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September 2020
SJQ Admissions Workshop Series
Considering law school but don’t know where to start? Join us for this free webinar series to learn more. The events are open to anyone interested in applying to the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Application fee waivers ($60 value) will be given to those who attend. Covered topics include the: JD admission application components and 2020-2021 timelines, Law School Admission Test (LSAT), Letters of Recommendation (LORs), Credential Assembly Service (CAS) Report, Personal Statement, Costs associated…
Find out more »COVID-19 and its Impact in Indian Country
A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag 12:00 p.m., Webinar link opens, 12:15-1:15 p.m., Event start, Zoom webinar link » COVID-19 has ravaged certain Tribal communities. American Indians suffer high rates of various underlying health conditions (e.g., diabetes, heart disease, and obesity) that increase the risk of severe complications from COVID-19. Tribal communities also face other challenges that make it difficult to combat COVID-19, such as food and water insecurity. The Navajo Nation has been particularly impacted with 8,639 positive cases…
Find out more »The POWER Act: How You Can Make a Difference
A CLE webinar hosted by the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah 12:00 p.m., Zoom webinar link » Intended to promote pro bono services and empower domestic violence survivors, the Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent (POWER) Act was passed on September 4, 2018. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a worldwide surge in domestic violence. Now, more than ever, it is important for attorneys to step up and provide much needed legal services to domestic violence survivors.…
Find out more »Dean’s Book Review – September 2020
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m., MDT, Zoom Webinar Link » Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean’s book review. The book to be reviewed will be, Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez. This book was selected because September is National Hispanic-Latinx Heritage month. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism is a timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos’ dynamic racial identity—because it impacts everything we…
Find out more »October 2020
Do You See What I See? The Science and Law of Eyewitness Identifications
A College of Law CLE Webinar 12:00-1:00 p.m., Zoom webinar link » An eyewitness identification of a defendant can be powerful and persuasive evidence. At the same time, the majority of wrongful convictions involve a mistaken eyewitness identification. Professor Louisa Heiny of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and the Honorable Richard McKelvie of the Third District Court will discuss the admissibility of eyewitness identification evidence under Utah Rule of Evidence 617; how stress, fear, race, and other factors may…
Find out more »Bridging the Rural/Urban Divide on the Environment
A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag 12:00 p.m., Webinar link opens, 12:15 p.m., Event start, Zoom Webinar Link » Rural Americans matter—a lot—to the fate of U.S. environmental policy. Not only do farmers, ranchers, and forest owners manage huge portions of American lands and watersheds, but rural voters also have an outsized impact on national policy. While rural Americans express support for natural resource conservation, they and their elected officials often voice less support for existing federal environmental policies and…
Find out more »37th Annual Jefferson B. Fordham Debate
Can We End Partisan Gerrymandering? 6:30 – Debate 7:30 – Q&A 6:30-8:00 p.m., Zoom webinar link » In recent decades, state legislators have increasingly engaged in gerrymandering, drawing legislative districts in order to shape election outcomes and favor one political party over another. The Supreme Court has ruled that courts cannot address partisan gerrymandering, leaving the regulation of gerrymandering to the states. Some states have created independent commissions to draw district lines, but the legality of these commissions is also in question. Election…
Find out more »Dean’s Book Review – October 2020
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m., MDT, Zoom Webinar Link (coming soon) » Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean’s book review. This month's book will be focused on National Disability Awareness month and will be announced soon. SUBSCRIBE to the S.J. Quinney College of Law event lists to stay current on upcoming College of Law events. You may unsubscribe at anytime.
Find out more »Practicing Law and Parenting during the Pandemic
A College of Law CLE Webinar 12:00-1:00 p.m., Zoom webinar link » Practicing law always has challenges. Likewise, parenting presents a number of trials. Throw in a pandemic and what is the lawyer parent supposed to do? Parents are trying to figure out how to work at home, what to do about childcare, how to keep kids engaged, how to homeschool, and how to plan for uncertainty. Two of our alumni will talk about these challenges. Panelists: Doug Fadel,…
Find out more »Lake Powell Pipeline and Northern Corridor Highway: Do we need them?
A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag 12:00, Webinar link opens, 12:15-1:15 p.m., Event start, Zoom webinar link » Paul Van Dam, former Utah Attorney General, will address two major projects of concern in southern Utah that affect all Utahns. The Lake Powell Pipeline would move over 82,000 ac-ft of water to Washington County, a county that uses over 300 gallons per capita per day and would cost all Utahns by tying up state money that could go to other needs.…
Find out more »November 2020
16th Annual Stegner Center Young Scholar Lecture – Karen Bradshaw
Wildlife as Property Owners 12:00 p.m., Webinar link opens, 12:15-1:15 p.m., Event start, Zoom webinar link » Existing legal solutions to stem catastrophic biodiversity loss are failing. Could the answer to saving plants and animals rest in property law? Securing habitat through trusts allows animals to own the land they live on, as participants in the system of property. This surprisingly bi-partisan solution answers some of the most pressing land concerns in the West. Karen Bradshaw, Professor of Law…
Find out more »Lee E. Teitelbaum Utah Law Review Symposium – The Law & Ethics of Medical Research
9:00-11:45 a.m., Zoom Webinar Link » The 2020-2021 Utah Law Review, in cooperation with the S.J. Quinney College of Law Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences, will convene a two-day webinar symposium exploring “The Law and Ethics of Medical Research.” On November 13, leading scholars from across the country will join us for two panel discussions: “Medical Research as Public Health Initiative” and “Sharing Medical Research Data: Privacy and Confidentiality.” On November 20, a second set of distinguished scholars…
Find out more »January 2021
Re-Bisoning The West
A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag 12:15-1:15 p.m., Kurt Repanshek traces the history of bison from their near extinction to present-day efforts to bring them back to the landscape—and the biological, political, and cultural hurdles confronting these efforts. Repanshek explores Native Americans’ relationships with bison and presents a forward-thinking approach to returning bison to the West and improving the health of ecosystems. Read more » 1-hour CLE (pending). Free and open to the public. Kurt Repanshek is…
Find out more »February 2021
Using Executive Fiat for Conservation or Destruction: From Roosevelt to Trump
A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag 12:15-1:15 p.m., Just over a century after President Theodore Roosevelt left the West Wing in 1909, another Republican, Donald Trump, moved in. The contrasts between Roosevelt and Trump are many. Roosevelt is viewed as one of the greatest conservation Presidents in the nation’s history with a deep respect for science, while Trump has been billed as the worst, with a palpable disdain for science. Yet several parallels can be drawn as well. Both Roosevelt…
Find out more »Vision and Place: John Wesley Powell and Reimagining the Colorado River Basin
A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag 12:15-1:15 p.m., The climate change-stricken Colorado River Basin not only provides water to forty-million people, including along Utah’s Wasatch Front. It also contains ancestral homelands of 29 Native American tribes as well as pervasive, sublime public lands such as Grand Canyon National Park. Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin—a recent volume commemorating the historic 1869 Powell Expedition’s sesquicentennial—explores the basin’s past, present, and future. A panel of authors…
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