Faculty and staff accomplishments

Robert Sedler

presented on insurrection and impeachment for the Greater Detroit Phi Beta Kappa Association.

Eric Zacks

spoke at the State Bar of Michigan’s Business Law Section third annual Symposium on “Corporate Oppression Actions and Business Law Oppression in the Age of Pandemic.”

Khaled A. Beydoun

was included on The Muslim 500's list of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World. He's one of six people from the U.S. to be recognized for their work and dedication to social issues.

Lance Gable

spoke at the St. Louis University Law School Health Law Distinguished Speaker Series on "COVID-19: A Cautionary Tale for Climate Change" on Oct. 27.

Lance Gable

was a panelist at the American Public Health Association annual meeting on Oct. 26 discussing COVID-19 legal issues.

Noah Hall

contributed a chapter on the public trust doctrine in "Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law— A Guide for Practitioners." The book is for students and practicing lawyers who seek to preserve a habitable planet and question whether current environmental law is sufficient for the task.

Steven Winter

presented his paper “‘Who’ or ‘What’ Is the Rule of Law” at Wayne State University's Brown Bag Series in September 2020.

Lance Gable

spoke at the 2020 Public Health Law Virtual Summit: COVID-19 Response and Recovery on Sept. 16 discussing his two chapters in the Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19 report.

Sanjukta Paul

was named to People’s Parity Project judicial shortlist.

Steven Winter

presented his paper “Medieval Jewish Governance and the Meaning of Democracy” at the Conference on Jewish Law in Comparative Context at Touro Law Center in New York in September 2020.

William Ortman

presented When Plea Bargaining Became Normal (forthcoming, Boston University Law Review) at the Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior Faculty Forum in August 2020.

William Ortman's

paper, The Defender General (co-authored with Daniel Epps, forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Law Review), was profiled in The Appeal, Bloomberg Law and The New York Times. Ortman and Epps wrote an op-ed based on the article, titled One Change that Could Make American Criminal Justice Fairer, for The Atlantic.

Brad Roth

was a panelist at the Academic Council on the United Nations System’s virtual annual meeting in June, “UN @ 75: The Future of Partnership and Multilateralism.” Roth spoke about his forthcoming article titled Legitimacy in the International Order: The Continuing Relevance of Sovereign States.

David Moss

was featured in TaxProf Blog for his paper, co-written with Robert R. Kuehn of Washington University, “A Study of the Relationship between Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes.”

Katherine E. White

was appointed Brigadier General in the U.S. Army National Guard on Sept. 1, 2019. She serves as the Deputy Commanding General of the 46th Military Police Command in Lansing, Michigan.

Stephen Calkins

was appointed a member of the City of Northville Board of Zoning Appeals in Dec. 2019.

Tishia Browning

was elected as a fellow for the Detroit Bar Association.

Stephen Calkins

was presented with Chairman’s Awards at the Yale Alumni Association Assembly & Yale Alumni Fund Convocation on Nov. 22. The awards recognized volunteers who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation, and dedication in their work on behalf of the fund.

Robert A. Sedler

participated in the Berkeley Forum, a student-run program at the University of California-Berkeley, where he discussed reparations for slavery.

Kirsten Matoy Carlson

presented at the 2019 NLADA Annual Conference – Innovative Justice in Detroit on Nov. 8. She discussed “2019 Reauthorization of VAWA: What’s At Stake for Native American and Alaska Native Communities.”

Robert A. Sedler

was a guest speaker for Southeast Michigan Mensa on the subject of “The Constitution, the president and impeachment.” He discussed the constitutional basis of impeachment and that it is a political question in the constitutional sense

Rachel Settlage

spoke at Nickelhoof & Widick, PLLC’s ethics workshop for government attorneys on Oct. 16.

Carolyn Noble

wrote “Creating Charitable Gift Agreements with Nonprofits” for the Michigan Bar Journal.

Anne Choike

is an editor of “Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Opinions Rewritten” for The Feminist Judgments Series. The goal of the book is to re-envision corporate law as it is practiced and interpreted today, using feminist methods and feminist legal theory.

Brad R. Roth

co-wrote “International Law, Sixth Edition” with Valerie Epps and John Cerone. The sixth edition of this widely used textbook combines narrative explanatory sections that set forth the basic law together with cases, treaties, international documents, questions and problems.