News featuring a faculty member
Professor Jacqueline E. Ross was awarded the 2024 Wayne R. LaFave Award for Scholarly Excellence for her book “Making Sense of Youth Crime: A Comparison of Police Intelligence in the United States and France,” (Cambridge University Press, 2023) co-authored with Thierry Delpeuch of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. This award was established in […]
Professor Arden Rowell has teamed up with the Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA) Research Laboratory, led by Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering Associate Professor Zahra Mohaghegh on a new research grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The grant, titled “Context-Based Analysis of a Risk-informed, Performance-based Regulatory Approach for Advanced Nuclear Reactors,” will span from 2024 […]
“I think the cases are a step in the right direction,” Professor Eric Johnson told USA Today about a new tactic from prosecutors in the battle against gun violence. Three separate cases have recently charged adults, such as parents and school principals, for failing to prevent adolescents from committing crimes involving firearms. This new legal […]
Professors Pia Hunter and Faye Jones spoke at the 2024 Popular Culture Association Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, on March 27, 2024. The Popular Culture Association is a group dedicated to promoting the study of popular culture throughout the world through the establishment and promotion of conferences, publications, and discussion. With members in hundreds of […]
Professor Richard Kaplan was one of six law professors who filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit case State of Utah et al. v. Julie Su et al. The brief was filed in support of a Biden administration rule allowing retirement advisers to consider environmental, social and governance issues […]
In the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Judge Craig T. Goldblatt relied heavily upon the scholarship of Professor Robert Lawless in his opinion for Yellow Corporation’s Chapter 11 plan. Citing “Reframing Arbitration & Bankruptcy,” Judge Goldblatt ruled that Yellow Corp. must resolve issues in bankruptcy court rather than in arbitration. Speaking to […]
Bayer AG is considering employing the controversial legal tactic known as the Texas Two-Step bankruptcy to address the thousands of lawsuits alleging that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The strategy, which involves splitting assets and liabilities into separate units, with the unit burdened by liabilities being placed into bankruptcy to facilitate a global settlement, is […]
Professor Matthew Finkin’s scholarly expertise was recently in demand in the Northeast. On Wednesday, March 20, Professor Finkin testified before a committee of the Vermont Legislature concerning a proposal to amend the state’s constitution to add a worker rights provision. The proposal would follow Illinois in enshrining the right of collective bargaining into the state’s […]
Former President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term is generating a lot of constitutional questions, which is keeping Professor Jason Mazzone busy. Writing at the News-Gazette, Mazzone explores the question of whether a state has the power to exclude a candidate from the ballot because of the insurrection act. He examines what the U.S. […]
A recent $2.5 billion bankruptcy settlement between the Boy Scouts of America and childhood sexual abuse survivors seemed to put a close to an awful chapter in the victims lives, until the settlement was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court due to concerns over the legality of mandatory releases of claims against nondebtor third parties. […]