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University of Tennessee
College of Law
March 2021
Eric Amarante
Associate Professor Eric Franklin Amarante’s work was recently featured in Haslam Magazine’s Winter 2021 issue. The feature discusses Latino Business Formation and Growth in New Latino Destinations: A Social Capital Perspective, which was co-authored with Adrian “Ace” Beorchia, a PhD candidate in strategy, entrepreneurship, and organizations and David Gras, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship. The article was chosen as Best Conference Paper Proposal for the 2020 Advancing Management Research in Latin America Specialized Conference.
Professor Amarante’s latest article, States as Laboratories for Charitable Compliance: An Empirical Study, has been accepted for publication in the George Washington Law Review.
Wendy Bach
On February 26, Professor Wendy Bach was a presenter in a speaker series entitled "Poverty, Race, Legal Systems, and the Criminalization of Care," sponsored by the Child and Family Studies department at UTK.
On March 17, Professor Bach presented "Criminalizing Care" as part of the Law and Political Economy Project.
On March 19, Professor Bach presented at the Northeastern University College of Law as part of a conference entitled "The Many Faces of Health." Professor Bach's panel was entitled "Racism as a Public Health Crisis: The Cradle to Prison Pipeline."
Teri Dobbins Baxter
Professor Teri Dobbins Baxter’s article "Traumatic Justice" has been accepted for publication in Volume 56 of the University of Richmond Law Review.
Professor Baxter was also a presenter in the Knoxville Bar Association CLE Program: "The Nifty Nine: A U.S. Supreme Court Update" on March 11, 2021.
Zack Buck
Professor Zack Buck's latest article, "When Hospitals Sue Patients," has been accepted for publication in the 73rd volume of the Hastings Law Journal. 
Professor Buck also published a piece with The Conversation on March 25th entitled “What the American Rescue Plan Says About President Biden’s Health Care Priorities—And What They Mean for You.” Buck's piece was subsequently picked up by Yahoo! News.
Sherley Cruz
On February 22, Professor Sherley Cruz presented her work-in-progress, "Essentially Unprotected," at the University of Georgia School of Law Faculty Colloquium.
Professor Cruz has also accepted an offer to publish her article, "Essentially Unprotected," with Tulane Law Review. The article will be forthcoming in late fall of 2021 or early 2022.
Joan Heminway
Professor Joan Heminway was an invited presenter for this years’ annual symposium hosted on Zoom by the University of Richmond Law Review. The symposium featured a series of panels on “Corporate & Securities Law in the Time of the Coronavirus.” Heminway’s panel focused on securities disclosure issues. She offered an overview of disclosure regulation under the federal securities laws and commented on executive disclosures of COVID-19 diagnoses and illnesses.
Professor Heminway also co-led a pupilage team that presented on corporate social justice at the March meeting of the Hamilton Burnett Chapter of the American Inns of Court.  Her part of the meeting covered an overview of corporate structure and management duties as they relate to social justice issues.
On Monday, March 22, Professor Heminway also served as one of three invited panelists for a forum on insider trading reform hosted by the Michigan State University College of Law’s chapter of the Federalist Society.
Michael J. Higdon
Associate Dean Michael J. Higdon's article "(In)Formal Marriage Equality" has been published in Volume 89 of the Fordham Law Review.
Associate Dean Higdon's textbook, Wills, Trusts, and Estates: An Integrated Approach (2d edition), which is co-authored by Danaya Wright and Bridget Crawford, has recently been published by Foundation Press.
Associate Dean Higdon also recently was part of an ABA site team that visited (virtually) New York Law School.
Becky Jacobs
Professor Becky Jacobs contributed an essay entitled "Lon Fuller: A Progenitor of the Pedagogy of Skills?" to the book, Discussions in Dispute Resolution from Oxford University Press.
Lucy Jewel
Professor Lucy Jewel’s paper, "Comparative Legal Rhetoric," has been accepted for publication by the Kentucky Law Journal.
On March 1, Professor Jewel presented this paper to the faculty at the University of Mississippi School of Law as part of its SEC faculty exchange program with UT.
On March 12, Professor Jewel was the closing speaker at the Teaching Multicultural Lawyering: Development, Integration and Conversation, sponsored by Thomas Cooley Law School and Syracuse Law School. The conference, which drew over 200 participants, was organized around a new book, Multi-Cultural Lawyering, which has just been published by Carolina Academic Press. Professor Jewel’s article, Does the Reasonable Man Have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, was reprinted in the book. Professor Jewel spoke about the U.S. lawyer’s traditional professional identity and how that identity can be reformed to be more diverse and inclusive.
George Kuney
Professor George Kuney’s Article, "Evading Effective Review in Bankruptcy: The Unique Intersection of the Divestiture Doctrine, Interlocutory Orders, and Equitable and Statutory Mootness," co-authored with 2L Aleah Reno-Demick, has been accepted for publication in the 2021 Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law as the lead article in this year’s volume. The title fairly describes the article’s topics, which will be recognizable to those in the bankruptcy and procedure space.
Alex Long
Professor Alex Long's article, "Of Prosecutors and Prejudice (or “Do Prosecutors Have an Ethical Obligation Not to Say Racist Stuff Online?”) has been accepted for publication in volume of the 55 U.C. Davis Law Review.
In addition, Professor Long's article, "Using the IIED Tort to Address Discrimination and Retaliation in the Workplace” has been accepted for publication in volume 2021 of the University of Illinois Law Review.
Glenn Reynolds
Professor Glenn Reynolds published an article in the Wall Street Journal, "How to Restore Balance to Libel Law," on March 24. (Print edition March 25). 
Professor Reynolds also appeared on Fox News Primetime on March 23, talking about cancel culture and politics.
On March 27, Professor Reynolds appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," talking with First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams about libel, the First Amendment, and New York Times v. Sullivan. He also discussed his recent Tennessee Law Review Article, "Rethinking Libel for the Twenty-First Century."
Briana Rosenbaum
Professor Briana Rosenbaum has been appointed as one of the Faculty Leaders for the inclusive teaching track of TLI’s Course Redesign Institute. In that role, she will facilitate conversations on topics such as equity-based teaching and assessment and assist institute participants develop lesson plans infused with inclusive teaching practices.
Greg Stein
Professor Greg Stein gave a presentation to the Austin, Texas, Bar Association’s Real Estate Section on March 10. His presentation, “The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Urban Land Use Patterns,” took place via Zoom.
Professor Stein’s review article, "Did You Know that You're Paying Part of the Cost of my Car?," has been published in JOTWELL. Stein’s article is a review of "Should Law Subsidize Driving?," published by University of Iowa College of Law Professor Gregory H. Shill in the NYU Law Review. Shill’s article described the many ways in which various traffic and land use laws subsidize vehicle owners at the expense of non-owners.
Maurice Stucke
 In March, Professor Maurice Stucke (along with his co-author, Ariel Ezrachi) presented their book at the Seoul National University, School of Law, Book Talk series.
Valorie Vojdik
On behalf of the Commission for Women-Knoxville, Professor Joan Heminway recently interviewed Professor Valorie Vojdik about her reflections on Justice Ginsburg’s impacts as a lawyer and Supreme Court justice and some key moments when both her life and career intersected with Justice Ginsburg.
Melanie Wilson
Dean Emeritus Melanie Wilson took part in an event on plea bargaining and its effects on the American criminal justice system hosted by the UTK Law Chapter of the Federalist Society on March 15. Clark Neily, Vice President for Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute, offered his perspective, and Wilson provided a response, which was followed by a group discussion.