Faculty and staff accomplishments

Justin Long

was one of two featured faculty at the Pound Institute for Civil Justice's 2018 Judicial Forum, “State Constitutional Structure Affects Access to Civil Justice.” He spoke to 150 state appellate judges about the ways state constitutional power arrangements affect injured parties' access to a remedy in court.

Robert Ackerman

wrote “Communitarianism and the Roberts Court” for the Florida State University Law Review. The article looks at a number of Roberts Court decisions from a communitarian perspective. Read the full article.

Brad Roth

wrote “Unpacking the Relationship Between Sovereignty, Democracy, and Human Rights” for Human Rights Review. Read the full article.

Greg Fox

wrote “Must the Trump Administration Report any Agreements Reached at Helsinki to Congress?” for Opinio Juris. The blog post discusses possible agreements reached between President Trump and Putin at the Helsinki summit and the potential obligation on President Trump's part to transmit those agreements to Congress.

Eric Zacks

co-wrote “No Brakes: Loan Acceleration and Diminishing Foreclosure Defenses” with Dustin A. Zacks for the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law. The article examines the evolving treatment of statute of limitation and res judicata defenses after a loan has been accelerated following a borrower default and the implication for future lending and collection practices. Read the article here.

Stephen Calkins

spoke at the American Antitrust Institute 19th Annual Conference on July 21 in Washington D.C. He discussed antitrust and the Supreme Court.

Jonathan Weinberg

was named Wayne State University Law School's inaugural associate dean for research and faculty development. Read the full announcement here.

Virginia Thomas

wrote “At Your Service! Assistance Animals and the Law in Michigan,” for the Michigan Bar Journal. Read the full article here.

Julia Qin

presented at the 2nd Dundee Energy Forum, The Evolving Global Energy and Resources Landscape: Law, Policy and Economics, on June 26. It was held at the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom.

Blanche Bong Cook

has been named a scholar in residence at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. During her stay in mid-October, Cook will deliver a series of lectures that address the ways in which the law creates vulnerability for the purpose of both labor and sexual exploitation.

Stephen Calkins

spoke at the American Antitrust Institute’s 19th Annual Conference “Antitrust at a Crossroads: Plotting the Policy Course for the Next Decade.” Calkins discussed antitrust and the Supreme Court.

Katherine E. White

is a recipient of a ATHENA International Leadership Award presented by ATHENA International. White received this honor in recognition of her “fine work inspiring, encouraging, educating and developing tomorrow's leaders, particularly emerging women leaders.”

Eric Zacks

presented his latest article "Fee-Shifting Provisions in Foreclosure" June 7 at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Law and Society in Toronto.

Kirsten Matoy Carlson

has been invited to participate in the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum at Harvard Law School on June 13-14, 2018. Carlson will present her paper, “Lobbying Against the Odds,” which is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Read more.

Rob MacGregor

was featured in a Wayne State University story, “Annual Baroudeur, training rides bring together Warrior community.” Read the story.

Stephen Calkins

was featured in a Wayne State University story, “Annual Baroudeur, training rides bring together Warrior community.” Read the story.

Anne Choike

was a presenter at the annual Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing – in the US and Beyond, a conference organized by the Impact Investing Legal Working Group and Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at New York University School of Law. She was a co-presenter for the panel “Reimagining Legal Education: From Mapping to Action.”

David C. Berry

co-authored “Fixing Patent Eligibility by Limiting Scope to Disclosed Embodiments” with with Benjamin C. Stasa for Patently-O. Read the article here.

Brad Roth

was a panelist at “Two Peoples, One Future: Realizing Self-Determination in Israel/Palestine,” held at Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Watch it here.

Brad Roth

was an organizer and instructor at “Divided Societies" at Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He taught short courses on self-determination, secession and international law, and sponsored an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for students to receive grants to travel abroad.

Rachel Settlage

co-lead a breakout session with Sabrina Balgamwalla about “Teaching During Divisive Times” at the Immigration Law Scholars and Teachers Workshop 2018 at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Sabrina Balgamwalla

co-lead a breakout session with Rachel Settlage about “Teaching During Divisive Times” at the Immigration Law Scholars and Teachers Workshop 2018 at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Rachel Settlage

presented at the 41st Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education in Chicago. She discussed “With a Little Help from My Friends: Managing Stress in a Hostile Political Environment with Assistance from Non-Lawyers.”

Katherine White

has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue as a member of the Plant Variety Protection Board. She will serve a two-year term. The Plant Variety Protection Act secures intellectual property rights for developers of new varieties of plants. Read more here.

Stephen Calkins

spoke at the University of Houston Law Center’s conference, Teaching Consumer Law: Where Have We Been—Where Are We Going? The conference was on May 18 in Santa Fe. He discussed “Teaching Consumer Law in a New Environment.”