S.J. Quinney College of Law

Each month, we share notable updates—including presentations, publications, panels, and other accomplishments—from Utah Law faculty members.

Associate Professor Daniel Aaron

• Publications
  • “Loper Bright’s Deregulatory Synergies,” 55 SETON HALL L. REV. 1697 (forthcoming 2025) with Renee Farmer.
• Presentations/panels
  • “Law-Policy Interpolation” (panelist), Healthcare and Reform Panel, BioLawLapalooza 7.0, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA (May 17, 2025).
    
  • “Top Cases in Food and Drug Law” (plenary panelist), 2025 FDLI Annual Conference, Food and Drug Law Institute, Washington, DC (May 15, 2025).
  • “Law-Policy Interpolation” (speaker), Regulation and Innovation in the Biosciences (RIBS), University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT (May 1, 2025).
    
  • “Law-Policy Interpolation” (panelist), 14th Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, NY (Apr. 25, 2025).
• Awards
  • Received the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale University.
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in The Regulatory Review, “Restoring FDA’s Premarket Review Powers” (May 21, 2025).
  • Interviewed on Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine, “The new standard for medical malpractice with Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD” (May 12, 2025). 
  • Interviewed on Radio Health Journal, “User Fees and Presidential Intrusion: Why the FDA Isn’t More Effective” (Apr. 20, 2025).

Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development Teneille Brown

• Publications
  • Teneille Brown, “When Death Is Not a Binary,” INDIANA L. J. (forthcoming 2025).
• Presentations/panels
  • Presented/commented on a paper at the Evidence Summer Workshop, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (May 7, 2025). 
  • “When Death Is Not a Binary,” Stanford Law School’s BioLawLapalooza, Stanford, CA (May 17, 2025).  
  • Taught medical school class presentation titled “Pregnancy Ethics” (May 8, 2025). 
  • Presented on health policy under the Trump administration, “Ethics Explored and the Center for Health Ethics, Arts and Humanities,” University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (May 21, 2025).  

Professor Paul Cassell

• Media appearances
  • Quoted in various national publications, including The New York Times and NPR, about the possibility that Boeing may avoid criminal prosecution over two fatal crashes of 737 Max jets (May 16, 2025).
  • Appeared on Hollywood Demons, “Stalking the Stars” S1.Ep6, as victim rights advocate expert.
  • Quoted in Chicago Tribune on victim impact statements (Apr. 16, 2025). 
  • Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle on victims’ rights (Apr. 22, 2025). 

Professor Lincoln Davies

• Media appearances
  • Quoted in RTO Insider, “Amended ‘Pathways’ Bill Boosts—and Complicates—California Protections” (May 28, 2025).
  • Quoted in RTO Insider, “Debate Lingers After BPA Day-ahead Market Decision” (May 14, 2025).

Lecturer Professor Amos Guiora

• Presentations/panels
  • “Post October 7th: Strategies for the ‘Day After,'” Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark School of Law (Jerusalem) (May 12, 2025).
  • “The Complicity of Silence: The Costs and Consequences of Enablers,” Darien Men’s Association, Darian, CT (May 7, 2025).
  • “Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism,” Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX (May 2, 2025).
• Media appearances
  • Interviewed by Fox45 News, “Severna Park teacher trial continues as new sexual assault allegations emerge in court” (May 27, 2025).
  • Interviewed on Zoomer Radio, “Israel’s Netanyahu Lashes Out at Leaders of Canada, U.K. and France” (May 20, 2025).
  • Interviewed in The Good Men Project, “Amos N. Guiora on Institutional Complicity and Legal Reform” (May 11, 2025).

Research Professor Danya Rumore

• Presentations/panels
  • “Introduction to Conflict Competence,” 2025 Utah League of Cities and Towns Mid-Year Conference, St. George, UT (Apr. 16-18, 2025).
  • “Introduction to Conflict Competence,” Utah Women in Leadership Summit, Salt Lake City, UT (Apr. 23, 2025).
  • “Planning for Conflict,” Utah American Planning Association Spring Conference 2025, Logan, UT (May 7-9, 2025).
  • “Why All the Conflicts?,” Utah American Planning Association Spring Conference 2025, Logan, UT (May 7-9, 2025).
  • “Negotiating Conflict” training, Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office (PLPCO), University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT (May 21-22, 2025).
• Awards
  • Received the Peacekeeper Award from the Utah Council for Conflict Resolution.
• Other accomplishments
  • The Environmental Dispute Resolution Program is facilitating strategic planning for the University of Utah School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability. EDR team facilitated a successful visioning retreat in early May for the ESS faculty and staff and will complete the process fall 2025. 

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