FACULTY NEWS

American University Washington College of Law faculty are active in their respective fields through scholarly writing and presentations. As renowned experts, members of our faculty are frequently called on for their knowledge and understanding of today’s pressing legal and policy issues.

Professors recognized for scholarship, teaching, and service

AUWCL recognized nine professors for their outstanding work in scholarship, teaching, and service.

Pauline Ruyle Moore Scholars, established to recognize an outstanding scholar in the area of public law: Professors Fernanda Nicola and Brenda Smith.

Edwin A. Mooers Scholars, established to recognize a faculty member in any area of law: Professors Jonas Anderson and Christine Farley.

Excellence in Teaching Award, established to recognize outstanding teaching, as reflected by thoughtful pedagogy, student mentoring and advising, institutional leadership focused on improving teaching: Professors Lia Epperson and David Spratt.

Innovation in Pedagogy Award, established to recognize exceptional creativity and innovation in instruction: Professor Rebecca Hamilton.

Adjunct Teaching Award, established to recognize an adjunct faculty member for outstanding teaching, thoughtful pedagogy, student mentoring, or exceptional creativity and innovation: Professor Richard Pollak.

Outstanding Service Award, established to recognize a faculty member’s outstanding service: Professors Brenda Smith and Stephen Wermiel.

Padideh Ala’i

presented “Global Trade Governance and a Restructured WTO” at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy on May 3.

Hilary J. Allen

authored “Driverless Finance: Fintech’s Impact on Financial Stability” (Oxford University Press, 2022). She was a panelist at several events, including “The Case for Precaution,” Fourth Conference on Law and Macroeconomics, “Crypto’s Rapid Rise: The Future of Finance or Cause for Concern?” at the Consumer Federation of America Virtual Financial Services Conference, “Being Responsible for the Future: ESG and the Financial Services Sector” at the American Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee Meeting, and “Web3, Crypto, and Responsible Digital Development,” the keynote at the Global Digital Development Forum. She presented at “DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?” at the National Economic Club, and “Operational Risk and Business Continuity Planning” at the Women in Law & Finance Conference, University of Pennsylvania. She presented “Regulatory Innovation and Permission to Fail” at the Wharton Financial Regulation Conference, Seton Hall Faculty Workshop, and Regulatory Law and Policy Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School. She was a guest lecturer on “Sandbox Boundaries” at Georgetown University Law Center. She gave several interviews on driverless finance, including “Takeaway” with Melissa Harris Perry, “The Buzz” with ACT-IAC, New Money Review Podcast, The Hill, Marketplace Tech, ABA Journal: Modern Law Library Podcast, The FinReg Pod, and Wisconsin Public Radio. She was quoted in numerous outlets, appeared on Al-Jazeera evening news, and her forthcoming article, “DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?” was profiled in Bloomberg News and The Atlantic. Professor Allen gave testimony in May on stablecoins before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee.

Jonas Anderson

authored an article, “The Obsolescence of Blue Laws in the 21st Century,” forthcoming in the Stanford Law & Policy Review, and “Explaining Florida Man,” forthcoming in volume 46 of the Florida State University Law Review. He presented “Faculty Presentation at GWU Law—Federal Judge Seeks Patent Cases” and “Federalist Society Debate with Judge Ryan Holte of the Court of Federal Claims.”

Jonathan Baker

published “Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy,” a casebook co-authored with Andrew I. Gavil, William E. Kovacic, and Joshua D. Wright, (West Academic Publishing, 4th ed. 2022). He was recognized by Baron Public Affairs as one of 10 academic and policy expert Super Influencers who shape the thinking of government decision-makers in today’s antitrust policy debate.

Priya Baskaran was appointed co-chair of the American Association of Law Schools Clinicians of Color. She was a panelist for several events including “Critical Race Theory:

Truth, Lies, and The Law: A Symposium,” and “Critically Interrogating the Twin Promises of American Democracy: Politics, Economics, and the Struggle for Full Equality.” Her article, “Teaching Theranos,” is forthcoming in Tennessee L. Rev. (Spring 2023).

Jerry Comizio

published the casebook “Virtual Currency Law: The Emerging Legal and Regulatory Framework” (Wolters Kluwer, 2022). He was a panelist on “Blockchain Arbitration and the Resolution of Cryptocurrency Disputes” at the annual Paris Arbitration Week and appeared on a webcast hosted by the Buckley law firm entitled “Innovation Meets Regulation: The Biden Cryptocurrency Executive Order and the Emerging Legal and Regulatory Framework.” He published an op-ed in Bloomberg Law entitled “Cryptocurrency: Ukraine Crisis Shows Urgency for Federal Reform.”

Angela Davis has a book chapter, “Transforming the Culture—Internal and External Challenges to a New Vision of Prosecution” in “Progressive Prosecution: Race and Reform in Criminal Justice” (Anthony C. Thompson and Kim Taylor-Thompson eds., forthcoming in 2022, NYU Press). She presented “Elected Black Women Prosecutors” at New York University Law School’s Ken Thompson Lecture on Race and Criminal Justice Reform and gave the keynote address at Seattle University’s Virtual Symposium on Policing the Black Man entitled “Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment in 2022.”

Robert Dinerstein

was on the National Law Admissions Consortium’s Experiential Learning Panel, “Guardianship Replace or Reform: Where Do We Go From Here?” He presented “Overview of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” Children’s National Hospital, The Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Other Related Disabilities at the ABA Senior Lawyers Division. He was interviewed by Katie Barlow, Fox 5 DC News, on the U.S. Department of Justice complaint against Uber Technologies challenging the company’s assessment of wait fees as discrimination against people with disabilities. He gave testimony on civil commitment and communitybased supports for people with mental health disorders during a Joint Informational Hearing—California Legislature Assembly Health and Judiciary Committees: “The LantermanPetris-Short Act: How Can It Be Improved?” Dinerstein was quoted regarding the need for employer flexibility in accommodating workers with anxiety disorders in a Law360 article and, in the ABA Journal, he was quoted about a ban on student use of laptops in the classroom and disability accommodations.

N. Jeremi Duru

discussed the Brian Flores racial discrimination lawsuit against the National Football League with CNN “News Day,” MSNBC “American Voices,” NBC News, ESPN, BBC radio, NPR “On Point,” USA Today, Business Insider, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune. (See story “Leveling the Playing Field,” page 20.) He wrote “It’s Not Child’s Play: A Regulatory Approach to Reforming American Youth Sports,” published in 20 Virginia Sports & Entertainment L. J. 25 (2021) and “3 Minutes on the Rooney Rule,” published in American, the AU magazine.

Walter Effross

authored “Corporate Governance: Principles, Practices, and Provisions” (Aspen Publishing, 3d. ed. 2022).

Roger A. Fairfax

Jr. presented his chapter, “Illegal Search: Race, Personhood, and Policing,” which appears in the Gregory S. Parks and Frank Rudy Cooper edited “Fight the Power: Law and Policy Through Hip Hop Songs” (Cambridge University Press, 2022), at a book launch convening sponsored by Wake Forest University Law School. He wrote “Interrogating the Non-Incorporation of the Grand Jury Clause,” 43 Cardozo L. Rev. 855 (2022), and “Prosecutors, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice,” 19 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 25 (2022). He was a guest on the Law in Black and White podcast to discuss challenges facing American law schools. He also testified before the District of Columbia City Council regarding legislation overhauling the D.C. Criminal Code. He gave scholarly commentary on “Private Prosecution in America,” authored by John Bessler, at a symposium, and gave a presentation on the harmless constitutional error rule at the annual conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He spoke on issues confronting legal education at a convening of American law school deans sponsored by the Law School Admissions Council, and at the Association of American Law Schools Faculty Focus Series. His op-ed on the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was published in Newsweek.

Christine Farley

presented “IP as Protest, Change, and Empowerment— International IP and Social Justice” at the Seventh Annual IP Mosaic Conference, and on the Trademark Modernization Act at the Advanced Trademark Seminar sponsored by Kilpatrick Townsend. She presented her paper “Reevaluating Trademarks in a Digital World” at the Faculty Works-in-Progress Lecture Series at the University of Minnesota Law School in March and was quoted in “Apps and Oranges: Behind Apple’s ‘Bullying’ on Trademarks” in the New York Times in March. She presented at the “INTA Annual Practitioner vs. Professor Debate” at the Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association in May.

Andrew Guthrie

Ferguson wrote “Surveillance and the Tyrant Test,” 110 GEO. L. J. 205 (2021). He had three articles accepted for publication: “Digital Habit

Evidence,” Duke L. J., “Courts without Court,” Vanderbilt L. Rev., and “Persistent Surveillance,” Alabama L. Rev.

Paul Figley wrote an op-ed about the Judgment Fund in Law360. He was selected to serve on Law360’s 2022 Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Editorial Board.

Sean Flynn

chaired a workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, on the right to research in international copyright, and presented the IVIR Lecture at the University of Amsterdam on “The Right to Research in International Copyright.” He was quoted in Law 360 on TRIPS Waiver.

Susan D. Franck

was appointed co-chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator’s Washington, D.C., chapter, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, North American Branch, along with AUWCL alumnus Chip Rosenberg. The two organized and moderated an event hosted by WCL for the institute that was written up in the Global Arbitration Review. She drafted a paper titled “Heterogenity in International Arbitration” that was presented at the University of Virginia School of Law, Law and Social Science Colloquium. She wrote “The Once and Future ICSID,” for “ICSID Arbitration Rules” (Richard Happ & Stephen Wilske eds., forthcoming August 2022). She presented at the Hong Kong Ministry of Justice and United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Forum for Further Preparatory Work on Investment Mediation, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), UNCITRAL Working Group III on ISDS Reform: Academic Forum on “Comparative Cost and Financing of International Dispute Settlement.”

Amanda Frost was a witness at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing, “An Ethical Judiciary: Transparency and Accountability for the 21st Century Courts.”

Amanda Frost shortlisted for history prize

Professor Amanda Frost’s You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers, was shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize, awarded by the Columbia School of Journalism and the Neiman Foundation. Frost’s book examines what it means to be American and the issues surrounding membership, identity, belonging, and exclusion that still occupy and divide the nation in the 21st century.

Cynthia Goode-

Works provided plea agreement training in conjunction with the National Center for State Courts, The National Legal Aid and Defender Association to the Legal Aid and Advisory Authority of Trinidad and Tobago Public Defenders’ Department (PDD).

Llezlie Green

was a panelist on “Poverty Law: Casebooks, Clinics, and the Law School Curriculum” at the 2022 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting.

Claudio Grossman

presented to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States on sea level rise, which addressed the consequences for the states of the hemisphere of the existential threats that rising sea levels pose to people in Latin America and the Caribbean. He gave a lecture on the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law and on “Reparations to Individuals for Violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law.” He was interviewed for a webinar, “Current Human Rights Developments and Challenges in the World: A Conversation with Michelle Bachelet for United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.” He was reelected as president of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights for four years (2022-2026). He wrote “Epidemics and International Law: The Need for International Regulation” for Miami L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022). He was a panelist on “Unpacking Ukraine” in March and presented to the International Law Commission of the United Nations in Geneva Switzerland. He has an article forthcoming in 2022 titled “The Invasion of Ukraine: A Flagrant Violation of International Law” in Human Rights Brief. He was interviewed by CNN en Español and presented on sea level rise and its relevance for the Americas for the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States.

Lewis Grossman

presented “Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America” at the John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture, at the inaugural workshop of the University of Virginia Miller Center’s Health Policy Initiative and at BioLawLapalooza Conference 4.2, Stanford Law School. He co-authored “Building Resilience into the Nation’s Medical Product Supply Chain” by the National Academies Committee on the Security of America’s Medical Product Supply. He published a book review of Daniel Navon’s “Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy,” in 95 Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Press, 429 (2021). Selected podcasts and articles focusing on his book “Choose Your Medicine” included New Books Network, ABA Journal, The Takeaway, and Slate. He moderated a panel at the Administrative Law Review's Spring Symposium on NFIB v. OSHA’s impact on the U.S. government efforts to address health crises.

Rebecca

Hamilton wrote “After the Coup in Sudan: Key (ShortTerm) Indicators for Democratic Survival” for Just Security. She was a panelist on “Democracy Support in Hard Places: Can We Do Better?” a discussion hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that included U.S. Under Secretary of State Uzra Zeya. Professor Hamilton wrote “PlatformEnabled Crimes,” forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review; “Model Indictment Charging President Putin with the Crime of Aggression,” in Just Security; an op-ed, “Prosecuting Putin for Going to War,” in The Washington Post; and a blog post titled “Focus on Accountability Risks Overshadowing Ukraine’s Reconstruction Needs” for Just Security. She was interviewed by YAHOO!FINANCE, NBC News, The Washington Post, Reuters, Newsweek, and Newshub on war crimes in Ukraine. She was quoted in The New York Times and on NPR on war crimes in Darfur. In March she presented “Advocacy, Technology, and Atrocity Prevention” for “The Ukraine Conflict: Expert Roundtable on Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law Issues” at the American Society of International Law, and the Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights: Atrocities in Ukraine. She has been invited to be a visiting fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.

David Hunter

wrote the sixth edition of his casebook “International Environmental Law and Policy” (West Academic, 6th ed. 2022) with co-authors James Salzman and Durwood Zaelke. He presented on a panel for the American Association of Law Schools on approaches to teaching international climate change law.

Cynthia Jones

presented “Recent Developments in the Law of Evidence” to 300 lawyers and local and federal judges at the 12th Annual Virgin Islands District Court Conference. She gave two lectures on the rules of evidence at the National Conference of United States District Court Judges held in the District of Columbia. The fifth edition of her co-authored textbook, “Criminal Law Concepts and Practice,” was published by Carolina Academic Press in February.

Kathryn

Kleiman wrote “Proving Ground” (forthcoming 2022), a book about the untold WWIIera story of the six women who programmed the world’s first modern computer as part of a secret U.S. Army project.

Benjamin Leff

presented “Using Predictive Software in Teaching Taxation” on a panel. He also was a panelist on cannabis taxation registration in January.

Jeffrey Lubbers

was quoted by ABC News about the case that overturned the U.S. Centers for Disease Control mask mandate for travelers.

Rebecca Hamilton lays out case against Putin

Less than three weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine and began bombarding Ukrainian cities, Professor Rebecca Hamilton published a model criminal indictment of Russian President Vladimir Putin for the international crime of aggression. Hamilton said she hopes the model indictment provides a demonstration of what is possible in other forums, representing that kind of document that prosecutors could file before a special international tribunal or national court. “Today Putin may feel he is invincible, but the evidentiary record is being built against him.”

Juan Mendez gave an expert opinion on international law regarding legal obligations to investigate, prosecute, and punish perpetrators of torture and exclude evidence obtained under torture. He wrote a report for the special prosecutor appointed by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Mexico to investigate the disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, in 2014 and the subsequent inquiries that had led to a claim that the “historic truth” had been revealed. The report will accompany a submission by the special prosecutor to federal courts in 2022.

Fernanda G.

Nicola was a panelist on law and governance discussions on “The Future of the European Legal Order.” She wrote “Researching the European Court of Justice” (Cambridge University Press) which takes stock of the ongoing “methodological turn” in the field of European Union law scholarship. She presented “Legal Diplomacy in an Age of Authoritarianism” to the University of Pennsylvania Law and Governance program in April. She participated in a book discussion of Professor Günter Frankenberg’s “Authoritarianism— Constitutional Perspectives,” cosponsored by the Hauser Global Law School Program, the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, and the JSD program at New York University.

Diane Orentlicher

wrote “Ensuring Access to Accurate Information and Combatting Misinformation about Pandemics,” 36 AM. U. INT’L L. REV. 1067 (2021). She presented “Renewing and Improving the United States’ Relationship with the International Criminal Court,” at the Annual Meeting of

the American Branch of the International Law Association and was a discussant on a webinar on Transitional Justice for Roma in Europe. She completed “A Framework Approach to Prevention: Making Prevention a Reality.” She was a panelist on a webinar titled Crimes of Aggression, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes in Ukraine, sponsored by the War Crimes Research Office and WCL International and Comparative Law Studies programs. She published a blog post in Just Security on exploring legal foundations for prosecuting atrocities being committed in Ukraine. She was interviewed on NPR’s “1A” about accountability for atrocities in Ukraine.

Adeen Postar was appointed by the ABA Section on Legal Education to serve on the site team accreditation visit to the Ave Maria School of Law in October. She was also appointed by the American Association of Law Libraries to serve on the Conference of Newer Law Librarians.

Jayesh Rathod

wrote “Fleeing the Land of the Free” (forthcoming, Columbia Law Review), which examines the phenomenon of U.S. citizens who have applied for asylum overseas.

Ira P. Robbins’

article, “Vilifying the Vigilante: A Narrowed Scope of Citizen’s Arrest,” 25 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 557 (2016), has been cited in the Commentary to the Restatement (Third) of Torts (Am. L. Inst. 2021). His article “Explaining the Florida Man” was the lead article in the Florida State University Law Review (2022) and his article written with John B. Corr “Interjurisdictional Certification and Choice of Law,” 41 VAND. L. REV. 426 (1988), was cited and quoted by the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine in Franchini v. Investor’s Bus. Daily, 2022 WL 401988, 2022 Me. LEXIS 11 (Feb. 10, 2022). He was interviewed by numerous media outlets on the Ahmaud Arbery trial in Georgia, including the Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Times, and The Independent. He was the winner of a major photography competition—the 2022 AAA World Photography Contest—taking First Place in the Transportation Photography category and Second RunnerUp overall (of more than 4,000 photos in the competition).

Jenny Roberts, with Margaret Colgate Love and Wayne Logan, wrote “Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction: Law, Policy and Practice” (Thomson West, 4th ed. forthcoming 2022).

Diego Rodriguez-

Pinzon appeared on Telemundo discussing the war in Ukraine and the application of international humanitarian law. He was a lead panelist in a March virtual event of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva regarding the implementation of the crime of torture in Pakistan. He was interviewed on CNN regarding the role of the International Criminal Court in confronting the atrocities perpetrated by Russian forces in Ukraine. He was invited to participate as keynote speaker at the 49th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding Grave Violations of Human Rights and Reparations in Bolivia and invited to speak at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University (NDU), to a group of about 45 representatives of 13 Latin American nations on the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), their work, and some of the most important legal aspects of their case law.

Ezra Rosser

wrote “The Euclid Proviso,” 96 Washington L. Rev. 811 (2021) and a review of Hanoch Dagan’s book “A Liberal Theory of Property,” 72 Univ. Toronto L. J. 245. He presented “A Nation Within: Navajo Land and Economic Development” at a faculty workshop at Suffolk University Law School in April. He also presented at AALS Pop Up Poverty Law Conference in March, Wosdee Podcast, WISE Spotlight Series, and Law and Political Economy and Property Law for Case Western Reserve Law in April.

Susana SáCouto

submitted two amicus curiae briefs in the International Criminal Court case of The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen. These briefs (dated Nov. 15, 2021, and Dec. 22, 2021) were on various issues, including the definition of forced pregnancy, evidentiary standards for crimes of sexual and genderbased violence, and cumulative convictions. She presented on her chapter, “Feminist Approaches to Witnesses and Participants in Atrocity Crime Trials: Lessons Learned from Domestic Prosecutions,” at a Feb. 10 gathering of contributors to the forthcoming “Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law.” She was interviewed by CBS Mornings, Politico, and the History Channel on war crimes in the Ukraine. She served on a panel entitled “The Importance of Feminist Judgments” at the American Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting and moderated a panel on “Crimes of Aggression, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes in Ukraine.”

Ann Shalleck and the Women and the Law Program spearheaded a rapid response teach-in, in conjunction with the Law and Government Program and the Health Law and Policy Program, on the leaked Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe and Casey.

Anita Sinha wrote “Transnational Migration Deterrence,” forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review. She presented at the International Human Rights Clinicians’ Conference, hosted by the University of Miami School of Law. She presented a work-in-progress at Tulane Law School in March, was interviewed for the Journal of the American Bar Association on the class action lawsuits over labor practices against private companies running

immigration detention centers, and spoke on a panel hosted by the South Asian Bar Association of North America.

Brenda Smith

was the keynote speaker for “Struggles Unseen: Women’s Rights in the Criminal Justice System” at the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs.

David Snyder

presented his paper “Contracting for Process” at the Duke symposium on Contract in Crisis, hosted by Law & Contemporary Problems and also at the European University Institute (Florence). He wrote “Balancing Buyer and Supplier Responsibilities: Model Contract Clauses to Protect Workers in International Supply Chains, Version 2.0” published in 77 Bus. Law. 115 (2021-2022). He was the principal drafter for a working group of the ABA Business Law Section and he wrote “Bridges,” 71 Am. U. L. Rev. 832 (2022) and “Contracting for Process,” 85 Duke J. of L. & Contemporary Problems 255 (2022).

Bill Snape

co-authored a chapter entitled “State Endangered Species Acts” in “Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives” (Donald Baur & Ya-Wei Li eds., 3d. ed. 2021). He wrote a petition to the General Services Administration, which was largely researched and written by WCL students, to garner media coverage of President Biden’s procurement and climate initiative.

David H. Spratt

wrote “Debunking the Efficacy of Standard Contract Boilerplate— Part III,” Va. B. Assn. News J., Fall 2021, 10. He presented “Summer Writing had me a Blast” at the Legal Writing Strategy Refresher and wrote “Debunking the Efficacy of Standard Contract Boilerplate— Part IV” in VBA News Journal (Spring 2022).

Ciara Torres-

Spelliscy spoke at the Widener Law Review Symposium on Voting Rights; University of Miami/Florida Bioethics Network’s 30th Annual Florida Bioethics Conference: Debates, Decisions, Solutions about constitutional reproductive freedoms and privacy rights; and SCOTUSblog podcast about Alabama’s redistricting case. She is a board member on Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

Brandon Weiss

wrote “Clarifying Nonprofit Purchase Rights in Affordable Housing,” 49 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1067 (2021).

Steve Wermiel

delivered the keynote address on the judicial career of Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James Wynn for a symposium at University of North Carolina Law Review in March. He lectured on the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket to 25 law student members of the American Constitution Society chapter the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He was interviewed on the Supreme Court nomination process and hearings for Judge Jackson for Newsy; Hearst TV; iHeart Media Miami Radio WIOD; and New Arab News. He was interviewed on Hearst television on two pending Supreme Court cases. He was interviewed on the Supreme Court leak by KCBS Radio; Fuller Project (nonprofit news organization); the Economist; and Kristeligt Dagblad, a Danish newspaper. He was quoted in Politico on the Supreme Court leaks and the papers of justices. He lectured on Zoom to Live and Learn Bethesda on the Supreme Court agenda. He moderated the ABA Law Day panel discussion entitled “Toward a More Perfect Union: The Constitution in Times of Change.”

Paul Williams

submitted an amicus curiae brief before the International Criminal Court in The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen. He presented “The Future of the Peace Process in Ukraine” and was interviewed by The Power Vertical Podcast on “The Case Against Vladimir Putin.”

Caroline Wick and Bob Dinerstein gave a guest lecture for a new program of Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. The lecture addressed laws that impact children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disorders.

Paul Williams publishes book on peace agreements

In Lawyering Peace, published by Cambridge University Press, Professor Paul Williams aims to help future negotiators build better and more durable peace agreements. Williams offers a rigorous, yet accessible, examination of more than 20 peace processes. From that, he draws lessons designed to help parties, practitioners, and academics work their way through the multitude of decision points they face in a negotiation, and then to draft legal text that encapsulates that agreement in a way that will promote the durability of the agreement or constitution.