 

 

Professor Robert Keiter, a senior white man with short silver hair and a silver beardProfessor 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, a middle-aged woman wearing a dark blazer and round red rimmed glasses smiles for her pictureProfessor 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, a young woman of Indian descent with long dark-brown hair and brown eyesAssociate Professor Ruhan Nagra

 

 

Matthew Tokson, a young white man with short wavy brown hair standing in front of dark wood panelingProfessor 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

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