Faculty and staff accomplishments

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.

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

Rachel Settlage

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

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.

Noah Hall

co-wrote “Waters of the State” with Joseph Regalia for the Natural Resources Journal.

Julia Qin

wrote “Market Benchmarks and Government Monopoly: The Case of Land and Natural Resources under Global Subsidies Regulation” for University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.

Charles "Chip" Brower

was selected for inclusion in Who's Who Legal: Arbitration. For the 2019 edition, Brower is one of only 111 American-based lawyers and only seven U.S.-based academics selected for inclusion. He is also the only individual selected from Michigan.