Each month, we share notable updates—including presentations, publications, panels, and other accomplishments—from Utah Law faculty members.
Associate Professor Daniel Aaron
- Publications
- Daniel Aaron, The Future of Gender-Affirming Care — A Law and Policy Perspective on the Cass Review, New England J. Med. (2025) with Craig Konnoth.
- Presentations
- “The Deregulation of Cancer,” 2025 AALS Annual Meeting: New Voices in Administrative Law, San Francisco, CA (Jan. 2025).
- Media appearances
- Quoted in Healthcare Innovation, “Experts Take a Hard Look at an Influential Journal Article on Gender-Affirming Care” (Jan. 16, 2025).
Professor Jonas Anderson
- Publications
- Jonas Anderson, From Patents to Guns: Examining Third-Party Litigation Funding, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 617 (2024).
- Media appearances
- Quoted in Bloomberg Law, “Disclosure order targeting funders stunts Delaware patent suits,” (Dec. 6, 2024).
- Quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune, “Yeti or not? Trademark lawyers answer the questions facing Utah Hockey Club’s future name” (Jan. 9, 2025).
- Quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune, “Utah Hockey Club Yetis trademark effort was rejected. What does the NHL franchise do next?” (Jan. 25, 2025).
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development Teneille Brown
- Publications
- Teneille Brown, Sarah Duensing and Bob Wong, Forensic Genetics in the Shadows, 11(2) J. L. and the Biosciences (2024).
- Presentations/panels
- “Predicting Mental States,” 2025 AALS Annual Meeting: Evidence, San Francisco, CA, (Jan. 2025).
- “When Doctors Become Cops,” Utah State Bar CLE.
- Other Accomplishments
- Named to Austrian advisory board focusing on negligence and mental state ascription.
- Included on grant with University of Utah Assistant Psychology Professor Jackie Chen focusing on social identity as represented in Supreme Court cases.
Professor Jorge Contreras
- Publications
- Jorge L. Contreras, Mrs. Aronson’s Patent: Gender, Family and Domestic Innovation in Postwar America, 62 Houston L. Rev. 477 (2025).
- Other accomplishments
- Named as consultant for European Commission – Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG-GROW), selected implementing aspects of the draft Regulation on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) (EC-GROW/2024/OP/0054) (Jan. 2025).
Lecturer Professor Amos Guiora
- Presentations/panels
- “Enablers Across the Ages,” The Milatin Group, Tel Aviv, Israel (Dec. 2024).
- “Holding Enablers Accountable,” Denver University Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO (Jan. 2025).
- “Legitimate Targets/Collateral Damage Post October 7th,” St. Thomas University College of Law, Miami Gardens, FL (Jan. 2025).
- “Holding Enablers Accountable: Lessons Learned from Letter from Birmingham Jail” (keynote speaker), The NAACP Salt Lake Branch, Salt Lake City, UT (Jan. 2025).
- “The Power of Finding Your Passion,” Eisenhower Junior High, Taylorsville, UT (Jan. 2025).
- “Israel After October 7th,” Kol Ami Congregation, Salt Lake City, UT (Jan. 2025).
- Media appearances
- Interviewed in “Hamas is expected to release Israeli hostages as part of an emerging ceasefire deal,” Jeff Caplan’s Afternoon News (Jan. 13, 2024).
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Louisa Heiny
- Presentations/Panels
- CLE presentation on Utah Rule of Evidence 617 regarding admissibility of eyewitness identification testimony at trial, Utah District Court Judges.
Professor RonNell Andersen Jones
- Media appearances
Professor Chris Peterson
- Media appearances
- Quoted in KSL, “Hundreds call law firms after Vail Resorts strike disrupts vacations” (Jan. 14, 2025).
Research Professor John Ruple
- Publications
- John C. Ruple, The Congressional Review Act is a reckless tool, The Hill (Jan. 20, 2025).
- Presentations/panels
- “State Control Over Federal Public Lands: Utah v. United States & SUWA v. Cox,” University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson, AZ.
- Media appearances
- Quoted in KSL, “Supreme Court declines to hear Utah’s lawsuit over public lands” (Jan. 13, 2025).
- Quoted in Greenwire, “Leading Republican takes aim at Biden’s California monuments” (Jan. 7, 2025).
- Quoted in Inside Climate News, “Conservation won big under Biden. Environmentalists and tribal leaders fear Trump will undo those gains” (Jan. 24, 2025).
- Quoted in Vox, “Trump rescinded a half-century of environmental rules. Here’s what that could mean” (Jan. 27, 2025).
Professor Cliff Rosky
- Media appearances
- Quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune, “Southern Utah county’s latest answer for severe drought: fasting and prayer” (Jan. 27, 2025).
Professor Matthew Tokson
- Publications
- Matthew Tokson, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L. J. 545 (2024) with Yonathan Arbel and Albert Lin.
- Media appearances
- Quoted in KPCW, “Legal expert explains self-defense argument in road rage fatal shooting near Hideout” (Jan. 20, 2025).