Vol. Seven ◊ Issue 9 ◊ December 31, 2021

Professor Wendy Bach recently published an editorial for the Knoxville News Sentinel on the firing of educator Matthew Hawn in Kingsport, Tennessee. Her piece can be found here.

Professor Zack Buck was the featured guest on HealthConnections, a show hosted on Knoxville’s NPR affiliate, 91.9 FM WUOT. His interview, which aired during NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered on November 30, was entitled "Keeping Up With COVID-19 Restrictions," and is available here.

 

Professor Buck was interviewed for and quoted in a piece written by Kathy Carlson in the Tennessee Ledger, entitled "Public Health v. Freedom of Choice," published on December 3, and is available here.

Professor Buck was also interviewed for and quoted in a story published by CNN Politics that ran on CNN.com on Dec. 29, 2021. The story, titled, The Supreme Court Has Upheld State and Local Vaccine Mandates. That May Not Save Biden’s, examined the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of President Biden’s mandate that requires health care workers and entities that treat Medicare patients to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and is available here.

On December 3, 2021, Professor Lucy Jewel participated in a virtual workshop sponsored by the Legal Writing Institute and Stetson Law School. Professor Jewel discussed grading and assessing legal writing assignments from the lens of inclusiveness and anti-racism. 

On December 9, 2021, Professor Jewel was an invited participant in a workshop hosted by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities.The workshop was held on the campus of NYU Abu Dhabi and focused on the comparative study of women lawyers in popular culture. Professor Jewel spoke about how women lawyers are depicted in U.S. popular culture, focusing on the gender and class themes that pervade U.S. television depictions of lawyers.  

On December 20, Professor Jewel appeared in a Reuters news story discussing the news that Kim Kardashian passed California’s “Baby Bar” exam. Professor Jewel explained how alternative pathways into the legal profession (like the apprenticeship method) might become more popular as a lower-cost way of becoming an attorney. 

Professor Alex Long’s article "The Troublemaker’s Friend: Retaliation Against Third Parties and the Right of Association in the Workplace," 59 Fla. L. Rev. 931 (2007) was recently quoted by the Tenth Circuit of Appeals in a Title VII employment retaliation case. The court cited Professor Long in Reznik v. inContact, Inc. for the idea that courts should adopt a more lenient standard when deciding whether a Title VII retaliation plaintiff engaged in protected activity. Quoting Professor Long, the court adopted “an objective reasonableness inquiry that considers the law against what a reasonable employee would believe, not ‘what a reasonable labor and employment attorney would believe.’” 

 

Professor Long’s article "The Statutification of Tort Law Involving the Workplace" was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for SSRN’s Employment Law eJournal. The article was recently published in volume 42 of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.

 

Professor Long’s forthcoming article "What the Lawyer Well-Being Movement Could Learn from the Americans with Disabilities Act" was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for SSRN’s Disability Law eJournal. The article will be published in the William & Mary Law Review Online.

On Tuesday, December 7, Professor Glenn Reynolds appeared on Neil Cavuto's Fox Business show talking about the Chinese space program and the new 21st Century space race.