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
  • Daniel G. Aaron, “Law-Policy Tethering,” 112 IOWA L. REV. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Daniel G. Aaron, “The First AI Drug Prescriber,” JAMA (2026) with Chris Robertson.
  • Daniel G. Aaron, “The Public Health Potential of Social Media Litigation,” 116 AMERICAN J. PUB. HEALTH 596 (2026) with Carol Vidal and Hayden L. Kent.
  • Daniel G. Aaron, “‘Conversion Therapy’ in the US: Progress, Missed Opportunities, and Future Directions,” JAMA PEDIATRICS (2026) with Kyle Gavulic and John Pachankis.
  • Daniel G. Aaron, “Access to Justice After Medina v. Planned Parenthood,” JAMA HEALTH F. (2026) with Nicole Huberfeld.
  • Daniel G. Aaron, “FDA Must Regulate Stem Cell Therapies to Mitigate Risks to Patients and the Public,” 123 PNAS (2026) with Mary Ann Chirba and Taylor Pike.
• Presentations/panels
  • “Introduction to Tobacco Law: The Authority of the FDA” (guest lecturer in Food and Drug Law), Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA (Mar. 25, 2026).
  • “FDA, the Supreme Court, and Executive Power” (panelist), 66th Annual Meeting of the American College of Legal Medicine, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Tempe, AZ (Mar. 7, 2026) with Michael Sinha, Tony Quang, and Jack Snyder.
  • “A New Legal Standard for Medical Malpractice,” The Mark Gorney, MD, Memorial Lectureship, 2026 American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Spring Meeting (Feb. 27, 2026).
  • “The Importance of Diverse Voices in the Law” (keynote), Utah Center for Legal Inclusion: LGBTQIA+ 2026 Social, Salt Lake City, UT (Feb. 20, 2026).
  • “Law, Political Economy, and the FDA” (panelist), Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy Conference, University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA (Feb. 6, 2026) with Sam Bagenstos, Alice Abrokwa, Lindsay Wiley, and Shweta Kumar.
  • “The Role of Litigation in Health” (panelist), Consilium Scientific (Jan. 29, 2026) with Leeza Osipenko and Reuben Guttman.
  • “The Legal Political Economy of the FDA,” 2026 Charity Scott Endowed Lecture, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA (Jan. 22, 2026) with I. Glenn Cohen.
  • “Law-Policy Tethering: Mediating Between Legal Claims and Public Policy,” 2026 Charity Scott Lunch Presentation, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA (Jan. 22, 2026).
  • “COVID-19, Public Health, and Politics” (panelist) Rule of Law Group (Jan. 18, 2026).
  • “Law-Policy Tethering” (panelist), AALS 2026 Annual Meeting: New Voices in Legislation, New Orleans, LA (Jan. 7, 2026).
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in Medscape, “AI chatbot prescribing psychiatric medications raises red flags” (Apr. 14, 2026).
  • Quoted in The Washington Post, “An ‘AI doctor’? An experiment in Utah raises urgent questions.” (Apr. 21, 2026).
  • Quoted in the Deseret News, “Medical licensing board objects to Utah AI prescription refill experiment” (Apr. 27, 2026).
  • Quoted in KUER, “Utah dismisses medical board call to halt its pioneering AI prescription program” (Apr. 28, 2026).
  • Quoted in The Washington Post, “‘Can AI be sued?’: Responding to your comments on automated prescriptions” (Apr. 30, 2026).

Professor Teneille Brown

• Presentations/panels
  • Panelist on informed consent and batter for The Crisis of Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Convening of Practitioners and Scholars on the Regulation of CPCs, Boston University, Boston, MA (Apr. 10, 2026).
  • Presented and workshopped a paper at Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA (Apr. 14, 2026).
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in AP News, “Man accused of killing Charlie Kirk pushes to ban cameras from court” (Apr. 17, 2026).

Professor Paul Cassell

• Publications
  • Paul G. Cassell, “De-Policing and a ‘Minneapolis Effect’ on Firearms Crimes,” in RETHINKING VIOLENT CRIME AND LAW (forthcoming Terry Skolnik et al. 2026).
• Presentations/panels
  • “A Brief History of the Crime Victims’ Rights Movement,” Generation All, Park City, UT (Apr. 10, 2026).
• Legislative/judicial engagement
  • In Utah Supreme Court, submitted amicus brief in Winters v. Hardman on behalf of the National Center for Victims of Crime regarding Utah “revival” statute.
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune, “Utah County prosecutors decline to charge Tim Ballard following sexual assault allegation” (Apr. 2, 2026).
    
  • Quoted in the Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Law360 and other publications about the Fifth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Boeing (Apr. 2, 2026).
  • Quoted in the N.Y. Times, “Police in Britain Repeatedly Declined to Investigate Epstein. Why?” (Mar. 11, 2026).

Professor Jorge Contreras

• Publications
  • Jorge L. Contreras, “The Prospects for Green Patent Commons,” in THE ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE COMMONS: CASES AND LESSONS FOR KNOWLEDGE SHARING 165-177 (Anjanette Raymond, Scott Shackelford, Jessica Steinberg, Michael Mattioli eds., 2026).
  • Jorge L. Contreras, “Consensus Templates,” 76 CASE WESTERN RESERVE L. REV. 43 (2025) with Liane Hancock.
• Presentations/panels
  • “Director-Ordered Reexamination,” The Patent Conference (PatCon 14), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (Apr. 2026).

Professor Brigham Daniels

• Publications
  • Brigham Daniels and Alejandro E. Camacho, LESSONS FOR A WARMING PLANET: A VITAL HISTORY OF US ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (NYU Press, 2026).
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in The Atlantic, “The $97 million Utah warehouse ICE bought for $145 million” (Apr. 7, 2026).

Visiting Professor Fred Gedicks

• Publications
  • Fred Gedicks, “Religious Conservative Privilege in Mahmoud v. Taylor,” 25 FIRST AMEND L. REV. 195 (2026).

 

Lecturer Professor Amos Guiora

• Presentations/panels
  • “Criminalizing Enablers and Bystanders: The Need for Accountability,” Holocaust Center for Humanity, Seattle, WA (Apr. 21, 2026).
  • “The Need to Hold Enablers Accountable,” Arts and Activism, Salt Lake City, UT (Apr. 4, 2026).
  • “Lessons Learned From the Holocaust,” Eisenhower Junior High, Salt Lake City, UT (Mar. 30, 2026).
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in Washington Examiner, “How does US-Israeli strategy of decapitation fit into international law” (Apr. 11, 2026).
  • Quoted in KSL,”BYU student’s new role with conservative Republican group sparks controversy” (Apr. 8, 2026).
  • Quoted in various news sources about the conflict in Iran (March-April 2026).

 

Associate Research Professor Jamie Pleune

• Presentations/panels
  • Presented to a delegation from Kosovo representing the Mining Department within the Ministry of Economy, “Optimizing the Relationship Between Governance, Permitting, and Efficiency.”

 

Associate Dean Matthew Tokson

• Publications
  • Matthew Tokson, “Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk,” 59 CONN. L. REV. (forthcoming).
  • Matthew Tokson, “Fourth Amendment Anti-Theory,” 124 MICH. L. REV. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Matthew Tokson, “Retrospective Surveillance 78 FLA L. REV. (forthcoming 2026).
  • Matthew Tokson, “Artificial Intelligence and the Anti-Authoritarian Fourth Amendment,” 27 U. PENN. J. CONST. L. 1067 (2025).
• Presentations/panels
  • “Chatrie, Geofences, and Retrospective Surveillance,” Digital Fourth Amendment Seminar, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (Mar. 2026).
  • “What Does the Law Say About Minneapolis?,” Big 12 Law Schools Conference (Feb. 2026).
  • “Technology, Surveillance, and Device Tracking in the 2020s: Frontier Issues in Fourth Amendment Law,” Albany Law School, Albany, NY (Feb. 2026).
  • “Privacy at the Perimeter: The Fourth Amendment and the New Surveillance State” (panelist), 2025 Allen L. Poucher Symposium, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL (Oct. 2025).
  • “Trespass and Fourth Amendment Originalism Advanced Topics in Privacy Seminar,” U.C. Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA (Sept. 2025).
• Appointments
  • Appointed Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (Mar. 2026).
• Media appearances
  • Quoted in The Guardian, “US supreme court hears whether smartphone location data warrants infringe users’ privacy” (Apr. 27, 2026).
  • Quoted in BeFM Morning Wave Radio Show Segment on Facial Recognition Technology and False Arrests, Busan, Korea (Apr. 8, 2026).
  • Quoted in KUER, “In Utah and elsewhere, habeas petitions are the tool used to fight ICE detentions” Macy Lipkin, KUER (Feb. 20, 2026).
  • Quoted in FOX-KSTU segment on Trump’s executive order on AI regulation (Dec. 10, 2025).
  • Quoted in Associated Press, “Months after a man was killed at a “No Kings” march in Utah, his wife still seeks answers” (Oct. 29, 2025).
  • Quoted in FOX-KSTU segment on Eighth Amendment competency ruling in Ralph Menzies execution case (Aug. 29, 2025).
  • Quoted in CBS-KUTV segment on potential thwarted mass shooting at Utah’s “No Kings” protest (June 17, 2025).
  • Quoted in Sidebar Podcast, “Electric Sheep” hosted by Courthouse News (May 13, 2025).
  • Quoted in LAWFARE, “The Authoritarian Risks of AI Surveillance” (May 1, 2025).

Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner

• Publications
  • Elizabeth Kronk Warner, “Turning Sugar to Alcohol: An Originalist Critique of Implicit Divestiture” UNIV. COLO. L. REV. (forthcoming).
• Presentations/panels
  • “Energy Development in Indian Country,” The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment 31st Annual Symposium: America’s Public Lands: At a Crossroads?, Salt Lake City, UT (Mar. 20, 2026).
  • Deans Panel, 9th Annual Legal Masters Conference, San Francisco, CA (Mar. 3, 2026).

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