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Accomplishments Lynda Black Professor Black continues to serve on the University of Memphis President’s Council. She is also the law school faculty senator and chairs the faculty policies committee. She is the vice president of 1A FAR which is the national board of faculty athletics representatives for Division 1. In that role, she recently coordinated and moderated a session on legal and policy updates for Collegiate Athletics at the annual meeting of FARA in Indianapolis in fall 2023. She also serves on the finance committee for the American Athletics Committee and on the planning committee for the AAC Academic Symposium, which was hosted this spring.
Jennifer Brobst Professor Brobst was elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education for a two-year term in 2024. The latest edition of her state practice treatise, “Admissibility of Evidence in North Carolina,” was recently published by Thompson Reuters. Additionally, her chapter, “Legal Strategies to Preserve the Natural and Cultural Heritage of Space,” in the book “Space Tourism: Legal and Policy Aspects,” saw its international release. Professor Brobst also served as an invited peer reviewer for Lex ad Coelum, an online publication of the National University of Juridical Sciences' Centre for Aviation and Space Laws in Kolkata, India. She has also served as a designated peer reviewer for two other international journals: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, published by the Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL) and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, published by the American Psychological Association. She also presented her paper, “Trouble in the Land of Or: Statutory Construction and Declining Literacy in America,” at the 2023 Annual Scholarship Conference, Central States Law School Association, at the University of Oklahoma School of Law in fall 2023.
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Sonya Garza Professor Garza recently had her article, “Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization: Constitutional Fallacy and Revisionist History,” published in the Albany Law Review.
Ronnie Gipson Michigan State University’s International Law Review accepted Professor Gipson’s article, “Taiwan’s Democracy, Peace, and Security Can Be Secured by Purchasing the State’s Independence from China,” for publication in the Spring 2024 volume of the journal. In October 2023, Professor Gipson’s first book, Tennessee Personal Injury 2023-2024 Edition was published by LEXIS. The Federal Lawyer Magazine invited Professor Gipson to submit his article titled, “The Renewed Push to Decriminalize Pilot Error,” for publication in the Spring 2024 edition. Professor Gipson served as a deputy editor for articles submitted by practicing lawyers for publication to the 2023 International Law Year in Review, published by the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law. Finally, he chaired the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Legal Advisory Council’s activities at AirVenture 2023, which experienced record breaking attendance of 677,000. The Legal Advisory Council presented daily forums on aviation legal issues to attendees as well as a continuing legal education forum for attorneys. Professor Gipson received the 2023 Memphis Law Professor of the Year Award.