Faculty and staff accomplishments

Jamila Jefferson-Jones

received the Advocacy Award from the American Bar Association's Section of State and Local Government Law Section.

Nancy Chi Cantalupo's

work was cited by the California Department of Justice in their amicus brief in a case currently before the California Supreme Court. Both Cantalupo's book chapter and the ABA recommendations for which she was the primary drafter were cited.

Dan Ellman

was named director of externships and assistant professor (clinical) at Wayne State University Law School.

Rebecca Robichaud

was named director of clinical education at Wayne State University Law School.

Christopher Lund’s

co-authored book, Religion and the Constitution (4th ed. 2016), was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Espinoza v. Montana Dep’t of Revenue.

Peter Hammer

presented on the dynamics of spatial-structural racism as part of the General Motors legal department's Distinguished Speaker Series.

Brad Roth

participated in a virtual presentation on US Arab Radio, "Eviction Sparks Israeli, Palestinian War."

Brad Roth

presented "The International Legal Status of Taiwan" during a virtual event hosted by the Rotary Club of Detroit.

Heather Walter-McCabe

participated in the Convener on Racial Disparities in Health Care hosted by the American Health Law Association.

Brad Roth

contributed to the book “Taiwan and Human Rights: A Story of Transformation,” Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford & Chang-fa Lo, eds., Springer, 2019, which has been honored with the 2021 Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law for Best Work in a Specialized Area. Roth’s chapter is entitled “Human Rights and Transitional Justice: Taiwan’s Adoption of the ICCPR and the Redress of 2/28 and Martial-Law-Era Injustices.”

Robert Sedler

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

Noah Hall

spoke about the Flint water crisis in a virtual presentation hosted by the Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resource System Law Program Speaker Series at Texas A&M University School of Law.

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.”