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FACULTY
FORUM
University of Tennessee
College of Law
Vol. 8 ◊ August 31, 2022
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Teri Baxter
Professor Teri Dobbins Baxter’s essay "Constitutional Demotion" has been accepted for publication in the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality. The essay focuses on the exclusion of Black Americans from the protections of the original Constitution, and the limited constitutional rights afforded to women and LGBTQ+ Americans until the twentieth century. It acknowledges roadblocks to enforcement of constitutional violations and examines how recent Supreme Court decisions have eroded and threaten to further erode rights that these groups fought for centuries to obtain.
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Zack Buck
Professor Zack Buck has published "Financing Rural Health Care" in the West Virginia Law Review as a part of its symposium edition. This piece accompanied the academic symposium "Health in the Hills," which brought numerous health law scholars together to summarize and analyze challenges, ideas, and policy proposals related to rural health care.
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Sherley Cruz
On August 11, 2022, Professor Sherley Cruz was part of a panel discussion on the implementation of the new ABA Standard 303, which requires law schools to incorporate cultural humility, anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion, and professional identity formation into the law school curriculum. Professor Cruz is a member of a nationwide committee of experiential law professors who are creating a repository of resources and hosting discussions on this topic. As part of her presentation, she highlighted how the curriculum of the University of Tennessee College of Law’s clinics, 1L, and upper-level courses meet the new mandates. More information about the committee can be found here.
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At the 2022 Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference, Professor Joan Heminway mentored two new/junior law scholars, participated in mock job talks and interviews for the Prospective Scholars program, moderated a panel on the constitutionality of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, participated in a discussion group focusing on corporations as political actors, convened and moderated a discussion group on Elon Musk’s entanglements with the law, and co-convened and co-moderated a discussion group on insider trading compliance. Professor Heminway is the Corporate Compliance Officer of SEALS and served as Acting Secretary (as well as the UT Law designee) at the 2022 annual meeting of the Steering Committee, which was held at the conference.
Professor Heminway was also quoted in a piece in Reuters entitled "Analysis: Musk Tests Limits of Governance by Having Children with Aide," which dealt with the corporate governance implications of Elon Musk's decision to have children with one of his top executives at Neuralink.
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Michael Higdon
Associate Dean Michael Higdon attended the 2022 Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference, where he participated in mock job talks and interviews for the Prospective Scholars program. He also participated in two panels associated with the program, "Navigating the Hiring Process" and "Beating the Odds."
On August 15, Associate Dean Higdon moderated a Zoom presentation by the AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity aimed at aspiring law professors who are members of the LGBTQ community.
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Lucy Jewel
On August 11 & 12, 2022, by invitation, Professor Lucy Jewel participated in a workshop: "Images of Female Legal Professionals in Popular Culture: A Transnational Comparison." The two-day workshop was sponsored by the Arab German Young Academy and the University of Münster (Germany). As a commentator, Professor Jewel offered her thoughts on representations of Black female lawyers in popular culture and how those representations might be used to construct professional identity lessons for law students.
On August 1, 2022, Professor Jewel presented her paper, "Time is a Flat Circle," as part of the law & literature discussion group at the Annual Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference. Professor Jewel’s paper, forthcoming in the LSU Journal of Law & Policy, addresses conspiracy theories and their relationship to legal reasoning, social class, and race. The discussion group was co-chaired by Professor Judy Cornett, who also presented her paper, "Urban and Rural Values in To Kill A Mockingbird."
Also at the SEALS conference, on August 2, Professor Jewel participated in a group discussion addressing the new ABA Standard 303(c), which mandates that law schools educate students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism.
On July 15, at the Law & Society annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Professor Jewel participated in a Roundtable Discussion on "Law, History, and the Fight over Memory." Professor Jewel discussed her work on visual rhetoric and legal history, in the context of Civil War monuments and the contemporary debates over how history is taught in K-12 and Higher Education.
On July 23, Professor Jewel presented her work at the 20th Annual Legal Writing Institute Conference. Professor Jewel presented a preview of her forthcoming book "Critical and Comparative Rhetoric" (with Teri McMurtry-Chubb & Elizabeth Berenguer).
Professor Jewel’s article, "Comparative Legal Rhetoric," has been published in the Kentucky Law Journal, Volume 110, page 105.
Professor Jewel’s book review of "Race Unequals" by Teri McMurtry-Chubb has been published in the Journal of Law & Political Economy.
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Glenn Reynolds
Professor Glenn Reynolds has published a chapter, "Donald Trump and America's New Class War," in "The Elephant in the Room: The Republican Party After Trump," (Wm. Mayer & Andrew Busch eds, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
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Greg Stein
Professor Emeritus Greg Stein’s review article, "Reforming Zoning for its Second Century," has been published in JOTWELL. Professor Stein’s article reviews Professor Michael Wolf’s Zoning Reformed, which appeared recently in the University of Kansas Law Review. In his article, Professor Wolf argues that the many flaws in modern-day zoning should be addressed by reform rather than by abolition and suggests several useful modifications for the future.
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Maurice Stucke
Professor Maurice Stucke, along with his co-author Ariel Ezrachi, were interviewed by the Hub Dialogues, which is part of The Hub, Canada’s daily news and information source for policy and politics, about their book "How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation―and How to Strike Back."
In episode 26 of the In Conversation with IPR & Competition Law podcast, Professor Stucke (along with his co-autor Ariel Ezrachi) spoke about their book " How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation and How to Strike Back." They discussed the essential features of Tech Barons and their influence on economy; Interoperability torpedo; competition law governance; innovation and competition; impact of Big Tech on consumers and finally their comments on DMA and DSA
Professor Stucke and his co-author Ariel Ezrachi published posts about their new book "How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation--and How to Strike Back" with the University of Chicago business school and the London School of Business Review.
Professor Stucke was also quoted in articles in Bloomberg and Politico.
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Valorie Vojdik
Professor Valorie K. Vojdik presented on “The Future of Abortion Rights After Dobbs” on August 1 as a member of a roundtable at the Southeastern Law Schools (SEALS) annual law conference in Destin, Florida. She analyzed the Supreme Court’s constitutional analysis of the right to abortion and substantive due process in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, as well as the implications of the decision on reproductive rights.
Professor Vojdik also published an essay, "Beyond Repatriation: Combatting Peacekeeper Abuse and Exploitation," in the online Georgetown Journal of International Affairs on May 2, 2022.
Professor Vojdik gave a virtual presentation on the past, present, and future of women’s right to equality to the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge on May 3, 2022. Her discussion covered a range of current issues, including the right to abortion and reproductive justice, employment and wage discrimination, women and the caretaking economy, LGBTQ rights, and the intersection of race and gender.
Her May presentation to the League of Women Voters was featured in two news articles in the Oakridger this summer. The first article, “UT Professor Speaks on Abortion Rulings, Ridgers Question,” was published on June 6, 2022. The article focused on Vojdik’s analysis of the Dobbs abortion case, which was pending before the Supreme Court at the time. The second article, “Professor speaks on the fate of women during Oak Ridge talk,” was published on June 22, 2022 and reported on her discussion of the past, present, and future challenges for gender equality.
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