Volume Seven ◊ September 2021

Professor Eric Amarante was appointed to the Advisory Council for the Ihsan Standard. The Ihsan Standard is a project of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The Ihsan Standard engages in community-based participatory research concerning the Muslim nonprofit sector, which is subject to excessive regulatory and public scrutiny. Members of the Advisory Council are appointed by the Dean of the Lilly School of Philanthropy, and they serve for two years.

Professor Amarante also participated in a livestream event hosted by the Elmahaba Center on small business legal issues. The Elmahaba Center, based in Nashville, serves Arabic-speaking immigrants and refugees. The session, which was translated into Arabic, has been viewed over 1,500 times.

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 September 7, was entitled Public Health Law During a Pandemic, and is available here.

Professor Buck was also quoted in an article in Compass Knox, Grappling with a Mandate, which was published Sept. 15 here (subscription required).

Professor Buck was also interviewed by WKRN, ABC’s Nashville affiliate, and was quoted in its lead story at 5pm on Sept. 27, 2021, regarding federal court decisions that have blocked Governor Bill Lee’s mask ‘opt out’ policy for public schools in three counties across the state. The story and video are available here.

The Office of Community Engagement and Outreach (OCEO) has selected Sherley Cruz to be one of their faculty fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year. As part of this position, Professor Cruz will assist the OCEO with strategic planning efforts related to interdisciplinary scholarship that focuses on community engagement.

Sherley Cruz has accepted an offer to serve on the Advisory Board of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy (GJPLP). As a member of the Board, Professor Cruz will advise GJPLP editors on symposia topics and support activities that advance the journal’s mission of ending poverty and inequality.

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 accepted for publication in volume 57 of the Wake Forest Law Review.

Professor Alex Long's essay What the Lawyer Well-Being Movement Could Learn from the Americans with Disabilities Act has been accepted for publication in volume 63 of the William & Mary Law Review Online.

The Kathmandu Post quoted Professor Maurice Stucke’s Harvard Business Review article on data-opolies. The story was also picked up by the Asia News Network, an alliance of 24 news media organizations.