Faculty Activities

Loyola Law School’s faculty members regularly present their work to academic audiences, policymaking bodies at all levels of government, and to attorney and bar associations. Recent and upcoming faculty activities include: 

• At the 2013 Educating Advocates: Teaching Advocacy Skills Conference at Stetson University, Susan Poehls will receive the Lifetime  Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy.
• Professor Jennifer Rothman was elected a member of the American Law Institute. 

• Professor Mike Guttentag was an invited panelist for a panel on the JOBS ACT: Challenges and Opportunities, hosted at UC Davis Law School by their Business Law Journal.  He is also serving as a commentator at a Law & Entrepreneurship conference at George Washington Law School.

• Professor Paula Pearlman spoke at Vanderbilt Law School at atown hall put together by the ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. 

• Professor David Glazier is on a panel addressing drone use at the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting.

• Professor Hiro Aragaki will be presenting the results of his civil justice reform work in Bangladesh (“ADR in the Developing World: Lessons from the Field”) at the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Conference.

• Professor Kathleen Kim was on a panel on a Human Trafficking conference at University of Southern California Law School. 

• Professor Seagull Song Seagull gave a lecture at the Chinese Supreme Court, where she spoke to a dozen intellectual property judges. 

• Professor Justin Levitt filed an amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit in the case of Arcia v. Detzner

• Professor Samantha Buckingham submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights for a hearing on Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline. 

• Professor Elizabeth Pollman’s article, Information Issues on Wall Street 2.0, has been selected by C-LEAF for its Junior Faculty Workshop in April 2013.

• Professor Kevin Lapp was selected to be a presenter at the 2013 AALS Workshop on Poverty, Immigration and Property in June 2013. His presentation is entitled "Border Activism and Private Immigration Policymaking." 

• Professor Douglas NeJaime and Associate Professor Priscilla Ocen will be presenting their work at Liberty/Equality conference at the UCLA School of Law in January of 2013.  

• Professor Jessica Levinson spoke at an election wrap-up hosted by the National Conference of Jewish Women of L.A. and a primer on issues related to initiatives and referendums hosted by the League of Women Voters.  She also hosted a one-hour radio program on KPFK on Nov. 26 on election law and governance issues in California.

• Professors Elizabeth Pollman and Jessica Levinson spoke at the 28th Amendment Conference at UCLA, organized by RootStrikers.  

• Professor Katherine Pratt recently presented her paper, A Constructive Critique of Public Health Arguments for Anti-obesity Soda Taxes and Food Taxes, in New Zealand at the Australia & New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting.  

• Professor Ellen Aprill recently spoke at the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law Conference Annual Meeting at NYU, and also spoke at the Fall ABA Tax Section meeting on Section 501(c)(4) Organizations and Private Benefit. 

• Professor Alexandra Natapoff recently presented a paper, Aggregation and Urban Misdemeanors, at Fordham Law School at a conference entitled Legitimacy and Order: Analyzing Police-Citizen Interactions in the Urban Landscape.  

• Professor Hiro Aragaki filed an amicus brief in in Kilgore v. Keybank in the Ninth Circuit.  This brief attempted to limit the reach of the Supreme Court’s decision in Concepcion, arguing that the Federal Arbitration Act does not immunize arbitration agreements from all state interests.  60 law professors were represented in this brief. 

• Professor Jennifer Rothman spoke at a conference entitled “The Evolving Internet,” sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition.  

• Professor Yxta Murray recently organized a panel, Law, Violence, and Peace: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Jurisprudence of Nonviolence, at Harvard Law School later.  This panel was hosted by Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left.