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Faculty Spotlight
Wayne Law faculty members are widely recognized for their local, national and global impact and for using scholarship as an instrument of change. Here is a snapshot of some of their current and forthcoming work.
Sanjukta Paul
Assistant Professor
- Antitrust as Allocator of Coordination Rights, 67 UCLA L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
- Solidarity in the Shadow of Antitrust: Labor & the Legal Idea of Competition, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2020)
- Fissuring and the Firm Exemption, 82 Law & Contemp. Probs. 65 (2019)
“Practically speaking, the reigning antitrust paradigm authorizes large, powerful firms as the primary mechanisms of economic and market coordination, while largely undermining all others: from workers’ organizations to small business cooperation to democratic regulation of markets.” — Antitrust as Allocator of Coordination Rights
In the news
Los Angeles Times
Uber wants to redefine unemployment. More than 50 labor groups are fighting back. (April 8, 2020)
The Nation
Make Antitrust Democratic Again! (Nov. 12, 2019)
Kirsten Matoy Carlson
Associate Professor
- Rethinking Legislative Advocacy, Md. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
- Lobbying Against the Odds, 56 Harv. J. on Legis. 23 (2019)
“In contrast to the prevailing narrative, lawyers, tribal advocates and political scientists have suggested that American Indians have increasingly engaged in political advocacy since the mid-twentieth century.” — Lobbying Against the Odds
In the news
The Conversation
Tribal leaders face great need and don’t have enough resources to respond to the coronavirus pandemic (March 25, 2020)
Reports of the death of congressional oversight are greatly exaggerated (March 17, 2020)
Precedent? Nah, the Senate gets to reinvent its rules in every impeachment (Jan. 23, 2020)
William Ortman
Assistant Professor
- The Defender General, 168 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020) (with Daniel Epps)
- When Plea Bargaining Became Normal, 100 B.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
- Second-Best Criminal Justice, 96 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1061 (2019)
“Plea bargaining as a practice and as an institution are inextricably linked, but they are not one and the same.” — When Plea Bargaining Became Normal
In the news
The Atlantic
One Change that Could Make American Criminal Justice Fairer (March 16, 2020)
The New York Times
A Proposal to Offset the Prosecutors’ Power: The ‘Defender General’ (Jan. 27, 2020)
Julia Qin
Professor
- Market Benchmarks and Government Monopoly: The Case of Land and Natural Resources Under Global Subsidies Regulation, 40 U. Pa. J. Int’l L. 575 (2019)
“The special characteristics of land and natural resources warrant special consideration in benchmarking.” — Market Benchmarks and Government Monopoly
Lance Gable
Associate Professor
- Legal and Ethical Implications of Wastewater Sars-CoV-2 Monitoring for COVID-19 Surveillance, J.L. and the Biosci. (2020) (with Natalie Ram and Jeffrey Ram)
- Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Restoring and Improving Public Health Practice, Accountability, and Trust, 47 J.L. Med. & Ethics (2019) (with Colleen Healy Boufides and Peter D. Jacobson)
“This scientific breakthrough may lead to many useful potential applications for tracking disease, intensifying testing, initiating social distancing or quarantines, and enabling the return to conditions status quo ante.” – Legal and Ethical Implications of Wastewater Sars-CoV-2 Monitoring for COVID-19 Surveillance
Peter J. Henning
Professor
- A Taxonomy of Cryptocurrency Enforcement Actions, Brook. J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. (forthcoming 2020)
- Making up Insider Trading Law as You Go, 56 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 101 (2018)
“In any retrial, the defense gains the benefit of its experience in the first trial. That can make it easier to exploit any weak spots in the government’s case and explain how the defendant did not have an intent to defraud.” — “What a Judge’s Rare Reversal Means in the Platinum Partners Fraud Case”
In the news
The New York Times
What a Judge’s Rare Reversal Means in the Platinum Partners Fraud Case (Nov. 11, 2019)
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Gregory Fox
Professor
The Contributions of United Nations Security Council Resolutions to the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict: New Evidence of Customary International Law, 67 Am. U. L. Rev. 649 (2018) (with Kristen E. Boon and Isaac Jenkins)
Sarah Abramowicz
Associate Professor
Bifurcating Settlements, 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 376 (2018) (with Michael B. Abramowicz)
Eric Zacks
Associate Professor
Yesterday I Was Lying: Creeping Preclusion of Reciprocal Fee Awards in Residential Foreclosure Litigation, 93 St. John’s L. Rev. (2020) (with Dustin Zacks)
Katherine White
Professor
Intellectual Property Litigation: Pretrial Practice, Wolters Kluwer (2019) (with Eric M. Dobrusin)
Noah Hall
Professor
Waters of the State, 59 Nat. Resources J. 59 (2019) (with Joseph Regalia)
Justin Long
Associate Professor
State Court Protection of Individual Constitutional Rights: State Constitutional Structures Affect Access to Civil Justice, 70 Rutgers U.L. Rev. 937 (2018)
Jon Weinberg
Professor
“Know Everything That Can Be Known About Everybody”: The Birth of the Credit Report, 63 Vill. L. Rev. 431 (2018)
David Moss
Associate Professor (Clinical)
A Study of the Relationship between Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes, 68 J. Legal Educ. (2019) (with Robert R. Kuehn)
Laura Bartell
Professor
Stern Claims and Article III Adjudication – The Bankruptcy Judge Knows Best, 35 Emory Bankr. Dev. J. 13 (2019)