Utah Law faculty updates: February 2025

Mar 03, 2025 | Faculty

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

Associate Professor Daniel Aaron, a young man with olive skin and dark brown hair and a beardAssociate Professor Daniel Aaron

  • Publications
  • Presentations/panels
    • “Transgender Politics and Law” (guest lecturer in Civil and Political Rights and Liberties), University of Southern California Department of Political Science, Los Angeles, CA (Feb. 24, 2025).
    • “FDA Regulation of E-Cigarettes” (guest lecturer in Public Health Law), Saint Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, MO (Feb. 20, 2025).
    • “Regulatory and Policy Considerations for Health Care and Life Sciences” (panelist), 2025 Seton Hall Law Review Symposium, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ (Feb. 14, 2025).
    • “Rethinking Privatization,” Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ (Jan. 31, 2025) with commentators Valerie Blake and Gregg Bloche.
    • “The Law, Policy, and Business of Cancer,” Law and Biomedicine Colloquium, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT (Jan. 16, 2025).
  • Media appearances

Professor Paul CassellProfessor Paul Cassell, a middle-aged white man with red hair wearing a black suit coat and blue collared shirt

  • Publications
    • Paul Cassell, South Dakota Supreme Court Broadens ‘Marsy’s Law’ in Dispute Over Victim’s Diary,” State Court Rep. (Feb. 13, 2025).
  • Presentations/panels
    • “The Crime Victims’ Rights Movement: Historical Foundations, Modern Ascendency, and Future Aspirations” (keynote address), Pacific Law Review Symposium, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA (Feb. 21, 2025).
  • Legislative/judicial
    • Testimony before the Utah Senate Judiciary Comm. “Admitting Evidence of Prior Sex Offenses in Sex Crime Prosecutions” (Feb. 13, 2025).
  • Media appearances

Professor Jorge ContrerasProfessor Jorge Contreras, a Hispanic man with short black hair and glasses

  • Publications
  • Presentations/panels
    • “Sub-Patent Innovation Rights: Utility Models, Petty Patents & Innovation Patents Around the World” (co-organizer and moderator), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, Eng. (Mar. 2025). 
    • “Regulatory and Enforcement Developments for Standard Essential Patents” (co-organizer and moderator), Warsaw, Pol. (Mar. 2025).  
  • Appointments
    • Named to PhD dissertation committee for Sherin Priyan at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. 
    • Named chair of the AALS Section of Remedies Law (2025).

Professor Amos Guiora, a white man with grey hair wearing round-rimmed glasses and a blue-and-white-striped button-up and navy blazer

Lecturer Professor Amos Guiora

  • Publications
  • Presentations/panels
    • “Witnesses and Bystanders,” Eisenhower Junior High, Taylorsville, UT (Feb. 28, 2025).
    • “Legal Ramifications of October 7th,” Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL (Feb. 11, 2025).
    • “Israel/Palestine after Oct. 7,” Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, Provo, UT (Feb. 10, 2025).
    • “Middle East: What Now?” The Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA (Feb. 6, 2025).
    • “Hate Speech on Social Media,” Snow College, Ephraim, UT (Feb. 3, 2025).
  • Media appearances

Professor RonNell Andersen Jones, a white woman with long, wavy red hair wearing glasses and a black blazerProfessor RonNell Andersen Jones

  • Media appearances
    • Quoted in WBUR, “‘A clear attempt to intimidate the press,'” (Feb. 26, 2025).

 

 

Chris Peterson, a young white man with short dark-brown hair and glasses wearing a navy blue suitProfessor Chris Peterson

  • Media appearances
    • Quoted in The New York Times, “Why banks may be hoping you’re not paying attention” (Feb. 2, 2025).
    • Quoted in Fast Company, “‘We run the risk of another Great Recession’: People should be outraged by Trump’s efforts to kill CFPB” (Feb. 10, 2025).
    • Quoted in Reuters, “U.S. consumer watchdog cases in limbo following agency’s idling” (Feb. 10, 2025).
    • Quoted in CNN, “Elon Musk is waging war on a key check on his business empire” (Feb. 11, 2025).
    • Quoted in Fox 13, “Utah companies are being sued by a federal watchdog being defunded” (Feb. 17, 2025).
    • Quoted in Axios, “Utah legal community warns against bills targeting judiciary” (Feb. 26, 2025).
    • Quoted in ABC 4, “Legal professionals protest against bills that seek to reshape Utah’s judicial branch” (Feb. 26, 2025).
    • Quoted in Fox 13, “Hundreds of lawyers push back on legislature’s proposed changes to judiciary” (Feb. 26, 2025).
    • Quoted in KUER, “Utah’s legal community takes a stand against the Legislature’s push for court reforms” (Feb. 26, 2025).
    • Quoted in Utah News Dispatch, “‘A broad attack’: Utah’s judiciary fights bills threatening its independence” (Feb. 26, 2025).
    • Quoted in CNN, “Consumer watchdog quits cases against firms accused of ripping off Americans” (Feb. 27, 2025).
    • Quoted in Utah News Dispatch, “Utah Senate passes bill to give governor, Senate control over picking Supreme Court chief justice” (Feb. 28, 2025).

Research Associate Professor Jamie PleuneJamie Pleune, a white woman with blonde hair wearing a pink blouse and light-grey blazer

 

Dean Elizabeth Kronk WarnerDean Elizabeth Kronk Warner

  • Publications
  • Presentations/panels
    • “Laboratories of the Future: Tribes and Rights of Nature,” Red Clay Conference, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA (Feb. 7, 2025).
  • Awards
    • Received the 2025 Sundance Women’s Leadership Award for Environmental Leadership.

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