January 2025

Our colleague shared the following offer for publication: 

Daniel Morales, Border Abolitionism: Migrant Struggles and The Law (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2025) (with Nicholas De Genova).

Leonard M. Baynes, Briefcase: The Constitution: The Twenty-Seventh Amendment, Hous. Pub. Media (Jan. 28, 2025). 

Nikolas Guggenberger, Zuckerberg Proves Meta is Too Big, Am. Prospect (Jan. 15, 2025) (with Francesca Procaccini). 

Chris Mirasola, An Emerging Road Map for Trump's Use of the Military to Combat Immigration, Lawfare (Jan. 22, 2025). 

Chris Mirasola, The Trump Defense Department's First Border Deployment: A Return to the Past, Lawfare (Jan. 30, 2025). 

Chris Mirasola, Lawfare Daily: How the Trump Administration is Using the Military to Enforce Its New Immigration Policies, Lawfare (Jan. 31, 2025) (with Scott R. Anderson & Jen Patja).

Dean Leonard M. Baynes attended a workshop on Jan. 31 exclusively for deans, in Salt Lake City, UT, sponsored by the Law School Admissions Council. The workshop, “The Shared Journey,” was hosted by the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Dean Baynes served as one of two presenters on a panel called "Pathways to a Shared Journey." His presentation focused on the efficacy of pipeline/pathway programs to the legal profession. 

Emily Berman spoke at the National Security Law Section's News Roundup Panel at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. She also appeared as a guest lecturer on government surveillance in a Hobby School Public Management class, and spoke to Fox 26 about the federal sentencing of President Trump in New York state court. 

Megan Davis was the subject of a Member Spotlight by the Association of Academic Support Educators. 

Alyson Drake moderated a program, “Incorporating AI & the NextGen Bar into Legal Research Instruction” at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. 

Leah Fowler’s paper, "Influencer Speech-Torts" (forthcoming in Georgetown Law Journal), was reviewed by Wendy Epstein on JOTWELL. 

David Froomkin presented “The President’s Duty to Commission Officers” to the Constitutional Law 2025 New Voices Panel and “The Death of Administrative Law” to the Administrative Law 2025 New Voices Panel, at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. 

Aman Gebru participated in the Texas Law Review Symposium on the Politics of Intellectual Property Law as an invited commentator on Jan. 17. He also presented his article “Cultural Appropriation as Passing Off” at the Annual Works In Progress for Intellectual Property Scholars Colloquium, hosted by the University of Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law on Jan. 31. 

Nikolas Guggenberger presented a session on socio-economics at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Guggenberger served as a guest panelist for the Markovits Bookfest on Jan. 31, at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.  

Valerie Gutmann Koch presented "The Opioid Crisis Meets Genomics" at Wake Forest University School of Law on Jan. 30. 

Christopher Mirasola presented a AALS Hot Topic Program "Domestic Use of the Military," and a National Security Law Section WIP Session, "Domestic Military Deployments after Trump v. United States," at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. He gave a presentation to the University of Richmond Veterans and Military Law Association and National Security and Intelligence Law Association, "Trump, Southern Border Deployments, and the Revenge of Sovereignty and Military Necessity," on Jan. 31, 2025. 

Hilary Stirman Reed presented a session on legal writing, reasoning, and research at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. 

Gina S. Warren presented her article, “Locals Paying the Price of Overtourism,” at the Environmental Law & Natural Resources and Energy Law Join Program Works-in-Progress at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.