Accomplishments: William S. Boyd School of Law
Carla Bywaters (Law) was elected to the Faculty Senate as the law school's junior senator.
Eve Hanan (Law) participated in a roundtable discussion titled, "Evidence Law: Teaching It, Writing 性视界传媒 It, Changing It," at the 2026 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting.
Jeff Stempel (Law) served as a commentator for an "Author Meets Reader" session on Shauhin Talesh's book, Insuring Cyber Insecurity, at the 2026 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting.
Michael Kagan (Law) published an article titled "Second-Class Asylum, Third Country Danger" in the Southern Methodist University Law Review.
Tom Romero (Law) presented "The Color of Kinship: Observations of a Brown Buffalo on Rights to the River in North and South America and its Implications for Racial Justice in 鈥淲estern鈥 Water Law" at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in San Francisco.
At the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association in San Francisco, professors M谩ximo Langer and David Tanenhaus (Law) presented their paper titled "The Decline of Juvenile Confinement and the Remains of the Original Juvenile Court in the Early Twenty-First Century in the United States."
Joe Regalia (Law) co-launched a new series with the State Bar of Nevada exploring AI agents and the latest trends in legal tech. He presented the inaugural session, "Effective AI Prompting in Legal Practice."
Heather Rappaport (Law) presented to the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Institutional Advancement a program titled, "Lunch with a Lawyer: Meal Programs as a Pathway to Engagement." Dr. Rappaport is the AALS Section Chair for Institutional Advancement.
Leslie Griffin (Law) authored a new article for Verdict titled, 鈥淟isten to Gis猫le Pelicot, in Shame Has to Change Sides: A Hymn to Life.鈥
Eve Hanan (Law) authored an amicus brief (with co-author Bhasin) in the Michigan Supreme Court on behalf of Evidence Law Professors interested in the exclusion of irrelevant and prejudicial information in the trial of Nancy Gerwatowski.
Marketa Trimble (Law) gave an online presentation titled "Intellectual Property and Conflict of Laws: Notoriously Difficult or Notoriously Underestimated?" for the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) in Hong Kong. The presentation focused on her latest book, Intellectual Property and Conflict of Laws, and featured commentary鈥
Aude Picard (Life Sciences) and Cheyenne Brokaw (Law) and master's student Patrice Boyd (English) recently published a research article in the journal Geobiology, titled: "Membrane Vesicle Formation Removes Iron Sulfide Mineral Crusts From the Cell Surface of Growing Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria." In this project, funded by NSF EPSCoR, the team鈥