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Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center
Paper: Barnett, R.E. 2017, “The continuing relevance of the original meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment”, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1.
Sandra Dijkstra, Founder, Owner, and President, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
Handout: Advice on Submitting to a Literary Agent
Kim Lane Scheppele, Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University
Presentation: Election Law for Autocrats
Deborah Rider, University of San Diego School of Law
Presentation: Stewardship Through Electronic and Social Media
Anastasia M. Boles, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law
Paper: Seeking Inclusion from the Inside Out: Towards A Paradigm of Culturally Proficient Legal Education
Linda A. Malone, William & Mary Law School
Paper: Environmental Justice Reimagined Through Human Security and Post-Modern Ecological Feminism: A Neglected Perspective on Climate Change
Michael D. Murray, University of Massachusetts School of Law – Dartmouth
Presentation: The Sharpest Tool in the Toolbox: Visual Legal Rhetoric
Jan Jacobowitz, University of Miami School of Law
Presentation: Social Media Savvy: It’s a Matter of Competence
Melissa Berry, University of Washington School of Law
Presentation: Coaching Toolkit
Richard Moberly, University of Nebraska College of Law
Presentation: Build Your Character: Educating Well-Rounded Lawyers
Timothy Borsch, University of California San Diego
Presentation: Hope Scholars Program
Tammy Briant, Stetson University College of Law
Jennifer T. DiSanza, University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Rebecca Henley, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Rosemary Queenan, Albany Law School
Marcia Sells, Harvard Law School
Presentations
Danielle Holley-Walker, Howard University School of Law
Alicia Ouellette, Albany Law School
Kathryn R.L. Rand, University of North Dakota School of Law
Scenarios
Reeve T. Bull, Research Director, Administrative Conference of the United States
Handout: ACUS 2.0 Bibliography
Mary Jane Angelo, University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law
Presentation: Climate Change and Agricultural Resiliency in Animal Feed Production
Abigail May, Attorney, California Air Resources Board
Presentation: California’s Efforts to Reduce Dairy Methane
Margot Pollans, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Presentation: Daries & Diet
Laurie Ristino, Vermont Law School
Presentation: Dairy and Voluntary Conservation
Matthew Liebman, Director of Litigation, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Presentations: Slapp Suits
Sarah J. Morath, University of Houston Law Center
Presentations: Private Governance & Animal Welfare
Nicole Negowetti, Harvard Law School
Presentations: Animal Welfare Certification: Corporate Transparency, Accountability, and Animal Welfare
Delcianna Winders, Cambridge, MA
Presentations: USDA Blackout: E-FOIA and the Animal Welfare Act
Jon M. Garon, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
Paper: Free Speech and the First Amendment for Cons and Festivals
Paper: Fandom and Creativity, Including Fan Art, Fan Fiction, and Cosplay
Debra Austin, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Handout: Using Positive Psychology to Improve Law Student Well-being, Character Development & Performance
Promotional Material: Using Positive Psychology to Improve Law Student Well-being, Character Development & Performance
Heidi K. Brown, Brooklyn Law School
Handout: Seven-Step Process
Promotional Material: The Introverted Lawyer
Daniel McCarroll, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Presentation: UMKC Law School Continuing Legal Education Overview for AALS 2018
Rachel A. Harmon, University of Virginia School of Law
Paper: Proactive Policing and the Legacy of Terry
Sean O’Connor, University of Washington School of Law
Paper: Terry v. Ohio and the (Un)Forgettable Frisk
Laura F. Rothstein, University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Presentation: Overview
Yu-Jie Chen, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
Paper: Localizing Human Rights Treaty Monitoring: Case Study of Taiwan as a Non-UN Member State
Ayako Hatano, Visiting Scholar, U.S. – Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law
Presentation: Can Strategic Human Rights Litigation Complement Social Movements? A Case Study of the Anti-Hate Speech Movement in Japan
David S. Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Paper: Constitutional Dissonance in China
Raul Ruiz, Florida International University College of Law
Handout: Learning, Thinking, and Data Mining: How We Raised The Bar Passage Rate at Florida International University
Ralf C. Michaels, Duke University School of Law
Presentation: The PRIDE of Transnational Law
Sandra G. Thompson, University of Houston Law Center
Presentation: How Houston’s Crime Lab is Transforming Criminal Justice
Michael D. Murray, University of Massachusetts School of Law – Dartmouth
Presentation: Crossing the Divide: Teaching Narrative Reasoning and Explanatory Synthesis to Civil Law-Trained Lawyers and LL.M.S
Jason Cade, University of Georgia School of Law
Presentation: Sanctuaries and Legitimacy in an Era of Mass Immigration Enforcement
David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law
Paper: Circumcision: Immigration, Religion, History, and Constitutional Identity in Germany and the U.S.
Monte T. Mills, Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Presentation: Looking Race Horse in the Mouth: A New Front in the Old Battle over Off Reservation Hunting in Wyoming
Graeme Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, New York University School of Law
Paper: Brexit and IP: The Great Unraveling?
Raphael Zingg, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Paper: Protection Heterogeneity in a Harmonized European Patent System
Ruqaiijah A. Yearby, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Presentation: Continued Inequality: Medicaid and Work Requirements
Stephen F. Diamond, Santa Clara University School of Law
Paper: Are the Stock Markets “Rigged”? An Empirical Analysis of Regulatory Change
Daniel M. Klerman, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Paper: Reputational Economies of Scale
Presentation: Reputational Economies of Scale
Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Georgetown University Law Center
Paper: Tort Liability and Unawareness
Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky College of Law
Paper: The Lion, the Bat & the Thermostat: Metaphors on Consciousness
Tonya Kowalski, Washburn University School of Law
Presentation: Getting Real: Using Live Federal Court Files to Design Social Justice Briefing Problems
Andrea McArdle, City University of New York School of Law
Presentation: Developing a Language of Justice: Designing Legal Writing Assignments Across Gender and Racial Differences as a Critical Component of Social-Justice Lawyering
Samantha A. Moppett, Suffolk University Law School
Kathleen Elliott Vinson, Suffolk University Law School
Presentation: Virtual Legal Research Assistance as a Means to Provide Access to Justice
Jane Grise, University of Kentucky College of Law
Presentation: Criticial Reading Instruction
Scott Fraley, Baylor University School of Law
Moderator Presentation
Anne Ralph, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
Presentation: Narrative-Erasing Procedure
Mark James, Vermont Law School
Presentation: Creating Additionality in City-Driven Renewable Energy Pledges
Paper: Do You Know Who Owns Your Solar Energy? The Growing Practice of Separating Renewable Attributes From Renewable Energy Development and Its Impact on Meeting Our Climate Goals
Paula A. Franzese, Seton Hall University School of Law
Paper: The Power of Empathy in the Classroom
Howard E. Katz, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University
Paper: Teaching Legal Analysis Using the “Unified Field Theory” A Systematic Method for Instructing Students in the Fundamental Skill
Handout: Course Sequencing and Design
Presentation: Outline
Kevin Francis O’Neill, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University
Handout: Problems for In-Class Analysis
Presentation: Direct and Cross Examination Exercises
Hoi L. Kong, Associate Professor, McGill University
L. Kinvin Wroth, Vermont Law School
Speech draft: Renegotiating NAFTA: Threat or Opportunity for Sustainability?
Douglas NeJaime, Yale Law School
Paper: Religious Accommodation, and Its Limits, in a Pluralist Society
Paper: Conscience Wars in Transnational Perspective: Religious Liberty, Third-Party Harm, and Pluralism
Paper: Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics
Philip L. Harvey, Rutgers Law School
Presentation: Job Guarantee Legislation
Paul A. Diller, Willamette University College of Law
Presentation: Cities in the Age of Trump: The Best & Worst of Times
Jodi S. Balsam, Brooklyn Law School
Presentation: Teaming Up to Learn in the Doctrinal Classroom
Catherine Haras, Senior Director of the Center for Effective Teaching and Learning, California State University, Los Angeles
Presentation: Something Borrowed
Laura Norris, Santa Clara University School of Law
Selected Readings
Peter L. Strauss, Columbia Law School
Presentation: Technology Matters
Michael L. Rustad, Suffolk University Law School
Speech: Marshall S. Shapo, Prosser Award Recipient remarks
G. Edward White, University of Virginia School of Law
Speech: A Lost Search for a Generic Tort Action Protecting “Peace of Mind”
Robert H. Sitkoff, Harvard Law School
Paper: The Prudent Investor Rule and Market Risk: An Empirical Analysis