FACULTY

FORUM

University of Tennessee

College of Law

Vol. 7 ◊  July 2022

Wendy Bach

On July 9th, Professor Wendy Bach spoke at a community forum at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church on Tennessee abortion law after Dobbs v Mississippi.

Professor Bach was also recently invited to join the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Task Force on Criminalization of Pregnancy and Reproductive Health.

Professor Bach and her co-authors Professors Naomi Cahn and Maxine Eichner published an opinion piece in The Hill on the federal role in protecting reproduce health care. 

Lonnie Brown

In honor of Dean Lonnie Brown's impact on students at the University of Georgia, the Student Bar Associate there has officially renamed its Professionalism Award, which is awarded annually to a faculty member voted on by the 3L class, the "Lonnie T. Brown Professionalism Award." In notifying Dean Brown of this honor, the UGA Student Bar Association said, "When anyone thinks of professionalism or legal ethics, we all think of one person - you."

Joan Heminway

Professor Joan Heminway presented her research for a draft book chapter, "Business and Campaign Finance in an NFT World," at the National Business Law Scholars conference at The University of Oklahoma College of Law in Norman, Oklahoma last month.

In addition, Professor Heminway was an invited participant in a workshop last month on the manuscript for a forthcoming Oxford University Press book, "Investment Crowdfunding," authored by University of Colorado Law Professor Andrew A. Schwartz. The workshop was co-sponsored by the University of Colorado Law School (which hosted the workshop) and the Institute for Humane Studies.

Professor Heminway also contributed to four programs at the Law and Society Association’s 2022 Global Meeting on Law and Society. On the first day of the conference, she offered commentary on "Reconstructing the Corporation," a 2021 book coauthored by Grant M. Hayden and Matthew T. Bodie, in an Author Meets Reader session. On the last day of the conference, she: presented her paper entitled “Criminal Insider Trading in Personal Networks” (forthcoming in the Stetson Business Law Review); co-convened, moderated, and participated in a discussion roundtable focused on “Awakening Capitalism”; and moderated a panel featuring academic papers gathered under the topic “Law, Corporations, Firms, and Business.”

Michael Higdon

Associate Dean Michael Higdon was invited to speak at the Legal Writing Institute's New Teacher Training Bootcamp, where he presented "Grading and Giving Feedback."

Associate Dean Higdon also attended the Legal Writing Institute's 2022 Conference in Washington D.C., where he served on a panel entitled "Paths to Institutional Leadership." He also moderated a panel entitled "Scholarship Speed Dating," which was designed to offer advice for new scholars looking to write their first article.

George Kuney

Professor George Kuney’s 2018 article, "Understanding and Taming the Doctrine of Equitable Mootness," Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2018 edition, was cited repeatedly in an amicus brief to SCOTUS, in the case MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, on behalf of a group of law professors and retired bankruptcy judges, including Professor Kuney. The case presents the question “Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) limits the appellate court’s jurisdiction over any sale order or order deemed integral to a sale order. . .”, and the amici seek reversal of a Second Circuit opinion that embraced a broad conception of statutory and equitable mootness in favor of a more narrow standard. The principal author of the brief is David Kuney, no relation to Professor Kuney, but the only other known “Kuney” in the U.S. that is a long term practitioner in the field of bankruptcy.

Michelle Kwon

On July 5, the University of Tennessee formally approved Professor Michelle Kwon's application for promotion to Professor of Law.  Her promotion will take effect on August 1.

Alex Long

Professor Alex Long’s article "All I Really Need to Know About Defamation Law in the 21st Century I Learned From Watching Hulk Hogan" has been published in volume 57 of the Wake Forest Law Review.

Glenn Reynolds

Professor Glenn Reynolds wrote a column entitled "Expand the Supreme Court--By a Lot" for Newsweek magazine.

Paula Schaefer

Associate Dean Paula Schaefer spoke on a panel titled "Gender, Power, Law and Leadership" at the Law & Society Annual Meeting in Lisbon. Each panelist was an author whose scholarship was included in the textbook "Gender, Power, Law and Leadership" by Hannah Brenner and Renee Knake Jefferson.  

Paula Schaefer’s article "Lawyers as Caregivers" was published in Volume 12 of St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics.  

Maurice Stucke

Professor Maurice Stucke was interviewed for a piece in The Institute for New Economic Thinking entitled "What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech."

Richard Aldous, who is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature at Bard College, recently interviewed Professor Stucke and his co-author Ariel Ezrachi for the "Bookstack" podcast at American Purpose.

Professor Stucke's book, "How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation―and How to Strike Back" (co-authored with Ariel Ezrachi) was also recently featured on The Next Big Idea Club in an articled entitled, "The Future Is Coming. These 10 Books Will Get You Ready."